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Jarno Rajahalme
e3b5693319 Fix table checking for goto table instruction.
Usually the table id in flow mods is 255, which means that goto table
instruction cannot be checked before the table is picked (for flow add),
or the rules to be modified are found (flow mod).

Move goto table checking from decode (ofp-util) to actions checking
(ofp-actions), and postpone the action checking until the table in
which the actions are added is known.

This fixes OFPBRC_BAD_TABLE_ID errors for flow adds that specify the table
id as 255, and have a goto table instruction.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-06-28 10:22:26 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
514887ee46 ofp-errors: Implement OpenFlow 1.2+ experimenter error codes.
OpenFlow 1.2 standardized experimenter error codes in a way different from
the Nicira extension.  This commit implements the OpenFlow 1.2+ version.

This commit also makes it easy to add error codes for new experimenter IDs
by adding new *_VENDOR_ID definitions to openflow-common.h.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-06-25 10:52:20 -07:00
Alex Wang
4e022ec09e Create specific types for ofp and odp port
Until now, datapath ports and openflow ports were both represented by
unsigned integers of various sizes. With implicit conversions, etc., it is
easy to mix them up and use one where the other is expected.  This commit
creates two typedefs, ofp_port_t and odp_port_t.  Both of these two types
are marked by "__attribute__((bitwise))" so that sparse can be used to
detect any misuse.

Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-06-20 10:42:37 -07:00
Jing Ai
bff7eeb648 ofp-actions: enforce valid range for table_id in goto_table instruction
Found a bug that OVS allows goto_table_id to be smaller than (or equal to)
the current table id where the flow resides. It potentially creates an
infinite loop when composing actions for a packet. To fix it, we just let
OVS returns an error message to prevent such flow to be programmed.

Signed-off-by: Jing Ai <jinga@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-06-05 13:34:25 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
3e78870d0b Always check return value of strftime().
strftime() returns 0 and leaves the contents of the output buffer
unspecified if the output buffer is not big enough.  Thus, one should
check strftime()'s return value.  Until now, OVS has had a few invocations
of strftime() that did not check the return value.  This commit fixes
those.  I believe that the buffers were always large enough in each case,
but it's better to be safe.

Reported-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-05-08 10:53:07 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
a8eebd4832 ovs-ofctl: Fix bad info in comment on transact_multiple_noreply().
Cut-and-paste error I guess.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-05-07 11:28:31 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
05f453a895 ovs-ofctl: Make "ovs-ofctl monitor" respond to echo requests.
Otherwise the command will time out after a while when there's no traffic,
which probably isn't what we want.

Reported-by: Henry Mai <hmai@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-05-03 13:58:29 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
07fc4ed341 Make most "struct option" instances "const".
Reducing non-const static data makes code more obviously thread-safe.
Although option parsing does not normally need to be thread-safe, I
don't know of a drawback to making its data const.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-05-03 13:29:46 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
9b6937eb1f Use gmtime_r() and localtime_r() instead of non-thread-safe versions.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-05-02 15:49:36 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
cc2862a932 Use is_pow2() function, where possible, instead of IS_POW2 macro.
The IS_POW2 macro is meant for use in contexts where a function call is not
allowed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-02-01 14:55:14 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
4766ce7a64 rconn: Fix null pointer dereference in rconn_add_monitor().
rconn_add_monitor() tries to check the version of the controller
connection being monitored, so that it can decide what OpenFlow version to
tell the monitor connection to negotiate.  But at any given time an rconn
may not have a controller connection (e.g. during backoff), so rc->vconn
may be null and thus vconn_get_version(rc->vconn) dereferences a null
pointer.

Fixing the problem in a local way would require the rconn to remember the
previous version negotiated, and that fails if the rconn hasn't yet
connected or if the next connection negotiates a new version.

This commit instead adds the ability to a vconn to accept any OpenFlow
message version and modifies "ovs-ofctl snoop" to use that feature, thus
removing the need to negotiate the "correct" version on snoops.

Bug #14265.
Reported-by: Pratap Reddy <preddy@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-01-24 14:57:24 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
539b741f59 ovs-ofctl: Use vconn_open() instead of vconn_open_block() in open_vconn__().
All of the paths in open_vconn__(), except the one path that calls
vconn_open() directly, just start the connection and do not block until
it completes.  This changes the remaining path to work the same way.

This will be important in an upcoming commit when in some cases we need to
take an action between opening and connecting.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-01-24 14:57:22 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
cb22974d77 Replace most uses of assert by ovs_assert.
This is a straight search-and-replace, except that I also removed #include
<assert.h> from each file where there were no assert calls left.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-01-16 16:03:37 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
82c8c53c5b vconn: Fix parameters for vconn_open(), vconn_open_block(), pvconn_open().
The customary parameter order in Open vSwitch is to put input parameters
before output parameters, but vconn_open() and pvconn_open() had the 'dscp'
input parameter at the end, which bugged me a bit.  Also,
vconn_open_block() didn't take a 'dscp' parameter at all even though it's
otherwise a wrapper around vconn_open().  This commit fixes all that up.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-01-04 09:05:36 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
edd70aa771 ofp-errors: Correctly encode errors as extensions or not depending on domain.
When ofp-errors was introduced, each OFPERR_* was either an extension or
not.  However, since then, some Nicira extension error code have been
given official error codes in later OpenFlow versions, so now whether an
OFPERR_* is an extension depends on the OpenFlow versions.  This means
that certain errors were encoded incorrectly as extensions in later
OpenFlow versions.  This commit fixes the problem.

This commit also adds a test that should prevent a regression.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-12-04 08:25:56 -08:00
Simon Horman
f02b12c4ff ovs-ofctl: By default, do not set flow format for OpenFlow 1.1+
Only set the default format for ovs-ofctl monitor if
OpenFlow 1.0 is the prevailing version. IMHO that is
the only case where it makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-11-29 08:08:17 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
37923ac734 ovs-ofctl: Reject impossible protocols configurations at startup.
The -O and -F options interact, so that it's possible to select only
flow formats that are not supported on a given OpenFlow version.  It seems
best to report these problems up front rather than failing in a more
mysterious way later.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-11-29 08:04:56 -08:00
Simon Horman
a53a8efa2f ovs-ofctl: Add option to set allowed OpenFlow versions
--protocols allows configuration of the versions
that may be used when establishing an OpenFlow connection.

The default is 'OpenFlow10' which is consistent with
the behaviour prior to this patch.

The useful values at this time are:
'OpenFlow10', 'OpenFlow12', 'OpenFlow13',
Values may be combined in a comma delimited list.

e.g.: --protocols 'OpenFlow10,OpenFlow12,OpenFlow13'

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-11-29 08:02:25 -08:00
Jarno Rajahalme
7f05e7abc8 Fix handling of OFPP_ANY in OpenFlow 1.1 and later.
Add OFPP_ANY to include/openflow/openflow-1.1.h, and allow it as a port in
queue stats request. Make ovs_ofctl use OFPP_ANY instead of OFPP_ALL for queue
stats requests on OF 1.1+.

This patch changes "none" ports print out. "none" is still accepted on input
for backwards compatibility, but it prints out as "ANY". To make this less
confusing, I changed the test cases to use "controller" or "any" instead of
"none". The test case that tests for both "none" and "controller" still tests
for them.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-11-27 08:28:39 -08:00
Ethan Jackson
c3f2538933 ovs-ofctl: Don't rely on stat() to check unix sockets.
ESX supports unix sockets, but they don't manifest themselves in
file system like they do on Linux.  Instead of using stat to check
if a unix socket exist, this patch simply tries to open it instead.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2012-11-20 14:41:04 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
e43928f286 ofp-util: Make ofputil_encode_set_protocol() able to return failure.
Soon, it's not going to be possible to switch between every possible
protocol on an established OpenFlow connection, yet
ofputil_encode_set_protocol() didn't have a documented way to report such
a problem.  This commit adds a means for reporting and makes its callers
able to handle the problem.

Also, initially make ofputil_encode_set_protocol() fail when the current
and requested protocols are for different OpenFlow versions.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-11-16 09:20:21 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
473f65a256 ovs-ofctl: Style fix.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-11-16 09:20:07 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
681ea7a0e9 tests: Add tests for encoding and decoding OpenFlow hello messages.
These tests helped me find the problems that I fixed in previous commits.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-11-09 10:01:43 -08:00
Simon Horman
7a25bd9924 vconn: Replace minimum version with bitmap of allowed versions.
This is in preparation for allowing the range of allowed OpenFlow versions
to be configured.

As part of this change pvconn_open() is now paramatised over the allowed
versions.  this is to avoid avoids needing to provide version information
as a parameter to pvconn_accept().  This will in turn avoid the need to
pass version information to connmgr_run().

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
[blp@nicira.com simplified slightly and generalize log messages]
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-11-04 22:05:23 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
8010100bb1 ofp-util: Separate output, error reporting in ofputil_port_from_string().
When I wrote this function I didn't think that port 0 was important (it's
not a valid OpenFlow port number) so I used a return value of 0 to indicate
an error.  However, my assumption turns out to be wrong, so this commit
changes the interface to use the return value only for error reporting
and store the parsed port number into a pointer passed in as a parameter.

This commit doesn't change the behavior of ofputil_port_from_string().

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-10-18 09:23:16 -07:00
Simon Horman
6462697510 ofp-msgs: Open Flow 1.1 and 1.2 Queue Status Messages
This allows for encoding and decoding Open Flow 1.1 and 1.2 Queue Stats
Request and Reply messages.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-10-12 09:55:39 -07:00
Simon Horman
f8e4867eaf ofp-msgs: Open Flow 1.1 and 1.2 Port Status Messages
This allows for encoding and decoding Open Flow 1.1 and 1.2 Port Stats
Request and Reply message

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
[blp@nicira.com added ofputil_count_port_stas(), simplified
 interface of ofputil_decode_port_stats(), style changes]
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-10-10 10:32:09 -07:00
Simon Horman
3f4a1939ad ofp-util: Set Packet In Format: Use prevailing OpenFlow version
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-10-04 10:40:11 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
c6100d9214 ovs-ofctl: Accept port keywords, OF1.1 port numbers, reject port number 0.
OpenFlow 1.0 has special reserved ports in the range 0xfff8 to 0xffff.
OpenFlow 1.1 and later has the same ports in the range 0xfffffff8 to
0xffffffff and allows the OF1.0 range to be used for ordinary ("physical")
switch ports.  This means that, naively, the meaning of a port number in
the range 0xfff8 to 0xffff given on the ovs-ofctl command line depends on
the protocol in use.  This commit implements something a little smarter:

    - Accept keyword names (e.g. LOCAL) for special reserved ports
      everywhere that such a port can plausibly be used (previously they
      were only accepted in some places).

    - Translate 0xfff8...0xffff to 0xfffffff8...0xffffffff for now, since
      OF1.1+ isn't in widespread use and those particular ports aren't
      likely to be in use in OF1.1+ anyway.

    - Log warnings about those ports when they are specified by number, to
      allow users to fix their invocations.

Also:

    - Accept the OF1.1+ port numbers for these ports, without warning, for
      compatibility with the upcoming OF1.1+ support.

    - Stop accepting port number 0, which has never been a valid port
      number in OpenFlow 1.0 and later.  (This required fixing some tests
      that inadvertently used this port number).

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-09-20 08:40:29 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
5cb7a79840 Introduce sparse flows and masks, to reduce memory usage and improve speed.
A cls_rule is 324 bytes on i386 now.  The cost of a flow table lookup is
currently proportional to this size, which is going to continue to grow.
However, the required cost of a flow table lookup, with the classifier that
we currently use, is only proportional to the number of bits that a rule
actually matches.  This commit implements that optimization by replacing
the match inside "struct cls_rule" by a sparse representation.

This reduces struct cls_rule to 100 bytes on i386.

There is still some headroom for further optimization following this
commit:

    - I suspect that adding an 'n' member to struct miniflow would make
      miniflow operations faster, since popcount() has some cost.

    - It's probably possible to replace the "struct minimatch" in cls_rule
      by just a "struct miniflow", since the cls_rule's cls_table has a
      copy of the minimask.

    - Some of the miniflow operations aren't well-optimized.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-09-04 12:43:53 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
48d28ac161 classifier: Prepare for "struct cls_rule" needing to be destroyed.
Until now, "struct cls_rule" didn't own any data outside its own memory
block.  An upcoming commit will make "struct cls_rule" sometimes own blocks
of memory, so it needs "destroy" and to a lesser extent "clone" functions.
This commit adds these in advance, even though they are mostly no-ops, to
make it possible to separately review the memory management.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-09-04 12:24:27 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
81a76618be classifier: Break cls_rule 'flow' and 'wc' members into new "struct match".
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-09-04 12:24:27 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
26720e2449 flow: Replace flow_wildcards members by a single "struct flow".
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-09-04 11:19:16 -07:00
Simon Horman
5351438713 ovs-ofctl: Use vconn as a parameter of dump_stats_transaction()
In order to form a stats message for the prevailing OpenFlow version
of a vconn the vconn needs to be open at the time the request is
encoded. Thus there is no longer a case where it makes sense to
use dump_stats_transaction() without a vconn already being open and
available to pass as a parameter.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-29 10:11:34 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
4d859fa982 ovs-ofctl: Fix memory leak in "check-vlan" test command.
Found by valgrind.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-17 15:11:08 -07:00
Simon Horman
de0f3156a0 ofp-util: Prepare Packet Out encoder for other Open Flow versions
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-08 16:32:18 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
8812ec2cdd tests: Test that ofp10_match bytes that should be ignored really are.
Rob Sherwood reported a bug in OVS treatment of ofp10_match bytes that
should be ignored some time ago:

> In any case, the pktact.SingleWildcardMatch and
> pktact.AllExceptOneWildcardMatch tests were failing because it looks
> like OVS (v1.4 release) was  not matching vlan tagged packets when the
> match wildcarded vlan but the dl_vlan value (which should be ignored,
> because it is wildcarded) was non-zero.  We've worked around this in
> OFTest by making sure that the dl_vlan value is zero when vlan is
> wildcarded and now the test passes.
>
> In other words:
>
> if (ofp_match->wildcards&OFPFW_DL_VLAN) is true, then the match should
> match both tagged and untagged packets, independent of the value of
> ofp_match->dl_vlan.  OVS (seemingly) only matches tagged packets if
> ofp_match->dl_vlan == 0.

I wasn't able to spot the problem at the time, and I still don't see a
problem (perhaps it has been fixed since then), but this commit should
prevent any regression for this specific problem and for anything like it.

It would be natural to modify the parse-ofp11-match test in the same way,
but this commit doesn't do it.

Rob's original bug report is at:
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-discuss/2012-March/003107.html

Reported-by: Rob Sherwood <rob.sherwood@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-07 15:37:27 -07:00
Simon Horman
1a126c0c68 ofp-util: Make make_echo_request() aware of different OpenFlow versions.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-06 22:50:21 -07:00
Simon Horman
688e86e1d0 ofp-error: Remove ofperr_domain from external API
It seems that ofp_version suffices in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-06 22:46:26 -07:00
Simon Horman
a0ae0b6e83 ofp-util: Allow encoding of Open Flow 1.1 & 1.2 Barrier Request Messages
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-06 22:27:40 -07:00
Simon Horman
7623f4ddb0 nx-match: Separate raw match and header/pad pull/put
In the case of Open Flow 1.2, which is currently the only
time that OXM is be used, there is a 4 byte header before
the match which needs to be taken into account when calculating
the pad length. This complicates nx_match pull and put somewhat.

This patch takes an approach suggested by Ben Pfaff to separate the
encoding of the match and the adding of padding and, in the case of OXM,
a header.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-08-06 11:07:27 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
358058064b openflow: Separate OF1.0, OF1.1 flow_mod constants and types.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-07-30 21:09:22 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
e2b9ac44c8 openflow: Rename OpenFlow 1.0 statistics messages with "10" infix.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-07-30 21:09:20 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
982697a4d2 ofp-msgs: New approach to encoding and decoding OpenFlow headers.
OpenFlow headers are not as uniform as they could be, with size, alignment,
and numbering changes from one version to another and across varieties
(e.g. ordinary messages vs. "stats" messages).  Until now the Open vSwitch
internal APIs haven't done a good job of abstracting those differences in
header formats.  This commit changes that; from this commit forward very
little code actually needs to understand the header format or numbering.
Instead, it can just encode or decode, or pull or put, the header using
a more abstract API using the ofpraw_, ofptype_, and other APIs in the
new ofp-msgs module.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-07-30 21:09:12 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
98f7f427bf ovs-ofctl: Avoid printing false differences on "ovs-ofctl diff-flows".
It is possible for "struct ofpact"s to differ bytewise even if they are
equivalent when converted to another representation, such as OpenFlow 1.0
action format or a string representation.  This can cause "ovs-ofctl
diff-flows" to print surprising false "differences", e.g. as in the bug
report:

    - actions=resubmit(,1)
    + actions=resubmit(,1)

This commit fixes the problem by comparing not just the ofpacts but also
the string representation and printing a difference only if both differ.

Bug #8899.
Reported-by: Luca Giraudo <lgiraudo@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-07-23 10:16:31 -07:00
Simon Horman
476a0e9e7c tests: OXM VLAN match encoding and decoding
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-07-23 09:21:40 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
df778240e1 tests: Add more tests for VLAN match encoding and decoding.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au
2012-07-19 22:17:10 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
96628ae85f tests: Add detailed test for OF1.0 match decoding and encoding.
This follows the form of the OF1.1 match decoding and encoding test that I
wrote a while back, which seems to be a good form to use.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2012-07-17 21:20:31 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
296ed88013 ovs-ofctl: Fix use-after-free error.
Commit 4ce9c31573 (ovs-ofctl: Factor code out of read_flows_from_switch().)
introduced a use-after-free error, fixed by this change.

Also adds a unit test for "ovs-ofctl diff-flows" that would have found the
problem.  (The bug report cited "diff-flows" but this bug was present in
dump-flows as well because they share common code.)

Bug #12461.
Reported-by: James Schmidt <jschmidt@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-07-16 13:58:35 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
4f8f2439c3 ovs-ofctl: Avoid use-after-free upon "ofctl/unblock" when connection dies.
The implementation of "ofctl/block" used a nested poll loop, with an inner
call to unixctl_server_run().  This poll loop always ran inside an outer
call to unixctl_server_run(), since that's the context within which unixctl
command implementations run.  That means that, if a unixctl connection got
closed within the inner poll loop, and the outer poll loop happened to be
processing the same unixctl connection, then the outer poll loop would
dereference data in the freed connection.

The simplest solution is to avoid a nested poll loop, so that's what this
commit does.

This didn't cause a failure in the unit tests on i386 (which is why I
didn't catch it before pushing) but it did, reliably, on x86-64, and it
showed up in valgrind everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-07-12 16:34:08 -07:00