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SubjectRe: [PATCH] datapath: Fix an error handling path in 'ovs_nla_init_match_and_action()'
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On 09/11/2017 12:20 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> All other error handling paths in this function go through the 'error'
> label. This one should do the same.
>
> Fixes: 9cc9a5cb176c ("datapath: Avoid using stack larger than 1024.")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> I think that the comment above the function could be improved. It looks
> like the commit log which has introduced this function.
>
> I'm also not sure that commit 9cc9a5cb176c is of any help. It is
> supposed to remove a warning, and I guess it does. But 'ovs_nla_init_match_and_action()'
> is called unconditionnaly from 'ovs_flow_cmd_set()'. So even if the stack
> used by each function is reduced, the overall stack should be the same, if
> not larger.
>
> So this commit sounds like adding a bug where the code was fine and states
> to fix an issue but, at the best, only hides it.

Having a large stack frame isn't really a bug per se. But the Linux kernel
warns about stack frames that are too large so reordering the code to
get the warning to go away seems fine to me.

>
> Instead of fixing the code with the proposed patch, reverting the initial
> commit could also be considered.

Then the warning will come back.

- Greg

> ---
> net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> index 76cf273a56c7..c3aec6227c91 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
> @@ -1112,7 +1112,8 @@ static int ovs_nla_init_match_and_action(struct net *net,
> if (!a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_KEY]) {
> OVS_NLERR(log,
> "Flow key attribute not present in set flow.");
> - return -EINVAL;
> + error = -EINVAL;
> + goto error;
> }
>
> *acts = get_flow_actions(net, a[OVS_FLOW_ATTR_ACTIONS], key,
>

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