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datapath: Initialize unmasked key and uid len.
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Flow alloc needs to initialize unmasked key pointer. Otherwise
it can crash kernel trying to free random unmasked-key pointer.

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
3.19.0-rc6-net-next+ #457
Hardware name: Supermicro X7DWU/X7DWU, BIOS  1.1 04/30/2008
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8111df0e>] [<ffffffff8111df0e>] kfree+0xac/0x196
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa060bd87>] flow_free+0x21/0x59 [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffffa060bde0>] ovs_flow_free+0x21/0x23 [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffffa0605b4a>] ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0x2f3/0x35f [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffffa0605995>] ? ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0x13e/0x35f [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffff811fe6fb>] ? nla_parse+0x4f/0xec
 [<ffffffff8139a2fc>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x26d/0x2c9
 [<ffffffff8107620f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x90e/0x9aa
 [<ffffffff8139a3be>] genl_rcv_msg+0x66/0x89
 [<ffffffff8139a358>] ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x2c9/0x2c9
 [<ffffffff81399591>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x3e/0x95
 [<ffffffff81399898>] ? genl_rcv+0x18/0x37
 [<ffffffff813998a7>] genl_rcv+0x27/0x37
 [<ffffffff81399033>] netlink_unicast+0x103/0x191
 [<ffffffff81399382>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2c1/0x310
 [<ffffffff811007ad>] ? might_fault+0x50/0xa0
 [<ffffffff8135c773>] do_sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x7a
 [<ffffffff8135c799>] sock_sendmsg+0xb/0xd
 [<ffffffff8135cacf>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x1a3/0x218
 [<ffffffff8113e54b>] ? get_close_on_exec+0x86/0x86
 [<ffffffff8115a9d0>] ? fsnotify+0x32c/0x348
 [<ffffffff8115a720>] ? fsnotify+0x7c/0x348
 [<ffffffff8113e5f5>] ? __fget+0xaa/0xbf
 [<ffffffff8113e54b>] ? get_close_on_exec+0x86/0x86
 [<ffffffff8135cccd>] __sys_sendmsg+0x3d/0x5e
 [<ffffffff8135cd02>] SyS_sendmsg+0x14/0x16
 [<ffffffff81411852>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17

Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
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Pravin B Shelar authored and joestringer committed Feb 27, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(void)

flow->sf_acts = NULL;
flow->mask = NULL;
flow->id.ufid_len = 0;
flow->id.unmasked_key = NULL;
flow->stats_last_writer = NUMA_NO_NODE;

/* Initialize the default stat node. */
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