[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding

[Viacheslav Ovsiienko]

On some kernels the string attributes within Netlink
reply messages might be not padded with zeroes (in cases
when string length is aligned with 4-byte boundary).
This caused wrong physical port names recognition and
mlx5 PMD load failures.

Fixes: 30a86157f6d5 ("net/mlx5: support PF representor")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c b/drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c
index f0d04f9473..3f1912d078 100644
--- a/drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 #define MLX5_SEND_BUF_SIZE 32768
 /* Receive buffer size for the Netlink socket */
 #define MLX5_RECV_BUF_SIZE 32768
+/* Maximal physical port name length. */
+#define MLX5_PHYS_PORT_NAME_MAX 128
 
 /** Parameters of VLAN devices created by driver. */
 #define MLX5_VMWA_VLAN_DEVICE_PFX "evmlx"
@@ -1191,6 +1193,7 @@ mlx5_nl_switch_info_cb(struct nlmsghdr *nh, void *arg)
 	size_t off = NLMSG_LENGTH(sizeof(struct ifinfomsg));
 	bool switch_id_set = false;
 	bool num_vf_set = false;
+	int len;
 
 	if (nh->nlmsg_type != RTM_NEWLINK)
 		goto error;
@@ -1206,7 +1209,24 @@ mlx5_nl_switch_info_cb(struct nlmsghdr *nh, void *arg)
 			num_vf_set = true;
 			break;
 		case IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME:
-			mlx5_translate_port_name((char *)payload, &info);
+			len = RTA_PAYLOAD(ra);
+			/* Some kernels do not pad attributes with zero. */
+			if (len > 0 && len < MLX5_PHYS_PORT_NAME_MAX) {
+				char name[MLX5_PHYS_PORT_NAME_MAX];
+
+				/*
+				 * We can't just patch the message with padding
+				 * zero - it might corrupt the following items
+				 * in the message, we have to copy the string
+				 * by attribute length and pad the copied one.
+				 */
+				memcpy(name, payload, len);
+				name[len] = 0;
+				mlx5_translate_port_name(name, &info);
+			} else {
+				info.name_type =
+					MLX5_PHYS_PORT_NAME_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+			}
 			break;
 		case IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID:
 			info.switch_id = 0;
-- 
2.18.1

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding

[Matan Azrad]

From: Slava Ovsiienko
> On some kernels the string attributes within Netlink reply messages might be
> not padded with zeroes (in cases when string length is aligned with 4-byte
> boundary).
> This caused wrong physical port names recognition and
> mlx5 PMD load failures.
> 
> Fixes: 30a86157f6d5 ("net/mlx5: support PF representor")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 4:56 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink port name attribute padding
> 
> On some kernels the string attributes within Netlink reply messages might be
> not padded with zeroes (in cases when string length is aligned with 4-byte
> boundary).
> This caused wrong physical port names recognition and
> mlx5 PMD load failures.
> 
> Fixes: 30a86157f6d5 ("net/mlx5: support PF representor")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> ---
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh