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dpif-netdev: Fix rare flow add race condition.
Before this patch, dp_netdev_flow_add() inserted newly minted flows in the "flow_table" cmap before inserting them into the per core "dpcls" classifier. Since dpcls_insert() initializes 'flow->cr.mask', there's a brief window where the flow is accessible from the cmap, but has a bogus mask value. In my testing, under rare instances (i.e. once every 20 minutes with a very specific flow table and traffic pattern), revalidators core dump when they call dpif_netdev_flow_dump_next(), which accesses this bogus mask value from dp_netdev_flow_to_dpif_flow(). By inserting into the per core classifier before the cmap, all the values are guaranteed to be initialized during flow dumps. With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the crash. Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
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