The kernel will report a vport with the given name in any datapath, but
userspace only wants a vport with the given name in a specific datapath.
Receiving information on a vport in an unexpected datapath yields bizarre
and hard-to-debug problems.
Bug #9889.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
error = dpif_linux_vport_transact(&request, &reply, &buf);
if (!error) {
- dpif_port->name = xstrdup(reply.name);
- dpif_port->type = xstrdup(netdev_vport_get_netdev_type(&reply));
- dpif_port->port_no = reply.port_no;
+ if (reply.dp_ifindex != request.dp_ifindex) {
+ /* A query by name reported that 'port_name' is in some datapath
+ * other than 'dpif', but the caller wants to know about 'dpif'. */
+ error = ENODEV;
+ } else {
+ dpif_port->name = xstrdup(reply.name);
+ dpif_port->type = xstrdup(netdev_vport_get_netdev_type(&reply));
+ dpif_port->port_no = reply.port_no;
+ }
ofpbuf_delete(buf);
}
return error;