From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:44:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Do not send in-band control traffic to the controller.
X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=123301f8b57df7e539478c607d52d21b55e023c0;p=openvswitch

Do not send in-band control traffic to the controller.

This commit prevents the secure channel from sending any traffic to
or from the controller up to the controller over its OpenFlow connection.
Instead, such traffic is always handled completely locally.  This is
what the changes to in-band control up until now have been converging on:
each time, we have reduced the category of traffic that can be sent up
to the controller because we have found that doing so can cause a control
loop.  This change goes all the way.
---

diff --git a/secchan/secchan.c b/secchan/secchan.c
index d45c5ea3..c8b74bf3 100644
--- a/secchan/secchan.c
+++ b/secchan/secchan.c
@@ -571,6 +571,16 @@ is_controller_mac(const uint8_t dl_addr[ETH_ADDR_LEN],
     return mac && eth_addr_equals(mac, dl_addr);
 }
 
+static void
+in_band_learn_mac(struct in_band_data *in_band, const struct flow *flow)
+{
+    uint16_t in_port = ntohs(flow->in_port);
+    if (mac_learning_learn(in_band->ml, flow->dl_src, in_port)) {
+        VLOG_DBG_RL(&vrl, "learned that "ETH_ADDR_FMT" is on port %"PRIu16,
+                    ETH_ADDR_ARGS(flow->dl_src), in_port);
+    }
+}
+
 static bool
 in_band_packet_cb(struct relay *r, int half, void *in_band_)
 {
@@ -616,30 +626,17 @@ in_band_packet_cb(struct relay *r, int half, void *in_band_)
     } else if (eth_addr_equals(flow.dl_dst, in_band->mac)) {
         /* Sent to secure channel. */
         out_port = OFPP_LOCAL;
-        if (mac_learning_learn(in_band->ml, flow.dl_src, in_port)) {
-            VLOG_DBG_RL(&vrl, "learned that "ETH_ADDR_FMT" is on port %"PRIu16,
-                        ETH_ADDR_ARGS(flow.dl_src), in_port);
-        }
+        in_band_learn_mac(in_band, &flow);
     } else if (flow.dl_type == htons(ETH_TYPE_ARP)
                && eth_addr_is_broadcast(flow.dl_dst)
                && is_controller_mac(flow.dl_src, in_band)) {
         /* ARP sent by controller. */
         out_port = OFPP_FLOOD;
-    } else if (is_controller_mac(flow.dl_dst, in_band)) {
-        if (mac_learning_learn(in_band->ml, flow.dl_src, in_port)) {
-            VLOG_DBG_RL(&vrl, "learned that "ETH_ADDR_FMT" is on port %"PRIu16,
-                        ETH_ADDR_ARGS(flow.dl_src), in_port);
-        }
-
+    } else if (is_controller_mac(flow.dl_dst, in_band)
+               || is_controller_mac(flow.dl_src, in_band)) {
+        /* Traffic to or from controller.  Switch it by hand. */
+        in_band_learn_mac(in_band, &flow);
         out_port = mac_learning_lookup(in_band->ml, controller_mac);
-        if (in_port != out_port) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        /* This is controller traffic that arrived on the controller port.
-         * It will get dropped below. */
-    } else if (is_controller_mac(flow.dl_src, in_band)) {
-        out_port = mac_learning_lookup(in_band->ml, flow.dl_dst);
     } else {
         return false;
     }