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Bug #12355

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vnic_unicast_add() can return uninitialised diag value

Added by Andy Fiddaman almost 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Andy Fiddaman
Category:
networking
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% Done:

100%

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Difficulty:
Bite-size
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Description

I noticed this in OmniOS when side-pulling network overlay support from SmartOS, but it's a general problem with VNICs.

vnic_unicast_add() calls into mac_unicast_add passing in a pointer to a mac_diag_t. If the call fails then, if there is additional diagnostic information available, mac sets that value; however it does not do this for all failures.

The specific problem I saw in OmniOS was that attempting to bring up a vnic early during boot would report an error.

root@bloody:~# dladm up-vnic ovnic0
dladm: could not bring up vnic 'ovnic0': invalid MAC address length

That's a completely spurious error. The real problem is that the kernel couldn't bind a socket to a particular IP address, vnic_ioc_create() is returning 126 (EADDRNOTAVAIL) - note that I get a different error message this time "invalid factory MAC address slot"

root@bloody:~# dtrace -n 'fbt:::return/arg1==126/{}' -c 'dladm up-vnic ovnic0'
dtrace: description 'fbt:::return' matched 33364 probes
dladm: could not bring up vnic 'ovnic0': invalid factory MAC address slot
dtrace: pid 1192 has exited
CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
  7  64450           vnic_dev_create:return
  7  64382           vnic_ioc_create:return
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 #1

Updated by Andy Fiddaman almost 4 years ago

  • Category set to networking
  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Assignee set to Andy Fiddaman
  • Difficulty changed from Medium to Bite-size
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Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 3 years ago

Tested this on OmniOS and confirmed that `dladm` shows the correct error message after this change.

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Updated by Electric Monk over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit ea7201620ceafab72b37e65bea4ec461dd27089d

commit  ea7201620ceafab72b37e65bea4ec461dd27089d
Author: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk>
Date:   2020-03-10T08:44:02.000Z

    12355 vnic_unicast_add() can return uninitialised diag value
    Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
    Reviewed by: Dominik Hassler <hadfl@omniosce.org>
    Approved by: Joshua M. Clulow <josh@sysmgr.org>

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