Re: [PATCH 0/3] Transport Open vSwitch per-port data during live migration

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On 10/22/2012 09:41 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmestery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Laine Stump <laine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 10/11/2012 05:06 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
>>>> On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmestery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> This series of commits has the end goal of allowing per-port data stored
>>>>> in the Open vSwitch DB to be transported during live migration. This is
>>>>> done by first providing a generic infrastructure for transporting network
>>>>> data, adding some utility functions specific to Open vSwitch, and hooking
>>>>> the two together.
>>>>>
>>>>> The framework provided is generic in that other networking data could be
>>>>> transferred as well by simply adding in additional hooks as needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kyle Mestery (3):
>>>>> Add the ability for the Qemu V3 migration protocol to include    
>>>>>  transporting network configuration. A generic framework is proposed
>>>>>      with this patch to allow for the transfer of opaque data.
>>>>> Add utility functions for Open vSwitch to both save     per-port data
>>>>>  before a live migration, and restore the     per-port data after a
>>>>>  live migration.
>>>>> Transport Open vSwitch per-port data during live     migration by
>>>>>  using the utility functions    
>>>>>  virNetDevOpenvswitchGetMigrateData() and    
>>>>>  virNetDevOpenvswitchSetMigrateData().
>>>>>
>>>>> src/libvirt_private.syms        |   2 +
>>>>> src/qemu/qemu_migration.c       | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>> src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c |  70 +++++++++++
>>>>> src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.h |   6 +
>>>>> 4 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>> Just curious if anyone has had a chance to review this series yet? I believe I've addressed all the comments
>>>> I've received so far. I may need to rebase and send it out again since it's been almost 2 weeks since I sent it
>>>> out.
>>> Sorry I haven't responded. Lately it's been one deadline after another
>>> (actually I'm working on the latest as I type).
>>>
>> Thanks Laine!
>>
>>> One thought I've had about this - since you're just taking the data
>>> directly from ovs-vsctl and printf-ing it into a buffer, there is a
>>> potential that the data could contain xml meta characters (either by
>>> design / on purpose, or perhaps if an attacker takes over ovs-vsctl or
>>> the database in some way). This could leave the system that's the target
>>> of the migration open to attacks based on injecting "something else"
>>> into the migration cookie.
>>>
>>> Is virBufferEscapeString() enough to both guarantee nothing like that
>>> happens, as well as getting the exact same string at the destination? I
>>> *think* so, but am not sure.
>>>
>>> Also, I'm still not so sure about having the data as an attribute when
>>> it could potentially been very long. DV, what's your opinion about this?
>>> Is it okay to have very long strings as attributes, or is it considered
>>> in better taste to put something that is, say, 1000 characters long as a
>>> separate element?
>>>
>>> Anyway, at this point I don't think you need to rebase/resend. By the
>>> beginning of next week hopefully someone more wise than me about XML
>>> will have answered these two questions, and I can just squash in the
>>> minor changes and push it.
>> Thanks Laine! Let me know if you need anything else on my end.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kyle
>
> Just pinging again on this patch set Laine. I don't think anyone responded on
> your XML questions yet, so I'm unsure what the current status of this patch set
> is. I assume it's in the same state?

Yes. That was to be my first task this morning, but I arrived at the
keyboard to a string of questions on IRC. I'll hopefully post something
for you to test before noon (EST). If it works properly, and you approve
of the changes, then I'll push.

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