linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix connect() invalid -EADDRNOTAVAIL error

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:12:00 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmaxwell@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix connect() invalid -EADDRNOTAVAIL error

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 17:37 +1100, Jon Maxwell wrote:

> Prerequisites for this to happen:
> 1) The local tcp port range must be exhausted.
> 2) A process must have called bind() followed by connect() for all 
> local ports.

How the bind() is done exactly ? How SO_REUSEADDR is used ?

> 3) A different process calls connect() only which returns -EADDRNOTAVAIL. 
> 4) The system more than 1 interface configured.
> 
> If a system has 2 IP Addresses and all local tcp ports are in use
> for connection from IP Address (1). Connecting to the same ports 
> via IP Address (2) should work based on the 4 tuple rule. But it 
> fails under this condition. 

I do not think this is generally true.

If process called bind() to reserve a port, another process should not
be able to use the same port.

Do you have a test program exhibiting the problem ?

Thanks !


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/