netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: introduce ip_local_unbindable

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Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:35:13 +0900
From:   Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:     Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
        Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sean Tranchetti <stranche@...eaurora.org>,
        Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Linux SCTP <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce ip_local_unbindable_ports sysctl

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 20:49 Neil Horman, <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why are the portreserve and portrelease utilities not a
> solution to this use case?

As I understand it, those utilities keep the ports reserved by binding
to them so that no other process can. This doesn't work for Android
because there are conformance tests that probe the device from the
network and check that there are no open ports.