netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] [RFC] Add c/r support for connected INET sockets

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]

Message-ID: <4AE2060C.5000903@librato.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:37:48 -0400
From:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...rato.com>
To:	Dan Smith <danms@...ibm.com>
CC:	containers@...ts.osdl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	John Dykstra <jdykstra72@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] [RFC] Add c/r support for connected INET sockets



Dan Smith wrote:
> This patch adds basic support for C/R of open INET sockets.  I think that
> all the important bits of the TCP and ICSK socket structures is saved,
> but I think there is still some additional IPv6 stuff that needs to be
> handled.
> 
> With this patch applied, the following script can be used to demonstrate
> the functionality:
> 
>   https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-October/021239.html
> 
> It shows that this enables migration of a sendmail process with open
> connections from one machine to another without dropping.
> 
> We still need comments from the netdev people about what sort of sanity
> checking we need to do on the values in the ckpt_hdr_socket_inet
> structure on restart.
> 
> Note that this still doesn't address lingering sockets yet.
> 

[...]

> diff --git a/include/linux/checkpoint_types.h b/include/linux/checkpoint_types.h
> index fa57cdc..91c141b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/checkpoint_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/checkpoint_types.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ struct ckpt_ctx {
>  	struct list_head pgarr_list;	/* page array to dump VMA contents */
>  	struct list_head pgarr_pool;	/* pool of empty page arrays chain */
>  
> +	struct list_head listen_sockets;/* listening parent sockets */
> +

Nit: maybe move under the comment "multi-process restart" ?

[...]

Otherwise (and pending comments from netdev people on sanity checks):

Acked-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html