netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v6 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers

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Message-ID: <4B976503.4050702@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:23:15 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, opurdila@...acom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	nhorman@...driver.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v6 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using
 fixed port numbers

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I would add the restriction that the values in the list of ranges
> always must be increasing, and in general restrict the set of accepted
> values as much as possible.  If we don't accept it now we don't have
> to worry about some userspace application relying on some unitended
> side effect a few years into the future.

I don't think this is good.

Suppose that when I just want to add one port into the list and keep the
original ones, I want to do this:

orig=$(cat ip_local_reserved_ports)
new_list="$orig, $new_one"
echo "$new_list" > ip_local_reserved_ports

If we add this restriction, the above could be failed if the new port
is lower than the original ones. This will be not convenient.

> 
> 
> I think it is a serious bug that you clear the destination bitmap
> in the middle of parsing it.  That will either open or close all
> ports in the middle of parsing, and I can't see how that would
> ever be a good thing.
> 

Agreed.

By the way, Octavian, any new updates?
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