netdev - [PATCH] inet: dont set inet_rcv

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Date:	Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:35:16 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ole@....pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] inet: dont set inet_rcv_saddr in connect()

Le mardi 07 septembre 2010 à 12:59 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> Eric, please just delete the code block instead of leaving it
> there inside of an #if 0 block.
> 
> If there is information conveyed by the unused code, add that
> information to the nice comment you're adding :-)
> 

Indeed ;)

[PATCH] inet: dont set inet_rcv_saddr in connect()

The following sequence :

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP)

connect(fd, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(xx),
sin_addr=inet_addr("1.2.3.4")}, 28)

1) Does an implicit inet_autobind()
  (using an INADDR_ANY address, and selecting a random port).

2) Does an ip4_datagram_connect() to specify the address/port of
remote end point.

Problem is ip4_datagram_connect() also sets inet->inet_rcv_saddr (from
INADDR_ANY to IP source address, given the current route to remote end
point). Only the first connect() on the socket does this. Following ones
dont change the (possibly wrong) source address.

This breaks the secondary UDP hash, based on (ADDRESS, port), that was
computed by inet_autobind(). If more than 10 sockets are linked in
primary hash chain, we can drop incoming packets because searches are
done in wrong secondary hash chain.

This also potentially breaks multiple connect() to change remote
endpoints, because old source address might be non usable for packets to
new destination.

If route happens to change, then we should automatically change our
source address too, at next sendmsg() call, and UDP code deals with this
just fine.

If an application needs to specify a precise source address, it must use
bind() system call. connect() man page only refers to remote address,
not local one.

Reported-by: Krzysztof Olędzki <ole@....pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv4/datagram.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/datagram.c b/net/ipv4/datagram.c
index f055094..656dc73 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/datagram.c
@@ -60,10 +60,13 @@ int ip4_datagram_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
 		ip_rt_put(rt);
 		return -EACCES;
 	}
-	if (!inet->inet_saddr)
-		inet->inet_saddr = rt->rt_src;	/* Update source address */
-	if (!inet->inet_rcv_saddr)
-		inet->inet_rcv_saddr = rt->rt_src;
+	/*
+	 * Should connect() change inet_rcv_saddr / inet_saddr ?
+	 * It should not, because we want to specify the peer to which
+	 * datagrams are to be sent, regardless of our source address that
+	 * might change in the future, after a route change.
+	 * To specify our source address, bind() is the right API.
+	 */
 	inet->inet_daddr = rt->rt_dst;
 	inet->inet_dport = usin->sin_port;
 	sk->sk_state = TCP_ESTABLISHED;

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