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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:47:27 +0200
From:	Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To:	Fabienne Ducroquet <fabiduc@...il.com>
Cc:	sundell.software@...il.com, Reinhard Max <max@...e.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/ipv4: commit d0733d2e29b breaks rtorrent

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:40:45PM +0200, Fabienne Ducroquet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the latest versions of the Linux kernel (I've just tried 
> 3.0.0-rc4-00034-g2992c4b) rtorrent (version 0.8.7 with libtorrent 
> 0.12.7, from Debian unstable) fails to start with the error message:
> 
> 	rtorrent: Could not open/bind port for listening: Invalid argument
> 
> I bisected it down to:
> 
> 	commit d0733d2e29b652b2e7b1438ececa732e4eed98eb
> 	Author: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
> 	Date:   Wed Jun 1 21:05:22 2011 -0700
> 
> 	    net/ipv4: Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address
> 
> 	    Check against mistakenly passing in IPv6 addresses (which would result
> 	    in an INADDR_ANY bind) or similar incompatible sockaddrs.
> 
> 	    Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
> 	    Cc: Reinhard Max <max@...e.de>
> 	    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 	---
> 	 net/ipv4/af_inet.c |    3 +++
> 	 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 	diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> 	index cc14631..9c19260 100644
> 	--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> 	+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> 	@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ int inet_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
> 		if (addr_len < sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
> 			goto out;
> 
> 	+       if (addr->sin_family != AF_INET)
> 	+               goto out;
> 	+
> 		chk_addr_ret = inet_addr_type(sock_net(sk), addr->sin_addr.s_addr);
> 
> 		/* Not specified by any standard per-se, however it breaks too
> 
> With this commit reverted rtorrent works again.

Can you show us the code surrounding the bind in rtorrent?

You either do not set the sin_family member, or pass in a ipv6 address.

Ciao, Marcus
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