netdev - Multicast packets receiving problem on linux since version 3.10.1

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Message-ID: <52D94803.1040406@oktetlabs.ru>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:10:59 +0400
From:	Andrey Dmitrov <andrey.dmitrov@...etlabs.ru>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Konstantin Ushakov <Konstantin.Ushakov@...etlabs.ru>,
	"Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@...etlabs.ru>,
	Yurij Plotnikov <Yurij.Plotnikov@...etlabs.ru>
Subject: Multicast packets receiving problem on linux since version 3.10.1

Greetings,

there is a problem with receiving multicast packets on linux-3.10.1 and
newer. It's reproducible with two hosts (host_A, host_B), with eth3@...t_A
directly connected to eth3@...t_B. Two VLANs and one multicast group are 
used.
Each side opens two sockets and binds them to different VLAN interfaces.
host_A arranges both sockets to receive multicast packets of the group.
Then the first socket is removed from the group. After this the second 
socket
can no longer receive multicast packets of the group, which sent by the
second host. See the example below.

host_A:
Two VLANs 999 and 1001 are added on eth3:
eth3.999      10.208.14.1
eth3.1001     10.208.15.1

1. socket(SOCK_DGRAM) -> 3
2. setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1) -> 0
3. setsockopt(3, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, {229.17.88.168, 
eth3.999}) -> 0
4. setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, eth3.999) -> 0
5. bind(3, 0.0.0.0:29214)->0
6. socket(SOCK_DGRAM) -> 4
7. setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1) -> 0
8. setsockopt(4, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, {229.17.88.168, 
eth3.1001}) -> 0
9. setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, eth3.1001) -> 0
10. bind(4, 0.0.0.0:29214) -> 0

11. poll({{3, POLLIN}, {4, POLLIN}}, 2, 30000) -> 2
12. recv(3, buf, 100) -> 100
13. recv(4, buf, 99) -> 99
14. setsockopt(3, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP, {229.17.88.168, 
eth3.999}) -> 0
15. poll({{3, POLLIN}, {4, POLLIN}}, 2, 30000) -> 0

Socket 4 does not receive the multicast packet on linux 3.10 and newer. But
it receives the packet with older linux versions. Probably the packet is
filtered by NIC, tcpdump does not see it.

host_B:
Two VLANs 999 and 1001 are added on eth3:
eth3.999      10.208.14.2
eth3.1001     10.208.15.2

16. socket(SOCK_DGRAM) -> 3
17. bind(3, 10.208.14.2:29219) -> 0
18. socket(SOCK_DGRAM) -> 4
19. bind(4, 10.208.15.2:29219) -> 0
20. sendto(3, 229.17.88.168:29214, buf, 100) -> 100
21. sendto(4, 229.17.88.168:29214, buf, 99) -> 99
Continue when socket 3 on host_A will leave the group (line 14).
22. sendto(3, 229.17.88.168:29214, buf, 100) -> 100
23. sendto(4, 229.17.88.168:29214, buf, 99) -> 99

Note, that if I replace step #14 with:
 > setsockopt(4, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP, {229.17.88.168, 
eth3.1001}) -> 0
and remove the second socket from the group (instead of the first one) - 
then
the first socket will receive it's packet.

Find client and server C programs that reproduce the problem attached. 
The client
logs received packets. As stated above in good case it will log 3 
packets and in
bad one - only 2. Use the following command lines to start the client 
and server:
host_A:
sudo ip link add link eth3 name eth3.999 type vlan id 999
sudo ifconfig eth3.999 10.208.14.1/24
sudo ip link add link eth3 name eth3.1001 type vlan id 1001
sudo ifconfig eth3.1001 10.208.15.1/24

gcc mcast_client.c -o cl
sudo ./cl

host_B:
sudo ip link add link eth3 name eth3.999 type vlan id 999
sudo ifconfig eth3.999 10.208.14.2/24
sudo ip link add link eth3 name eth3.1001 type vlan id 1001
sudo ifconfig eth3.1001 10.208.15.2/24

gcc mcast_serv.c -o serv
./serv

Thanks in advance,
Andrey Dmitrov

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