netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list

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Message-ID: <20160819133001.GA3578@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:30:01 -0400
From:   Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's
 bind address list

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:30:22PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> From: Xin Long <lxin@...hat.com>
> 
> sctp.local_addr_list is a global address list that is supposed to include
> all the local addresses. sctp updates this list according to NETDEV_UP/
> NETDEV_DOWN notifications.
> 
> However, if multiple NICs have the same address, the global list will
> have duplicate addresses. Even if for one NIC, promote secondaries in
> __inet_del_ifa can also lead to accumulating duplicate addresses.
> 
> When sctp binds address 'ANY' and creates a connection, it copies all
> the addresses from global list into asoc's bind addr list, which makes
> sctp pack the duplicate addresses into INIT/INIT_ACK packets.
> 
> This patch is to filter the duplicate addresses when copying the addrs
> from global list in sctp_copy_local_addr_list and unpacking addr_param
> from cookie in sctp_raw_to_bind_addrs to asoc's bind addr list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lxin@...hat.com>


Under what valid use case will multiple interfaces have the same network
address?

Neil

> ---
>  net/sctp/bind_addr.c | 3 +++
>  net/sctp/protocol.c  | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> index 401c607..1ebc184 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c
> @@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ int sctp_raw_to_bind_addrs(struct sctp_bind_addr *bp, __u8 *raw_addr_list,
>  		}
>  
>  		af->from_addr_param(&addr, rawaddr, htons(port), 0);
> +		if (sctp_bind_addr_state(bp, &addr) != -1)
> +			goto next;
>  		retval = sctp_add_bind_addr(bp, &addr, sizeof(addr),
>  					    SCTP_ADDR_SRC, gfp);
>  		if (retval) {
> @@ -300,6 +302,7 @@ int sctp_raw_to_bind_addrs(struct sctp_bind_addr *bp, __u8 *raw_addr_list,
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> +next:
>  		len = ntohs(param->length);
>  		addrs_len -= len;
>  		raw_addr_list += len;
> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> index da5d82b..616a942 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> @@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ int sctp_copy_local_addr_list(struct net *net, struct sctp_bind_addr *bp,
>  		     !(copy_flags & SCTP_ADDR6_PEERSUPP)))
>  			continue;
>  
> +		if (sctp_bind_addr_state(bp, &addr->a) != -1)
> +			continue;
> +
>  		error = sctp_add_bind_addr(bp, &addr->a, sizeof(addr->a),
>  					   SCTP_ADDR_SRC, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  		if (error)
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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