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

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Message-ID: <20160822142538.GA10323@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:25:38 -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 <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 Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 02:41:01PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> > Ah, I see what you're doing.  Ok, this makes some sense, at least on the receive
> > side, when you get a cookie unpacked and modify the remote peers address list,
> > it makes sense to check for duplicates.  On the local side however, I would,
> > instead of checking it when the list gets copied, I'd check it when the master
> > list gets updated (in the NETDEV_UP event notifier for the local address list,
> 
> I was thinking about to check it in the NETDEV_UP, yes it can make the
> master list has no duplicated addresses.  But what if two same addresses
> events come, and they come from different NICs (though I can't point  out
> the valid use case), then we filter there.
> 
That I think would be a bug in the protocol code.  For the ipv4 case, all
addresses are owned by the system and the same addresses added to multiple
interfaces should not be allowed.  The same is true of ipv6 case.  The only
exception there is a link local address and that should still be unique within
the context of an address/dev tuple.

> Later, sctp may receive one  NETDEV_DOWN event,sctp will remove that
> addr in the master list, but it shouldn't have been removed, as another local
> NIC still has that addr.
> 
> That's why I have to leave the master alone, just check when they are really
> being bind to asoc addr list.
> 
> > and the sctp_add_bind_addr function for the endpoint address list).  That way
> 
> As to the endpoint address list, sctp has different process for binding
> the address 'ANY' from assoc address list (note that this issue only
> happened in binding the address 'ANY'). instead of  copying the master
> address list to  the endpoint, it only adds address 'ANY' to the EP
> address list. Only when starting a connection and create the assoc, it
> copy the master address list to ASOC.
> 
> So no need to do it in sctp_add_bind_addr for endpoint address list.
> Besides, sctp_add_bind_addr  is supposed to be called after checking
> the duplicated address(I got it from sctp_do_bind()). :-)
> 
> > you can keep that nested for loop out of the send path on the local system.
> >
> >
>