netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: return early for possible invalid uaddr

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Date:   Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:32:51 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...baba-inc.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: return early for possible invalid uaddr

On Sun,  8 Aug 2021 01:19:38 +0800 Wen Yang wrote:
> The inet_dgram_connect() first calls inet_autobind() to select an
> ephemeral port, then checks uaddr in udp_pre_connect() or
> __ip4_datagram_connect(), but the port is not released until the socket
> is closed.
> 
> We should return early for invalid uaddr to improve performance and
> simplify the code a bit,

The performance improvement would be if the benchmark is calling
connect with invalid arguments? That seems like an extremely rare
scenario in real life.

> and also switch from a mix of tabs and spaces to just tabs.

Please never mix unrelated whitespace cleanup into patches making real
code changes.

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> index 5464818..97b6fc4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> @@ -569,6 +569,11 @@ int inet_dgram_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
>  	if (uaddr->sa_family == AF_UNSPEC)
>  		return sk->sk_prot->disconnect(sk, flags);
>  
> +	if (uaddr->sa_family != AF_INET)
> +		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;

And what about IPv6 which also calls this function?

> +	if (addr_len < sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	if (BPF_CGROUP_PRE_CONNECT_ENABLED(sk)) {
>  		err = sk->sk_prot->pre_connect(sk, uaddr, addr_len);
>  		if (err)