Re: [Patch 3/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed portnumbers

From: Cong Wang
Date: Tue Apr 13 2010 - 03:10:08 EST


Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
>
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
>> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
>> @@ -1980,6 +1980,8 @@ retry:
>> /* FIXME: add proper port randomization per like inet_csk_get_port */
>> do {
>> ret = idr_get_new_above(ps, bind_list, next_port, &port);
>> + if (!ret && inet_is_reserved_local_port(port))
>> + ret = -EAGAIN;
>> } while ((ret == -EAGAIN) && idr_pre_get(ps, GFP_KERNEL));
>>
>> if (ret)
>>
> I think above part is wrong. Below program
...
>
> This result suggests that above loop will continue until idr_pre_get() fails
> due to out of memory if all ports were reserved.
>
> Also, if idr_get_new_above() returned 0, bind_list (which is a kmalloc()ed
> pointer) is already installed into a free slot (see comment on
> idr_get_new_above_int()). Thus, simply calling idr_get_new_above() again will
> install the same pointer into multiple slots. I guess it will malfunction later.

Thanks for testing!

How about:

+ if (!ret && inet_is_reserved_local_port(port))
+ ret = -EBUSY;

? So that it will break the loop and return error.
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