Re: [PATCH v4] udp reuseport: fix packet of same flow hashed to different socket

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Jun 14 2016 - 18:52:34 EST


From: Su Xuemin <suxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:02:50 +0800

> From: "Su, Xuemin" <suxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is a corner case in which udp packets belonging to a same
> flow are hashed to different socket when hslot->count changes from 10
> to 11:
>
> 1) When hslot->count <= 10, __udp_lib_lookup() searches udp_table->hash,
> and always passes 'daddr' to udp_ehashfn().
>
> 2) When hslot->count > 10, __udp_lib_lookup() searches udp_table->hash2,
> but may pass 'INADDR_ANY' to udp_ehashfn() if the sockets are bound to
> INADDR_ANY instead of some specific addr.
>
> That means when hslot->count changes from 10 to 11, the hash calculated by
> udp_ehashfn() is also changed, and the udp packets belonging to a same
> flow will be hashed to different socket.
>
> This is easily reproduced:
> 1) Create 10 udp sockets and bind all of them to 0.0.0.0:40000.
> 2) From the same host send udp packets to 127.0.0.1:40000, record the
> socket index which receives the packets.
> 3) Create 1 more udp socket and bind it to 0.0.0.0:44096. The number 44096
> is 40000 + UDP_HASH_SIZE(4096), this makes the new socket put into the
> same hslot as the aformentioned 10 sockets, and makes the hslot->count
> change from 10 to 11.
> 4) From the same host send udp packets to 127.0.0.1:40000, and the socket
> index which receives the packets will be different from the one received
> in step 2.
> This should not happen as the socket bound to 0.0.0.0:44096 should not
> change the behavior of the sockets bound to 0.0.0.0:40000.
>
> It's the same case for IPv6, and this patch also fixes that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Su, Xuemin <suxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.