Re: Re: Re: possible deadlock in cma_netdev_callback

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:42:02PM +0000, Bernard Metzler wrote:

> Well, right, marking a socket via setsockopt SO_BINDTODEVICE
> does not work - I get -EPERM. Maybe works only from user land
> since the ifname gets copied in from there.
> 
> What I tested as working is nailing the scope of wildcard
> listen via:
> s->sk->sk_bound_dev_if = netdev->ifindex;

That sounds potentially right
 
> I am not sure what is the right way of limiting the scope
> of a socket to one interface in kernel mode. Is above line
> the way to go, or do I miss an interface to do such things?
> Anybody could help?

I didn't find an alternative, but not a lot of places touching this
outside the implementators of a socket type.
 
Jason