Re: [2.6.14] bug in inet_connection_sock.c -> lowest port alwaysskipped

[Patrick McHardy]

Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> There seems to be a small bug in inet_connection_sock.c: the lowest port
> set using sysctl (taken from 'sysctl_local_port_range') is always
> skipped in the first iteration.
> In inet_csk_get_port one can find this:
>                 if (hashinfo->port_rover < low)
>                         rover = low;
>                 else
>                         rover = hashinfo->port_rover;
>                 do {
>                         rover++;
> As you can see the first statement is a ++ causing the first port to
> always be skipped.

This has already been fixed three weeks ago by Stephen Hemminger's port
randomization patch.
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