Re: [net-next PATCH v5 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications usingfixed port numbers

From: Cong Wang
Date: Sat Feb 20 2010 - 03:13:26 EST


Octavian Purdila wrote:
This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.

The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
(e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
port allocation behavior is unchanged.

Changes from the previous version:
- switch the /proc entry format to coma separated list of range ports
- treat -EFAULT just like any other error and acknowledge written values
- use isdigit() in proc_get_ulong

Octavian Purdila (3):
sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code
sysctl: add proc_do_large_bitmap
net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers

Hi,

This version looks fine for me, but I need to give them a test, and
I will put feedbacks asap. Thanks for your work!

Still two things:

1) bitops are always atomic on every arch, right? If yes, then ok.
2) I hope you could add some documentation to show the relations
between ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports.

Thanks!

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