Re: 319554f284dd ("inet: don't use sk_v6_rcv_saddr directly") causes bind port regression
From: Josef Bacik
Date: Wed Sep 13 2017 - 16:12:00 EST
> On Sep 13, 2017, at 12:46 PM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:28:25 +0000
> Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sorry I thought I had made this other fix, can you apply this on top
>> of the other one and try that? I have more things to try if this
>> doesnât work, sorry you are playing go between, but I want to make
>> sure I know _which_ fix actually fixes the problem, and then clean up
>> in followup patches. Thanks,
>>
>> Josef
>>
>> On 9/13/17, 8:45 AM, "Laura Abbott" <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/12/2017 04:12 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
>>> First Iâm super sorry for the top post, Iâm at plumbers and I
>>> forgot to upload my muttrc to my new cloud instance, so Iâm screwed
>>> using outlook.
>>>
>>> I have a completely untested, uncompiled patch that I think will
>>> fix the problem, would you mind giving it a go? Thanks,
>>>
>>> Josef
>>
>> Thanks for the quick turnaround. Unfortunately, the problem is still
>> reproducible according to the reporter.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>
> I am confused by the patch that originally caused this:
>
> if (sk->sk_family == AF_INET6)
> return ipv6_rcv_saddr_equal(&sk->sk_v6_rcv_saddr,
> - &sk2->sk_v6_rcv_saddr,
> + inet6_rcv_saddr(sk2),
> sk->sk_rcv_saddr,
> sk2->sk_rcv_saddr,
>
> Shouldn't the first argument also be changed to use inet6_rcv_saddr()?
No we know sk is IPv6 so it's alright to use directly. Thanks,
Josef