Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] bridge: avoid ptype_all packet handling

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:34:14 -0800

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:18:03 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:48:18 -0800 (PST)
> 
> > Back to a workable solution, why doesn't DHCP specify a specific
> > device?  It would fix this performance problem completely, at the
> > application level.
> 
> Since nobody seems to be able to be bothered to actually look
> at what DHCP clients are doing, I actually did and it's no
> surprise that broken stuff is happening here.

I was in middle of checking that..

> Here is how dhcp3-3.0.3 binds AF_PACKET sockets, in common/lpf.c:
> 
> 	struct sockaddr sa;
>  ...
> 	/* Bind to the interface name */
> 	memset (&sa, 0, sizeof sa);
> 	sa.sa_family = AF_PACKET;
> 	strncpy (sa.sa_data, (const char *)info -> ifp, sizeof sa.sa_data);
> 	if (bind (sock, &sa, sizeof sa)) {
> 		if (errno == ENOPROTOOPT || errno == EPROTONOSUPPORT ||
> 		    errno == ESOCKTNOSUPPORT || errno == EPFNOSUPPORT ||
> 		    errno == EAFNOSUPPORT || errno == EINVAL) {
> 			log_error ("socket: %m - make sure");
> 			log_error ("CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) %s",
> 				   "and CONFIG_FILTER");
> 			log_error ("(Socket Filtering) are enabled %s",
> 				   "in your kernel");
> 			log_fatal ("configuration!");
> 		}
> 		log_fatal ("Bind socket to interface: %m");
> 	}
> 
> So it puts a string into the sockaddr data, and there
> is no mention of sockaddr_ll, which is what is supposed to be
> provided as the socket address here, in the entire DHCP tree.
> 
> I'm tempted to say I must be missing something here, since I can't see
> how this could possible work at all.  The string passed in should
> be interpreted as the ifindex value, and thus trigger a -ENODEV
> return from AF_PACKET's bind() implementation.
> 
> My suspicions are confirmed by the patch here:
> 
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chuyee/patches/dhcp-3.0/dhcp-3.0-linux_cooked_packet.patch

Can you get FC fixed?

> Really, this bogus bind() explains everything.

Should we add a warning to kernel log, to make distro's fix it?

It might make sense to add a per-device ptype_dev list in network device?

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>