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From: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat•ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, dsahern@gmail•com,
	Laurent Fasnacht <fasnacht@protonmail•ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: core: enable SO_BINDTODEVICE for non-root users
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:02:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37drhs1jn.fsf@bernat.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200402.174735.1088204254915987225.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:47:35 -0700 (PDT)")

 ❦  2 avril 2020 17:47 -07, David Miller:

>> Currently, SO_BINDTODEVICE requires CAP_NET_RAW. This change allows a
>> non-root user to bind a socket to an interface if it is not already
>> bound.
>  ...
>
> Ok I'm convinced now, thanks for your patience.

I've got some user feedback about this patch. I didn't think the patch
would allow to circumvent routing policies on most common setups, but
VPN may setup a default route with a lower metric and an application may
(on purpose or by accident) use SO_BINDTODEVICE to circumvent the lower
metric route:

default via 10.81.0.1 dev tun0 proto static metric 50
default via 192.168.122.1 dev enp1s0 proto dhcp metric 100

I am wondering if we should revert the patch for 5.10 while we can,
waiting for a better solution (and breaking people relying on the new
behavior in 5.9).

Then, I can propose a patch with a sysctl to avoid breaking existing
setups.
-- 
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up.
		-- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-23 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 13:20 [PATCH net-next v2] net: core: enable SO_BINDTODEVICE for non-root users Vincent Bernat
2020-04-02 17:31 ` David Ahern
2020-04-03  0:47 ` David Miller
2020-10-23 10:02   ` Vincent Bernat [this message]
2020-10-23 14:40     ` David Ahern
2020-10-27  7:17       ` Vincent Bernat
2020-10-28 15:22         ` David Ahern

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