To save kernel memory we try to use "dual stack" sockets which can listen
for both IPv4 and IPv6 connections where possible. To support kernels
which don't allow dual stack sockets, we fall back to creating individual
sockets for IPv4 and IPv6.
This fallback causes some mild ugliness now, and will cause more difficulty
with upcoming improvements to the forwarding logic. I don't think we need
the fallback on the following grounds:
1) The fallback was broken since inception:
The fallback was triggered if pif_sock_l4() failed attempting to create the
dual stack socket. But even if the kernel didn't support them,
pif_sock_l4() would not report a failure.
- Dual stack sockets are distinguished by having the IPV6_V6ONLY sockopt
set to 0. However, until the last patch, we only called setsockopt()
if we wanted to set this to 1, so there was no kernel operation which
could fail for dual stack sockets - we'd silently create a IPv6 only
socket instead.
- Even if we did call the setsockopt(), we only printed a debug() message
for failures, we didn't report it to the caller
2) Dual stack sockets are not just a Linux extension
The dual stack socket interface is described in RFC3493, specifically
section 3.7 and section 5.3. It is supported on BSD:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6
and on Windows:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/ipproto-ipv6-socket-...
3) Linux has supported dual stack sockets for over 20 years
According to ipv6(7) the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option was introduced in
Linux 2.6 and Linux 2.4.21 both from 2003.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson
---
tcp.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
udp.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tcp.c b/tcp.c
index 428bac7b..2abb8be4 100644
--- a/tcp.c
+++ b/tcp.c
@@ -2575,42 +2575,49 @@ static int tcp_sock_init_one(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
}
/**
- * tcp_sock_init() - Create listening sockets for a given host ("inbound") port
+ * tcp_sock_init() - Create listening socket for a given host ("inbound") port
* @c: Execution context
* @pif: Interface to open the socket for (PIF_HOST or PIF_SPLICE)
* @addr: Pointer to address for binding, NULL if not configured
* @ifname: Name of interface to bind to, NULL if not configured
* @port: Port, host order
*
- * Return: 0 on (partial) success, negative error code on (complete) failure
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure
*/
int tcp_sock_init(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
const union inany_addr *addr, const char *ifname,
in_port_t port)
{
- int r4 = FD_REF_MAX + 1, r6 = FD_REF_MAX + 1;
+ int s;
ASSERT(!c->no_tcp);
- if (!addr && c->ifi4 && c->ifi6)
- /* Attempt to get a dual stack socket */
- if (tcp_sock_init_one(c, pif, NULL, ifname, port) >= 0)
+ if (!c->ifi4) {
+ if (!addr)
+ /* Restrict to v6 only */
+ addr = &inany_any6;
+ else if (inany_v4(addr))
+ /* Nothing to do */
return 0;
+ }
+ if (!c->ifi6) {
+ if (!addr)
+ /* Restrict to v4 only */
+ addr = &inany_any4;
+ else if (!inany_v4(addr))
+ /* Nothing to do */
+ return 0;
+ }
- /* Otherwise create a socket per IP version */
- if ((!addr || inany_v4(addr)) && c->ifi4)
- r4 = tcp_sock_init_one(c, pif,
- addr ? addr : &inany_any4, ifname, port);
-
- if ((!addr || !inany_v4(addr)) && c->ifi6)
- r6 = tcp_sock_init_one(c, pif,
- addr ? addr : &inany_any6, ifname, port);
-
- if (IN_INTERVAL(0, FD_REF_MAX, r4) || IN_INTERVAL(0, FD_REF_MAX, r6))
- return 0;
+ s = tcp_sock_init_one(c, pif, addr, ifname, port);
+ if (s < 0)
+ return s;
+ if (s > FD_REF_MAX)
+ return -EIO;
- return r4 < 0 ? r4 : r6;
+ return 0;
}
+
/**
* tcp_ns_sock_init() - Init socket to listen for spliced outbound connections
* @c: Execution context
diff --git a/udp.c b/udp.c
index b3ce9c7f..3d097fbb 100644
--- a/udp.c
+++ b/udp.c
@@ -1102,14 +1102,14 @@ int udp_tap_handler(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
}
/**
- * udp_sock_init() - Initialise listening sockets for a given port
+ * udp_sock_init() - Initialise listening socket for a given port
* @c: Execution context
* @pif: Interface to open the socket for (PIF_HOST or PIF_SPLICE)
* @addr: Pointer to address for binding, NULL if not configured
* @ifname: Name of interface to bind to, NULL if not configured
* @port: Port, host order
*
- * Return: 0 on (partial) success, negative error code on (complete) failure
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure
*/
int udp_sock_init(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
const union inany_addr *addr, const char *ifname,
@@ -1119,8 +1119,8 @@ int udp_sock_init(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
.pif = pif,
.port = port,
};
- int r4 = FD_REF_MAX + 1, r6 = FD_REF_MAX + 1;
int (*socks)[NUM_PORTS];
+ int s;
ASSERT(!c->no_udp);
ASSERT(pif_is_socket(pif));
@@ -1130,40 +1130,36 @@ int udp_sock_init(const struct ctx *c, uint8_t pif,
else
socks = udp_splice_ns;
- if (!addr && c->ifi4 && c->ifi6) {
- int s;
-
- /* Attempt to get a dual stack socket */
- s = pif_sock_l4(c, EPOLL_TYPE_UDP_LISTEN, PIF_HOST,
- NULL, ifname, port, uref.u32);
- socks[V4][port] = s < 0 ? -1 : s;
- socks[V6][port] = s < 0 ? -1 : s;
- if (IN_INTERVAL(0, FD_REF_MAX, s))
+ if (!c->ifi4) {
+ if (!addr)
+ /* Restrict to v6 only */
+ addr = &inany_any6;
+ else if (inany_v4(addr))
+ /* Nothing to do */
return 0;
}
-
- if ((!addr || inany_v4(addr)) && c->ifi4) {
- const union inany_addr *a = addr ? addr : &inany_any4;
-
- r4 = pif_sock_l4(c, EPOLL_TYPE_UDP_LISTEN, pif, a, ifname,
- port, uref.u32);
-
- socks[V4][port] = r4 < 0 ? -1 : r4;
+ if (!c->ifi6) {
+ if (!addr)
+ /* Restrict to v4 only */
+ addr = &inany_any4;
+ else if (!inany_v4(addr))
+ /* Nothing to do */
+ return 0;
}
- if ((!addr || !inany_v4(addr)) && c->ifi6) {
- const union inany_addr *a = addr ? addr : &inany_any6;
-
- r6 = pif_sock_l4(c, EPOLL_TYPE_UDP_LISTEN, pif, a, ifname,
- port, uref.u32);
-
- socks[V6][port] = r6 < 0 ? -1 : r6;
+ s = pif_sock_l4(c, EPOLL_TYPE_UDP_LISTEN, pif,
+ addr, ifname, port, uref.u32);
+ if (s > FD_REF_MAX) {
+ close(s);
+ s = -EIO;
}
- if (IN_INTERVAL(0, FD_REF_MAX, r4) || IN_INTERVAL(0, FD_REF_MAX, r6))
- return 0;
+ if (!addr || inany_v4(addr))
+ socks[V4][port] = s < 0 ? -1 : s;
+ if (!addr || !inany_v4(addr))
+ socks[V6][port] = s < 0 ? -1 : s;
- return r4 < 0 ? r4 : r6;
+ return s < 0 ? s : 0;
}
/**
--
2.52.0