Hello,
as per man 7 udp:
In order to receive packets, the socket can be bound to
a local address first by using bind(2). Otherwise,
the socket layer will automatically assign a free local
port out of the range defined by /proc/sys/net/ipv4
/ip_local_port_range and bind the socket to INADDR_ANY.
I did not know that bind is unneeded, so I tried that. But it does not
work with this piece of code:
int main()
{
char buf[128];
int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
recv(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
}
The recv above never returns (even if I bomb all ports from the range).
ss -ulpan is silent too. As a workaround, I can stick a dummy write/send
before recv:
write(fd, "", 0);
And it starts working. ss suddenly displays a port which the program
listens on.
I think the UDP recv path should do inet_autobind as I have done in the
attached patch. But my knowledge is very limited in that area, so I have
no idea whether that is correct at all.
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
>From 57c320998feb2e1e705a4ab6d3bbcb74c6ae65f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:10:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net: autobind UDP on recv
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
---
include/net/inet_common.h | 1 +
net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 3 ++-
net/ipv4/udp.c | 5 +++++
net/ipv6/udp.c | 5 +++++
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/inet_common.h b/include/net/inet_common.h
index 5d683428fced..ba224ed3dd36 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_common.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_common.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ ssize_t inet_sendpage(struct socket *sock, struct page *page, int offset,
int inet_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size,
int flags);
int inet_shutdown(struct socket *sock, int how);
+int inet_autobind(struct sock *sk);
int inet_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog);
void inet_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk);
int inet_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 9648c97e541f..d23acb11cdb0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_sock_destruct);
* Automatically bind an unbound socket.
*/
-static int inet_autobind(struct sock *sk)
+int inet_autobind(struct sock *sk)
{
struct inet_sock *inet;
/* We may need to bind the socket. */
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ static int inet_autobind(struct sock *sk)
release_sock(sk);
return 0;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet_autobind);
/*
* Move a socket into listening state.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index 82fb78265f4b..ceb07c83af17 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -1360,6 +1360,11 @@ int udp_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, int noblock,
if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE)
return ip_recv_error(sk, msg, len, addr_len);
+ /* We may need to bind the socket. */
+ if (!inet_sk(sk)->inet_num && !sk->sk_prot->no_autobind &&
+ inet_autobind(sk))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
try_again:
peeking = off = sk_peek_offset(sk, flags);
skb = __skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags | (noblock ? MSG_DONTWAIT : 0),
diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index 71963b23d5a5..1c3dafc3d91e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ int udpv6_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
if (np->rxpmtu && np->rxopt.bits.rxpmtu)
return ipv6_recv_rxpmtu(sk, msg, len, addr_len);
+ /* We may need to bind the socket. */
+ if (!inet_sk(sk)->inet_num && !sk->sk_prot->no_autobind &&
+ inet_autobind(sk))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
try_again:
peeking = off = sk_peek_offset(sk, flags);
skb = __skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags | (noblock ? MSG_DONTWAIT : 0),
--
2.10.1
