Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sockets: ensure we can bind to both ipv4 & ipv6 separately

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:57:24AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 07:15 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > When binding to an IPv6 socket we currently force the
> > IPV6_V6ONLY flag to off. This means that the IPv6 socket
> > will accept both IPv4 & IPv6 sockets when QEMU is launched
> > with something like
> > 
> >   -vnc :::1
> 
> At first glance, I thought that was too many :.  But I guess it is
> parsed as host:screen, with host of '::', and port offset of '1'...

Yeah, I was amazed when it actually worked in fact :-) I thought
I was going to have to use {::}:1, but it seems we reverse search
for the last ':'.

> 
> > 
> > While this is good for that case, it is bad for other
> > cases. For example if an empty hostname is given,
> > getaddrinfo resolves it to 2 addresses 0.0.0.0 and ::,
> > in that order. We will thus bind to 0.0.0.0 first, and
> > then fail to bind to :: on the same port. The same
> > problem can happen if any other hostname lookup causes
> > the IPv4 address to be reported before the IPv6 address.
> > 
> > When we get an IPv6 bind failure, we should re-try the
> > same port, but with IPV6_V6ONLY turned on again, to
> > avoid clash with any IPv4 listener.
> > 
> > This ensures that
> > 
> >   -vnc :1
> 
> ...and matches this being parsed as host of '' and port offset of '1'
> 
> > 
> > will bind successfully to both 0.0.0.0 and ::, and also
> > avoid
> > 
> >   -vnc :1,to=2
> > 
> > from mistakenly using a 2nd port for the :: listener.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  util/qemu-sockets.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 
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> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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> 




Regards,
Daniel
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