Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] sockets: don't block IPv4 clients when listening on "::"

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

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:30:55AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/19/2017 01:03 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > When inet_parse() parses the hostname, it is forcing the
> > has_ipv6 && ipv6 flags if the address contains a ":". This
> > means that if the user had set the ipv4=on flag, to try to
> > restrict the listener to just ipv4, an error would not have
> > been raised.  eg
> > 
> >    -incoming tcp:[::]:9000,ipv4
> > 
> > should have raised an error because listening for IPv4
> > on "::" is a non-sensical combination.
> 
> If I understand correctly, the correct response (and post-patch
> behavior) is an error (mismatch between requesting IPv4-only usage while
> giving an IPv6 address), but the buggy response (pre-patch behavior) is
> that we ended up setting ipv6 in addition to the user-set ipv4 (because
> we found a ':'), and then end up listening on IPv6 after all contrary to
> the user's request.

Yes, with this patch you get this error:

  qemu-system-x86_64: -incoming tcp:[::]:9000,ipv4: address resolution
    failed for :::9000: Address family for hostname not supported

because it now (correctly) tries to resolve "::" as an IPv4 address
and fails (just like -chardev and -vnc already do)

> 
> 
> > With this removed,
> > we now call getaddrinfo() on "::" passing PF_INET and
> > so getaddrinfo reports an error about the hostname being
> > incompatible with the requested protocol.
> > 
> > Likewise it is explicitly setting the has_ipv4 & ipv4
> > flags when the address contains only digits + '.'. This
> > has no ill-effect, but also has no benefit, so is removed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  util/qemu-sockets.c | 4 ----
> >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 
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Regards,
Daniel
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