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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Tobias S. Josefowitz" <t.josefowitz@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: binding UDP port 0 with SO_REUSEADDR
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:02:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343847776.21269.797.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEZM=bNdyZoTiGYwNM_3v+ro7dEn0q9aTo4040tBDqDSH3HOXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 13:36 +0200, Tobias S. Josefowitz wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I recently noticed that binding UDP port 0 with SO_REUSEADDR yields
> unexpected results for me - the kernel occasionally gives out UDP
> ports used by other processes, if they were bound with SO_REUSEADDR,
> too.
> 
> I did some digging, it seems that
> f24d43c07e208372aa3d3bff419afbf43ba87698 introduced this behaviour.
> I'm not at all sure if this could/should be called a bug, but I need
> to say, it was severly unexpected at my side, and that probably goes
> for others, too.
> 
> Just bringing this to your attention, I have no suggestions on it whatsoever.

And why are you using SO_REUSEADDR on UDP unicast sockets ?

I mean, this is exactly saying " By using this REUSEADDR, I am allowing
this port being used by another process, even from another user"

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-01 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01 11:36 binding UDP port 0 with SO_REUSEADDR Tobias S. Josefowitz
2012-08-01 19:02 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-08-01 19:38   ` Tobias S. Josefowitz
2012-08-02 16:33     ` Tobias S. Josefowitz
2012-08-02 16:57       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-02 19:05         ` Tobias S. Josefowitz
2012-08-21  9:09         ` Jan Engelhardt

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