From: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
To: <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>,
Onar Olsen <onar.olsen@ericsson.com>, <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Subject: tcp: ip_local_reserved_ports impact on inet_csk_get_port()
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 14:47:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150505124759.GA23707@haze> (raw)
Defining a port range in net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports can cause a linear
and predictable behavior of inet_csk_get_port().
This occurs when smallest_rover = rover = prandom_u32() % remaining + low;
hits a value in the reserved range. The algorithm will then try the next
consecutive port number until a free port is found.
Example:
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 32768 61000
net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports = 35000-61000
This will give ~92% chance that the initial random port will be in the
reserved range, and that the port selection will be done linearly
starting from 32768.
Section 3.3 in RFC6056[1] describes several port selection algorithms, and Linux
seems to follow #1. This does not seem to be the best alternative since
e3826f1e946e ("net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers")
If the local port range is set not to overlap with the reserved ports,
inet_csk_get_port will give a better randomness in the port selection.
//E
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6056
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