Re: [PATCH net] net: Avoid receiving packets with an l3mdev on unbound UDP sockets

[Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>]

On 30/01/17 20:01, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:52:01 -0700
>
>> On 1/26/17 11:02 AM, Robert Shearman wrote:
>>> Packets arriving in a VRF currently are delivered to UDP sockets that
>>> aren't bound to any interface. TCP defaults to not delivering packets
>>> arriving in a VRF to unbound sockets. IP route lookup and socket
>>> transmit both assume that unbound means using the default table and
>>> UDP applications that haven't been changed to be aware of VRFs may not
>>> function correctly in this case since they may not be able to handle
>>> overlapping IP address ranges, or be able to send packets back to the
>>> original sender if required.
>>>
>>> So add a sysctl, udp_l3mdev_accept, to control this behaviour with it
>>> being analgous to the existing tcp_l3mdev_accept, namely to allow a
>>> process to have a VRF-global listen socket. Have this default to off
>>> as this is the behaviour that users will expect, given that there is
>>> no explicit mechanism to set unmodified VRF-unaware application into a
>>> default VRF.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
>>> ---
>>> I've targetted this for the net tree because I believe the expected
>>> behaviour is different enough from the current behaviour to be
>>> considered a bug. However, this should also apply to the net-next tree
>>> as-is if this not deemed a bug.
>>
>> Does not apply to net-next; collision in sysctl_net_ipv4.c
>>
>> As for the code change, I have updated my unit tests and they all pass with this patch. Not sure why I marked my version as not working last November, but it is all good now.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
>> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
> The conflict was easy enough to fix up, so I did it myself.
>
> Applied to net-next, thanks.

Great, thanks.