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authorRobert Shearman <rshearma@vyatta.att-mail.com>2018-11-07 15:36:02 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-07 16:12:38 -0800
commit3c82a21f4320c8d54cf6456b27c8d49e5ffb722e (patch)
treea281d34b7cdb8bf01fe13c387ab95bce8bd87e81 /Documentation
parentf601a85bd7883708f48911d8c88e69fe5bde2b4d (diff)
net: allow binding socket in a VRF when there's an unbound socket
Change the inet socket lookup to avoid packets arriving on a device enslaved to an l3mdev from matching unbound sockets by removing the wildcard for non sk_bound_dev_if and instead relying on check against the secondary device index, which will be 0 when the input device is not enslaved to an l3mdev and so match against an unbound socket and not match when the input device is enslaved. Change the socket binding to take the l3mdev into account to allow an unbound socket to not conflict sockets bound to an l3mdev given the datapath isolation now guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@vyatta.att-mail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@vyatta.att-mail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/vrf.txt9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
index 8ff7b4c8f91b..d4b129402d57 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ VRF device:
or to specify the output device using cmsg and IP_PKTINFO.
+By default the scope of the port bindings for unbound sockets is
+limited to the default VRF. That is, it will not be matched by packets
+arriving on interfaces enslaved to an l3mdev and processes may bind to
+the same port if they bind to an l3mdev.
+
TCP & UDP services running in the default VRF context (ie., not bound
to any VRF device) can work across all VRF domains by enabling the
tcp_l3mdev_accept and udp_l3mdev_accept sysctl options:
@@ -112,10 +117,6 @@ tcp_l3mdev_accept and udp_l3mdev_accept sysctl options:
netfilter rules on the VRF device can be used to limit access to services
running in the default VRF context as well.
-The default VRF does not have limited scope with respect to port bindings.
-That is, if a process does a wildcard bind to a port in the default VRF it
-owns the port across all VRF domains within the network namespace.
-
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Using iproute2 for VRFs