From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: network dev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, davem <davem@davemloft.net>, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>, daniel@iogearbox.net Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:41:01 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CADvbK_do3kQSotq7-PbvoCBBSwOBBdZtx=rR+Q2XX3_bhV4_0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20160819175007.GB3578@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> > Ah, I see what you're doing. Ok, this makes some sense, at least on the receive > side, when you get a cookie unpacked and modify the remote peers address list, > it makes sense to check for duplicates. On the local side however, I would, > instead of checking it when the list gets copied, I'd check it when the master > list gets updated (in the NETDEV_UP event notifier for the local address list, I was thinking about to check it in the NETDEV_UP, yes it can make the master list has no duplicated addresses. But what if two same addresses events come, and they come from different NICs (though I can't point out the valid use case), then we filter there. Later, sctp may receive one NETDEV_DOWN event,sctp will remove that addr in the master list, but it shouldn't have been removed, as another local NIC still has that addr. That's why I have to leave the master alone, just check when they are really being bind to asoc addr list. > and the sctp_add_bind_addr function for the endpoint address list). That way As to the endpoint address list, sctp has different process for binding the address 'ANY' from assoc address list (note that this issue only happened in binding the address 'ANY'). instead of copying the master address list to the endpoint, it only adds address 'ANY' to the EP address list. Only when starting a connection and create the assoc, it copy the master address list to ASOC. So no need to do it in sctp_add_bind_addr for endpoint address list. Besides, sctp_add_bind_addr is supposed to be called after checking the duplicated address(I got it from sctp_do_bind()). :-) > you can keep that nested for loop out of the send path on the local system. > >
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From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: network dev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, davem <davem@davemloft.net>, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>, daniel@iogearbox.net Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 06:41:01 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CADvbK_do3kQSotq7-PbvoCBBSwOBBdZtx=rR+Q2XX3_bhV4_0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20160819175007.GB3578@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> > Ah, I see what you're doing. Ok, this makes some sense, at least on the receive > side, when you get a cookie unpacked and modify the remote peers address list, > it makes sense to check for duplicates. On the local side however, I would, > instead of checking it when the list gets copied, I'd check it when the master > list gets updated (in the NETDEV_UP event notifier for the local address list, I was thinking about to check it in the NETDEV_UP, yes it can make the master list has no duplicated addresses. But what if two same addresses events come, and they come from different NICs (though I can't point out the valid use case), then we filter there. Later, sctp may receive one NETDEV_DOWN event,sctp will remove that addr in the master list, but it shouldn't have been removed, as another local NIC still has that addr. That's why I have to leave the master alone, just check when they are really being bind to asoc addr list. > and the sctp_add_bind_addr function for the endpoint address list). That way As to the endpoint address list, sctp has different process for binding the address 'ANY' from assoc address list (note that this issue only happened in binding the address 'ANY'). instead of copying the master address list to the endpoint, it only adds address 'ANY' to the EP address list. Only when starting a connection and create the assoc, it copy the master address list to ASOC. So no need to do it in sctp_add_bind_addr for endpoint address list. Besides, sctp_add_bind_addr is supposed to be called after checking the duplicated address(I got it from sctp_do_bind()). :-) > you can keep that nested for loop out of the send path on the local system. > >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-20 6:46 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-08-19 11:30 [PATCH net 0/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list Xin Long 2016-08-19 11:30 ` Xin Long 2016-08-19 11:30 ` [PATCH net 1/2] sctp: reduce indent level in sctp_copy_local_addr_list Xin Long 2016-08-19 11:30 ` Xin Long 2016-08-19 11:30 ` [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list Xin Long 2016-08-19 11:30 ` Xin Long 2016-08-19 13:30 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-19 13:30 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-19 15:16 ` Xin Long 2016-08-19 15:16 ` Xin Long 2016-08-19 17:50 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-19 17:50 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-20 6:41 ` Xin Long [this message] 2016-08-20 6:41 ` Xin Long 2016-08-22 14:25 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-22 14:25 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-24 5:14 ` Xin Long 2016-08-24 5:14 ` Xin Long 2016-08-24 10:38 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-24 10:38 ` Neil Horman 2016-12-17 9:56 ` Xin Long 2016-12-17 9:56 ` Xin Long 2016-12-19 12:35 ` Neil Horman 2016-12-19 12:35 ` Neil Horman 2016-08-24 11:23 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-08-24 11:23 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-08-25 4:03 ` Xin Long 2016-08-25 4:03 ` Xin Long 2016-08-25 12:10 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-08-25 12:10 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-09-02 13:22 ` David Laight 2016-09-02 13:22 ` David Laight 2016-09-02 13:46 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-09-02 13:46 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 2016-09-02 14:25 ` David Laight 2016-09-02 14:25 ` David Laight 2016-09-02 14:44 ` 'Marcelo Ricardo Leitner' 2016-09-02 14:44 ` 'Marcelo Ricardo Leitner'
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