From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tuexen Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:24:59 +0000 Subject: Re: Strange problem with SCTP+IPv6 Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20200621155604.GA23135@minyard.net> <20200622165759.GA3235@minyard.net> <4B68D06C-00F4-42C3-804A-B5531AABCE21@lurchi.franken.de> <20200622183253.GQ2491@localhost.localdomain> <20200623161756.GE3235@minyard.net> <20200623212143.GR2491@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20200623212143.GR2491@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Cc: Corey Minyard , David Laight , Xin Long , Vlad Yasevich , Neil Horman , "linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org" , LKML > On 23. Jun 2020, at 23:21, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:17:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:17:28PM +0000, David Laight wrote: >>> From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner >>>> Sent: 22 June 2020 19:33 >>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:01:24PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote: >>>>>> On 22. Jun 2020, at 18:57, Corey Minyard wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:01:23PM +0800, Xin Long wrote: >>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:56 PM Corey Minyard wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've stumbled upon a strange problem with SCTP and IPv6. If I create an >>>>>>>> sctp listening socket on :: and set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option on it, >>>>>>>> then I make a connection to it using ::1, the connection will drop after >>>>>>>> 2.5 seconds with an ECONNRESET error. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It only happens on SCTP, it doesn't have the issue if you connect to a >>>>>>>> full IPv6 address instead of ::1, and it doesn't happen if you don't >>>>>>>> set IPV6_V6ONLY. I have verified current end of tree kernel.org. >>>>>>>> I tried on an ARM system and x86_64. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I haven't dug into the kernel to see if I could find anything yet, but I >>>>>>>> thought I would go ahead and report it. I am attaching a reproducer. >>>>>>>> Basically, compile the following code: >>>>>>> The code only set IPV6_V6ONLY on server side, so the client side will >>>>>>> still bind all the local ipv4 addresses (as you didn't call bind() to >>>>>>> bind any specific addresses ). Then after the connection is created, >>>>>>> the client will send HB on the v4 paths to the server. The server >>>>>>> will abort the connection, as it can't support v4. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So you can work around it by either: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - set IPV6_V6ONLY on client side. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> or >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - bind to the specific v6 addresses on the client side. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't see RFC said something about this. >>>>>>> So it may not be a good idea to change the current behaviour >>>>>>> to not establish the connection in this case, which may cause regression. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, I understand this. It's a little strange, but I see why it works >>>>>> this way. >>>>> I don't. I would expect it to work as I described in my email. >>>>> Could someone explain me how and why it is behaving different from >>>>> my expectation? >>>> >>>> It looks like a bug to me. Testing with this test app here, I can see >>>> the INIT_ACK being sent with a bunch of ipv4 addresses in it and >>>> that's unexpected for a v6only socket. As is, it's the server saying >>>> "I'm available at these other addresses too, but not." >>> >>> Does it even make sense to mix IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on the same >>> connection? >>> I don't remember ever seeing both types of address in a message, >>> but may not have looked. >> >> That's an interesting question. Do the RFCs say anything? I would >> assume it was ok unless ipv6only was set. >> >>> >>> I also wonder whether the connection should be dropped for an error >>> response on a path that has never been validated. >> >> That actually bothered me a bit more. Shouldn't it stay up if any path >> is up? That's kind of the whole point of multihoming. > > Michael explained it on the other email. What he described is what I > observed in my tests. > >> >>> >>> OTOH the whole 'multi-homing' part of SCTP sucks. >> >> I don't think so. >> >>> The IP addresses a server needs to bind to depend on where the >>> incoming connection will come from. >>> A local connection may be able to use a 192.168.x.x address >>> but a remote connection must not - as it may be defined locally >>> at the remote system. >>> But both connections can come into the public (routable) address. >>> We have to tell customers to explicitly configure the local IP >>> addresses - which means the application has to know what they are. >>> Fortunately these apps are pretty static - usually M3UA. >> >> Umm, no, If you have a private address, it better be behind a firewall, >> and the firewall should handle rewriting the packet to fix the addresses. >> >> It doesn't appear that Linux netfilter does this. There is a TODO in >> the code for this. But that's how it *should* work. > > Right, we don't support SCTP aware NAT [1]. > > 1.https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stewart-behave-sctpnat-04 The current version is: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-natsupp-16 Another possibility for NAT traversal is UDP encapsulation... Best regards Michael > > Marcelo > >> >> -corey >> >>> >>> David >>> >>> - >>> Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK >>> Registration No: 1397386 (Wales) >>>