From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] Reduce differences between inbound and outbound socket binding
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 07:34:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251203073405.76127409@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251202040215.2351792-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 15:02:00 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> This series is based on my series fixing bug 176 (regression in auto
> forwarding).
>
> The fact that outbound forwarding sockets are bound to the loopback
> address, whereas inbound forwarding sockets are (by default) bound to
> the unspecified address leads to some unexpected differences between
> the paths setting up each of them.
>
> An idea for tackling bug 100 suggested a different approach which will
> also reduce some of those differences and allow more code to be shared
> between the two paths. I've since discovered that this approach
> doesn't help for bug 100, but I think it's still worthwhile for other reasons.
>
> v5:
> - Combine with SO_BINDTODEVICE and bug 113 patch series
> - Add fallback handling for kernels without SO_BINDTODEVICE
> - Add missing struct field documentation for no_bindtodevice
Applied (with nit from 2/15 fixed).
--
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-03 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-02 4:02 David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] util: Correct error message on SO_BINDTODEVICE failure David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] util: Extend sock_probe_mem() to sock_probe_features() David Gibson
2025-12-03 6:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] conf: More useful errors for kernels without SO_BINDTODEVICE David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] flow: Remove bogus @path field from flowside_sock_args David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] inany: Let length of sockaddr_inany be implicit from the family David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] util, flow, pif: Simplify sock_l4_sa() interface David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] tcp: Merge tcp_ns_sock_init[46]() into tcp_sock_init_one() David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] udp: Unify some more inbound/outbound parts of udp_sock_init() David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] udp: Move udp_sock_init() special case to its caller David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] util: Fix setting of IPV6_V6ONLY socket option David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] tcp, udp: Remove fallback if creating dual stack socket fails David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] tcp, udp: Bind outbound listening sockets by interface instead of address David Gibson
2025-12-03 4:41 ` David Gibson
2025-12-03 6:38 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-12-03 13:13 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] util: Rename sock_l4_dualstack() to sock_l4_dualstack_any() David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] tcp: Always populate oaddr field for socket initiated flows David Gibson
2025-12-02 4:02 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] fwd: Preserve non-standard loopback address when splice forwarding David Gibson
2025-12-03 6:34 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
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