From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tcp: Merge tcp_ns_sock_init[46]() into tcp_sock_init_one()
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:25:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPX_9nkcZaJrGD_E@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251020080959.13267d1c@elisabeth>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 08:09:59AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:34:45 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Surprisingly little logic is shared between the path for creating a
> > listen()ing socket in the guest namespace versus in the host namespace.
> > Improve this, by extending tcp_sock_init_one() to take a pif parameter
> > indicating where it should open the socket. This allows
> > tcp_ns_sock_init[46]() to be removed entirely.
> >
> > We generalise tcp_sock_init() in the same way, although we don't use it
> > yet, due to some subtle differences in how we bind for -t versus -T.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > ---
> > conf.c | 2 +-
> > tcp.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------
> > tcp.h | 5 +--
> > 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
> > index 66b9e634..26f1bcc0 100644
> > --- a/conf.c
> > +++ b/conf.c
> > @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static void conf_ports_range_except(const struct ctx *c, char optname,
> > fwd->delta[i] = to - first;
> >
> > if (optname == 't')
> > - ret = tcp_sock_init(c, addr, ifname, i);
> > + ret = tcp_sock_init(c, PIF_HOST, addr, ifname, i);
> > else if (optname == 'u')
> > ret = udp_sock_init(c, 0, addr, ifname, i);
> > else
> > diff --git a/tcp.c b/tcp.c
> > index 0f9e9b3f..15c012d7 100644
> > --- a/tcp.c
> > +++ b/tcp.c
> > @@ -2515,29 +2515,38 @@ void tcp_sock_handler(const struct ctx *c, union epoll_ref ref,
> > /**
> > * tcp_sock_init_one() - Initialise listening socket for address and port
> > * @c: Execution context
> > + * @pif: Interface to open the socket for (PIF_HOST or PIF_SPLICE)
> > * @addr: Pointer to address for binding, NULL for dual stack any
> > * @ifname: Name of interface to bind to, NULL if not configured
> > * @port: Port, host order
> > *
> > * Return: fd for the new listening socket, negative error code on failure
> > + *
> > + * If pif == PIF_SPLICE, must have already entered the namespace.
>
> ...I forgot: nit: a subject in this sentence would be nice for
> readability.
Noted, will adjust.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-20 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-17 0:34 [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Reduce differences between inbound and outbound socket binding David Gibson
2025-10-17 0:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] tcp: Merge tcp_ns_sock_init[46]() into tcp_sock_init_one() David Gibson
2025-10-20 6:08 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-20 9:24 ` David Gibson
2025-10-20 6:09 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-20 9:25 ` David Gibson [this message]
2025-10-17 0:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] udp: Unify some more inbound/outbound parts of udp_sock_init() David Gibson
2025-10-21 21:51 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-22 0:08 ` David Gibson
2025-10-17 0:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] tcp, udp: Bind outbound listening sockets by interface instead of address David Gibson
2025-10-21 21:51 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-22 0:34 ` David Gibson
2025-10-22 8:59 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-10-23 1:18 ` David Gibson
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