From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
passt-dev@passt.top, Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] conf: Move SO_BINDTODEVICE workaround to conf_ports()
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:06:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8aa3cc4-71b7-48a8-96b6-1cdda69bc337@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260417050520.102247-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On 4/17/26 07:05, David Gibson wrote:
> For historical reasons we apply our workaround for -[TU] handling when
> SO_BINDTODEVICE is unavailable inside conf_ports_range_except(). We've
> now removed the reasons it had to be there, so it can move to conf_ports(),
> the caller's caller.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> ---
> conf.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
> index 33b96eac..5ff62873 100644
> --- a/conf.c
> +++ b/conf.c
> @@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ static int parse_keyword(const char *s, const char **endptr, const char *kw)
> /**
> * conf_ports_range_except() - Set up forwarding for a range of ports minus a
> * bitmap of exclusions
> - * @c: Execution context
> - * @optname: Short option name, t, T, u, or U
> - * @optarg: Option argument (port specification)
> * @fwd: Forwarding table to be updated
> * @proto: Protocol to forward
> * @addr: Listening address
> @@ -151,9 +148,8 @@ static int parse_keyword(const char *s, const char **endptr, const char *kw)
> * @to: Port to translate @first to when forwarding
> * @flags: Flags for forwarding entries
> */
> -static void conf_ports_range_except(const struct ctx *c, char optname,
> - const char *optarg, struct fwd_table *fwd,
> - uint8_t proto, const union inany_addr *addr,
> +static void conf_ports_range_except(struct fwd_table *fwd, uint8_t proto,
> + const union inany_addr *addr,
> const char *ifname,
> uint16_t first, uint16_t last,
> const uint8_t *exclude, uint16_t to,
> @@ -195,42 +191,10 @@ static void conf_ports_range_except(const struct ctx *c, char optname,
> rule.last = i - 1;
> rule.to = base + delta;
>
> - if ((optname == 'T' || optname == 'U') && c->no_bindtodevice) {
> - /* FIXME: Once the fwd bitmaps are removed, move this
> - * workaround to the caller
> - */
> - struct fwd_rule rulev = {
> - .ifname = { 0 },
> - .flags = flags,
> - .first = base,
> - .last = i - 1,
> - .to = base + delta,
> - };
> -
> - assert(!addr && ifname && !strcmp(ifname, "lo"));
> - warn(
> -"SO_BINDTODEVICE unavailable, forwarding only 127.0.0.1 and ::1 for '-%c %s'",
> - optname, optarg);
> + fwd_rule_conflict_check(&rule, fwd->rules, fwd->count);
> + if (fwd_rule_add(fwd, &rule) < 0)
> + goto fail;
>
> - if (c->ifi4) {
> - rulev.addr = inany_loopback4;
> - fwd_rule_conflict_check(&rulev,
> - fwd->rules, fwd->count);
> - if (fwd_rule_add(fwd, &rulev) < 0)
> - goto fail;
> - }
> - if (c->ifi6) {
> - rulev.addr = inany_loopback6;
> - fwd_rule_conflict_check(&rulev,
> - fwd->rules, fwd->count);
> - if (fwd_rule_add(fwd, &rulev) < 0)
> - goto fail;
> - }
> - } else {
> - fwd_rule_conflict_check(&rule, fwd->rules, fwd->count);
> - if (fwd_rule_add(fwd, &rule) < 0)
> - goto fail;
> - }
> base = i - 1;
> }
> return;
> @@ -321,8 +285,7 @@ static void conf_ports_spec(const struct ctx *c,
> /* Exclude ephemeral ports */
> fwd_port_map_ephemeral(exclude);
>
> - conf_ports_range_except(c, optname, optarg, fwd,
> - proto, addr, ifname,
> + conf_ports_range_except(fwd, proto, addr, ifname,
> 1, NUM_PORTS - 1, exclude,
> 1, flags | FWD_WEAK);
> return;
> @@ -357,8 +320,7 @@ static void conf_ports_spec(const struct ctx *c,
> optname, optarg);
> }
>
> - conf_ports_range_except(c, optname, optarg, fwd,
> - proto, addr, ifname,
> + conf_ports_range_except(fwd, proto, addr, ifname,
> orig_range.first, orig_range.last,
> exclude,
> mapped_range.first, flags);
> @@ -461,14 +423,33 @@ static void conf_ports(const struct ctx *c, char optname, const char *optarg,
> }
> }
>
> + if (optname == 'T' || optname == 'U') {
> + assert(!addr && !ifname);
> +
> + if (c->no_bindtodevice) {
> + warn(
> +"SO_BINDTODEVICE unavailable, forwarding only 127.0.0.1 and ::1 for '-%c %s'",
> + optname, optarg);
> +
> + if (c->ifi4) {
> + conf_ports_spec(c, optname, optarg, fwd, proto,
> + &inany_loopback4, NULL, spec);
> + }
> + if (c->ifi6) {
> + conf_ports_spec(c, optname, optarg, fwd, proto,
> + &inany_loopback6, NULL, spec);
> + }
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + ifname = "lo";
> + }
> +
> if (ifname && c->no_bindtodevice) {
> die(
> "Device binding for '-%c %s' unsupported (requires kernel 5.7+)",
> optname, optarg);
> }
> - /* Outbound forwards come from guest loopback */
> - if ((optname == 'T' || optname == 'U') && !ifname)
> - ifname = "lo";
>
> conf_ports_spec(c, optname, optarg, fwd, proto, addr, ifname, spec);
> }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-20 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-17 5:05 [PATCH v3 00/11] Rework forwarding option parsing David Gibson
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] doc: Rework man page description of port specifiers David Gibson
2026-04-20 13:31 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] conf: Move "all" handling to port specifier David Gibson
2026-04-20 13:44 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] conf: Allow user-specified auto-scanned port forwarding ranges David Gibson
2026-04-20 14:45 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] conf: Move SO_BINDTODEVICE workaround to conf_ports() David Gibson
2026-04-20 15:06 ` Laurent Vivier [this message]
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] conf: Don't pass raw commandline argument to conf_ports_spec() David Gibson
2026-04-20 16:11 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] fwd, conf: Add capabilities bits to each forwarding table David Gibson
2026-04-20 16:17 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] conf, fwd: Stricter rule checking in fwd_rule_add() David Gibson
2026-04-20 16:48 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] fwd_rule: Move ephemeral port probing to fwd_rule.c David Gibson
2026-04-20 16:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] fwd, conf: Move rule parsing code to fwd_rule.[ch] David Gibson
2026-04-20 17:06 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] fwd_rule: Move conflict checking back within fwd_rule_add() David Gibson
2026-04-20 17:15 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-04-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] fwd: Generalise fwd_rules_info() David Gibson
2026-04-20 17:21 ` Laurent Vivier
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