public inbox for passt-dev@passt.top
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
To: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: pasta does not correctly handle bind errors with port ranges
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:57:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef7dbce7-bde4-4925-81d4-acbf783f62c5@redhat.com> (raw)

Hi all,
I found some issues with the pasta port binding logic, it does not 
correctly handle errors when trying to bind a port range.
Let's first bind a port so we can force an error condition it:
$ nc -l -p 8080 &
$ pasta -t 8080  true
Failed to bind any port for '-t 8080', exiting <-- fails as expected
$ pasta -t 8081 -t 8080  true
Failed to bind any port for '-t 8080', exiting <-- here it also fails 
correctly
$ pasta -t 8080-8081  true
<-- no error even though pasta could not bind 8080

Also besides this I find the error message less than ideal. It missing 
the errno from the bind syscall so important context gets lost (i.e. 
Address already in use vs Permission denied).


             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-09 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-09 16:57 Paul Holzinger [this message]
2024-02-09 21:09 ` pasta does not correctly handle bind errors with port ranges Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12 11:45   ` Paul Holzinger
2024-02-12 14:13     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12 14:43       ` Paul Holzinger
2024-02-12 16:56         ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-14  9:15           ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-14 10:24             ` Paul Holzinger

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=ef7dbce7-bde4-4925-81d4-acbf783f62c5@redhat.com \
    --to=pholzing@redhat.com \
    --cc=passt-dev@passt.top \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://passt.top/passt

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for IMAP folder(s).