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Re: [lvs-users] "connection refused" when persistence enabled

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] "connection refused" when persistence enabled
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:33:51 +1100
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:51:37PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
>       Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> > >   Looks good. May be you can do the same for ip_vs_genl_parse_dest,
> > > just to be safe, if new parameter is added but netlink does not support 
> > > it, we do not want random data from stack.
> > 
> > Good idea. How about this?
> 
>       Very good, thanks!
> 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > ipvs: zero usvc and udest
> > 
> > Make sure that any otherwise uninitialised fields of usvc are zero.
> > 
> > This has been obvserved to cause a problem whereby the port of
> > fwmark services may end up as a non-zero value which causes
> > scheduling of a destination server to fail for persisitent services.
> > 
> > As observed by Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> > This fix suggested by Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>.
> > 
> > For good measure also zero udest.
> > 
> > Cc: Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c   2009-12-11 
> > 14:22:23.000000000 +0900
> > +++ linux-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c        2009-12-14 
> > 11:05:50.000000000 +0900
> > @@ -2714,6 +2714,8 @@ static int ip_vs_genl_parse_service(stru
> >     if (!(nla_af && (nla_fwmark || (nla_port && nla_protocol && nla_addr))))
> >             return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > +   memset(usvc, 0, sizeof(*usvc));
> > +
> >     usvc->af = nla_get_u16(nla_af);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6
> >     if (usvc->af != AF_INET && usvc->af != AF_INET6)
> > @@ -2901,6 +2903,8 @@ static int ip_vs_genl_parse_dest(struct 
> >     if (!(nla_addr && nla_port))
> >             return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > +   memset(udest, 0, sizeof(*udest));
> > +
> >     nla_memcpy(&udest->addr, nla_addr, sizeof(udest->addr));
> >     udest->port = nla_get_u16(nla_port);

This change has been applied to Linus's tree and should appear
in 2.6.32. It has also been submitted to -stable and should appear
in some revision of 2.6.31.X, 2.6.30.X and 2.6.29.X.


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