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

To: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Deon van der Merwe <dvdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] "connection refused" when persistence enabled
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:17:41 +1100
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:33:51AM +1100, Simon Horman wrote:
> 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.

This  change has been included in 2.6.32.2 and 2.6.31.9.
It appears that 2.6.29.X has been discontinued.


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