On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:16:58PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote
  in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Note for the impatient:  This message does not discuss the well-known
> issue of reusing local addresses through setting SO_REUSEADDR.  This
> message is on reusing local addresses occupied by sockets belonging
> to other users.
[...]
> > Attached below is a patch addressing the issue of the inability to
> > reuse a local IP:port couple occupied by an established TCP connection
> > from another user, but by no listeners.  Could anybody with fair
> > understanding of our TCP/IP stack review it please?  Thanks.
[...]
> One more detail to note:
> 
> Currently if another user's socket is in the TIME_WAIT state, it
> still counts as occupying the local IP:port couple.  I cannot see
> the point of such a behaviour.  Restricting bind() is to disallow
> unprivileged port stealth, but how can one steal a connection in
> the TIME_WAIT state?
> 
> For FreeBSD-4 the above patch would take care of this case along
> with established connections, but in CURRENT TIME_WAIT connections
> are a special case since they no longer use full-blown state.
> Therefore, for CURRENT the above patch mutates into the below one.
[...]

Since I've got no feedback on this issue, I have little hope that
someone will pay attention to my next patch ;-)
However, I have no experience with IPv6, so currently I've got
no choice but to offer my patch for your review, friends, so that
some kind person might take a glance at it while I'm exercising
myself over IPv6 ;-)

I made this patch by analogy with the IPv4 one, which is already
in the CURRENT kernel--luckily, the IPv6 code is rather comprehensible.
It addresses the same issue I was talking about a month ago, but
for the IPv6 stack: It enables the non-root reuse of local address:port
tuples occupied by established or TIME_WAIT TCP connections from
other local users, as long as these particular cases have no security
implications a.k.a.  "port theft."

-- 
Yar

Index: in6_pcb.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/netinet6/in6_pcb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -p -r1.52 in6_pcb.c
--- in6_pcb.c   12 Jun 2004 20:59:48 -0000      1.52
+++ in6_pcb.c   19 Jun 2004 14:15:14 -0000
@@ -194,14 +194,10 @@ in6_pcbbind(inp, nam, cred)
                                t = in6_pcblookup_local(pcbinfo,
                                    &sin6->sin6_addr, lport,
                                    INPLOOKUP_WILDCARD);
-                               if (t && (t->inp_vflag & INP_TIMEWAIT)) {
-                                       if 
((!IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&sin6->sin6_addr) ||
-                                           !IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&t->in6p_laddr) ||
-                                           !(intotw(t)->tw_so_options & SO_REUSEPORT))
-                                           && so->so_cred->cr_uid != 
-                                           intotw(t)->tw_cred->cr_uid)
-                                               return (EADDRINUSE);
-                               } else if (t &&
+                               if (t &&
+                                   ((t->inp_vflag & INP_TIMEWAIT) == 0) &&
+                                   (so->so_type != SOCK_STREAM ||
+                                    IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&t->in6p_faddr)) &&
                                    (!IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&sin6->sin6_addr) ||
                                     !IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&t->in6p_laddr) ||
                                     (t->inp_socket->so_options & SO_REUSEPORT) 
@@ -216,17 +212,12 @@ in6_pcbbind(inp, nam, cred)
                                        t = in_pcblookup_local(pcbinfo,
                                                sin.sin_addr, lport,
                                                INPLOOKUP_WILDCARD);
-                                       if (t && (t->inp_vflag & INP_TIMEWAIT)) {
-                                               if (so->so_cred->cr_uid !=
-                                                   intotw(t)->tw_cred->cr_uid &&
-                                                   (ntohl(t->inp_laddr.s_addr) !=
-                                                    INADDR_ANY || 
-                                                    ((inp->inp_vflag & 
-                                                      INP_IPV6PROTO) == 
-                                                     (t->inp_vflag & 
-                                                      INP_IPV6PROTO))))
-                                           return (EADDRINUSE);
-                                       } else if (t && 
+                                       if (t &&
+                                           ((t->inp_vflag &
+                                             INP_TIMEWAIT) == 0) &&
+                                           (so->so_type != SOCK_STREAM ||
+                                            ntohl(t->inp_faddr.s_addr) ==
+                                             INADDR_ANY) &&
                                            (so->so_cred->cr_uid !=
                                             t->inp_socket->so_cred->cr_uid) &&
                                            (ntohl(t->inp_laddr.s_addr) !=
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