Fantastic!  I'm glad to hear it.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:39 AM Andre Naujoks <nauts...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/10/18 10:36 AM, Andre Naujoks wrote:
> > On 9/8/18 11:49 AM, Andre Naujoks wrote:
> >> On 9/7/18 6:08 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 6:56 AM Andre Naujoks <nauts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 9/7/18 1:15 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> >>>>> On 07/09/2018 10:49, Decke, Hendrik (K-GERFA/A) wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> it seems one of our external developers (Andre Naujoks, CC) found a
> >>>>>> bug while binding a IPv6 multicast UDP-socket for one of our projects.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Since this seems to be a fundamental bug (from our perspective), we
> >>>>>> address this directly to this mailing list.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> (reproducible in OpenJDK 8-11, Windows and Linux)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> This bug was submitted this week on this issue:
> >>>>>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210493
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Have you tried joining the mullticast group, specifying the network
> >>>>> interface, rather than binding to the multicast address?
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Alan.
> >>>>
> >>>> First of all, thank you for the quick reply. I was not aware, that there
> >>>> was actually a bug opened for that issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> The join is not the problem at this point. We need to bind the socket to
> >>>> the address to avoid receiving traffic from all multicast groups, that
> >>>> are joined on the system. Since a join joins the system (not the socket)
> >>>> to the group, all sockets bound to a port, which receive multicast
> >>>> traffic will receive all of that traffic, no matter the destination
> >>>> address. The bind prevents that. IP_MULTICAST_ALL sadly only works for
> >>>> IPv4 and the patch I tried to get IPV6_MULTICAST_ALL upstream into the
> >>>> kernel was even more sadly (almost) ignored. see
> >>>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152344460530252&w=2
> >>>
> >>> Hi Andre,
> >>>
> >>> I spoke with a colleague about this kernel patch.  They said first of
> >>> all that multicast filtering is pretty complex in the kernel with a
> >>> lot of subtle behaviors.  But, they also said that it may have been
> >>> ignored because of the format of the patch, perhaps even
> >>> accidentally/automatically.  The proposed patch has an "RFC" tag, and
> >>> such patches apparently need to be in "git-format-patch" mode.
> >>> Lastly, they said that since the time that the post was made,
> >>> IP_MULTICAST_ALL (for IPv4 only of course) has changed a little bit in
> >>> that "it only allows receipt of all multicast groups if a specific
> >>> list of multicast groups has not already been set", so it may need to
> >>> be updated accordingly.  FWIW they didn't mention seeing any actual
> >>> problems with the content of the patch, though I'm not sure how
> >>> thoroughly they reviewed it.
> >>>
> >>> So, while I myself am not a Linux kernel contributor, I do suspect
> >>> that if you reposted an updated version of the patch, in the correct
> >>> format, it will enter the patch queue and may be more actively
> >>> discussed.  For more information, see [1].
> >>>
> >>> [1] 
> >>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html#the-canonical-patch-format
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi David
> >>
> >> Thanks for the advice. The patch was actually generated with 'git
> >> format-patch' I just added some explanatory text, which I did not see as
> >> part of the commit message. The RFC tag was intentional because I am not
> >> that deeply familiar with the networking code in the kernel to "just
> >> send a patch", if you know what I mean. As far as I know, there is no
> >> automatic handling of those e-mails except for the patchwork stuff.
> >>
> >> I need to take a look at the IP_MULTICAST_ALL changes and see, if there
> >> is anything that needs to be changed in the IPV6_MULTICAST_ALL addition
> >> to accommodate for that. But, as you said, the multicast filtering is
> >> pretty complex.
> >>
> >> I'll try and re-post the patch on Monday, leave out all the extra stuff
> >> and see if it changes anything or at least if it gets any more replies.
> >
> > I just reposted the patch. Fully automated this time. I couldn't find
> > any changes in the IPv4 handling of the socket option, that was not
> > there, when I first posted it.
> >
> > Lets see, if this has more success.
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=153656806202701&w=2
>
> Hello all.
>
> I just wanted to thank you again for the advice.
>
> The patch just got accepted and is now in the net-next kernel git.
>
> Regards
>    Andre
>
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >   Andre
> >
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>   Andre
> >>
> >
>


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