Revert the patch mentioned in the subject because it breaks at least the Avahi mDNS daemon. That patch namely causes the Ubuntu 18.04 Avahi daemon to fail to start:
Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: Successfully called chroot(). Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: SO_REUSEADDR failed: Structure needs cleaning Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: SO_REUSEADDR failed: Structure needs cleaning Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: Failed to create server: No suitable network protocol available Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm avahi-daemon[529]: avahi-daemon 0.7 exiting. Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jun 12 09:49:24 ubuntu-vm systemd[1]: Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack. Fixes: f396922d862a ("net: do not allow changing SO_REUSEADDR/SO_REUSEPORT on bound sockets") Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanass...@wdc.com> --- net/core/sock.c | 15 +-------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index f333d75ef1a9..bcc41829a16d 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -728,22 +728,9 @@ int sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, sock_valbool_flag(sk, SOCK_DBG, valbool); break; case SO_REUSEADDR: - val = (valbool ? SK_CAN_REUSE : SK_NO_REUSE); - if ((sk->sk_family == PF_INET || sk->sk_family == PF_INET6) && - inet_sk(sk)->inet_num && - (sk->sk_reuse != val)) { - ret = (sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED) ? -EISCONN : -EUCLEAN; - break; - } - sk->sk_reuse = val; + sk->sk_reuse = (valbool ? SK_CAN_REUSE : SK_NO_REUSE); break; case SO_REUSEPORT: - if ((sk->sk_family == PF_INET || sk->sk_family == PF_INET6) && - inet_sk(sk)->inet_num && - (sk->sk_reuseport != valbool)) { - ret = (sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED) ? -EISCONN : -EUCLEAN; - break; - } sk->sk_reuseport = valbool; break; case SO_TYPE: -- 2.17.0