Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: do not allow changing SO_REUSEADDR/SO_REUSEPORT on bound sockets"

On 06/12/2018 10:05 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:

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 <redacted>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <redacted>
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 net/core/sock.c | 15 +--------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

Yes, this change probably broke a lot of applications, unfortunately.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>