RPC clnt_create() adress already in use
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Feb 5 13:34:00 GMT 2018
On Feb 5 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 5 02:29, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > Using Cygwin's bindresvport() is the best solution because Cygwin keeps
> > track of the last port number it has allocated *to any Cygwin program*.
> > This is the only approach that can deal with multiple programs and multiple
> > calls in one program. So we need to nail down why it doesn't seem to work
> > for you.
>
> Apart from all the above, there may still be a problem in the given scenario.
>
> To reiterate the problem we observe:
>
> - socket()
> - setsockopt (SO_REUSEADDR)
> - bind() succeeds
> - connect() fails with EADDRINUSE while socket is still in TIME_WAIT
>
> using bindresvport in place of bind only marginally changes the
> situation, in particular if the second parameter is set and requests a
> port number != 0. What happens in that case is that bindresvport calls
> bind with this port number and checks if bind returns EADDRINUSE.
>
> Only then it tries to bind other port numbers in the reserved range.
> But we now know that bind will never return EADDINUSE if the SO_REUSEADDR
> socket option has been set.
>
> Even assuming the process calls bindresvport(sock, NULL) we may end up
> returning a port number already in use if the process is the only Cygwin
> process on the system. The reason is that Cygwin uses a round robin
> approach which relies on having a globally shared value called
> last_used_bindresvport. If the process is the only Cygwin process on
> the system, this information is lost after exiting the process, so the
> next process will start with the same start port number and bind will
> again fail to notice the client with EADDRINUSE.
>
> What potential solutions to this problem do we have?
>
> - bindresvport could enforce SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE temporarily to make
> sure bind fails.
Nope, no way. Even enforcing SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE results in the
second bind succeeding and the subsequent connect failing. The
entire SO_REUSEADDR/SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE semantics only works as
desired on the server side apparently
> - bindresvport could check every local address for being free prior
> to calling bind. However, there's a potential race here.
>
> - DisconnectEx? Never tried this Winsock extension but it might be
> worth a shot.
Corinna
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