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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:39:35 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        "Quattlebaum, Ryan" <Ryan.Quattlebaum@netapp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Accessing socket APIs soon after accept
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Oh, I've no idea about -8. If that's what the code does then yeah,
that seems wrong. Is it like that in -10 or -11 ?



-adrian


On 16 January 2015 at 09:07, Quattlebaum, Ryan
<Ryan.Quattlebaum@netapp.com> wrote:
> Hi, Adrian. Thanks for taking a look at this.
>
> We're using FreeBSD 8.2 and httpd-2.4.10 with arp-1.5.1 and apr-util-1.5.=
4.
>
> The problem we're seeing is pretty intermittent, so I hope this test case=
 can                                      shine a little bit of light on th=
e problem. We tried debugging this on our own by adding calls to getsocknam=
e() right after the accept call (in srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sockets.c: a=
pr_socket_accept()) and logging the output. That's where we saw invalid dat=
a.
>
> I took a look at the source code for the TCP syncache module and the acce=
pt syscall. It looks like the new child socket is available for the applica=
tion to accept after the call to sonewconn returns, but the address informa=
tion isn't set until further down in the function. Wouldn't this open a win=
dow where an application could accept on a socket that the syncache code is=
n't done configuring?
>
> - Ryan Quattlebaum
> ________________________________________
> From: adrian.chadd@gmail.com <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> on behalf of Adrian=
 Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:20 PM
> To: Quattlebaum, Ryan
> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Accessing socket APIs soon after accept
>
> On 15 January 2015 at 08:29, Quattlebaum, Ryan
> <Ryan.Quattlebaum@netapp.com> wrote:
>> Is there anything preventing applications from calling functions e.g. ge=
tsockname() right after accept()? Or is there a recommended pattern that ap=
plications should use to ensure they get correct data? We recently upgraded=
 to a new version of Apache and are seeing uninitialized data coming back f=
rom a few of these calls.
>
> I'm under the impression that once you get the FD from accept(), it
> should be fully formed and ready.
>
> Which version of FreeBSD/apache is it? can you come up with a test
> case that shows that it's happening?
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ryan Quattlebaum
>> Software Developer, NetApp, Inc.
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