New: ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18132
Summary: ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be
IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Kernel Version: 2.6.32
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: high
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Regression: No
Created an attachment (id=29412)
--> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=29412)
Small wrapper library around recvmsg
According to the ipv6(7) manual page:
IPV6_PKTINFO
Set delivery of the IPV6_PKTINFO control message on incoming
datagrams. Only allowed for SOCK_DGRAM or SOCK_RAW sockets.
Argument is a pointer to a boolean value in an integer.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
(This is on Ubuntu 10.04, 32-bit)
Thus, the following code should work, assuming an IPv6 UDP socket has been created:
int on = 1setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_PKTINFO, &on, sizeof on)
Yet, instead we see that the system call fails, with errno saying EINVAL. Here is strace output demonstrating this:
socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP) = 3
bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(8421), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = 0 setsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, IPV6_PKTINFO, [1], 4) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
According to Steven's Unix Network Programming, volume 1 (third ed.), in section 7.2, which lists a set of socket options, there is an IPV6_RECVPKTINFO, as well as things like IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT and others, which are different to the ones without the RECV sub-prefix. From the description therein, it would appear that IPV6_PKTINFO is a "sticky" option (I haven't read much into that).
cscope verifies that they are indeed different on this system:
(in netinet/in.h)
#define IPV6_RECVPKTINFO 49 #define IPV6_PKTINFO 50 #define IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT 51 #define IPV6_HOPLIMIT 52
Using IPV6_RECVPKTINFO, we get the following strace
socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP) = 3
bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(8421), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = 0 setsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x31 /* IPV6_??? */, [1], 4) = 0
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(28)={sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(41202), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, msg_iov(1)=[{"hi\n\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 128}], msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=32, cmsg_level=SOL_IPV6, cmsg_type=, ...}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3
recvfrom_detailed returned value 3
source family 10 address ::1 port 41202
destination family 10 address ::1
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[Bug 18132] ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
In reply to a message not in the archivehttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18132
--- Comment #1 from Cameron Kerr <[email protected]> 2010-09-09 06:47:45 --- RFC3542 explains this newer API, so I guess the bugs section of the ipv6 manual
page needs to be updated also. Particularly, the "2.2 kernel" makes it seem
very out-dated; should it say "since the 2.2 kernel"?
BUGS
The IPv6 extended API as in RFC 2292 is currently only partly imple‐ mented; although the 2.2 kernel has near complete support for receiving options, the macros for generating IPv6 options are missing in glibc 2.1.
RFC3542 Section 4.2, "UDP and Raw Socket Implications", gives a description of the IPV6_RECVxxx options and the rationale for the "sticky" options.
It would seem that strace is also outdated in this respect.
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[Bug 18132] ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
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--- Comment #2 from [email protected] --- Please test this against a newer kernel to see if it's still valid. Cheers Nick
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[Bug 18132] ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
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[Bug 18132] ipv6(7) describes IP_PKTINFO, but should be IP_RECVPKTINFO instead
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Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:
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Resolution|--- |CODE_FIX--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> --- This issue has been address by a seaparate fix, some time ago
man-pages commit d796c68d5ab6dc10c3737e40305b1ee23d7b0adc
Author: Bert Hubert <[email protected]> Date: Sun Oct 21 12:51:33 2012 +0200
ipv6.7: Document IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
I believe the man page nowadays addresses the concerns of this bug report, so I'm closing. Please reopen, if you believe otherwise.
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