fwd, conf: Probe host's ephemeral ports

When we forward "all" ports (-t all or -u all), or use an exclude-only
range, we don't actually forward *all* ports - that wouln't leave local
ports to use for outgoing connections.  Rather we forward all non-ephemeral
ports - those that won't be used for outgoing connections or datagrams.

Currently we assume the range of ephemeral ports is that recommended by
RFC 6335, 49152-65535.  However, that's not the range used by default on
Linux, 32768-60999 but configurable with the net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
sysctl.

We can't really know what range the guest will consider ephemeral, but if
it differs too much from the host it's likely to cause problems we can't
avoid anyway.  So, using the host's ephemeral range is a better guess than
using the RFC 6335 range.

Therefore, add logic to probe the host's ephemeral range, falling back to
the RFC 6335 range if that fails.  This has the bonus advantage of
reducing the number of ports bound by -t all -u all on most Linux machines
thereby reducing kernel memory usage.  Specifically this reduces kernel
memory usage with -t all -u all from ~380MiB to ~289MiB.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fwd.c b/fwd.c
index 8fa312a..a505098 100644
--- a/fwd.c
+++ b/fwd.c
@@ -28,8 +28,65 @@
 #include "flow_table.h"
 
 /* Empheral port range: values from RFC 6335 */
-static const in_port_t fwd_ephemeral_min = (1 << 15) + (1 << 14);
-static const in_port_t fwd_ephemeral_max = NUM_PORTS - 1;
+static in_port_t fwd_ephemeral_min = (1 << 15) + (1 << 14);
+static in_port_t fwd_ephemeral_max = NUM_PORTS - 1;
+
+#define PORT_RANGE_SYSCTL	"/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range"
+
+/** fwd_probe_ephemeral() - Determine what ports this host considers ephemeral
+ *
+ * Work out what ports the host thinks are emphemeral and record it for later
+ * use by fwd_port_is_ephemeral().  If we're unable to probe, assume the range
+ * recommended by RFC 6335.
+ */
+void fwd_probe_ephemeral(void)
+{
+	char *line, *tab, *end;
+	struct lineread lr;
+	long min, max;
+	ssize_t len;
+	int fd;
+
+	fd = open(PORT_RANGE_SYSCTL, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		warn_perror("Unable to open %s", PORT_RANGE_SYSCTL);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	lineread_init(&lr, fd);
+	len = lineread_get(&lr, &line);
+	close(fd);
+
+	if (len < 0)
+		goto parse_err;
+
+	tab = strchr(line, '\t');
+	if (!tab)
+		goto parse_err;
+	*tab = '\0';
+
+	errno = 0;
+	min = strtol(line, &end, 10);
+	if (*end || errno)
+		goto parse_err;
+
+	errno = 0;
+	max = strtol(tab + 1, &end, 10);
+	if (*end || errno)
+		goto parse_err;
+
+	if (min < 0 || min >= NUM_PORTS ||
+	    max < 0 || max >= NUM_PORTS)
+		goto parse_err;
+
+	fwd_ephemeral_min = min;
+	fwd_ephemeral_max = max;
+
+	return;
+
+parse_err:
+	warn("Unable to parse %s", PORT_RANGE_SYSCTL);
+}
 
 /**
  * fwd_port_is_ephemeral() - Is port number ephemeral?