Today, once an inet_bind_bucket enters a state where fastreuse >= 0 or
fastreuseport >= 0 after a socket is explicitly bound to a port, it remains
in that state until all sockets are removed and the bucket is destroyed.
In this state, the bucket is skipped during ephemeral port selection in
connect(). For applications using a reduced ephemeral port
range (IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option), this can cause faster port
exhaustion since blocked buckets are excluded from reuse.
The reason the bucket state isn't updated on port release is unclear.
Possibly a performance trade-off to avoid scanning bucket owners, or just
an oversight.
Fix it by recalculating the bucket state when a socket releases a port. To
limit overhead, each inet_bind2_bucket stores its own (fastreuse,
fastreuseport) state. On port release, only the relevant port-addr bucket
is scanned, and the overall state is derived from these.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917-update-bind-bucket-state-on-unhash-v5-1-57168b661b47@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Jakub Sitnicki
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