Bad bug in remote logging

[Stephan Mueller]

Am Dienstag, 12. April 2011, um 05:18:44 schrieb Linda Knippers:

Hi Linda,

> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > There was a bug reported to day that I think merits an email and/or
> > discussion.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695419
> > =================================
> > audisp-remote does
> > 
> >>               memset (&address, 0, sizeof(address));
> >>               address.sin_family = htons(AF_INET);
> >>               address.sin_port = htons(config.local_port);
> >>               address.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
> > 
> > which shows in strace as
> > 
> >> bind(3, {sa_family=0x200 /* AF_??? */,
> >> sa_data="\0<\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 16) =

Bind does not do anything with the family - it just calls the bind callback 
function set for the protocol by the socket syscall. What is the socket 
syscall saying here?

Note that the socket syscall (specifically __sock_create) has the following 
code for the family:

        if (family < 0 || family >= NPROTO)
                return -EAFNOSUPPORT;

And NPROTO is defined as decimal 39 (in 2.6.38). Hence, 0x200 as a family does 
not work for socket - the socket syscall would have returned an error.

If for some reason the socket syscall uses AF_INET and diverts into IPv4, 
sin_family does not seem to be used unless you have a socket-specific bind 
function (e.g. RAW sockets).

To make a final determination on the impact, I would check:

- strace for socket syscall

- tcpdump on the connection

Ciao
Stephan