Hi, the regression has been introduced in 2.6.39.3 with commit d0733d2e29b652b2e7b1438ececa732e4eed98eb. I experience this with a proprietary binary program. So I cant give you the source code which fails. This program used to work before but fails after applying this patch. As far as I understand the programm is using this code for ipc communication. I have recorded the strace output of the relevant part of the program. strace without d0733d2e29b652b2e7b1438ececa732e4eed98eb on kernel 2.6.39.2 --------------- 2056 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 2056 bind(4, {sa_family=AF_UNSPEC, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 16) = 0 2056 getsockname(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(33537), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 2056 listen(4, 5) = 0 2056 setsockopt(4, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0 --------------- strace with d0733d2e29b652b2e7b1438ececa732e4eed98eb on kernel 2.6.39.2 --------------- 6190 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 6190 bind(4, {sa_family=AF_UNSPEC, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 16) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) 6190 dup(2) = 11 6190 fcntl64(11, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) 6190 fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 3), ...}) = 0 6190 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x576ac000 6190 _llseek(11, 0, 0xffa03de4, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) 6190 write(11, "ERROR: Failed to bind to interne"..., 66) = 66 6190 close(11) = 0 --------------- Btw, i have not enough knowledge on this topic to decide whether its the programs fault or the kernels fault. The binary program is sybyl8.1 from tripos. Best regards, Rene
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.1-rc10: commit 29c486df6a208432b370bd4be99ae1369ede28d8 Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Tue Aug 30 18:57:00 2011 -0400 net: ipv4: relax AF_INET check in bind()