Error with X11 Forwarding

Users see 'could not bind local socket: Invalid argument' in their error stream when using qsub -X. The error originates from

torque/src/lib/Libnet/port_forwarding.c

Line 440 in 8a0b748

fprintf(stderr, "could not bind local socket: %s", strerror(errno));

It is because the get_local_address() function returns a sa_family=AF_INET struct but the loop at

torque/src/lib/Libnet/port_forwarding.c

Lines 420 to 446 in 8a0b748

    
             for (ai = aitop; ai; ai = ai->ai_next) 
        
               { 
        
               /* Create a socket. */ 
        
               sock = socket(ai->ai_family, SOCK_STREAM, 0); 
        
               if (sock < 0) 
        
                 { 
        
                 fprintf(stderr, "socket: %.100s", strerror(errno)); 
        
                 continue; 
        
                 } 
        
           #ifdef BIND_OUTBOUND_SOCKETS 
        
               /* Bind to the IP address associated with the hostname, in case there are 
        
                * muliple possible source IPs for this destination.*/ 
        
               // don't bind localhost addr 
        
               if (!islocalhostaddr(&local)) 
        
                 { 
        
                 if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&local, sizeof(sockaddr_in))) 
        
                   { 
        
                   fprintf(stderr, "could not bind local socket: %s", strerror(errno)); 
        
                   close(sock); 
        
                   continue; 
        
                   } 
        
                 } 
        
           #endif

will attempt to bind all types, causing bind to be called on a AF_INET6 socket with a AF_INET argument and producing the error message.

I've submitted #458 as a potential fix, but should probably be revisited so that it will work with IPv6. Note that the IPv6 limitation is one of get_local_address() and not the patch.

An example from strace of it trying to bind a mismatched AF_ family and then succeeding on the second:

[pid 27167] socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 8
[pid 27167] bind(8, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("redacted")}, 16) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
[pid 27167] write(2, "could not bind local socket: Inv"..., 45) = 45
[pid 27167] close(8) = 0
[pid 27167] socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 8
[pid 27167] bind(8, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("redacted")}, 16) = 0

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	for (ai = aitop; ai; ai = ai->ai_next)
	{
	/* Create a socket. */
	sock = socket(ai->ai_family, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

	if (sock < 0)
	{
	fprintf(stderr, "socket: %.100s", strerror(errno));
	continue;
	}

	#ifdef BIND_OUTBOUND_SOCKETS
	/* Bind to the IP address associated with the hostname, in case there are
	* muliple possible source IPs for this destination.*/

	// don't bind localhost addr
	if (!islocalhostaddr(&local))
	{
	if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&local, sizeof(sockaddr_in)))
	{
	fprintf(stderr, "could not bind local socket: %s", strerror(errno));
	close(sock);
	continue;
	}
	}

	#endif

Error with X11 Forwarding #459

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mattmix commented on Apr 8, 2019

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