HADOOP-6722. NetUtils.connect should check that it hasn't connected a socket to itself. Contributed by Todd Lipcon.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk@939026 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -376,6 +376,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-6724. IPC doesn't properly handle IOEs thrown by socket factory.
     (Todd Lipcon via tomwhite)
 
+    HADOOP-6722. NetUtils.connect should check that it hasn't connected a socket
+    to itself. (Todd Lipcon via tomwhite)
+
 Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/net/NetUtils.java

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.net.Socket;
 import java.net.SocketAddress;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+import java.net.ConnectException;
 import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
@@ -367,6 +368,21 @@ public class NetUtils {
     } else {
       SocketIOWithTimeout.connect(ch, endpoint, timeout);
     }
+
+    // There is a very rare case allowed by the TCP specification, such that
+    // if we are trying to connect to an endpoint on the local machine,
+    // and we end up choosing an ephemeral port equal to the destination port,
+    // we will actually end up getting connected to ourself (ie any data we
+    // send just comes right back). This is only possible if the target
+    // daemon is down, so we'll treat it like connection refused.
+    if (socket.getLocalPort() == socket.getPort() &&
+        socket.getLocalAddress().equals(socket.getInetAddress())) {
+      LOG.info("Detected a loopback TCP socket, disconnecting it");
+      socket.close();
+      throw new ConnectException(
+        "Localhost targeted connection resulted in a loopback. " +
+        "No daemon is listening on the target port.");
+    }
   }
   
   /** 

src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/net/TestNetUtils.java

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
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+package org.apache.hadoop.net;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.net.ConnectException;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+
+public class TestNetUtils {
+
+  /**
+   * Test that we can't accidentally connect back to the connecting socket due
+   * to a quirk in the TCP spec.
+   *
+   * This is a regression test for HADOOP-6722.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testAvoidLoopbackTcpSockets() throws Exception {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+
+    Socket socket = NetUtils.getDefaultSocketFactory(conf)
+      .createSocket();
+    socket.bind(new InetSocketAddress("127.0.0.1", 0));
+    System.err.println("local address: " + socket.getLocalAddress());
+    System.err.println("local port: " + socket.getLocalPort());
+    try {
+      NetUtils.connect(socket,
+        new InetSocketAddress(socket.getLocalAddress(), socket.getLocalPort()),
+        20000);
+      socket.close();
+      fail("Should not have connected");
+    } catch (ConnectException ce) {
+      System.err.println("Got exception: " + ce);
+      assertTrue(ce.getMessage().contains("resulted in a loopback"));
+    }
+  }
+}