Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1460597
[RFE][GSS]Gluster process should use ports above reserved ports (above 1024)
Last modified: 2017-07-10 10:52:07 EDT
Description of problem: Glusterd should use ports above reserved ports (above 1024) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHGS 3.2 Actual results: Many instances has been found that gluster is allocating ports below 1024 which are creating a lot of issue with other application like nfs or openshift which requires those reserved ports to function normally. Expected results: Gluster should always allocate ports above 1024. Additional info: ~~~ tcp 0 0 10.100.10.76:925 10.100.30.109:49154 ESTABLISHED 12971/glusterfs tcp 0 0 10.100.10.76:925 10.100.30.109:49154 ESTABLISHED 12971/glusterfs tcp 0 0 10.100.10.76:883 10.100.30.109:49160 ESTABLISHED 12971/glusterfs ~~~
The problem mentioned in the original bug description about openshift and gluster trying to use same ports is a problem that can't be solved as it is the problem of limited resources and more demand. To fix the problem that is mentioned in comment 2 about gluster using a port that is used by rquotad, you can use the ip_local_reserved_ports feature of linux kernel as mentioned in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt . We follow the same model that is used by linux kernel for port allocation. We don't bind to a port that is listed in the reserved ports list. Specifying 875 port in this list would ensure that gluster client processes don't use it. There is a certain trust logic in Gluster that requires binding to a port under 1024 and it will take a few more releases before we can completely get rid of it.
This issue is not anything specific to GlusterD. Moving it to core.
I spoke to Atin and others too. There is no way to do this in our current version. I still stand by my original answer that it is up to the admin to use ip_local_reserved_ports option to handle these errors and does not need any code change.