Tried git pulseaudio on two machines with old and new kernel.

Old 4.3.0 works:

    sendmsg(12, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0\0\1\24\377\377\377\377\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20}], msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=13237, uid=1000, gid=1000}}, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 20

BAD 4.7.0-rc6-00148-gee40fb2 (vanilla) does not:

    sendmsg(13, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0\0\1\24\377\377\377\377\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20}], msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=5412, uid=1000, gid=100}}, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

I'll try to pursue kernel changes path.

(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #0)
> Noticed breakage on real applications like mpv and other media apps.
> 
> PA used to work but I'm not sure what exactly changed in my environment.
> 
> Currently pulseaudio over TCP is broken on the following versions:
>     7.1, 8.0, 9.0.

To clarify, did you only test those versions, or did you also try older versions and they worked?

Thanks for testing different kernel versions. This issue was reported in IRC too, but we didn't manage to trace it down to kernel differences yet.

> Looking at the code there is a few functions that assume UNIX sockets:
> 
>     pa_iochannel_write_with_creds()
>     pa_iochannel_write_with_fds()

Or rather, the functions assume that setting creds works ("works" as in doesn't result in an error) on IP sockets as well (or at least pa_iochannel_write_with_creds() assumes that - I haven't looked at the call paths for pa_iochannel_write_with_fds()). It seems that the kernel has stopped accepting creds for IP sockets? That behaviour would make sense to me, although it might be against the "never break userspace" rule that the kernel tries to follow.

In any case, I'll write a patch that avoids calling the aforementioned functions on IP sockets.

(In reply to Tanu Kaskinen from comment #2)
> (In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #0)
> > Noticed breakage on real applications like mpv and other media apps.
> > 
> > PA used to work but I'm not sure what exactly changed in my environment.
> > 
> > Currently pulseaudio over TCP is broken on the following versions:
> >     7.1, 8.0, 9.0.
> 
> To clarify, did you only test those versions, or did you also try older
> versions and they worked?

I tried only 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 on 4.7.0-rc6-00148-gee40fb2 kernel and none of them worked. Didn't try older on this kernel.

I tried 7.1, 8.0, current git on 4.3.0 and all of them work. Didin't try older on this kernel.

> It seems that the kernel has stopped accepting creds for IP sockets? That behaviour would make sense to me, although it might be against the "never break userspace" rule that the kernel tries to follow.

Right. Trying to setup usermode linux binary to bisect that down to kernel commit changing tcp handling of sendmsg().

Bisected kernel down to bad commit:
    http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b

I think tcp.c is where we have started getting -EINVAL:
    http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/net/ipv4/tcp.c?id=c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b

I guess tcp used to ignore control messages completely and now
it's unhappy about those.

I've failed to revert c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b
properly but adding the following workaround allows pulseaudio
work over TCP:

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 5c7ed14..1bec47c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1122,15 +1122,15 @@ int tcp_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
                if (tp->repair_queue == TCP_NO_QUEUE)
                        goto out_err;

                /* 'common' sending to sendq */
        }

        sockc.tsflags = sk->sk_tsflags;
-       if (msg->msg_controllen) {
+       if (0 && msg->msg_controllen) {
                err = sock_cmsg_send(sk, msg, &sockc);
                if (unlikely(err)) {
                        err = -EINVAL;
                        goto out_err;
                }
        }


# bad: [ee40fb2948fc99096836995d4f3ddcc0efbac790] Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
# good: [2dcd0af568b0cf583645c8a317dd12e344b1c72a] Linux 4.6
git bisect start 'master' 'v4.6'
# bad: [6eb59af580dcffc6f6982ac8ef6d27a1a5f26b27] Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd
git bisect bad 6eb59af580dcffc6f6982ac8ef6d27a1a5f26b27
# bad: [a7fd20d1c476af4563e66865213474a2f9f473a4] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
git bisect bad a7fd20d1c476af4563e66865213474a2f9f473a4
# bad: [9dc0b289c4c09bc1a92bdcc055cb37af9b72eb28] net/mlx5_core: Firmware commands to support flow counters
git bisect bad 9dc0b289c4c09bc1a92bdcc055cb37af9b72eb28
# bad: [4319a7976722f6925b5bbbdac417d87a0cbde859] ixgbe: Add work around for empty SFP+ cage crosstalk
git bisect bad 4319a7976722f6925b5bbbdac417d87a0cbde859
# bad: [bddf59046d804638d998f9015246d4990f1cab09] Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2016-04-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next
git bisect bad bddf59046d804638d998f9015246d4990f1cab09
# bad: [307c2431abf0974996356c13b67432f4b35e5f2f] mlxsw: Pass mlxsw_core as a param of mlxsw_core_skb_transmit*
git bisect bad 307c2431abf0974996356c13b67432f4b35e5f2f
# bad: [afb8ece4326f2151771f4c40b8d9f799cee5ae6e] i40e: remove redundant check on vsi->active_vlans
git bisect bad afb8ece4326f2151771f4c40b8d9f799cee5ae6e
# bad: [532182cd610782db8c18230c2747626562032205] tcp: increment sk_drops for dropped rx packets
git bisect bad 532182cd610782db8c18230c2747626562032205
# bad: [88023beb2a467dcfd9aa958138f0f3b5e1c432e0] net: macb: Fix simple typo
git bisect bad 88023beb2a467dcfd9aa958138f0f3b5e1c432e0
# good: [91979b9db86340d7cd49392a498663fb1ac74639] stmmac: update MAINTAINERS
git bisect good 91979b9db86340d7cd49392a498663fb1ac74639
# bad: [c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b] sock: enable timestamping using control messages
git bisect bad c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b
# good: [6b084928baac562ed61866f540a96120e9c9ddb7] tcp: use one bit in TCP_SKB_CB to mark ACK timestamps
git bisect good 6b084928baac562ed61866f540a96120e9c9ddb7
# good: [24025c465f77c3585f73450bab19501b2edd6fba] ipv4: process socket-level control messages in IPv4
git bisect good 24025c465f77c3585f73450bab19501b2edd6fba
# good: [ad1e46a837163a3e7160a1250825bcfafd2e714b] ipv6: process socket-level control messages in IPv6
git bisect good ad1e46a837163a3e7160a1250825bcfafd2e714b
# first bad commit: [c14ac9451c34832554db33386a4393be8bba3a7b] sock: enable timestamping using control messages

Sent email to linux-netdev:
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146815097831670&w=2

Proposed fix for linux kernel:
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146816955602701&w=2

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