add set_reuse_address and set_reuse_port methods to PacketPeerUDP

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Bugsquad edit: Closes Redot-Engine/redot-proposals#134

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Demo project available here. Needs testing on Windows specifically.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added options to allow UDP sockets to reuse an address or port when binding. Configure these options before binding; port reuse is unavailable on Windows.
• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected address reuse behavior for UDP sockets on Windows.

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Walkthrough

PacketPeerUDP adds address- and port-reuse settings that it applies before binding. NetSocket adds a port-reuse method with platform-specific backend changes.

Changes

UDP socket reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Socket port-reuse interface and backends core/io/net_socket.h, drivers/unix/net_socket_unix.*, drivers/windows/net_socket_winsock.*, platform/web/net_socket_web.h	NetSocket adds a port-reuse method. The Unix backend sets SO_REUSEPORT. The Windows backend adds the method and changes SO_REUSEADDR handling for stream sockets. The web backend adds a no-op reuse method.
PacketPeerUDP settings and bind integration core/io/packet_peer_udp.*, doc/classes/PacketPeerUDP.xml	PacketPeerUDP adds state and setters for both reuse options. It applies the options before binding and exposes and documents the setters.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PacketPeerUDP
  participant NetSocketUnix
  participant SocketAPI
  PacketPeerUDP->>NetSocketUnix: Apply reuse settings before bind
  NetSocketUnix->>SocketAPI: Set socket options
  PacketPeerUDP->>NetSocketUnix: Bind socket

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Suggested reviewers: arctis-fireblight, mcdubhghlas

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fe083

This change adds UDP address and port reuse options. The web backend change is a no-op stub, so no concrete merge-blocking risk is evident. The PR author notes that Windows testing is still needed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4400d

Existing Windows UDP listeners acquire a different sharing policy without caller opt-in, and the web target has an incompatible socket contract. These changes affect endpoint ownership and cross-platform rollout. Their runtime security consequences remain unconfirmed.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: Windows UDPServer listeners inherit enabled address reuse without adopting the new PacketPeerUDP API. Their existing unconditional reuse request now reaches SO_REUSEADDR instead of a no-op, changing endpoint-sharing policy for existing applications. This is an observed security-relevant ownership change, not a verified new port-hijacking exploit; delivery semantics and additional attacker exposure relative to baseline remain unresolved.
• Medium · architecture · observed: NetSocketWeb declares set_reuse_address_port_enabled with override, whereas NetSocket requires set_reuse_port_enabled. The introduced declaration does not satisfy the backend contract and makes compilation of that header invalid, blocking Web rollout rather than merely disabling an unsupported UDP feature.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is UDP endpoint ownership: Windows UDPServer listeners inherit reuse, while standalone PacketPeerUDP callers must opt in. A competing-socket scenario requires another socket in the relevant host network context; remote datagrams alone do not enable reuse in the inspected paths. Deployment-wide listener counts and tenant exposure are unknown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The new Windows sharing policy warrants assessment of competing local sockets, but additional interception, disclosure, or denial-of-service reachability relative to baseline is not established. Neither inspected version of the Windows backend configures SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE, so that pre-existing omission is not an introduced vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Configuration authority remains with local engine or script callers and the socket owner. Server-managed peers reject reuse changes, and UDPServer associates received peer views with its shared socket. The inspected receive path does not convert packet content into socket-option authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Socket cleanup contains bind failures, but configuration failures are not transactional: address reuse may succeed, port reuse may fail, and binding still proceeds. Requested state is retained across close and retry, so callers cannot infer effective endpoint-sharing policy solely from stored requests or bind success.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make UDPServer's Windows sharing policy explicit rather than inheriting newly effective reuse behavior. If applications require exclusive ownership, evaluate a separate platform-appropriate exclusive-binding mode rather than treating reuse=false as a complete local-attacker control.
• proposed — Distinguish supported, unsupported, and failed reuse requests through observable configuration results. Where endpoint ownership is security-critical, require successful policy application before binding rather than relying on warnings.

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- Line 561: Update the condition in the Windows socket reuse-option setter so
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- Line 67: Rename NetSocketWeb’s set_reuse_address_port method to
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A few minor nitpicks