On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Taras Danko wrote:
I need to find and close a certain socket from kernel module. My current
implementation iterates over the "allproc" list and checks every process'
file descriptors list to find needed socket. But maybe there is an easier
way to do this? Some nixes have "inpcbtable" which holds all the open
sockets on the system. Is there anything similar in FreeBSD?
What are you trying to do, exactly?
The semantics of closing sockets open in processes are a bit tricky -- first
off, you really don't want to actually close the file descriptor, as the
application may misbehave in rather unfortunate ways, such as writing data to
the wrong files, etc. So in that sense, what you're doing is better than
actually closing the file descriptor, which would cause that to happen. If
you're interested only in closing TCP sockets, then the existing tcpkill
command may well do what you want.
And the second question: whats the correct way to close the socket which was
found?
I'm not sure there's really a "correct" way to go about ripping a socket out
from under an application. tcpkill does the next closest thing, which is to
simulate a RST on the TCP connection and force it to close, which is
propagated up the stack in a way the application will understand.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
My implementation:
.....
mysocket = myproc->p_fd->fd_ofiles[i]->f_data;
myproc->p_fd->fd_ofiles[i]->f_data = NULL;
myproc->p_fd->fd_ofiles[i]->f_ops = &badfileops;
soclose(mysocket);
.....
The socket closes but it causes a kernel panic in 90% of cases and
file descriptor doesnt actualy released (as fstat shows), but is
marked as "error" (because of "badfileops" I suppose). Maybe I should
acqure some mutex lock or something before starting manipulations with
socket? Any exampe code will be very much appreciated.
Its my first steps in fbsd kernel programming so please xcuse me for
newbie questions.
Taras Danko.
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