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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] linux-user: manage bind with a socket of
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Laurent Vivier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] linux-user: manage bind with a socket of SOCK_PACKET type. |
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Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:25:03 +0100 |
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Le 28/10/2015 20:20, Peter Maydell a écrit :
> On 28 October 2015 at 19:13, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This is obsolete, but if we want to use dhcp with an old distro (like debian
>> etch), we need it. Some users (like dhclient) use SOCK_PACKET with AF_PACKET
>> and the kernel allows that.
>>
>> packet(7)
>>
>> In Linux 2.0, the only way to get a packet socket was by calling
>> socket(AF_INET, SOCK_PACKET, protocol). This is still supported but
>> strongly deprecated. The main difference between the two methods is
>> that SOCK_PACKET uses the old struct sockaddr_pkt to specify an inter‐
>> face, which doesn't provide physical layer independence.
>>
>> struct sockaddr_pkt {
>> unsigned short spkt_family;
>> unsigned char spkt_device[14];
>> unsigned short spkt_protocol;
>> };
>>
>> spkt_family contains the device type, spkt_protocol is the IEEE 802.3
>> protocol type as defined in <sys/if_ether.h> and spkt_device is the
>> device name as a null-terminated string, for example, eth0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> linux-user/syscall.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
>> index 31b5c2c..f048437 100644
>> --- a/linux-user/syscall.c
>> +++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
>> @@ -2086,6 +2086,30 @@ static int sock_flags_fixup(int fd, int target_type)
>> return fd;
>> }
>>
>> +static abi_long packet_target_to_host_addr(void *host_addr,
>> + abi_ulong target_addr,
>> + socklen_t len)
>
> Should the function name be ..._to_host_sockaddr ?
It was what I did in my first draft, but as I have called the type
TargetFdDataFunc and TargetFdAddrFunc, I have chosen to call the
function _addr.
If you think it is better, I can change that.
>
> Otherwise,
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>