Joan Raventos wrote:
>>>Is this a bug in PF_PACKET? Should the socket queue be
>>>emptied by packet_set_ring (called via setsockopt when
>>>PACKET_RX_RING is used) so the above cannot happen?
>>>Should the user-space app drain the socket queue with
>>>recvfrom prior to (4) -quite unlikely in practice-?
>
>
>>I guess the best way is not to bind the socket before having
>>completed setup. We could still flush the queue to make life
>>easier for userspace, not sure about that ..
>
>
> Even w/o bind, packet_create is doing a dev_add_pack, which I think will make pkts arrive to that socket (ie. in netif_receive_skb one can see the loops over the rcu for both ptype_all and type-specific which seem match whenever !ptype->dev || ptype->dev==skb->dev).
>
> Also the packet_mmap.txt doc does not mention bind, which probably is more a mechanism to closely specify a dev than to signal socket readiness.
packet_create only calls dev_add_pack if a protocol is given.
You can use a protocol number of 0 and then bind the socket
after setting it up properly.
According to your description, you first used setsockopt(...,
PACKET_RX_RING), then mmap. In that case the receive queue
should already get flushed by packet_set_ring (about line 1710).
How did you verify that the receive queue still contains packets?
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