Re: poll problem with PF_PACKET when using PACKET_RX_RING

[Joan Raventos <jraventos@yahoo.com>]

Hi Patrick,

Thx for your prompt reply! Plz see some comments inline.

>> 
>> 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.

Salu2,
J.