Re: [PATCH] sctp: implement SIOCINQ ioctl() (take 2)

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le vendredi 03 septembre 2010 à 03:14 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò a
écrit :
> From: Diego Elio 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com>
> 
> This simple patch copies the current approach for SIOCINQ ioctl() from DCCP
> into SCTP so that the userland code working with SCTP can use a similar
> interface across different protocols to know how much space to allocate for
> a buffer.
> ---
>  net/sctp/socket.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index ca44917..54c01e4 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -3595,7 +3595,40 @@ out:
>  /* The SCTP ioctl handler. */
>  SCTP_STATIC int sctp_ioctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>  {
> -	return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +	int rc = -ENOTCONN;
> +
> +	sctp_lock_sock(sk);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * SEQPACKET-style sockets in LISTENING state are valid, for
> +	 * SCTP, so only discard TCP-style sockets in LISTENING state.
> +	 */
> +	if (sctp_style(sk, TCP) && sctp_sstate(sk, LISTENING))
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	switch (cmd) {
> +	case SIOCINQ: {
> +		struct sk_buff *skb;
> +		unsigned long amount = 0;

why use an 'unsigned long', since user pointer is a 'int *' ?

> +
> +		skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
> +		if (skb != NULL) {
> +			/*
> +			 * We will only return the amount of this packet since
> +			 * that is all that will be read.
> +			 */
> +			amount = skb->len;
> +		}
> +		rc = put_user(amount, (int __user *)arg);
> +	}
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		rc = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +		break;
> +	}
> +out:
> +	sctp_release_sock(sk);
> +	return rc;
>  }
>  
>  /* This is the function which gets called during socket creation to