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Dumping AF_UNIX sockets via netlink

From:  Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
To:  David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  [PATCH 0/13] Dumping AF_UNIX sockets via netlink
Date:  Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:42:18 +0400
Message-ID:  <4EE9EB2A.4040909@parallels.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Make the unix_diag.ko module, which is the AF_UNIX client for the sock_diag.

Use the sock_i_ino() as the primary ID key for sockets. This is currently the
only unique (except for the sk address itself) ID of a unix socket and is de
facto used in the ss tool to identify sockets. Thus the basic nlk request and
response structures operate on this ID. Other socket info (sun_name, peer, etc.)
are reported in the respective NLA-s (patches 8 through 12).

There's a locking trickery in patch #11. I've tried to study it carefully and
checked with lockdep, but anyway, please, pay special attention to it.

The patch for ss tool is also included.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>

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