netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_unix: implement socket filter

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:22:41 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ian Molton <ian.molton@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, ebiederm@...ssion.com, xemul@...nvz.org,
	davidel@...ilserver.org,
	Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: implement socket filter

Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 à 16:39 +0000, Ian Molton a écrit :
> From: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk>
> 
> Linux Socket Filters can already be successfully attached and detached on unix
> sockets with setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_{ATTACH,DETACH}_FILTER, ...).
> See: Documentation/networking/filter.txt
> 
> But the filter was never used in the unix socket code so it did not work. This
> patch uses sk_filter() to filter buffers before delivery.
> 
> This short program demonstrates the problem on SOCK_DGRAM.


Any idea on performance cost adding sk_filter() call ?

Hmm, looking at it, I have no idea why sk_filter() needs to block BH.

I'll send a patch to relax this requirement.


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