linux-kernel - Listening on a TCP socket from a Kernel Module

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Date:   Sun, 16 May 2021 23:20:40 +0000
From:   louisrossberg <louisrossberg@...tonmail.com>
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Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Listening on a TCP socket from a Kernel Module

Hello, can somebody point me in the right direction for what I would use to listen on a TCP socket from the kernel? I am working on a kernel module and have spent the past day looking through include/net and include/linux for something that would allow me to do so. I know TCP listening is typically done in userspace, but it should be possible at the kernel level right? tcp_diag looks promising, but it seems like that is mainly for monitoring sockets, and I'm not sure if I would be able to provide responses from it.

Louis Rossberg,
Warped Technologies