Re: [PATCH v3] net: ip, diag -- Add diag interface for raw sockets

[David Ahern]

On 9/16/16 1:52 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:47:57PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing you passed IPPROTO_RAW (255) as the protocol to socket(). If you pass something
>>>> else (IPPROTO_ICMP for example) it won't work.
>>>
>>> True. To support IPPROTO_ICMP it need enhancement. I thought start with
>>> plain _RAW first and then extend to support _ICMP.
>>
>> I thought raw in this case was SOCK_RAW as in the socket type.
>>
>> Since the display is showing sockets in addition to IPPROTO_RAW:
>>
>> $ ss -A raw
>> State      Recv-Q Send-Q        Local Address:Port                         Peer Address:Port
>> UNCONN     0      0                    *%eth0:icmp                                    *:*
>>
>> It is going to be confusing if only ipproto-255 sockets can be killed.
> 
> OK, gimme some time to implement it. Hopefully on the weekend or monday.
> Thanks a huge for feedback!
> 

It may well be a ss bug / problem. As I mentioned I am always seeing 255 for the protocol which is odd since ss does a dump and takes the matches and invokes the kill. Thanks for taking the time to do the kill piece.