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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:45:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Florent Parent <Florent.Parent@viagenie.qc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org
Subject:   Re: netgraph: how to setsockopt on ksocket node ?
Message-ID:  <200201210045.g0L0jWL09716@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <135740000.1011562445@blues.viagenie.qc.ca> "from Florent Parent at Jan 20, 2002 04:34:05 pm"

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Florent Parent writes:
> 'struct proc' member in the struct sockopt can be NULL. As per the comment 
> in that structure, NULL means that the calling entity is the kernel, not a 
> user process (my interpretation):
> 
> struct sockopt {
> 	enum	sopt_dir sopt_dir; /* is this a get or a set? */
> 	int	sopt_level;	/* second arg of [gs]etsockopt */
> 	int	sopt_name;	/* third arg of [gs]etsockopt */
> 	void   *sopt_val;	/* fourth arg of [gs]etsockopt */
> 	size_t	sopt_valsize;	/* (almost) fifth arg of [gs]etsockopt */
> 	struct	proc *sopt_p;	/* calling process or null if kernel */
> };

Ah.. it's Julian's fault :-)

Your fix (setting sopt.sopt_p to NULL) is already implemented
in -current by Julian in revision 1.20, but he never MFC'd it.

Julian: any reason 1.20 was not MFC'd?

Thanks,
-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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