libnl: Socket

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## Macros
#define | SOL_NETLINK 270

## Allocation
struct nl_sock * | nl_socket_alloc (void)
| Allocate new netlink socket.
struct nl_sock * | nl_socket_alloc_cb (struct nl_cb *cb)
| Allocate new socket with custom callbacks.
void | nl_socket_free (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Free a netlink socket.

## Sequence Numbers
void | nl_socket_disable_seq_check (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Disable sequence number checking.
unsigned int | nl_socket_use_seq (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Use next sequence number.
void | nl_socket_disable_auto_ack (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Disable automatic request for ACK.
void | nl_socket_enable_auto_ack (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Enable automatic request for ACK (default)

## Source Idenficiation
uint32_t | nl_socket_get_local_port (const struct nl_sock *sk)
void | nl_socket_set_local_port (struct nl_sock *sk, uint32_t port)
| Set local port of socket.

## Group Subscriptions
int | nl_socket_add_memberships (struct nl_sock *sk, int group,...)
| Join groups.
int | nl_socket_add_membership (struct nl_sock *sk, int group)
int | nl_socket_drop_memberships (struct nl_sock *sk, int group,...)
| Leave groups.
int | nl_socket_drop_membership (struct nl_sock *sk, int group)
void | nl_join_groups (struct nl_sock *sk, int groups)
| Join multicast groups (deprecated)

## Peer Identfication
uint32_t | nl_socket_get_peer_port (const struct nl_sock *sk)
void | nl_socket_set_peer_port (struct nl_sock *sk, uint32_t port)
uint32_t | nl_socket_get_peer_groups (const struct nl_sock *sk)
void | nl_socket_set_peer_groups (struct nl_sock *sk, uint32_t groups)

## File Descriptor
int | nl_socket_get_fd (const struct nl_sock *sk)
| Return the file descriptor of the backing socket.
int | nl_socket_set_fd (struct nl_sock *sk, int protocol, int fd)
| Set the socket file descriptor externally which initializes the socket similar to nl_connect().
int | nl_socket_set_nonblocking (const struct nl_sock *sk)
| Set file descriptor of socket to non-blocking state.
void | nl_socket_enable_msg_peek (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Enable use of MSG_PEEK when reading from socket.
void | nl_socket_disable_msg_peek (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Disable use of MSG_PEEK when reading from socket.

## Callback Handler
struct nl_cb * | nl_socket_get_cb (const struct nl_sock *sk)
void | nl_socket_set_cb (struct nl_sock *sk, struct nl_cb *cb)
int | nl_socket_modify_cb (struct nl_sock *sk, enum nl_cb_type type, enum nl_cb_kind kind, nl_recvmsg_msg_cb_t func, void *arg)
| Modify the callback handler associated with the socket.
int | nl_socket_modify_err_cb (struct nl_sock *sk, enum nl_cb_kind kind, nl_recvmsg_err_cb_t func, void *arg)
| Modify the error callback handler associated with the socket.

## Utilities
int | nl_socket_set_buffer_size (struct nl_sock *sk, int rxbuf, int txbuf)
| Set socket buffer size of netlink socket.
int | nl_socket_set_msg_buf_size (struct nl_sock *sk, size_t bufsize)
| Set default message buffer size of netlink socket.
size_t | nl_socket_get_msg_buf_size (struct nl_sock *sk)
| Get default message buffer size of netlink socket.
int | nl_socket_set_passcred (struct nl_sock *sk, int state)
| Enable/disable credential passing on netlink socket.
int | nl_socket_recv_pktinfo (struct nl_sock *sk, int state)
| Enable/disable receival of additional packet information.

## Detailed Description

Representation of a netlink socket

Related sections in the development guide:

- Netlink Sockets (Netlink Core Library Development Guide)

## Header

#include <netlink/socket.h>

## Macro Definition Documentation

## ◆ SOL_NETLINK

#define SOL_NETLINK 270

Definition at line 41 of file socket.c.

## Function Documentation

## ◆ nl_socket_alloc()

struct nl_sock * nl_socket_alloc | ( | void |  | ) |

Allocate new netlink socket.

Returns
  Newly allocated netlink socket or NULL.

Definition at line 226 of file socket.c.

References nl_cb_alloc().

Referenced by nl_cache_mngr_alloc_ex().

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## ◆ nl_socket_alloc_cb()

struct nl_sock * nl_socket_alloc_cb | ( | struct nl_cb * | cb | ) |

Allocate new socket with custom callbacks.

Parameters

  cb | Callback handler

The reference to the callback handler is taken into account automatically, it is released again upon calling nl_socket_free().

Returns
  Newly allocted socket handle or NULL.

Definition at line 252 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_free()

void nl_socket_free | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Free a netlink socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

Definition at line 264 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_cache_mngr_free().

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## ◆ nl_socket_disable_seq_check()

void nl_socket_disable_seq_check | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Disable sequence number checking.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

Disables checking of sequence numbers on the netlink socket This is required to allow messages to be processed which were not requested by a preceding request message, e.g. netlink events.

Note
  This function modifies the NL_CB_SEQ_CHECK configuration in the callback handle associated with the socket.

Definition at line 303 of file socket.c.

References NL_CB_CUSTOM, NL_CB_SEQ_CHECK, and nl_cb_set().

Referenced by nl_cache_mngr_alloc_ex().

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## ◆ nl_socket_use_seq()

unsigned int nl_socket_use_seq | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Use next sequence number.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

Uses the next available sequence number and increases the counter by one for subsequent calls.

Returns
  Unique serial sequence number

Definition at line 318 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_complete_msg().

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## ◆ nl_socket_disable_auto_ack()

void nl_socket_disable_auto_ack | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Disable automatic request for ACK.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

The default behaviour of a socket is to request an ACK for each message sent to allow for the caller to synchronize to the completion of the netlink operation. This function disables this behaviour and will result in requests being sent which will not have the NLM_F_ACK flag set automatically. However, it is still possible for the caller to set the NLM_F_ACK flag explicitely.

Definition at line 339 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_enable_auto_ack()

void nl_socket_enable_auto_ack | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Enable automatic request for ACK (default)

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

See also
  nl_socket_disable_auto_ack

Definition at line 349 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_local_port()

uint32_t nl_socket_get_local_port | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Definition at line 389 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_set_local_port()

void nl_socket_set_local_port | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | uint32_t | port )

Set local port of socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  port | Local port identifier

Assigns a local port identifier to the socket.

If port is 0, the port is reset to 'unspecified' as it is after newly calling nl_socket_alloc(). Unspecified means, that the port will be generated automatically later on first use (either on nl_socket_get_local_port() or nl_connect()).

Definition at line 428 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_connect(), and nl_socket_set_fd().

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## ◆ nl_socket_add_memberships()

int nl_socket_add_memberships | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | group,
|  |  | ... )

Join groups.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket
  group | Group identifier

Joins the specified groups using the modern socket option which is available since kernel version 2.6.14. It allows joining an almost arbitary number of groups without limitation. The list of groups has to be terminated by 0 (NFNLGRP_NONE).

Make sure to use the correct group definitions as the older bitmask definitions for nl_join_groups() are likely to still be present for backward compatibility reasons.

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code.

Definition at line 459 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_add_membership()

int nl_socket_add_membership | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | group )

Definition at line 492 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_drop_memberships()

int nl_socket_drop_memberships | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | group,
|  |  | ... )

Leave groups.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket
  group | Group identifier

Leaves the specified groups using the modern socket option which is available since kernel version 2.6.14. The list of groups has to terminated by 0 (NFNLGRP_NONE).

See also
  nl_socket_add_membership

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code.

Definition at line 509 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_drop_membership()

int nl_socket_drop_membership | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | group )

Definition at line 542 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_join_groups()

void nl_join_groups | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | groups )

Join multicast groups (deprecated)

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  groups | Bitmask of groups to join.

This function defines the old way of joining multicast group which has to be done prior to calling nl_connect(). It works on any kernel version but is very limited as only 32 groups can be joined.

Definition at line 557 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_peer_port()

uint32_t nl_socket_get_peer_port | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Definition at line 570 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_set_peer_port()

void nl_socket_set_peer_port | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | uint32_t | port )

Definition at line 575 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_peer_groups()

uint32_t nl_socket_get_peer_groups | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Definition at line 580 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_set_peer_groups()

void nl_socket_set_peer_groups | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | uint32_t | groups )

Definition at line 585 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_fd()

int nl_socket_get_fd | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Return the file descriptor of the backing socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket

Only valid after calling nl_connect() to create and bind the respective socket.

Returns
  File descriptor or -1 if not available.

Definition at line 608 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_cache_mngr_data_ready(), nl_cache_mngr_get_fd(), and nl_cache_mngr_poll().

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## ◆ nl_socket_set_fd()

int nl_socket_set_fd | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | protocol,
|  | int | fd )

Set the socket file descriptor externally which initializes the socket similar to nl_connect().

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket (required)
  protocol | The socket protocol (optional). Linux 2.6.32 supports the socket option SO_PROTOCOL. In this case, you can set protocol to a negative value and let it autodetect. If you set it to a non-negative value, the detected protocol must match the one provided. To support older kernels, you must specify the protocol.
  fd | Socket file descriptor to use (required)

Set the socket file descriptor. @fd must be valid and bind'ed.

This is an alternative to nl_connect(). nl_connect() creates, binds and sets the socket. With this function you can set the socket to an externally created file descriptor.

See also
  nl_connect()

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code. On error, @fd is not closed but possibly unusable.

Return values

  -NLE_BAD_SOCK | Netlink socket is already connected
  -NLE_INVAL | Socket is of unexpected type

Definition at line 640 of file socket.c.

References nl_socket_set_local_port().

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## ◆ nl_socket_set_nonblocking()

int nl_socket_set_nonblocking | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Set file descriptor of socket to non-blocking state.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code.

Definition at line 727 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_cache_mngr_alloc_ex().

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## ◆ nl_socket_enable_msg_peek()

void nl_socket_enable_msg_peek | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Enable use of MSG_PEEK when reading from socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

See also NL_CAPABILITY_NL_RECVMSGS_PEEK_BY_DEFAULT capability

Definition at line 747 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_disable_msg_peek()

void nl_socket_disable_msg_peek | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Disable use of MSG_PEEK when reading from socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

See also NL_CAPABILITY_NL_RECVMSGS_PEEK_BY_DEFAULT capability

Definition at line 758 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_cb()

struct nl_cb * nl_socket_get_cb | ( | const struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Definition at line 771 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_set_cb()

void nl_socket_set_cb | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | struct nl_cb * | cb )

Definition at line 776 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_modify_cb()

int nl_socket_modify_cb | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | enum nl_cb_type | type,
|  | enum nl_cb_kind | kind,
|  | nl_recvmsg_msg_cb_t | func,
|  | void * | arg )

Modify the callback handler associated with the socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  type | which type callback to set
  kind | kind of callback
  func | callback function
  arg | argument to be passed to callback function

See also
  nl_cb_set

Definition at line 795 of file socket.c.

References nl_cb_set().

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## ◆ nl_socket_modify_err_cb()

int nl_socket_modify_err_cb | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | enum nl_cb_kind | kind,
|  | nl_recvmsg_err_cb_t | func,
|  | void * | arg )

Modify the error callback handler associated with the socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  kind | kind of callback
  func | callback function
  arg | argument to be passed to callback function

See also
  nl_cb_err

Definition at line 811 of file socket.c.

References nl_cb_err().

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## ◆ nl_socket_set_buffer_size()

int nl_socket_set_buffer_size | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | rxbuf,
|  | int | txbuf )

Set socket buffer size of netlink socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  rxbuf | New receive socket buffer size in bytes.
  txbuf | New transmit socket buffer size in bytes.

Sets the socket buffer size of a netlink socket to the specified values `rxbuf` and `txbuf`. Providing a value of `0` assumes a good default value.

Note
  It is not required to call this function prior to nl_connect().

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code.

Definition at line 837 of file socket.c.

Referenced by nl_connect().

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## ◆ nl_socket_set_msg_buf_size()

int nl_socket_set_msg_buf_size | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | size_t | bufsize )

Set default message buffer size of netlink socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  bufsize | Default message buffer size in bytes.

Sets the default message buffer size to the specified length in bytes. The default message buffer size limits the maximum message size the socket will be able to receive. It is generally recommneded to specify a buffer size no less than the size of a memory page.

Setting the @bufsize to zero means to use a default of 4 times getpagesize().

When MSG_PEEK is enabled, the buffer size is used for the initial choice of the buffer while peeking. It still makes sense to choose an optimal value to avoid realloc().

When MSG_PEEK is disabled, the buffer size is important because a too small size will lead to failure of receiving the message via nl_recvmsgs().

By default, MSG_PEEK is enabled unless the user calls either nl_socket_disable_msg_peek()/ nl_socket_enable_msg_peek() or sets the message buffer size to a positive value. See capability NL_CAPABILITY_NL_RECVMSGS_PEEK_BY_DEFAULT for that.

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code.

Definition at line 894 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_get_msg_buf_size()

size_t nl_socket_get_msg_buf_size | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk | ) |

Get default message buffer size of netlink socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.

Returns
  Size of default message buffer.

Definition at line 907 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_set_passcred()

int nl_socket_set_passcred | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | state )

Enable/disable credential passing on netlink socket.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  state | New state (0 - disabled, 1 - enabled)

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code

Definition at line 919 of file socket.c.

## ◆ nl_socket_recv_pktinfo()

int nl_socket_recv_pktinfo | ( | struct nl_sock * | sk,
|  | int | state )

Enable/disable receival of additional packet information.

Parameters

  sk | Netlink socket.
  state | New state (0 - disabled, 1 - enabled)

Returns
  0 on success or a negative error code

Definition at line 949 of file socket.c.