[GSOC 2016] Netlink socket parsers

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 06:32:34PM +0000, Fabien Siron wrote:
> Quoting Dmitry V. Levin (2016-03-07 01:16:36)
> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Gabriel Laskar wrote:
> > > So a good start would be to just decode the basic headers for these
> > > packets, only on recvmsg/sendmsg, and build from there in order to add
> > > more protocols for example.
> 
> So the steps would be, first, decode the headers, and after that, add some
> protocols (NETLINK_ROUTE, NETLINK_FIREWALL ...).

As AF_NETLINK protocol family consists of many netlink families,
netlink parser has to be extensible like ioctl parser, allowing gradual
addition of parsers for different netlink families.


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