Messages in this thread | | | From | Németh Tamás <> | Subject | Netlink and raw packet inconsistencies or obsolete man pages? | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:17:14 +0200 |
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man 7 netlink states that:
"Only processes with an effective UID of 0 or the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability may send or listen to a netlink multicast group."
In addition man 7 capabilities states that:
"CAP_NET_RAW Use RAW and PACKET sockets."
Despite these statements I was able to run the followinng code without getting any access denied type error messages:
################################ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <linux/netlink.h> #include <unistd.h>
int filedes; struct sockaddr_nl nladdr={AF_NETLINK,0,0,0};
int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) { nladdr.nl_pid=getpid(); filedes=socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT); bind(filedes,(struct sockaddr*)&nladdr,sizeof(nladdr)); close(filedes); } ################################
Sorry for not testing if I can actually send or receive raw multicast netlink packages, this is because I'm not a programmer actually. The code above could be run without any problem on openSUSE 12.1's tandard kernel and on a vanilla 2.6.32.49. Is it a bug or is it intentional (and then man pages are outdated)? In the latter case what does protect the udev subsystem. for example?
Regards,
Tamas Nemeth IT sysadmin University of West Hungary
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