Checking for closed TCP connection in kernel space

From: Martin Sustrik <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-04 15:15:30

Hi all,

I open a TCP socket in the kernel space (sock_create_kern). I connect or bind it, I send and receive data. Everything works as expected.

The problem is how to find out that the peer have closed the connection.

In user space you get 0 when calling recv() is such case. However, in kernel space kernel_recvmsg seems to return 0 anytime when there are no more data available. It doesn't return an error either.

Should I monitor the socket state using sk_state_change callback? But the callback seems to work in async manner, i.e. I can accidentally use closed socket before I get notified about the state change.

Any ideas?
Martin
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