Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 7 authors, 2020-08-23

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: socket: implement SO_DESCRIPTION

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-08-22 19:36:57
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From: Pascal Bouchareine <redacted>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:28:27 -0700
This command attaches the zero terminated string in optval to the
socket for troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the
process fdinfo file for that fd (/proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>).

One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets
for netstat and friends to report

We ignore optlen and constrain the string to a static max size

Signed-off-by: Pascal Bouchareine <redacted>
This change is really a non-starter unless the information gets
published somewhere where people actually look at dumped sockets, and
that's inet_diag and friends.
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