Re: Commit 8ef874bfc7296fa206eea2ad1e8a426f576bf6f6 has broken sscommand

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Apr 04 2012 - 05:49:05 EST


On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:44 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 05:24 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:07:43 +0200
> >
> > > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 18:03 +0900, Kusanagi Kouichi wrote:
> > >> Since commit 8ef874bfc7296fa206eea2ad1e8a426f576bf6f6 ("sock_diag:
> > >> Move the sock_ code to net/core/"), ss command from iproute package
> > >> doesn't work if INET_DIAG is not enabled.
> > >>
> > >> $ ss
> > >> State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port
> > >> TCPDIAG answers: Operation not supported
> > >> --
> > >
> > > Try to update your iproute2 package ?
> >
> > Well, he doesn't INET_DIAG enabled in his kernel, so no matter what
> > iproute2 version he uses it won't work :-)
>
> iproute2 misc/ss.c has a fallback using /proc/net/tcp
>
> Dont know when this broke.
>
> I guess we should fix ss to cope INET_DIAG being disabled.
>
> tcp_show_netlink() should return -1 instead of 0
>

Kusanagi Kouichi is right. Commit 8ef874bfc72 apparently changed things
since socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETINK_INET_DIAG) doesnt fail
anymore...



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