raw-sock-creator.cc

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#include <unistd.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <net/ethernet.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netpacket/packet.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#include "creator-utils.h"

#define EMU_MAGIC 65867

using namespace ns3;

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int c;
  char *path = NULL;

  opterr = 0;

  while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "vp:")) != -1)
    {
      switch (c)
        {
        case 'v':
          gVerbose = true;
          break;
        case 'p':
          path = optarg;
          break;
        }
    }

  //
  // This program is spawned by an emu net device running in a simulation.  It
  // wants to create a raw socket as described below.  We are going to do the
  // work here since we're running suid root.  Once we create the raw socket,
  // we have to send it back to the emu net device.  We do that over a Unix
  // (local interprocess) socket.  The emu net device created a socket to
  // listen for our response on, and it is expected to have encoded the address
  // information as a string and to have passed that string as an argument to
  // us.  We see it here as the "path" string.  We can't do anything useful
  // unless we have that string.
  //
  ABORT_IF (path == NULL, "path is a required argument", 0);
  LOG ("Provided path is \"" << path << "\"");
  //
  // The whole reason for all of the hoops we went through to call out to this
  // program will pay off here.  We created this program to run as suid root
  // in order to keep the main simulation program from having to be run with
  // root privileges.  We need root privileges to be able to open a raw socket
  // though.  So all of these hoops are to allow us to execute the following
  // single line of code:
  //
  LOG ("Creating raw socket");
  int sock = socket (PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons (ETH_P_ALL));
  ABORT_IF (sock == -1, "CreateSocket(): Unable to open raw socket", 1);

  //
  // Send the socket back to the emu net device so it can go about its business
  //
  SendSocket (path, sock, EMU_MAGIC);

  return 0;
}