1 /* Slice-side code to allocate tuntap interface in root slice
3 * Thom Haddow - 08/10/09
5 * Call tun_alloc() with IFFTUN or IFFTAP as an argument to get back fd to
6 * new tuntap interface. Interface name can be acquired via TUNGETIFF ioctl.
14 #include <sys/socket.h>
16 #include <linux/if_tun.h>
18 #define VSYS_TUNTAP "/vsys/fd_tuntap.control"
21 int tun_alloc(int iftype, char *if_name);
23 /* Reads vif FD from "fd", writes interface name to vif_name, and returns vif FD.
24 * vif_name should be IFNAMSIZ chars long. */
26 int receive_vif_fd(int fd, char *vif_name)
31 size_t ccmsg[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int)) / sizeof(size_t)];
35 /* Use IOV to read interface name */
36 iov.iov_base = vif_name;
37 iov.iov_len = IFNAMSIZ;
43 /* old BSD implementations should use msg_accrights instead of
44 * msg_control; the interface is different. */
45 msg.msg_control = ccmsg;
46 msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(ccmsg);
48 while(((rv = recvmsg(fd, &msg, 0)) == -1) && errno == EINTR);
58 cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
59 if (!cmsg->cmsg_type == SCM_RIGHTS) {
60 fprintf(stderr, "got control message of unknown type %d\n",
64 data = CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
69 int tun_alloc(int iftype, char *if_name)
72 struct sockaddr_un addr;
75 control_fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
76 if (control_fd == -1) {
77 perror("Could not create UNIX socket\n");
81 memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_un));
83 addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
84 strncpy(addr.sun_path, VSYS_TUNTAP,
85 sizeof(addr.sun_path) - 1);
87 if (connect(control_fd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr,
88 sizeof(struct sockaddr_un)) == -1) {
89 perror("Could not connect to Vsys control socket");
93 /* passing type param */
94 if (send(control_fd, &iftype, sizeof(iftype), 0) != sizeof(iftype)) {
95 perror("Could not send paramater to Vsys control socket");
99 remotefd = receive_vif_fd(control_fd, if_name);