Re: PID of process that owns TCP Socket

[Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote sender="Vishwas Raman">
> Hi all:
> 
> This is what I would like to do: I have written a module that intercepts 
> all incoming and outgoing TCP packets using the netfiltering hooks 
> provided by the networking stack. Is there some way of getting at the 
> PID of the process that owns the socket from the TCP packets (sk_buff 
> structures) that I intercept? I know I can get to the INET socket 
> structure (struct sk) and hence its corresponding BSD socket (struct 
> socket), but how do I get to the process pid from there?

current->pid

> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vishwas
> 
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