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29.Dd June 25, 2000
30.Os
31.Dt ACCEPT_FILTER 9
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm accept_filter ,
34.Nm accept_filt_add ,
35.Nm accept_filt_del ,
36.Nm accept_filt_generic_mod_event ,
37.Nm accept_filt_get
38.Nd filter incoming connections
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In sys/types.h
41.In sys/module.h
42.In sys/socket.h
43.Fd #define ACCEPT_FILTER_MOD
44.In sys/socketvar.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn accept_filt_add "struct accept_filter *filt"
47.Ft int
48.Fn accept_filt_del "char *name"
49.Ft int
50.Fn accept_filt_generic_mod_event "module_t mod" "int event" "void *data"
51.Ft struct accept_filter *
52.Fn accept_filt_get "char *name"
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54Accept filters allow an application to request
55that the kernel pre-process incoming connections.
56An accept filter is requested via the
57.Xr setsockopt 2
58system call, passing in an
59.Fa optname
60of
61.Dv SO_ACCEPTFILTER .
62.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
63A module that wants to be an accept filter
64must provide a
65.Vt "struct accept_filter"
66to the system:
67.Bd -literal
68struct accept_filter {
69	char	accf_name[16];
70	void	(*accf_callback)(struct socket *so, void *arg, int waitflag);
71	void *	(*accf_create)(struct socket *so, char *arg);
72	void	(*accf_destroy)(struct socket *so);
73	SLIST_ENTRY(accept_filter) accf_next;	/* next on the list */
74};
75.Ed
76.Pp
77The module should register it with the function
78.Fn accept_filt_add ,
79passing a pointer to a
80.Vt "struct accept_filter" ,
81allocated with
82.Xr kmalloc 9
83.Pp
84The fields of
85.Vt "struct accept_filter"
86are as follows:
87.Bl -tag -width ".Va accf_callback"
88.It Fa accf_name
89Name of the filter;
90this is how it will be accessed from userland.
91.It Fa accf_callback
92The callback that the kernel will do
93once the connection is established.
94It is the same as a socket upcall
95and will be called when the connection is established
96and whenever new data arrives on the socket,
97unless the callback modifies the socket's flags.
98.It Fa accf_create
99Called whenever a
100.Xr setsockopt 2
101installs the filter onto
102a listening socket.
103.It Fa accf_destroy
104Called whenever the user removes the accept filter on the socket.
105.El
106.Pp
107The
108.Fn accept_filt_del
109function passed the same string used in
110.Fa accept_filter.accf_name
111during registration with
112.Fn accept_filt_add ,
113the kernel will then disallow and further userland use of the filter.
114.Pp
115The
116.Fn accept_filt_get
117function is used internally to locate which accept filter to use via the
118.Xr setsockopt 2
119system call.
120.Pp
121The
122.Fn accept_filt_generic_mod_event
123function provides a simple way to avoid duplication of code
124for accept filters which do not use the argument field to load
125and unload themselves.
126This function can be used in the
127.Vt moduledata_t
128struct for the
129.Xr DECLARE_MODULE 9
130macro.
131.Sh SEE ALSO
132.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
133.Xr accf_data 9 ,
134.Xr accf_http 9 ,
135.Xr kmalloc 9
136.Sh HISTORY
137The accept filter mechanism was introduced in
138.Fx 4.0 .
139.Sh AUTHORS
140.An -nosplit
141This manual page was written by
142.An Alfred Perlstein ,
143.An Sheldon Hearn
144and
145.An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven .
146.Pp
147The accept filter concept was pioneered by
148.An David Filo
149at Yahoo!\&
150and refined to be a loadable module system by
151.An Alfred Perlstein .
152