这个问题是网上asked before，但是我没找到好的答案。
Linux 内核网络堆栈具有两种结构：
struct socket，一般存放在变量sock中
struct sock，一般存放在变量sk
这两个结构本质上是相互关联的，但生命周期似乎略有不同。可以通过sock->sk 找到sk，或者通过sk->sk_socket 找到sock。
为什么有两种结构来存储有关套接字的信息？假设我需要添加一个新字段，我何时将其添加到 struct socket 以及何时添加到 struct sock？
更新：请注意，我在 Linux 源代码中的 include/linux/net.h 中引用了 struct socket，这仅用于内核代码，不是 @987654336 @ 用于用户空间。
【问题讨论】：
标签： sockets linux-kernel
struct socket 似乎是用于系统调用的更高级别的接口（这就是为什么它还有指向 struct file 的指针，它在这里表示文件描述符）。
struct sock 是AF_INET 套接字的内核实现（还有struct unix_sock 用于AF_UNIX 套接字，这是它的派生），它可以被内核和用户空间使用（通过struct sock )。
两者都是在 1993 年被添加到 Linux 1.0 中的，我怀疑你会找到一个说明初始设计决策的文档。
【讨论】：
struct socket 中包含struct sock 和struct unix_sock 中的所有字段？
AF_INET 和AF_UNIX 仅是 43 种（请参阅AF_MAX）可用套接字类型中的 2 种。而struct socket是socket()在创建底层实现结构之前创建的。
“这两个结构本质上是相互关联的”——不确定你的意思。
如果查看这些结构的源文件，我想你会找到答案：
socket -> linux-src/include/linux/net.h
sock -> linux-src/include/net/sock.h
套接字
* NET An implementation of the SOCKET network access protocol.
* This is the master header file for the Linux NET layer,
* or, in plain English: the networking handling part of the
* kernel.
袜子
* INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
* operating system. INET is implemented using the BSD Socket
* interface as the means of communication with the user level.
这些结构不同，对套接字抽象的表示也不同。
这里回答不同的套接字。
Unix vs BSD vs TCP vs Internet sockets?
在哪里定义附加字段取决于您的意图。请描述你的任务。
请查看来源。
linux-src/include/linux/net.h
/*
* NET An implementation of the SOCKET network access protocol.
* This is the master header file for the Linux NET layer,
* or, in plain English: the networking handling part of the
* kernel.
*
* Version: @(#)net.h 1.0.3 05/25/93
*
* Authors: Orest Zborowski, <obz@Kodak.COM>
* Ross Biro
* Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
.....
.....
.....
/**
* struct socket - general BSD socket
* @state: socket state (%SS_CONNECTED, etc)
* @type: socket type (%SOCK_STREAM, etc)
* @flags: socket flags (%SOCK_NOSPACE, etc)
* @ops: protocol specific socket operations
* @file: File back pointer for gc
* @sk: internal networking protocol agnostic socket representation
* @wq: wait queue for several uses
*/
struct socket {
socket_state state;
kmemcheck_bitfield_begin(type);
short type;
kmemcheck_bitfield_end(type);
unsigned long flags;
struct socket_wq __rcu *wq;
struct file *file;
struct sock *sk;
const struct proto_ops *ops;
};
linux-src/include/net/sock.h
/*
* INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
* operating system. INET is implemented using the BSD Socket
* interface as the means of communication with the user level.
*
* Definitions for the AF_INET socket handler.
*
* Version: @(#)sock.h 1.0.4 05/13/93
*
* Authors: Ross Biro
* Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
* Corey Minyard <wf-rch!minyard@relay.EU.net>
* Florian La Roche <flla@stud.uni-sb.de>
*
* Fixes:
* Alan Cox : Volatiles in skbuff pointers. See
* skbuff comments. May be overdone,
* better to prove they can be removed
* than the reverse.
* Alan Cox : Added a zapped field for tcp to note
* a socket is reset and must stay shut up
* Alan Cox : New fields for options
* Pauline Middelink : identd support
* Alan Cox : Eliminate low level recv/recvfrom
* David S. Miller : New socket lookup architecture.
* Steve Whitehouse: Default routines for sock_ops
* Arnaldo C. Melo : removed net_pinfo, tp_pinfo and made
* protinfo be just a void pointer, as the
* protocol specific parts were moved to
* respective headers and ipv4/v6, etc now
* use private slabcaches for its socks
* Pedro Hortas : New flags field for socket options
*
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
....
....
....
/**
* struct sock - network layer representation of sockets
* @__sk_common: shared layout with inet_timewait_sock
* @sk_shutdown: mask of %SEND_SHUTDOWN and/or %RCV_SHUTDOWN
* @sk_userlocks: %SO_SNDBUF and %SO_RCVBUF settings
* @sk_lock: synchronizer
* @sk_kern_sock: True if sock is using kernel lock classes
* @sk_rcvbuf: size of receive buffer in bytes
* @sk_wq: sock wait queue and async head
* @sk_rx_dst: receive input route used by early demux
* @sk_dst_cache: destination cache
* @sk_dst_pending_confirm: need to confirm neighbour
* @sk_policy: flow policy
* @sk_receive_queue: incoming packets
* @sk_wmem_alloc: transmit queue bytes committed
* @sk_tsq_flags: TCP Small Queues flags
* @sk_write_queue: Packet sending queue
* @sk_omem_alloc: "o" is "option" or "other"
* @sk_wmem_queued: persistent queue size
* @sk_forward_alloc: space allocated forward
* @sk_napi_id: id of the last napi context to receive data for sk
* @sk_ll_usec: usecs to busypoll when there is no data
* @sk_allocation: allocation mode
* @sk_pacing_rate: Pacing rate (if supported by transport/packet scheduler)
* @sk_pacing_status: Pacing status (requested, handled by sch_fq)
* @sk_max_pacing_rate: Maximum pacing rate (%SO_MAX_PACING_RATE)
* @sk_sndbuf: size of send buffer in bytes
* @__sk_flags_offset: empty field used to determine location of bitfield
* @sk_padding: unused element for alignment
* @sk_no_check_tx: %SO_NO_CHECK setting, set checksum in TX packets
* @sk_no_check_rx: allow zero checksum in RX packets
* @sk_route_caps: route capabilities (e.g. %NETIF_F_TSO)
* @sk_route_nocaps: forbidden route capabilities (e.g NETIF_F_GSO_MASK)
* @sk_gso_type: GSO type (e.g. %SKB_GSO_TCPV4)
* @sk_gso_max_size: Maximum GSO segment size to build
* @sk_gso_max_segs: Maximum number of GSO segments
* @sk_lingertime: %SO_LINGER l_linger setting
* @sk_backlog: always used with the per-socket spinlock held
* @sk_callback_lock: used with the callbacks in the end of this struct
* @sk_error_queue: rarely used
* @sk_prot_creator: sk_prot of original sock creator (see ipv6_setsockopt,
* IPV6_ADDRFORM for instance)
* @sk_err: last error
* @sk_err_soft: errors that don't cause failure but are the cause of a
* persistent failure not just 'timed out'
* @sk_drops: raw/udp drops counter
* @sk_ack_backlog: current listen backlog
* @sk_max_ack_backlog: listen backlog set in listen()
* @sk_uid: user id of owner
* @sk_priority: %SO_PRIORITY setting
* @sk_type: socket type (%SOCK_STREAM, etc)
* @sk_protocol: which protocol this socket belongs in this network family
* @sk_peer_pid: &struct pid for this socket's peer
* @sk_peer_cred: %SO_PEERCRED setting
* @sk_rcvlowat: %SO_RCVLOWAT setting
* @sk_rcvtimeo: %SO_RCVTIMEO setting
* @sk_sndtimeo: %SO_SNDTIMEO setting
* @sk_txhash: computed flow hash for use on transmit
* @sk_filter: socket filtering instructions
* @sk_timer: sock cleanup timer
* @sk_stamp: time stamp of last packet received
* @sk_tsflags: SO_TIMESTAMPING socket options
* @sk_tskey: counter to disambiguate concurrent tstamp requests
* @sk_zckey: counter to order MSG_ZEROCOPY notifications
* @sk_socket: Identd and reporting IO signals
* @sk_user_data: RPC layer private data
* @sk_frag: cached page frag
* @sk_peek_off: current peek_offset value
* @sk_send_head: front of stuff to transmit
* @sk_security: used by security modules
* @sk_mark: generic packet mark
* @sk_cgrp_data: cgroup data for this cgroup
* @sk_memcg: this socket's memory cgroup association
* @sk_write_pending: a write to stream socket waits to start
* @sk_state_change: callback to indicate change in the state of the sock
* @sk_data_ready: callback to indicate there is data to be processed
* @sk_write_space: callback to indicate there is bf sending space available
* @sk_error_report: callback to indicate errors (e.g. %MSG_ERRQUEUE)
* @sk_backlog_rcv: callback to process the backlog
* @sk_destruct: called at sock freeing time, i.e. when all refcnt == 0
* @sk_reuseport_cb: reuseport group container
* @sk_rcu: used during RCU grace period
*/
struct sock {
/*
* Now struct inet_timewait_sock also uses sock_common, so please just
* don't add nothing before this first member (__sk_common) --acme
*/
struct sock_common __sk_common;
#define sk_node __sk_common.skc_node
#define sk_nulls_node __sk_common.skc_nulls_node
#define sk_refcnt __sk_common.skc_refcnt
#define sk_tx_queue_mapping __sk_common.skc_tx_queue_mapping
#define sk_dontcopy_begin __sk_common.skc_dontcopy_begin
#define sk_dontcopy_end __sk_common.skc_dontcopy_end
#define sk_hash __sk_common.skc_hash
#define sk_portpair __sk_common.skc_portpair
#define sk_num __sk_common.skc_num
#define sk_dport __sk_common.skc_dport
#define sk_addrpair __sk_common.skc_addrpair
#define sk_daddr __sk_common.skc_daddr
#define sk_rcv_saddr __sk_common.skc_rcv_saddr
#define sk_family __sk_common.skc_family
#define sk_state __sk_common.skc_state
#define sk_reuse __sk_common.skc_reuse
#define sk_reuseport __sk_common.skc_reuseport
#define sk_ipv6only __sk_common.skc_ipv6only
#define sk_net_refcnt __sk_common.skc_net_refcnt
#define sk_bound_dev_if __sk_common.skc_bound_dev_if
#define sk_bind_node __sk_common.skc_bind_node
#define sk_prot __sk_common.skc_prot
#define sk_net __sk_common.skc_net
#define sk_v6_daddr __sk_common.skc_v6_daddr
#define sk_v6_rcv_saddr __sk_common.skc_v6_rcv_saddr
#define sk_cookie __sk_common.skc_cookie
#define sk_incoming_cpu __sk_common.skc_incoming_cpu
#define sk_flags __sk_common.skc_flags
#define sk_rxhash __sk_common.skc_rxhash
socket_lock_t sk_lock;
atomic_t sk_drops;
int sk_rcvlowat;
struct sk_buff_head sk_error_queue;
struct sk_buff_head sk_receive_queue;
/*
* The backlog queue is special, it is always used with
* the per-socket spinlock held and requires low latency
* access. Therefore we special case it's implementation.
* Note : rmem_alloc is in this structure to fill a hole
* on 64bit arches, not because its logically part of
* backlog.
*/
struct {
atomic_t rmem_alloc;
int len;
struct sk_buff *head;
struct sk_buff *tail;
} sk_backlog;
#define sk_rmem_alloc sk_backlog.rmem_alloc
int sk_forward_alloc;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
unsigned int sk_ll_usec;
/* ===== mostly read cache line ===== */
unsigned int sk_napi_id;
#endif
int sk_rcvbuf;
struct sk_filter __rcu *sk_filter;
union {
struct socket_wq __rcu *sk_wq;
struct socket_wq *sk_wq_raw;
};
#ifdef CONFIG_XFRM
struct xfrm_policy __rcu *sk_policy[2];
#endif
struct dst_entry *sk_rx_dst;
struct dst_entry __rcu *sk_dst_cache;
atomic_t sk_omem_alloc;
int sk_sndbuf;
/* ===== cache line for TX ===== */
int sk_wmem_queued;
refcount_t sk_wmem_alloc;
unsigned long sk_tsq_flags;
struct sk_buff *sk_send_head;
struct sk_buff_head sk_write_queue;
__s32 sk_peek_off;
int sk_write_pending;
__u32 sk_dst_pending_confirm;
u32 sk_pacing_status; /* see enum sk_pacing */
long sk_sndtimeo;
struct timer_list sk_timer;
__u32 sk_priority;
__u32 sk_mark;
u32 sk_pacing_rate; /* bytes per second */
u32 sk_max_pacing_rate;
struct page_frag sk_frag;
netdev_features_t sk_route_caps;
netdev_features_t sk_route_nocaps;
int sk_gso_type;
unsigned int sk_gso_max_size;
gfp_t sk_allocation;
__u32 sk_txhash;
/*
* Because of non atomicity rules, all
* changes are protected by socket lock.
*/
unsigned int __sk_flags_offset[0];
#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD
#define SK_FL_PROTO_SHIFT 16
#define SK_FL_PROTO_MASK 0x00ff0000
#define SK_FL_TYPE_SHIFT 0
#define SK_FL_TYPE_MASK 0x0000ffff
#else
#define SK_FL_PROTO_SHIFT 8
#define SK_FL_PROTO_MASK 0x0000ff00
#define SK_FL_TYPE_SHIFT 16
#define SK_FL_TYPE_MASK 0xffff0000
#endif
kmemcheck_bitfield_begin(flags);
unsigned int sk_padding : 1,
sk_kern_sock : 1,
sk_no_check_tx : 1,
sk_no_check_rx : 1,
sk_userlocks : 4,
sk_protocol : 8,
sk_type : 16;
#define SK_PROTOCOL_MAX U8_MAX
kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags);
u16 sk_gso_max_segs;
unsigned long sk_lingertime;
struct proto *sk_prot_creator;
rwlock_t sk_callback_lock;
int sk_err,
sk_err_soft;
u32 sk_ack_backlog;
u32 sk_max_ack_backlog;
kuid_t sk_uid;
struct pid *sk_peer_pid;
const struct cred *sk_peer_cred;
long sk_rcvtimeo;
ktime_t sk_stamp;
u16 sk_tsflags;
u8 sk_shutdown;
u32 sk_tskey;
atomic_t sk_zckey;
struct socket *sk_socket;
void *sk_user_data;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
void *sk_security;
#endif
struct sock_cgroup_data sk_cgrp_data;
struct mem_cgroup *sk_memcg;
void (*sk_state_change)(struct sock *sk);
void (*sk_data_ready)(struct sock *sk);
void (*sk_write_space)(struct sock *sk);
void (*sk_error_report)(struct sock *sk);
int (*sk_backlog_rcv)(struct sock *sk,
struct sk_buff *skb);
void (*sk_destruct)(struct sock *sk);
struct sock_reuseport __rcu *sk_reuseport_cb;
struct rcu_head sk_rcu;
};
【讨论】：
sk_uid 在struct sock 中而不是struct socket？