Found the cause of the problem. Had not enabled CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK in the defconfig file. This was causing the capability check to fail.
On Dec 7 2011, 5:07 pm, manohar <manoha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been working on the VPN client on ICS on an x86 based device. > > The VPN client is currently unable to establish connection with a > server. When I dug deeper into the call stack, I found that the > capable(CAP_NET_RAW) call is failing within the kernel. The call stack > that I have traced is:- > > capable(CAP_NET_RAW) > ^ > sock_bindtodevice (struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, int optlen) > in $HOME/hardware/intel/linux/net/core/sock.c > ^ > sock_setsockopt (..., optname = SO_BINDTODEVICE, ...) in $HOME/ > hardware/intel/linux/net/core/sock.c > ^ > ---------------------------------------------- > System call interface > ---------------------------------------------- > ^ > setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, "wlan0", 5) in $HOME/ > external/mtpd/mtpd.c > > I have tried to add theCAP_NET_RAWcapability in the mtpd using > cap_get_proc() and cap_set_proc() defined in sys/capability.h in > libcap, but I'm unable to find libcap on ICS. > > Could anybody please let me know if there is any other way to set a > process's capability or any other way to approach this issue? > > Thank you very much, > Manohar -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
