[pypy-issue] [issue1318] Scapy.sniff returns an error

[Amaury Forgeot d Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

>From scapy/arch/linux.py::
    # XXX. Argl! We need to give the kernel a pointer on the BPF,
    # python object header seems to be 20 bytes. 36 bytes for x86 64bits arch.
    if scapy.arch.X86_64:
        bpfh = struct.pack("HL", nb, id(bpf)+36)
    else:
        bpfh = struct.pack("HI", nb, id(bpf)+20) 
    s.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_FILTER, bpfh)

This kind of code won't work at all with PyPy: the object layout is very different, id(bpf) is not 
the address of the object, and PyPy moves objects anyway.
I don't know why the code is written like this - setsockopt() accepts a string.
Would the following work?
   # (remove all the bpfh stuff)
   s.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_FILTER, bpf)

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