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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.android.net.module.util.netlink;
+
+import static android.system.OsConstants.IPPROTO_TCP;
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for netlink related class.
+ * @hide
+ */
+public class NetlinkUtils {
+    /** Corresponds to enum from bionic/libc/include/netinet/tcp.h. */
+    private static final int TCP_ESTABLISHED = 1;
+    private static final int TCP_SYN_SENT = 2;
+    private static final int TCP_SYN_RECV = 3;
+
+    public static final int TCP_MONITOR_STATE_FILTER =
+            (1 << TCP_ESTABLISHED) | (1 << TCP_SYN_SENT) | (1 << TCP_SYN_RECV);
+
+    /**
+     * Construct an inet_diag_req_v2 message for querying alive TCP sockets from kernel.
+     */
+    public static byte[] buildInetDiagReqForAliveTcpSockets(int family) {
+        return InetDiagMessage.inetDiagReqV2(IPPROTO_TCP,
+                null /* local addr */,
+                null /* remote addr */,
+                family,
+                (short) (StructNlMsgHdr.NLM_F_REQUEST | StructNlMsgHdr.NLM_F_DUMP) /* flag */,
+                0 /* pad */,
+                1 << NetlinkConstants.INET_DIAG_MEMINFO /* idiagExt */,
+                TCP_MONITOR_STATE_FILTER);
+    }
+}