kernel/linux.git/include/linux/in.h, branch v6.6.132

Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range

2019-06-26T20:19:46+00:00

The longstanding prohibition against using 0.0.0.0/8 dates back to two issues with the early internet. There was an interoperability problem with BSD 4.2 in 1984, fixed in BSD 4.3 in 1986. BSD 4.2 has long since been retired. Secondly, addresses of the form 0.x.y.z were initially defined only as a source address in an ICMP datagram, indicating "node number x.y.z on this IPv4 network", by nodes that know their address on their local network, but do not yet know their network prefix, in RFC0792 (page 19). This usage of 0.x.y.z was later repealed in RFC1122 (section 3.2.2.7), because the original ICMP-based mechanism for learning the network prefix was unworkable on many networks such as Ethernet (which have longer addresses that would not fit into the 24 "node number" bits). Modern networks use reverse ARP (RFC0903) or BOOTP (RFC0951) or DHCP (RFC2131) to find their full 32-bit address and CIDR netmask (and other parameters such as default gateways). 0.x.y.z has had 16,777,215 addresses in 0.0.0.0/8 space left unused and reserved for future use, since 1989. This patch allows for these 16m new IPv4 addresses to appear within a box or on the wire. Layer 2 switches don't care. 0.0.0.0/32 is still prohibited, of course. Signed-off-by: Dave Taht Signed-off-by: John Gilmore Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): 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 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bridge: Snoop Multicast Router Advertisements

2019-01-23T01:18:09+00:00

When multiple multicast routers are present in a broadcast domain then only one of them will be detectable via IGMP/MLD query snooping. The multicast router with the lowest IP address will become the selected and active querier while all other multicast routers will then refrain from sending queries. To detect such rather silent multicast routers, too, RFC4286 ("Multicast Router Discovery") provides a standardized protocol to detect multicast routers for multicast snooping switches. This patch implements the necessary MRD Advertisement message parsing and after successful processing adds such routers to the internal multicast router list. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

ipv4: Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option.

2012-02-08T20:52:45+00:00

The IP_UNICAST_IF feature is needed by the Wine project. This patch implements the feature by setting the outgoing interface in a similar fashion to that of IP_MULTICAST_IF. A separate option is needed to handle this feature since the existing options do not provide all of the characteristics required by IP_UNICAST_IF, a summary is provided below. SO_BINDTODEVICE: * SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative privileges, IP_UNICAST_IF does not. From reading some old mailing list articles my understanding is that SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative privileges because it can override the administrator's routing settings. * The SO_BINDTODEVICE option restricts both outbound and inbound traffic, IP_UNICAST_IF only impacts outbound traffic. IP_PKTINFO: * Since IP_PKTINFO and IP_UNICAST_IF are independent options, implementing IP_UNICAST_IF with IP_PKTINFO will likely break some applications. * Implementing IP_UNICAST_IF on top of IP_PKTINFO significantly complicates the Wine codebase and reduces the socket performance (doing this requires a lot of extra communication between the "server" and "user" layers). bind(): * bind() does not work on broadcast packets, IP_UNICAST_IF is specifically intended to work with broadcast packets. * Like SO_BINDTODEVICE, bind() restricts both outbound and inbound traffic. Signed-off-by: Erich E. Hoover Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

headers, net: Use __kernel_sa_family_t in more definitions shared with userland

2011-08-26T16:02:50+00:00

Complete the work started with commit 6602a4baf4d1a73cc4685a39ef859e1c5ddf654c ('net: Make userland include of netlink.h more sane'). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: introduce proto_ports_offset()

2010-08-20T00:16:23+00:00

Introduce proto_ports_offset() for getting the position of the ports or SPI in the message of a protocol. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net - IP_NODEFRAG option for IPv4 socket

2010-06-23T20:16:38+00:00

this patch is implementing IP_NODEFRAG option for IPv4 socket. The reason is, there's no other way to send out the packet with user customized header of the reassembly part. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Generalized TTL Security Mechanism

2010-01-12T00:28:01+00:00

This patch adds the kernel portions needed to implement RFC 5082 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM). It is a lightweight security measure against forged packets causing DoS attacks (for BGP). This is already implemented the same way in BSD kernels. For the necessary Quagga patch http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/dev/17389 Description from Cisco http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t7/feature/guide/gt_btsh.html It does add one byte to each socket structure, but I did a little rearrangement to reuse a hole (on 64 bit), but it does grow the structure on 32 bit This should be documented on ip(4) man page and the Glibc in.h file also needs update. IPV6_MINHOPLIMIT should also be added (although BSD doesn't support that). Only TCP is supported, but could also be added to UDP, DCCP, SCTP if desired. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup include/linux

2009-11-04T17:50:58+00:00

This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller