net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.

This adds the ability to send ICMPv6 echo requests without a
raw socket. The equivalent ability for ICMPv4 was added in
2011.

Instead of having separate code paths for IPv4 and IPv6, make
most of the code in net/ipv4/ping.c dual-stack and only add a
few IPv6-specific bits (like the protocol definition) to a new
net/ipv6/ping.c. Hopefully this will reduce divergence and/or
duplication of bugs in the future.

Caveats:

- Setting options via ancillary data (e.g., using IPV6_PKTINFO
  to specify the outgoing interface) is not yet supported.
- There are no separate security settings for IPv4 and IPv6;
  everything is controlled by /proc/net/ipv4/ping_group_range.
- The proc interface does not yet display IPv6 ping sockets
  properly.

Tested with a patched copy of ping6 and using raw socket calls.
Compiles and works with all of CONFIG_IPV6={n,m,y}.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
index ab5c7ad482cd..a5ac969aeefe 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <net/udp.h>
 #include <net/udplite.h>
 #include <net/tcp.h>
+#include <net/ping.h>
 #include <net/protocol.h>
 #include <net/inet_common.h>
 #include <net/route.h>
@@ -840,6 +841,9 @@ static int __init inet6_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto out_unregister_udplite_proto;
 
+	err = proto_register(&pingv6_prot, 1);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_unregister_ping_proto;
 
 	/* We MUST register RAW sockets before we create the ICMP6,
 	 * IGMP6, or NDISC control sockets.
@@ -930,6 +934,10 @@ static int __init inet6_init(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto ipv6_packet_fail;
 
+	err = pingv6_init();
+	if (err)
+		goto pingv6_fail;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 	err = ipv6_sysctl_register();
 	if (err)
@@ -942,6 +950,8 @@ out:
 sysctl_fail:
 	ipv6_packet_cleanup();
 #endif
+pingv6_fail:
+	pingv6_exit();
 ipv6_packet_fail:
 	tcpv6_exit();
 tcpv6_fail:
@@ -985,6 +995,8 @@ register_pernet_fail:
 	rtnl_unregister_all(PF_INET6);
 out_sock_register_fail:
 	rawv6_exit();
+out_unregister_ping_proto:
+	proto_unregister(&pingv6_prot);
 out_unregister_raw_proto:
 	proto_unregister(&rawv6_prot);
 out_unregister_udplite_proto: