From fa788d986a3aac5069378ed04697bd06f83d3488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Whitchurch Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:23:36 +0200 Subject: packet: add sockopt to ignore outgoing packets Currently, the only way to ignore outgoing packets on a packet socket is via the BPF filter. With MSG_ZEROCOPY, packets that are looped into AF_PACKET are copied in dev_queue_xmit_nit(), and this copy happens even if the filter run from packet_rcv() would reject them. So the presence of a packet socket on the interface takes away the benefits of MSG_ZEROCOPY, even if the packet socket is not interested in outgoing packets. (Even when MSG_ZEROCOPY is not used, the skb is unnecessarily cloned, but the cost for that is much lower.) Add a socket option to allow AF_PACKET sockets to ignore outgoing packets to solve this. Note that the *BSDs already have something similar: BIOCSSEESENT/BIOCSDIRECTION and BIOCSDIRFILT. The first intended user is lldpd. Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 4271f6b4e419..e2b3bd750c98 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2343,6 +2343,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *call_gro_receive_sk(gro_receive_sk_t cb, struct packet_type { __be16 type; /* This is really htons(ether_type). */ + bool ignore_outgoing; struct net_device *dev; /* NULL is wildcarded here */ int (*func) (struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *, -- cgit v1.2.3