From 0c5c2d3089068d4aa378f7a40d2b5ad9d4f52ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:03:08 -0800
Subject: neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour table
Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table
from user space except treat an entry like you are using it. To that end
implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request
treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path.
This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/neighbour.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'net')
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 417b6d739fb7..a1cbce7fdae5 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1654,7 +1654,11 @@ static int neigh_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
flags &= ~NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE;
}
- err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags);
+ if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
+ neigh_event_send(neigh, NULL);
+ err = 0;
+ } else
+ err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags);
neigh_release(neigh);
goto out_dev_put;
}
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