From 76e21053b5bf33a07c76f99d27a74238310e3c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Erich E. Hoover" <ehoover@mines.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:11:07 +0000
Subject: ipv4: Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option.
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 <ehoover@mines.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
include/net/inet_sock.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
(limited to 'include/net/inet_sock.h')
diff --git a/include/net/inet_sock.h b/include/net/inet_sock.h
index e3e405106afe..022f772c0ebe 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_sock.h
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ struct rtable;
* @tos - TOS
* @mc_ttl - Multicasting TTL
* @is_icsk - is this an inet_connection_sock?
+ * @uc_index - Unicast outgoing device index
* @mc_index - Multicast device index
* @mc_list - Group array
* @cork - info to build ip hdr on each ip frag while socket is corked
@@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ struct inet_sock {
transparent:1,
mc_all:1,
nodefrag:1;
+ int uc_index;
int mc_index;
__be32 mc_addr;
struct ip_mc_socklist __rcu *mc_list;
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