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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2013-12-06 09:45:21 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-12-06 16:34:43 -0500
commit479840ffdbe4242e8a25349218c8e0859223aa35 (patch)
treecad6833e9f0b92949c3dc1568b790877e18ffafa /include
parente6247027e5173c00efb2084d688d06ff835bc3b0 (diff)
ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32
There is no more space in u8 ifa_flags. So do what davem suffested and add another netlink attr called IFA_FLAGS for carry more flags. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/addrconf.h4
-rw-r--r--include/net/if_inet6.h2
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h4
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/addrconf.h b/include/net/addrconf.h
index 86505bfa5d2c..e70278eef12a 100644
--- a/include/net/addrconf.h
+++ b/include/net/addrconf.h
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ int ipv6_dev_get_saddr(struct net *net, const struct net_device *dev,
const struct in6_addr *daddr, unsigned int srcprefs,
struct in6_addr *saddr);
int __ipv6_get_lladdr(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *addr,
- unsigned char banned_flags);
+ u32 banned_flags);
int ipv6_get_lladdr(struct net_device *dev, struct in6_addr *addr,
- unsigned char banned_flags);
+ u32 banned_flags);
int ipv6_rcv_saddr_equal(const struct sock *sk, const struct sock *sk2);
void addrconf_join_solict(struct net_device *dev, const struct in6_addr *addr);
void addrconf_leave_solict(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr);
diff --git a/include/net/if_inet6.h b/include/net/if_inet6.h
index 76d54270f2e2..b58c36c1c3f6 100644
--- a/include/net/if_inet6.h
+++ b/include/net/if_inet6.h
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr {
int state;
+ __u32 flags;
__u8 dad_probes;
- __u8 flags;
__u16 scope;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
index 23357ab81a77..8ab0c2cc9b73 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ struct ifaddrmsg {
* It makes no difference for normally configured broadcast interfaces,
* but for point-to-point IFA_ADDRESS is DESTINATION address,
* local address is supplied in IFA_LOCAL attribute.
+ *
+ * IFA_FLAGS is a u32 attribute that extends the u8 field ifa_flags.
+ * If present, the value from struct ifaddrmsg will be ignored.
*/
enum {
IFA_UNSPEC,
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ enum {
IFA_ANYCAST,
IFA_CACHEINFO,
IFA_MULTICAST,
+ IFA_FLAGS,
__IFA_MAX,
};