[RFC][PATCH] neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour table
From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2009-02-20 20:23:43
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linux-api
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- include/linux/neighbour.h | 1 + net/core/neighbour.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/neighbour.h b/include/linux/neighbour.h
index 8730d5d..12c9de1 100644
--- a/include/linux/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/linux/neighbour.h@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ enum * Neighbor Cache Entry Flags */ +#define NTF_USE 0x01 #define NTF_PROXY 0x08 /* == ATF_PUBL */ #define NTF_ROUTER 0x80
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 278a142..0fc92ed 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c@@ -1656,7 +1656,11 @@ 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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