[PATCH net-next] IPv6: add a function to check for a valid anycast source address
From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <hidden>
Date: 2014-01-13 17:03:27
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
- Add ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src() to check if an anycast address is link-local on given interface or is global (on any interface). Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <redacted> --- include/net/addrconf.h | 5 +++-- net/ipv6/anycast.c | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/addrconf.h b/include/net/addrconf.h
index 66c4a44..50e39a8 100644
--- a/include/net/addrconf.h
+++ b/include/net/addrconf.h@@ -205,8 +205,9 @@ void ipv6_sock_ac_close(struct sock *sk); int ipv6_dev_ac_inc(struct net_device *dev, const struct in6_addr *addr); int __ipv6_dev_ac_dec(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr); bool ipv6_chk_acast_addr(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, - const struct in6_addr *addr); - + const struct in6_addr *addr); +bool ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, + const struct in6_addr *addr); /* Device notifier */ int register_inet6addr_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/anycast.c b/net/ipv6/anycast.c
index 5a80f15..4f2c62a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/anycast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/anycast.c@@ -383,6 +383,17 @@ bool ipv6_chk_acast_addr(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, return found; } +/* check if address is link-local on given interface + * or is global (on any interface) + */ +bool ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, + const struct in6_addr *addr) +{ + if (ipv6_addr_type(addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) + return ipv6_chk_acast_dev(dev, addr); + else + return ipv6_chk_acast_addr(net, NULL, addr); +} #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS struct ac6_iter_state {