net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.
[backport of net-next 6d0bfe22611602f36617bc7aa2ffa1bbb2f54c67]
This adds the ability to send ICMPv6 echo requests without a
raw socket. The equivalent ability for ICMPv4 was added in
2011.
Instead of having separate code paths for IPv4 and IPv6, make
most of the code in net/ipv4/ping.c dual-stack and only add a
few IPv6-specific bits (like the protocol definition) to a new
net/ipv6/ping.c. Hopefully this will reduce divergence and/or
duplication of bugs in the future.
Caveats:
- Setting options via ancillary data (e.g., using IPV6_PKTINFO
to specify the outgoing interface) is not yet supported.
- There are no separate security settings for IPv4 and IPv6;
everything is controlled by /proc/net/ipv4/ping_group_range.
- The proc interface does not yet display IPv6 ping sockets
properly.
Tested with a patched copy of ping6 and using raw socket calls.
Compiles and works with all of CONFIG_IPV6={n,m,y}.
CRs-Fixed: 573548
Change-Id: I0081b4654dd54b12c8f233e00e18943582aa2142
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[lorenzo@google.com: backported to 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Git-commit: 1f0675844e3b63a765e5bd32bc5af051ccd951c0
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common
[subashab@codeaurora.org : resolve trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
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