ipv6: allow routes to be configured with expire values
Add the support for adding expire value to routes, requested by
Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> for systemd-networkd, and NetworkManager
wants it too.
implement it by adding the new RTNETLINK attribute RTA_EXPIRES.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index c83b6a5..3c8834b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2709,6 +2709,7 @@
[RTA_PREF] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[RTA_ENCAP_TYPE] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
[RTA_ENCAP] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
+ [RTA_EXPIRES] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
};
static int rtm_to_fib6_config(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
@@ -2809,6 +2810,15 @@
if (tb[RTA_ENCAP_TYPE])
cfg->fc_encap_type = nla_get_u16(tb[RTA_ENCAP_TYPE]);
+ if (tb[RTA_EXPIRES]) {
+ unsigned long timeout = addrconf_timeout_fixup(nla_get_u32(tb[RTA_EXPIRES]), HZ);
+
+ if (addrconf_finite_timeout(timeout)) {
+ cfg->fc_expires = jiffies_to_clock_t(timeout * HZ);
+ cfg->fc_flags |= RTF_EXPIRES;
+ }
+ }
+
err = 0;
errout:
return err;