ipv4: Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option.
The IP_UNICAST_IF feature is needed by the Wine project. This patch
implements the feature by setting the outgoing interface in a similar
fashion to that of IP_MULTICAST_IF. A separate option is needed to
handle this feature since the existing options do not provide all of
the characteristics required by IP_UNICAST_IF, a summary is provided
below.
SO_BINDTODEVICE:
* SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative privileges, IP_UNICAST_IF
does not. From reading some old mailing list articles my
understanding is that SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative
privileges because it can override the administrator's routing
settings.
* The SO_BINDTODEVICE option restricts both outbound and inbound
traffic, IP_UNICAST_IF only impacts outbound traffic.
IP_PKTINFO:
* Since IP_PKTINFO and IP_UNICAST_IF are independent options,
implementing IP_UNICAST_IF with IP_PKTINFO will likely break some
applications.
* Implementing IP_UNICAST_IF on top of IP_PKTINFO significantly
complicates the Wine codebase and reduces the socket performance
(doing this requires a lot of extra communication between the
"server" and "user" layers).
bind():
* bind() does not work on broadcast packets, IP_UNICAST_IF is
specifically intended to work with broadcast packets.
* Like SO_BINDTODEVICE, bind() restricts both outbound and inbound
traffic.
Signed-off-by: Erich E. Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 8aa87c1..9125529 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@
(1<<IP_ROUTER_ALERT) | (1<<IP_FREEBIND) |
(1<<IP_PASSSEC) | (1<<IP_TRANSPARENT) |
(1<<IP_MINTTL) | (1<<IP_NODEFRAG))) ||
+ optname == IP_UNICAST_IF ||
optname == IP_MULTICAST_TTL ||
optname == IP_MULTICAST_ALL ||
optname == IP_MULTICAST_LOOP ||
@@ -628,6 +629,35 @@
goto e_inval;
inet->mc_loop = !!val;
break;
+ case IP_UNICAST_IF:
+ {
+ struct net_device *dev = NULL;
+ int ifindex;
+
+ if (optlen != sizeof(int))
+ goto e_inval;
+
+ ifindex = (__force int)ntohl((__force __be32)val);
+ if (ifindex == 0) {
+ inet->uc_index = 0;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), ifindex);
+ err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+ if (!dev)
+ break;
+ dev_put(dev);
+
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ if (sk->sk_bound_dev_if)
+ break;
+
+ inet->uc_index = ifindex;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
+ }
case IP_MULTICAST_IF:
{
struct ip_mreqn mreq;
@@ -1178,6 +1208,9 @@
case IP_MULTICAST_LOOP:
val = inet->mc_loop;
break;
+ case IP_UNICAST_IF:
+ val = (__force int)htonl((__u32) inet->uc_index);
+ break;
case IP_MULTICAST_IF:
{
struct in_addr addr;