[NET]: Introducing socket mark socket option.
A userspace program may wish to set the mark for each packets its send
without using the netfilter MARK target. Changing the mark can be used
for mark based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering.
It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index 4d88055..d61c63d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@
skb_reserve(skb, hh_len);
skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
+ skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
skb->dst = dst_clone(&rt->u.dst);
skb_put(skb, length);
@@ -767,6 +768,8 @@
*/
memset(&fl, 0, sizeof(fl));
+ fl.mark = sk->sk_mark;
+
if (sin6) {
if (addr_len < SIN6_LEN_RFC2133)
return -EINVAL;