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authorLaszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>2008-01-30 19:08:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-31 19:27:19 -0800
commit4a19ec5800fc3bb64e2d87c4d9fdd9e636086fe0 (patch)
tree610bd4e7dbcbdae25ba3806f4256745e98617825 /net/core
parent036c2e27bc3a6498afb35de017d810194032d765 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 1c4b1cd16d65..433715fb141a 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -667,6 +667,13 @@ set_rcvbuf:
else
clear_bit(SOCK_PASSSEC, &sock->flags);
break;
+ case SO_MARK:
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ ret = -EPERM;
+ else {
+ sk->sk_mark = val;
+ }
+ break;
/* We implement the SO_SNDLOWAT etc to
not be settable (1003.1g 5.3) */
@@ -836,6 +843,10 @@ int sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
case SO_PEERSEC:
return security_socket_getpeersec_stream(sock, optval, optlen, len);
+ case SO_MARK:
+ v.val = sk->sk_mark;
+ break;
+
default:
return -ENOPROTOOPT;
}