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| author | Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> | 2009-03-04 00:03:08 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-04 00:03:08 -0800 |
| commit | 0c5c2d3089068d4aa378f7a40d2b5ad9d4f52ce8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c7e6c54410e5730f26ea4bc634ae5c1ef47da8b | |
| parent | fc1f9ea51de726b3b8003539788d918814c9deff (diff) | |
neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour table
Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table
from user space except treat an entry like you are using it. To that end
implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request
treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path.
This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/neighbour.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/neighbour.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/neighbour.h b/include/linux/neighbour.h index 8730d5dae1b..12c9de13845 100644 --- a/include/linux/neighbour.h +++ b/include/linux/neighbour.h @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ enum * Neighbor Cache Entry Flags */ +#define NTF_USE 0x01 #define NTF_PROXY 0x08 /* == ATF_PUBL */ #define NTF_ROUTER 0x80 diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index 417b6d739fb..a1cbce7fdae 100644 --- a/net/core/neighbour.c +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c @@ -1654,7 +1654,11 @@ static int neigh_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg) flags &= ~NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE; } - err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags); + if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) { + neigh_event_send(neigh, NULL); + err = 0; + } else + err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags); neigh_release(neigh); goto out_dev_put; } |