From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willem de Bruijn Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] ipv6: process socket-level control messages in IPv6 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:37:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1459377448-2239-1-git-send-email-soheil.kdev@gmail.com> <1459377448-2239-7-git-send-email-soheil.kdev@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: David Miller , Network Development , Willem de Bruijn , Eric Dumazet , Yuchung Cheng , Neal Cardwell , Martin KaFai Lau , Soheil Hassas Yeganeh To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Return-path: Received: from mail-lf0-f68.google.com ([209.85.215.68]:33873 "EHLO mail-lf0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750978AbcCaDiC (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:38:02 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-f68.google.com with SMTP id f127so6943878lff.1 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:38:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1459377448-2239-7-git-send-email-soheil.kdev@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: > From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh > > Process socket-level control messages by invoking > __sock_cmsg_send in ip6_datagram_send_ctl for control messages on > the SOL_SOCKET layer. > > This makes sure whenever ip6_datagram_send_ctl is called for > udp and raw, we also process socket-level control messages. > > This is a bit uglier than IPv4, since IPv6 does not have > something like ipcm_cookie. Perhaps we can later create > a control message cookie for IPv6? > > Note that this commit interprets new control messages that > were ignored before. As such, this commit does not change > the behavior of IPv6 control messages. > > Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn