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authorErich E. Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu>2012-02-08 09:11:07 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-02-08 15:52:45 -0500
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ping.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ping.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ping.c b/net/ipv4/ping.c
index aea5a199c37a..cfc82cf339f6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ static int ping_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
ipc.oif = inet->mc_index;
if (!saddr)
saddr = inet->mc_addr;
- }
+ } else if (!ipc.oif)
+ ipc.oif = inet->uc_index;
flowi4_init_output(&fl4, ipc.oif, sk->sk_mark, tos,
RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE, sk->sk_protocol,