ipv6: export function to send route updates

Add fib6_rt_update to send RTM_NEWROUTE with NLM_F_REPLACE set. This
helper will be used by the nexthop code to notify userspace of routes
that are impacted when a nexthop config is updated via replace.

This notification is needed for legacy apps that do not understand
the new nexthop object. Apps that are nexthop aware can use the
RTA_NH_ID attribute in the route notification to just ignore it.

In the future this should be wrapped in a sysctl to allow OS'es that
are fully updated to avoid the notificaton storm.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Ahern
2019-05-22 12:04:41 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent cdaa16a4f7
commit 19a3b7eea4
5 changed files with 46 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -452,6 +452,12 @@ int fib6_nh_init(struct net *net, struct fib6_nh *fib6_nh,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
void fib6_nh_release(struct fib6_nh *fib6_nh);
int call_fib6_entry_notifiers(struct net *net,
enum fib_event_type event_type,
struct fib6_info *rt,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
void fib6_rt_update(struct net *net, struct fib6_info *rt,
struct nl_info *info);
void inet6_rt_notify(int event, struct fib6_info *rt, struct nl_info *info,
unsigned int flags);