net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.

This adds the ability to send ICMPv6 echo requests without a
raw socket. The equivalent ability for ICMPv4 was added in
2011.

Instead of having separate code paths for IPv4 and IPv6, make
most of the code in net/ipv4/ping.c dual-stack and only add a
few IPv6-specific bits (like the protocol definition) to a new
net/ipv6/ping.c. Hopefully this will reduce divergence and/or
duplication of bugs in the future.

Caveats:

- Setting options via ancillary data (e.g., using IPV6_PKTINFO
  to specify the outgoing interface) is not yet supported.
- There are no separate security settings for IPv4 and IPv6;
  everything is controlled by /proc/net/ipv4/ping_group_range.
- The proc interface does not yet display IPv6 ping sockets
  properly.

Tested with a patched copy of ping6 and using raw socket calls.
Compiles and works with all of CONFIG_IPV6={n,m,y}.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Lorenzo Colitti
2013-05-22 20:17:31 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 6e2842f4bb
commit 6d0bfe2261
9 changed files with 699 additions and 172 deletions

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@@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ static inline void fl6_sock_release(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl)
extern void icmpv6_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __be32 info);
int icmpv6_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk, struct flowi6 *fl6,
struct icmp6hdr *thdr, int len);
struct dst_entry *icmpv6_route_lookup(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct sock *sk, struct flowi6 *fl6);
extern int ip6_ra_control(struct sock *sk, int sel);
extern int ipv6_parse_hopopts(struct sk_buff *skb);