[NET]: Introducing socket mark socket option.

A userspace program may wish to set the mark for each packets its send
without using the netfilter MARK target. Changing the mark can be used
for mark based routing without netfilter or for packet filtering.

It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Laszlo Attila Toth 2008-01-30 19:08:16 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 036c2e27bc
commit 4a19ec5800
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@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ static int raw_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, void *from, size_t length,
skb_reserve(skb, hh_len);
skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
skb->dst = dst_clone(&rt->u.dst);
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
@ -544,6 +545,7 @@ static int raw_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
{
struct flowi fl = { .oif = ipc.oif,
.mark = sk->sk_mark,
.nl_u = { .ip4_u =
{ .daddr = daddr,
.saddr = saddr,