[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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-alpha/socket.h b/include/asm-alpha/socket.h
index 1fede7f92860..08c979319929 100644
--- a/include/asm-alpha/socket.h
+++ b/include/asm-alpha/socket.h
@@ -60,4 +60,6 @@
 #define SO_SECURITY_ENCRYPTION_TRANSPORT        20
 #define SO_SECURITY_ENCRYPTION_NETWORK          21
 
+#define SO_MARK                 36
+
 #endif /* _ASM_SOCKET_H */