[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-sparc/socket.h b/include/asm-sparc/socket.h
index 7c1423997cf0..2e2bd0b7c8e3 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc/socket.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc/socket.h
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 #define SO_TIMESTAMPNS          0x0021
 #define SCM_TIMESTAMPNS         SO_TIMESTAMPNS
 
+#define SO_MARK                 0x0022
+
 /* Security levels - as per NRL IPv6 - don't actually do anything */
 #define SO_SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION              0x5001
 #define SO_SECURITY_ENCRYPTION_TRANSPORT        0x5002