[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/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 902324488d0f..e3fb4c047f4c 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ struct sock {
         __u32                   sk_sndmsg_off;
         int                     sk_write_pending;
         void                    *sk_security;
+        __u32                   sk_mark;
+        /* XXX 4 bytes hole on 64 bit */
         void                    (*sk_state_change)(struct sock *sk);
         void                    (*sk_data_ready)(struct sock *sk, int bytes);
         void                    (*sk_write_space)(struct sock *sk);