[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/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index cfe9e707883c..9ac6ca2521c3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ int ip6_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl,
         ipv6_addr_copy(&hdr->daddr, first_hop);
 
         skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
+        skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
 
         mtu = dst_mtu(dst);
         if ((skb->len <= mtu) || ipfragok || skb_is_gso(skb)) {
@@ -1439,6 +1440,7 @@ int ip6_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk)
         ipv6_addr_copy(&hdr->daddr, final_dst);
 
         skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
+        skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
 
         skb->dst = dst_clone(&rt->u.dst);
         IP6_INC_STATS(rt->rt6i_idev, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTREQUESTS);