[IPV6]: Accept -1 for IPV6_TCLASS

This patch should add support for -1 as "default" IPv6 traffic class,
as specified in IETF RFC3542 §6.5. Within the kernel, it seems tclass
< 0 is already handled, but setsockopt, getsockopt and recvmsg calls
won't accept it from userland.

Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index 43327264e69c..a5eaaf693abf 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int do_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
                 break;
 
         case IPV6_TCLASS:
-                if (val < 0 || val > 0xff)
+                if (val < -1 || val > 0xff)
                         goto e_inval;
                 np->tclass = val;
                 retv = 0;
@@ -947,6 +947,8 @@ static int do_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 
         case IPV6_TCLASS:
                 val = np->tclass;
+                if (val < 0)
+                        val = 0;
                 break;
 
         case IPV6_RECVTCLASS: