[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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index 4d880551fe6a..d61c63dedbf6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ static int rawv6_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, void *from, int length,
         skb_reserve(skb, hh_len);
 
         skb->priority = sk->sk_priority;
+        skb->mark = sk->sk_mark;
         skb->dst = dst_clone(&rt->u.dst);
 
         skb_put(skb, length);
@@ -767,6 +768,8 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
          */
         memset(&fl, 0, sizeof(fl));
 
+        fl.mark = sk->sk_mark;
+
         if (sin6) {
                 if (addr_len < SIN6_LEN_RFC2133)
                         return -EINVAL;