netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] ipv6: process socket-level control messages in IPv6

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:37:21 -0400
From:	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] ipv6: process socket-level control messages
 in IPv6

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
<soheil.kdev@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
>
> Process socket-level control messages by invoking
> __sock_cmsg_send in ip6_datagram_send_ctl for control messages on
> the SOL_SOCKET layer.
>
> This makes sure whenever ip6_datagram_send_ctl is called for
> udp and raw, we also process socket-level control messages.
>
> This is a bit uglier than IPv4, since IPv6 does not have
> something like ipcm_cookie. Perhaps we can later create
> a control message cookie for IPv6?
>
> Note that this commit interprets new control messages that
> were ignored before. As such, this commit does not change
> the behavior of IPv6 control messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>