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Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:49:18 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, thaller@...hat.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
	vyasevich@...il.com, dcbw@...hat.com
Subject: [patch net-next RFC 1/2] ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32

There is no more space in u8 ifa_flags. So do what davem suffested and
add another netlink attr called IFA_FLAGS for carry more flags.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@...hat.com>
---
 include/net/if_inet6.h       |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h |  4 ++++
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c          | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/if_inet6.h b/include/net/if_inet6.h
index 76d5427..1c765f7 100644
--- a/include/net/if_inet6.h
+++ b/include/net/if_inet6.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr {
 	int			state;
 
 	__u8			dad_probes;
-	__u8			flags;
+	__u32			flags;
 
 	__u16			scope;
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
index 23357ab..8ab0c2c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ struct ifaddrmsg {
  * It makes no difference for normally configured broadcast interfaces,
  * but for point-to-point IFA_ADDRESS is DESTINATION address,
  * local address is supplied in IFA_LOCAL attribute.
+ *
+ * IFA_FLAGS is a u32 attribute that extends the u8 field ifa_flags.
+ * If present, the value from struct ifaddrmsg will be ignored.
  */
 enum {
 	IFA_UNSPEC,
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ enum {
 	IFA_ANYCAST,
 	IFA_CACHEINFO,
 	IFA_MULTICAST,
+	IFA_FLAGS,
 	__IFA_MAX,
 };
 
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 542d095..896aaa0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2366,10 +2366,11 @@ err_exit:
 /*
  *	Manual configuration of address on an interface
  */
-static int inet6_addr_add(struct net *net, int ifindex, const struct in6_addr *pfx,
+static int inet6_addr_add(struct net *net, int ifindex,
+			  const struct in6_addr *pfx,
 			  const struct in6_addr *peer_pfx,
-			  unsigned int plen, __u8 ifa_flags, __u32 prefered_lft,
-			  __u32 valid_lft)
+			  unsigned int plen, __u32 ifa_flags,
+			  __u32 prefered_lft, __u32 valid_lft)
 {
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp;
 	struct inet6_dev *idev;
@@ -3578,6 +3579,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifa_ipv6_policy[IFA_MAX+1] = {
 	[IFA_ADDRESS]		= { .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr) },
 	[IFA_LOCAL]		= { .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr) },
 	[IFA_CACHEINFO]		= { .len = sizeof(struct ifa_cacheinfo) },
+	[IFA_FLAGS]		= { .len = sizeof(u32) },
 };
 
 static int
@@ -3601,7 +3603,7 @@ inet6_rtm_deladdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	return inet6_addr_del(net, ifm->ifa_index, pfx, ifm->ifa_prefixlen);
 }
 
-static int inet6_addr_modify(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, u8 ifa_flags,
+static int inet6_addr_modify(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, u32 ifa_flags,
 			     u32 prefered_lft, u32 valid_lft)
 {
 	u32 flags;
@@ -3656,7 +3658,7 @@ inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa;
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	u32 valid_lft = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME, preferred_lft = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
-	u8 ifa_flags;
+	u32 ifa_flags;
 	int err;
 
 	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX, ifa_ipv6_policy);
@@ -3683,8 +3685,10 @@ inet6_rtm_newaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	if (dev == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	ifa_flags = tb[IFA_FLAGS] ? nla_get_u32(tb[IFA_FLAGS]) : ifm->ifa_flags;
+
 	/* We ignore other flags so far. */
-	ifa_flags = ifm->ifa_flags & (IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS);
+	ifa_flags &= IFA_F_NODAD | IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS;
 
 	ifa = ipv6_get_ifaddr(net, pfx, dev, 1);
 	if (ifa == NULL) {
@@ -3751,7 +3755,8 @@ static inline int inet6_ifaddr_msgsize(void)
 	return NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct ifaddrmsg))
 	       + nla_total_size(16) /* IFA_LOCAL */
 	       + nla_total_size(16) /* IFA_ADDRESS */
-	       + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct ifa_cacheinfo));
+	       + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct ifa_cacheinfo))
+	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFA_FLAGS */;
 }
 
 static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
@@ -3799,6 +3804,9 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
 	if (put_cacheinfo(skb, ifa->cstamp, ifa->tstamp, preferred, valid) < 0)
 		goto error;
 
+	if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFA_FLAGS, ifa->flags) < 0)
+		goto error;
+
 	return nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
 
 error:
-- 
1.8.3.1

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