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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2012-11-06 16:46:20 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-11-13 14:27:45 -0500
commit5cb04436eef62aa8f5c482f8ec8deba391dea465 (patch)
tree068d69d9f28c14ae515c1a6a02bcfdc04093d248
parent24a372cd0b87c15f8d98275d045326249155af55 (diff)
ipv6: add knob to send unsolicited ND on link-layer address change
This patch introduces a new knob ndisc_notify. If enabled, the kernel will transmit an unsolicited neighbour advertisement on link-layer address change to update the neighbour tables of the corresponding hosts more quickly. This is the equivalent to arp_notify in ipv4 world. Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ipv6.h1
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/addrconf.c8
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ndisc.c7
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ipv6.h b/include/linux/ipv6.h
index bcba48a97868..5e11905a4f01 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct ipv6_devconf {
__s32 disable_ipv6;
__s32 accept_dad;
__s32 force_tllao;
+ __s32 ndisc_notify;
void *sysctl;
};
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
index a6d7d1c536c3..5a2991cf0251 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ enum {
DEVCONF_DISABLE_IPV6,
DEVCONF_ACCEPT_DAD,
DEVCONF_FORCE_TLLAO,
+ DEVCONF_NDISC_NOTIFY,
DEVCONF_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index fab23db8ee73..cb803b7bb0d8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4037,6 +4037,7 @@ static inline void ipv6_store_devconf(struct ipv6_devconf *cnf,
array[DEVCONF_DISABLE_IPV6] = cnf->disable_ipv6;
array[DEVCONF_ACCEPT_DAD] = cnf->accept_dad;
array[DEVCONF_FORCE_TLLAO] = cnf->force_tllao;
+ array[DEVCONF_NDISC_NOTIFY] = cnf->ndisc_notify;
}
static inline size_t inet6_ifla6_size(void)
@@ -4705,6 +4706,13 @@ static struct addrconf_sysctl_table
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
{
+ .procname = "ndisc_notify",
+ .data = &ipv6_devconf.ndisc_notify,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
+ },
+ {
/* sentinel */
}
},
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 6ba4b54a550a..f41853bca428 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -1572,11 +1572,18 @@ static int ndisc_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
{
struct net_device *dev = ptr;
struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
+ struct inet6_dev *idev;
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
neigh_changeaddr(&nd_tbl, dev);
fib6_run_gc(~0UL, net);
+ idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
+ if (!idev)
+ break;
+ if (idev->cnf.ndisc_notify)
+ ndisc_send_unsol_na(dev);
+ in6_dev_put(idev);
break;
case NETDEV_DOWN:
neigh_ifdown(&nd_tbl, dev);