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authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>2018-03-22 10:45:32 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-22 20:12:56 +0100
commit5796ef75ec7b6019eac88f66751d663d537a5cd3 (patch)
tree227c356176272dcbfb2ed06586043863bff2a3a9 /include/net/ip.h
parentnet: Revert "ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control" (diff)
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net: Make ip_ra_chain per struct net
This is optimization, which makes ip_call_ra_chain() iterate less sockets to find the sockets it's looking for. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/ip.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/ip.h13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index fe63ba95d12b..d53b5a9eae34 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ static inline int inet_sdif(struct sk_buff *skb)
return 0;
}
+/* Special input handler for packets caught by router alert option.
+ They are selected only by protocol field, and then processed likely
+ local ones; but only if someone wants them! Otherwise, router
+ not running rsvpd will kill RSVP.
+
+ It is user level problem, what it will make with them.
+ I have no idea, how it will masquearde or NAT them (it is joke, joke :-)),
+ but receiver should be enough clever f.e. to forward mtrace requests,
+ sent to multicast group to reach destination designated router.
+ */
+
struct ip_ra_chain {
struct ip_ra_chain __rcu *next;
struct sock *sk;
@@ -101,8 +112,6 @@ struct ip_ra_chain {
struct rcu_head rcu;
};
-extern struct ip_ra_chain __rcu *ip_ra_chain;
-
/* IP flags. */
#define IP_CE 0x8000 /* Flag: "Congestion" */
#define IP_DF 0x4000 /* Flag: "Don't Fragment" */