net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.

This adds the ability to send ICMPv6 echo requests without a
raw socket. The equivalent ability for ICMPv4 was added in
2011.

Instead of having separate code paths for IPv4 and IPv6, make
most of the code in net/ipv4/ping.c dual-stack and only add a
few IPv6-specific bits (like the protocol definition) to a new
net/ipv6/ping.c. Hopefully this will reduce divergence and/or
duplication of bugs in the future.

Caveats:

- Setting options via ancillary data (e.g., using IPV6_PKTINFO
  to specify the outgoing interface) is not yet supported.
- There are no separate security settings for IPv4 and IPv6;
  everything is controlled by /proc/net/ipv4/ping_group_range.
- The proc interface does not yet display IPv6 ping sockets
  properly.

Tested with a patched copy of ping6 and using raw socket calls.
Compiles and works with all of CONFIG_IPV6={n,m,y}.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h
index 0810aa57c780..ab47582f6c0b 100644
--- a/include/net/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/net/ipv6.h
@@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ static inline void fl6_sock_release(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl)
 
 extern void icmpv6_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __be32 info);
 
+int icmpv6_push_pending_frames(struct sock *sk, struct flowi6 *fl6,
+			       struct icmp6hdr *thdr, int len);
+
+struct dst_entry *icmpv6_route_lookup(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
+				      struct sock *sk, struct flowi6 *fl6);
+
 extern int 			ip6_ra_control(struct sock *sk, int sel);
 
 extern int			ipv6_parse_hopopts(struct sk_buff *skb);