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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/Makefile b/net/ipv6/Makefile
index 9af088d2cdaa..470a9c008e9b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/Makefile
+++ b/net/ipv6/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IPV6) += ipv6.o
 ipv6-objs :=	af_inet6.o anycast.o ip6_output.o ip6_input.o addrconf.o \
 		addrlabel.o \
 		route.o ip6_fib.o ipv6_sockglue.o ndisc.o udp.o udplite.o \
-		raw.o icmp.o mcast.o reassembly.o tcp_ipv6.o \
+		raw.o icmp.o mcast.o reassembly.o tcp_ipv6.o ping.o \
 		exthdrs.o datagram.o ip6_flowlabel.o inet6_connection_sock.o
 
 ipv6-offload :=	ip6_offload.o tcpv6_offload.o udp_offload.o exthdrs_offload.o