Commit edbc0bb3 authored by Ben Greear's avatar Ben Greear Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Report dev->promiscuity in netlink reports. 



The standard ways of probing a device's promiscuity
(ifi_flags, for instance) does not report the actual
state of the device.  This patch adds dev->promiscuity
to the netlink netdevice report so that users can know
for certain if the device is acting PROMISC or not.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e4422b2d

include/linux/if_link.h

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@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ enum { 
	IFLA_GROUP,		/* Group the device belongs to */

	IFLA_NET_NS_FD,

	IFLA_EXT_MASK,		/* Extended info mask, VFs, etc */

	IFLA_PROMISCUITY,	/* Promiscuity count: > 0 means acts PROMISC */

#define IFLA_PROMISCUITY IFLA_PROMISCUITY

	__IFLA_MAX

};

net/core/rtnetlink.c

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@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev, 
	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MTU */

	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_LINK */

	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MASTER */

	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_PROMISCUITY */

	       + nla_total_size(1) /* IFLA_OPERSTATE */

	       + nla_total_size(1) /* IFLA_LINKMODE */

	       + nla_total_size(ext_filter_mask
@@ -901,6 +902,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, 
	    nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_LINKMODE, dev->link_mode) ||

	    nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_MTU, dev->mtu) ||

	    nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_GROUP, dev->group) ||

	    nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_PROMISCUITY, dev->promiscuity) ||

	    (dev->ifindex != dev->iflink &&

	     nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev->iflink)) ||

	    (dev->master &&
@@ -1117,6 +1119,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = { 
	[IFLA_PORT_SELF]	= { .type = NLA_NESTED },

	[IFLA_AF_SPEC]		= { .type = NLA_NESTED },

	[IFLA_EXT_MASK]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },

	[IFLA_PROMISCUITY]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },

};

EXPORT_SYMBOL(ifla_policy);

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