neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour table

Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table
from user space except treat an entry like you are using it.  To that end
implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request
treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path.

This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/neighbour.h b/include/linux/neighbour.h
index 8730d5d..12c9de1 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/linux/neighbour.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ enum
  *     Neighbor Cache Entry Flags
  */
 
+#define NTF_USE                0x01
 #define NTF_PROXY      0x08    /* == ATF_PUBL */
 #define NTF_ROUTER     0x80
 

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 417b6d7..a1cbce7 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1654,7 +1654,11 @@ static int neigh_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
                                flags &= ~NEIGH_UPDATE_F_OVERRIDE;
                }
 
-               err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags);
+               if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
+                       neigh_event_send(neigh, NULL);
+                       err = 0;
+               } else
+                       err = neigh_update(neigh, lladdr, ndm->ndm_state, flags);
                neigh_release(neigh);
                goto out_dev_put;
        }