On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 15:19:21 +0100 Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > Add support to inet v4 raw sockets for binding to nonlocal addresses > through the IP_FREEBIND and IP_TRANSPARENT socket options, as well as > the ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind kernel parameter. > > Add helper function to inet_sock.h to check for bind address validity on > the base of the address type and whether nonlocal address are enabled > for the socket via any of the sockopts/sysctl, deduplicating checks in > ipv4/ping.c, ipv4/af_inet.c, ipv6/af_inet6.c (for mapped v4->v6 > addresses), and ipv4/raw.c. > > Add test cases with IP[V6]_FREEBIND verifying that both v4 and v6 raw > sockets support binding to nonlocal addresses after the change. Add > necessary support for the test cases to nettest. > > Signed-off-by: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti <pbl@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the patch, please keep Dave's review tag and repost in ~2 weeks. # Form letter - net-next is closed We have already sent the networking pull request for 5.16 and therefore net-next is closed for new drivers, features, code refactoring and optimizations. We are currently accepting bug fixes only. Please repost when net-next reopens after 5.15-rc1 is cut. Look out for the announcement on the mailing list or check: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net-next.html
