Commit 08baf54f authored by Andreas Roeseler's avatar Andreas Roeseler Committed by David S. Miller
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net: add support for sending RFC 8335 PROBE messages 



Modify the ping_supported function to support PROBE message types. This
allows tools such as the ping command in the iputils package to be
modified to send PROBE requests through the existing framework for
sending ping requests.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roeseler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f1b8fa9f

net/ipv4/ping.c

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@@ -453,7 +453,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ping_bind); 
static inline int ping_supported(int family, int type, int code)

{

	return (family == AF_INET && type == ICMP_ECHO && code == 0) ||

	       (family == AF_INET6 && type == ICMPV6_ECHO_REQUEST && code == 0);

	       (family == AF_INET && type == ICMP_EXT_ECHO && code == 0) ||

	       (family == AF_INET6 && type == ICMPV6_ECHO_REQUEST && code == 0) ||

	       (family == AF_INET6 && type == ICMPV6_EXT_ECHO_REQUEST && code == 0);

}



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