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Commit 9354e0ac authored by Maciej Żenczykowski's avatar Maciej Żenczykowski Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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net: ipv6: support reporting otherwise unknown prefix flags in RTM_NEWPREFIX



[ Upstream commit bd4a8167 ]

Lorenzo points out that we effectively clear all unknown
flags from PIO when copying them to userspace in the netlink
RTM_NEWPREFIX notification.

We could fix this one at a time as new flags are defined,
or in one fell swoop - I choose the latter.

We could either define 6 new reserved flags (reserved1..6) and handle
them individually (and rename them as new flags are defined), or we
could simply copy the entire unmodified byte over - I choose the latter.

This unfortunately requires some anonymous union/struct magic,
so we add a static assert on the struct size for a little extra safety.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 053220aa
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