The popular utility ping has several severe limitations, such as the inability to query specific interfaces on a node and requiring bidirectional connectivity between the probing and probed interfaces. RFC 8335 attempts to solve these limitations by creating the new utility PROBE which is a specialized ICMP message that makes use of the ICMP Extension Structure outlined in RFC 4884.
This patchset adds definitions for the ICMP Extended Echo Request and Reply (PROBE) types for both IPV4 and IPV6, adds a sysctl to enable responses to PROBE messages, expands the list of supported ICMP messages to accommodate PROBE types, and adds functionality to respond to PROBE requests. Changes: v1 -> v2: - Add AFI definitions - Switch to functions such as dev_get_by_name and ip_dev_find to lookup net devices v2 -> v3: Suggested by Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> - Add verification of incoming messages before looking up netdev - Add prefix for PROBE specific defined variables - Use proc_dointvec_minmax with zero and one for sysctl - Create struct icmp_ext_echo_iio for parsing incoming packets Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> - Include net/addrconf.h library for ipv6_dev_find v3 -> v4: - Use in_addr instead of __be32 for storing IPV4 addresses - Use IFNAMSIZ to statically allocate space for name in icmp_ext_echo_iio Suggested by Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> - Use skb_header_pointer to verify fields in incoming message - Add check to ensure that extobj_hdr.length is valid - Check to ensure object payload is padded with ASCII NULL characters when probing by name, as specified by RFC 8335 - Statically allocate buff using IFNAMSIZ - Add rcu blocking around ipv6_dev_find - Use __in_dev_get_rcu to access IPV4 addresses of identified net_device - Remove check for ICMPV6 PROBE types Andreas Roeseler (5): icmp: add support for RFC 8335 PROBE ICMPV6: add support for RFC 8335 PROBE net: add sysctl for enabling RFC 8335 PROBE messages net: add support for sending RFC 8335 PROBE messages icmp: add response to RFC 8335 PROBE messages include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/icmp.h | 42 +++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/icmpv6.h | 3 + net/ipv4/icmp.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- net/ipv4/ping.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 9 +++ 6 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1
