ipvlan: introduce 'private' attribute for all existing modes.

IPvlan has always operated in bridge mode. However there are scenarios
where each slave should be able to talk through the master device but
not necessarily across each other. Think of an environment where each
of a namespace is a private and independant customer. In this scenario
the machine which is hosting these namespaces neither want to tell who
their neighbor is nor the individual namespaces care to talk to neighbor
on short-circuited network path.

This patch implements the mode that is very similar to the 'private' mode
in macvlan where individual slaves can send and receive traffic through
the master device, just that they can not talk among slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h
index ba8173a0b62e..9941851bcc13 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ struct ipvl_port {
 	struct hlist_head	hlhead[IPVLAN_HASH_SIZE];
 	struct list_head	ipvlans;
 	u16			mode;
+	u16			flags;
 	u16			dev_id_start;
 	struct work_struct	wq;
 	struct sk_buff_head	backlog;
@@ -123,6 +124,21 @@ static inline struct ipvl_port *ipvlan_port_get_rtnl(const struct net_device *d)
 	return rtnl_dereference(d->rx_handler_data);
 }
 
+static inline bool ipvlan_is_private(const struct ipvl_port *port)
+{
+	return !!(port->flags & IPVLAN_F_PRIVATE);
+}
+
+static inline void ipvlan_mark_private(struct ipvl_port *port)
+{
+	port->flags |= IPVLAN_F_PRIVATE;
+}
+
+static inline void ipvlan_clear_private(struct ipvl_port *port)
+{
+	port->flags &= ~IPVLAN_F_PRIVATE;
+}
+
 void ipvlan_init_secret(void);
 unsigned int ipvlan_mac_hash(const unsigned char *addr);
 rx_handler_result_t ipvlan_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb);