mptcp: expose server_side attribute in MPTCP netlink events

This change records the 'server_side' attribute of MPTCP_EVENT_CREATED and MPTCP_EVENT_ESTABLISHED events to inform their recipient about the Client/Server role of the running MPTCP application. Closes: multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next#246 Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kishen Maloor <kishen.maloor@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
ammarfaizi2 · May 3, 2022 · 41b3c69 · 41b3c69
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h b/include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ enum mptcp_event_attr {
 	MPTCP_ATTR_IF_IDX,	/* s32 */
 	MPTCP_ATTR_RESET_REASON,/* u32 */
 	MPTCP_ATTR_RESET_FLAGS, /* u32 */
+	MPTCP_ATTR_SERVER_SIDE,	/* u8 */
 
 	__MPTCP_ATTR_AFTER_LAST
 };

diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
@@ -1985,6 +1985,9 @@ static int mptcp_event_created(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	if (nla_put_u8(skb, MPTCP_ATTR_SERVER_SIDE, READ_ONCE(msk->pm.server_side)))
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+
 	return mptcp_event_add_subflow(skb, ssk);
 }