The Linux socket API currently allows setting SO_PRIORITY at the
socket level, applying a uniform priority to all packets sent through
that socket. The exception to this is IP_TOS, when the priority value
is calculated during the handling of
ancillary data, as implemented in commit f02db315b8 ("ipv4: IP_TOS
and IP_TTL can be specified as ancillary data").
However, this is a computed
value, and there is currently no mechanism to set a custom priority
via control messages prior to this patch.
According to this patch, if SO_PRIORITY is specified as ancillary data,
the packet is sent with the priority value set through
sockc->priority, overriding the socket-level values
set via the traditional setsockopt() method. This is analogous to
the existing support for SO_MARK, as implemented in
commit c6af0c227a ("ip: support SO_MARK cmsg").
If both cmsg SO_PRIORITY and IP_TOS are passed, then the one that
takes precedence is the last one in the cmsg list.
This patch has the side effect that raw_send_hdrinc now interprets cmsg
IP_TOS.
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Suggested-by: Ferenc Fejes <fejes@inf.elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Anna Emese Nyiri <annaemesenyiri@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241213084457.45120-3-annaemesenyiri@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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