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Guillaume Nault
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IPv4 code commonly has to initialise a flowi4 structure from an IPv4 socket. This requires looking at potential IPv4 options to set the proper destination address, call flowi4_init_output() with the correct set of parameters and run the sk_classify_flow security hook. Instead of reimplementing these operations in different parts of the stack, let's define inet_sk_init_flowi4() which does all these operations. The first user is inet_sk_rebuild_header(), where inet_sk_init_flowi4() replaces ip_route_output_ports(). Unlike ip_route_output_ports(), which sets the flowi4 structure and performs the route lookup in one go, inet_sk_init_flowi4() only initialises the flow. The route lookup is then done by ip_route_output_flow(). Decoupling flow initialisation from route lookup makes this new interface applicable more broadly as it will allow some users to overwrite specific struct flowi4 members before the route lookup. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/fd416275262b1f518d5abfcef740ce4f4a1a6522.1734357769.git.gnault@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.