Re: [PATCH net-next] inet_diag: Add equal-operator for ports

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:27:58 +0100

> inet_diag currently provides less/greater than or equal operators for
> comparing ports when filtering sockets. An equal comparison can be
> performed by combining the two existing operators, or a user can for
> example request a port range and then do the final filtering in
> userspace. However, these approaches both have drawbacks. Implementing
> equal using LE/GE causes the size and complexity of a filter to grow
> quickly as the number of ports increase, while it on busy machines would
> be great if the kernel only returns information about relevant sockets.
> 
> This patch introduces source and destination port equal operators.
> INET_DIAG_BC_S_EQ is used to match a source port, INET_DIAG_BC_D_EQ a
> destination port, and usage is the same as for the existing port
> operators.  I.e., the port to match is stored in the no-member of the
> next inet_diag_bc_op-struct in the filter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>

Applied, thank you.