CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible
for userspace to tell is a received CAN frame comes from
another process on the local host, or from a remote CAN
device.
This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish
between 'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic.
Distinction is made by returning some flags in msg->msg_flags
in the call to recvmsg.
MSG_CONFIRM flag means 'own', as in 'transmission confirmation'
MSG_DONTROUTE flag means 'local', not routed.
Obviously, msgs with MSG_CONFIRM will have MSG_DONTROUTE set too.

Please note that on SocketCAN mailing list, different opinions
exist on the exact meaning of MSG_DONTROUTE. Better (=more
intuitive) alternatives are appreciated.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <[email protected]>
---
 net/can/raw.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/can/raw.c b/net/can/raw.c
index 7d77e67..f98709e 100644
--- a/net/can/raw.c
+++ b/net/can/raw.c
@@ -90,23 +90,39 @@ struct raw_sock {
        can_err_mask_t err_mask;
 };
 
+/*
+ * return some space to store extra msg flags in.
+ * We use 1 int beyond the 'struct sockaddr_can' in skb->cb
+ * to store those.
+ * These flags will be use in raw_recvmsg()
+ */
+static inline int *raw_flags(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+       BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(skb->cb)
+                       <= (sizeof(struct sockaddr_can) + sizeof(int)));
+       /* return pointer after struct sockaddr_can */
+       return (int *)(&((struct sockaddr_can *)skb->cb)[1]);
+}
+
 static inline struct raw_sock *raw_sk(const struct sock *sk)
 {
        return (struct raw_sock *)sk;
 }
 
-static void raw_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, void *data)
+static void raw_rcv(struct sk_buff *oskb, void *data)
 {
        struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)data;
        struct raw_sock *ro = raw_sk(sk);
        struct sockaddr_can *addr;
+       struct sk_buff *skb;
+       int *pflags;
 
        /* check the received tx sock reference */
-       if (!ro->recv_own_msgs && skb->sk == sk)
+       if (!ro->recv_own_msgs && oskb->sk == sk)
                return;
 
        /* clone the given skb to be able to enqueue it into the rcv queue */
-       skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+       skb = skb_clone(oskb, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!skb)
                return;
 
@@ -123,6 +139,14 @@ static void raw_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, void *data)
        addr->can_family  = AF_CAN;
        addr->can_ifindex = skb->dev->ifindex;
 
+       /* prepare the flags for raw_recvmsg() */
+       pflags = raw_flags(skb);
+       *pflags = 0;
+       if (oskb->sk)
+               *pflags |= MSG_DONTROUTE;
+       if (oskb->sk == sk)
+               *pflags |= MSG_CONFIRM;
+
        if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(sk, skb) < 0)
                kfree_skb(skb);
 }
@@ -707,6 +731,9 @@ static int raw_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket 
*sock,
                memcpy(msg->msg_name, skb->cb, msg->msg_namelen);
        }
 
+       /* assign the flags that have been recorded in in raw_rcv() */
+       msg->msg_flags |= *(raw_flags(skb));
+
        skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);
 
        return size;
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