RTM_GETMULTICAST has been part of the rtnetlink ABI for a long time
and already reports IPv4 multicast group membership through
IFA_MULTICAST and IFA_CACHEINFO. It does not report how many consumers
hold each membership, so userspace still has to parse /proc/net/igmp to
get the Users column.
Add IFA_MC_USERS as a u32 attribute carrying ip_mc_list::users in
RTM_GETMULTICAST replies and entry-lifecycle notifications.
This gives iproute2 enough information to migrate the IPv4 part of
"ip maddr show" from procfs parsing to rtnetlink.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630110207.37841-2-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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