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David S. Miller c5cf13fbf1 Merge branch 'ipv4-address-protocol' 
Petr Machata says:

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net: Allow changing IPv4 address protocol

IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can be assigned a protocol value that indicates the
provenance of the IP address. The attribute is modeled after ip route
protocols, and essentially allows the administrator or userspace stack to
tag addresses in some way that makes sense to the actor in question.

When IP address protocol field was added in commit 47f0bd5032 ("net: Add
new protocol attribute to IP addresses"), the semantics included the
ability to change the protocol for IPv6 addresses, but not for IPv4
addresses. It seems this was not deliberate, but rather by accident.

One particular use case is tagging the addresses differently depending on
whether the routing stack should advertise them or not. Without support for
protocol replacement, this can not be done.

In this patchset, extend IPv4 to allow changing the protocol defined at an
address (in patch #1). Then in patches #2 and #3 add selftest coverage for
ip address protocols.

Currently the kernel simply ignores the new value. Thus allowing the
replacement changes the observable behavior. However, since IPv6 already
behaves like this anyway, and since the feature as such is relatively new,
it seems like the change is safe to make.

An example session with the feature in action:

	bash-5.2# ip address add dev d 192.0.2.1/28 proto 0xab
	bash-5.2# ip address show dev d
	4: d: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
	    link/ether 06:29:74:fd:1f:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
	    inet 192.0.2.1/28 scope global proto 0xab d
	       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

	bash-5.2# ip address replace dev d 192.0.2.1/28 proto 0x11
	bash-5.2# ip address show dev d
	4: d: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
	    link/ether 06:29:74:fd:1f:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
	    inet 192.0.2.1/28 scope global proto 0x11 d
	       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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