net/utils: generic inet_pton_with_scope helper
authorSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Sun, 5 Feb 2017 19:47:22 +0000 (21:47 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tue, 4 Apr 2017 15:48:23 +0000 (09:48 -0600)
commitb1a951fe469eb51646bf2e6d2c5f4a19fe1d4627
treeafcdc10098a7e7c099afcf1941fe39b5aa20af83
parent297186d640182eff442c3f473cd053c613f3b558
net/utils: generic inet_pton_with_scope helper

Several locations in the stack need to handle ipv4/ipv6
(with scope) and port strings conversion to sockaddr.
Add a helper that takes either AF_INET, AF_INET6 or
AF_UNSPEC (for wildcard) to centralize this handling.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
include/linux/inet.h
net/core/utils.c