ip: Add ipproto_name() function

Add a function to get the name of an IP protocol from its number.  Usually
this would be done by getprotobynumber(), but that requires access to
/etc/protocols and might allocate.  We can't do either of those once we've
self-isolated.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ip.c b/ip.c
index 9a7f4c5..f1d224b 100644
--- a/ip.c
+++ b/ip.c
@@ -67,3 +67,30 @@ found:
 	*proto = nh;
 	return true;
 }
+
+/**
+ * ipproto_name() - Get IP protocol name from number
+ * @proto:	IP protocol number
+ *
+ * Return: pointer to name of protocol @proto
+ *
+ * Usually this would be done with getprotobynumber(3) but that reads
+ * /etc/protocols and might allocate, which isn't possible for us once
+ * self-isolated.
+ */
+/* cppcheck-suppress unusedFunction */
+const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto)
+{
+	switch (proto) {
+	case IPPROTO_ICMP:
+		return "ICMP";
+	case IPPROTO_TCP:
+		return "TCP";
+	case IPPROTO_UDP:
+		return "UDP";
+	case IPPROTO_ICMPV6:
+		return "ICMPv6";
+	default:
+		return "<unknown protocol>";
+	}
+}
diff --git a/ip.h b/ip.h
index 5830b92..a8043c2 100644
--- a/ip.h
+++ b/ip.h
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ static inline uint32_t ip6_get_flow_lbl(const struct ipv6hdr *ip6h)
 }
 
 bool ipv6_l4hdr(struct iov_tail *data, uint8_t *proto, size_t *dlen);
+const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto);
 
 /* IPv6 link-local all-nodes multicast address, ff02::1 */
 static const struct in6_addr in6addr_ll_all_nodes = {