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author | Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> | 2021-08-15 00:05:59 -0700 |
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committer | Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> | 2021-08-17 00:45:07 +0200 |
commit | 7adfc6c9b315e174cf8743b21b7b691c8766791b (patch) | |
tree | 22e614432aca7e0c5eedceb7c4b74c6ce8bb4ef7 /kernel/trace/trace_nop.c | |
parent | 82e6b1eee6a8875ef4eacfd60711cce6965c6b04 (diff) | |
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bpf: Add bpf_get_attach_cookie() BPF helper to access bpf_cookie value
Add new BPF helper, bpf_get_attach_cookie(), which can be used by BPF programs
to get access to a user-provided bpf_cookie value, specified during BPF
program attachment (BPF link creation) time.
Naming is hard, though. With the concept being named "BPF cookie", I've
considered calling the helper:
- bpf_get_cookie() -- seems too unspecific and easily mistaken with socket
cookie;
- bpf_get_bpf_cookie() -- too much tautology;
- bpf_get_link_cookie() -- would be ok, but while we create a BPF link to
attach BPF program to BPF hook, it's still an "attachment" and the
bpf_cookie is associated with BPF program attachment to a hook, not a BPF
link itself. Technically, we could support bpf_cookie with old-style
cgroup programs.So I ultimately rejected it in favor of
bpf_get_attach_cookie().
Currently all perf_event-backed BPF program types support
bpf_get_attach_cookie() helper. Follow-up patches will add support for
fentry/fexit programs as well.
While at it, mark bpf_tracing_func_proto() as static to make it obvious that
it's only used from within the kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-7-andrii@kernel.org
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