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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-17 13:26:55 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-17 13:26:55 -0700 |
commit | b9d37bbb55b8993d296a86fa21f98fa550b61967 (patch) | |
tree | 73a93a246e9261c7738595af15e6f5a0cf44115a /Documentation | |
parent | 69119673bd50b176ded34032fadd41530fb5af21 (diff) | |
parent | 8030e250d882db174cbcd88273570ffb36a13080 (diff) | |
download | linux-b9d37bbb55b8993d296a86fa21f98fa550b61967.tar.bz2 |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf
Alexei Starovoitov says:
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pull-request: bpf 2020-06-17
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.
We've added 10 non-merge commits during the last 2 day(s) which contain
a total of 14 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) Important fix for bpf_probe_read_kernel_str() return value, from Andrii.
2) [gs]etsockopt fix for large optlen, from Stanislav.
3) devmap allocation fix, from Toke.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst b/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst index c47d974629ae..172f957204bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst @@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ then the next program in the chain (A) will see those changes, *not* the original input ``setsockopt`` arguments. The potentially modified values will be then passed down to the kernel. +Large optval +============ +When the ``optval`` is greater than the ``PAGE_SIZE``, the BPF program +can access only the first ``PAGE_SIZE`` of that data. So it has to options: + +* Set ``optlen`` to zero, which indicates that the kernel should + use the original buffer from the userspace. Any modifications + done by the BPF program to the ``optval`` are ignored. +* Set ``optlen`` to the value less than ``PAGE_SIZE``, which + indicates that the kernel should use BPF's trimmed ``optval``. + +When the BPF program returns with the ``optlen`` greater than +``PAGE_SIZE``, the userspace will receive ``EFAULT`` errno. + Example ======= |