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A single sendmsg or sendfile system call can contain multiple logical messages that a BPF program may want to read and apply a verdict. But, without an apply_bytes helper any verdict on the data applies to all bytes in the sendmsg/sendfile. Alternatively, a BPF program may only care to read the first N bytes of a msg. If the payload is large say MB or even GB setting up and calling the BPF program repeatedly for all bytes, even though the verdict is already known, creates unnecessary overhead. To allow BPF programs to control how many bytes a given verdict applies to we implement a bpf_msg_apply_bytes() helper. When called from within a BPF program this sets a counter, internal to the BPF infrastructure, that applies the last verdict to the next N bytes. If the N is smaller than the current data being processed from a sendmsg/sendfile call, the first N bytes will be sent and the BPF program will be re-run with start_data pointing to the N+1 byte. If N is larger than the current data being processed the BPF verdict will be applied to multiple sendmsg/sendfile calls until N bytes are consumed. Note1 if a socket closes with apply_bytes counter non-zero this is not a problem because data is not being buffered for N bytes and is sent as its received. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.