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Tooling that populates the SOCK{MAP,HASH} with sockets from user-space
needs a way to inspect its contents. Returning the struct sock * that the
map holds to user-space is neither safe nor useful. An approach established
by REUSEPORT_SOCKARRAY is to return a socket cookie (a unique identifier)
instead.
Since socket cookies are u64 values, SOCK{MAP,HASH} need to support such a
value size for lookup to be possible. This requires special handling on
update, though. Attempts to do a lookup on a map holding u32 values will be
met with ENOSPC error.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200218171023.844439-7-jakub@cloudflare.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.