bpf, sockmap: Return socket cookie on lookup from syscall
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
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