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Commit f470378c authored by John Fastabend's avatar John Fastabend Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: Extend bpf_base_func_proto helpers with probe_* and *current_task*



Often it is useful when applying policy to know something about the
task. If the administrator has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights then they can
use kprobe + networking hook and link the two programs together to
accomplish this. However, this is a bit clunky and also means we have
to call both the network program and kprobe program when we could just
use a single program and avoid passing metadata through sk_msg/skb->cb,
socket, maps, etc.

To accomplish this add probe_* helpers to bpf_base_func_proto programs
guarded by a perfmon_capable() check. New supported helpers are the
following,

 BPF_FUNC_get_current_task
 BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user
 BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel
 BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user_str
 BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel_str

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/159033905529.12355.4368381069655254932.stgit@john-Precision-5820-Tower


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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