netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/3] Add a eBPF helper function to retrieve socket uid

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:40:59 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Chenbo Feng <chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 2/3] Add a eBPF helper function to retrieve
 socket uid

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 09:08:56PM -0700, Chenbo Feng wrote:
> From: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> 
> Returns the owner uid of the socket inside a sk_buff. This is useful to
> perform per-UID accounting of network traffic or per-UID packet
> filtering. The socket need to be a fullsock otherwise overflowuid is
> returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>