linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/6] bpf: Expose bpf_sk_storage

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Message-ID: <CACYkzJ5fJUP606eq9qLJcOP+-yGHc8eVQadcTQk2GBWuBCd2cw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:58:46 +0100
From:   KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>
To:     Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Florent Revest <revest@...gle.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/6] bpf: Expose bpf_sk_storage_* to iterator programs

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Iterators are currently used to expose kernel information to userspace
> over fast procfs-like files but iterators could also be used to
> manipulate local storage. For example, the task_file iterator could be
> used to initialize a socket local storage with associations between
> processes and sockets or to selectively delete local storage values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>

Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>