netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: expose prog id for cls_bpf and act

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:14:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     john.fastabend@...il.com, kafai@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: expose prog id for cls_bpf and act_bpf

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:16:11 +0200

> In order to be able to retrieve the attached programs from cls_bpf
> and act_bpf, we need to expose the prog ids via netlink so that
> an application can later on get an fd based on the id through the
> BPF_PROG_GET_FD_BY_ID command, and dump related prog info via
> BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD command for bpf(2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Applied, thanks Daniel.