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Message-ID: <598474DE.9040005@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:21:34 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net
CC:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: comment fixes against BPF devmap helper
 calls

On 08/04/2017 06:58 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> Update BPF comments to accurately reflect XDP usage.
>
> Fixes: 97f91a7cf04ff ("bpf: add bpf_redirect_map helper routine")
> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> ---
>   include/uapi/linux/bpf.h |   16 +++++++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> index 1106a8c..1ae061e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> @@ -345,14 +345,20 @@ enum bpf_attach_type {
>    * int bpf_redirect(ifindex, flags)
>    *     redirect to another netdev
>    *     @ifindex: ifindex of the net device
> - *     @flags: bit 0 - if set, redirect to ingress instead of egress
> - *             other bits - reserved
> - *     Return: TC_ACT_REDIRECT
> - * int bpf_redirect_map(key, map, flags)
> + *     @flags:
> + *	  cls_bpf:
> + *          bit 0 - if set, redirect to ingress instead of egress
> + *          other bits - reserved
> + *	  xdp_bpf:
> + *	    all bits - reserved
> + *     Return: cls_bpf: TC_ACT_REDIRECT
> + *	       xdp_bfp: XDP_REDIRECT

We should probably also mention the XDP_ABORTED / TC_ACT_SHOT
on error(/misuse) similarly as below.

> + * int bpf_redirect_map(map, key, flags)
>    *     redirect to endpoint in map
> + *     @map: pointer to dev map
>    *     @key: index in map to lookup
> - *     @map: fd of map to do lookup in
>    *     @flags: --
> + *     Return: XDP_REDIRECT on success or XDP_ABORT on error
>    *
>    * u32 bpf_get_route_realm(skb)
>    *     retrieve a dst's tclassid
>