netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf: Extend the sk

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Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:38:27 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Nitin Hande <nitin.hande@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>, Martin Lau <kafai@...com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpf: Extend the sk_lookup() helper to XDP
 hookpoint.

On 10/29/2018 05:02 AM, Nitin Hande wrote:
> 
> This patch proposes to extend the sk_lookup() BPF API to the
> XDP hookpoint. The sk_lookup() helper supports a lookup
> on incoming packet to find the corresponding socket that will
> receive this packet. Current support for this BPF API is
> at the tc hookpoint. This patch will extend this API at XDP
> hookpoint. A XDP program can map the incoming packet to the
> 5-tuple parameter and invoke the API to find the corresponding
> socket structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Hande <Nitin.Hande@...il.com>

Looks good to me, applied to bpf-next, thanks Nitin!