netdev - RE: [PATCH bpf-next 2/8] bpf, sockmap: Let all kernel-land lookup values in SOCKMAP

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Message-ID: <5dda16be755ff_62c72ad877f985c4c7@john-XPS-13-9370.notmuch>
Date:   Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:35:58 -0800
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...udflare.com,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH bpf-next 2/8] bpf, sockmap: Let all kernel-land lookup
 values in SOCKMAP

Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> Don't require the kernel code, like BPF helpers, that needs access to
> SOCKMAP map contents to live in the sock_map module. Expose the SOCKMAP
> lookup operation to all kernel-land.
> 
> Lookup from BPF context is not whitelisted yet. While syscalls have a
> dedicated lookup handler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
> ---

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>