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Add a eBPF helper function to retrieve socket uid
authorChenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:27:35 +0000 (17:27 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:01:02 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
commit6acc5c2910689fc6ee181bf63085c5efff6a42bd
tree049fec629362ea0f3017381bc96f4e117ed3e903
parent91b8270f2a4d1d9b268de90451cdca63a70052d6
Add a eBPF helper function to retrieve socket uid

Returns the owner uid of the socket inside a sk_buff. This is useful to
perform per-UID accounting of network traffic or per-UID packet
filtering. The socket need to be a fullsock otherwise overflowuid is
returned.

Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
net/core/filter.c
tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h