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>
This commit is contained in:
Chenbo Feng
2017-03-22 17:27:35 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 91b8270f2a
commit 6acc5c2910
3 changed files with 32 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -465,6 +465,12 @@ union bpf_attr {
* @skb: pointer to skb
* Return: 8 Bytes non-decreasing number on success or 0 if the socket
* field is missing inside sk_buff
*
* u32 bpf_get_socket_uid(skb)
* Get the owner uid of the socket stored inside sk_buff.
* @skb: pointer to skb
* Return: uid of the socket owner on success or 0 if the socket pointer
* inside sk_buff is NULL
*/
#define __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER(FN) \
FN(unspec), \
@@ -513,7 +519,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
FN(skb_change_head), \
FN(xdp_adjust_head), \
FN(probe_read_str), \
FN(get_socket_cookie),
FN(get_socket_cookie), \
FN(get_socket_uid),
/* integer value in 'imm' field of BPF_CALL instruction selects which helper
* function eBPF program intends to call