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authorQuentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>2020-09-04 17:14:54 +0100
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2020-09-07 16:31:18 +0200
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tools, bpf: Synchronise BPF UAPI header with tools
Synchronise the bpf.h header under tools, to report the fixes recently brought to the documentation for the BPF helpers. Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200904161454.31135-4-quentin@isovalent.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h87
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 8dda13880957..90359cab501d 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -3349,38 +3349,38 @@ union bpf_attr {
* Description
* Dynamically cast a *sk* pointer to a *tcp6_sock* pointer.
* Return
- * *sk* if casting is valid, or NULL otherwise.
+ * *sk* if casting is valid, or **NULL** otherwise.
*
* struct tcp_sock *bpf_skc_to_tcp_sock(void *sk)
* Description
* Dynamically cast a *sk* pointer to a *tcp_sock* pointer.
* Return
- * *sk* if casting is valid, or NULL otherwise.
+ * *sk* if casting is valid, or **NULL** otherwise.
*
* struct tcp_timewait_sock *bpf_skc_to_tcp_timewait_sock(void *sk)
* Description
* Dynamically cast a *sk* pointer to a *tcp_timewait_sock* pointer.
* Return
- * *sk* if casting is valid, or NULL otherwise.
+ * *sk* if casting is valid, or **NULL** otherwise.
*
* struct tcp_request_sock *bpf_skc_to_tcp_request_sock(void *sk)
* Description
* Dynamically cast a *sk* pointer to a *tcp_request_sock* pointer.
* Return
- * *sk* if casting is valid, or NULL otherwise.
+ * *sk* if casting is valid, or **NULL** otherwise.
*
* struct udp6_sock *bpf_skc_to_udp6_sock(void *sk)
* Description
* Dynamically cast a *sk* pointer to a *udp6_sock* pointer.
* Return
- * *sk* if casting is valid, or NULL otherwise.
+ * *sk* if casting is valid, or **NULL** otherwise.
*
* long bpf_get_task_stack(struct task_struct *task, void *buf, u32 size, u64 flags)
* Description
* Return a user or a kernel stack in bpf program provided buffer.
* To achieve this, the helper needs *task*, which is a valid
- * pointer to struct task_struct. To store the stacktrace, the
- * bpf program provides *buf* with a nonnegative *size*.
+ * pointer to **struct task_struct**. To store the stacktrace, the
+ * bpf program provides *buf* with a nonnegative *size*.
*
* The last argument, *flags*, holds the number of stack frames to
* skip (from 0 to 255), masked with
@@ -3410,12 +3410,12 @@ union bpf_attr {
* long bpf_load_hdr_opt(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops, void *searchby_res, u32 len, u64 flags)
* Description
* Load header option. Support reading a particular TCP header
- * option for bpf program (BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCK_OPS).
+ * option for bpf program (**BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCK_OPS**).
*
* If *flags* is 0, it will search the option from the
- * sock_ops->skb_data. The comment in "struct bpf_sock_ops"
+ * *skops*\ **->skb_data**. The comment in **struct bpf_sock_ops**
* has details on what skb_data contains under different
- * sock_ops->op.
+ * *skops*\ **->op**.
*
* The first byte of the *searchby_res* specifies the
* kind that it wants to search.
@@ -3435,7 +3435,7 @@ union bpf_attr {
* [ 254, 4, 0xeB, 0x9F, 0, 0, .... 0 ].
*
* To search for the standard window scale option (3),
- * the searchby_res should be [ 3, 0, 0, .... 0 ].
+ * the *searchby_res* should be [ 3, 0, 0, .... 0 ].
* Note, kind-length must be 0 for regular option.
*
* Searching for No-Op (0) and End-of-Option-List (1) are
@@ -3445,27 +3445,30 @@ union bpf_attr {
* of a header option.
*
* Supported flags:
+ *
* * **BPF_LOAD_HDR_OPT_TCP_SYN** to search from the
* saved_syn packet or the just-received syn packet.
*
* Return
- * >0 when found, the header option is copied to *searchby_res*.
- * The return value is the total length copied.
+ * > 0 when found, the header option is copied to *searchby_res*.
+ * The return value is the total length copied. On failure, a
+ * negative error code is returned:
*
- * **-EINVAL** If param is invalid
+ * **-EINVAL** if a parameter is invalid.
*
- * **-ENOMSG** The option is not found
+ * **-ENOMSG** if the option is not found.
*
- * **-ENOENT** No syn packet available when
- * **BPF_LOAD_HDR_OPT_TCP_SYN** is used
+ * **-ENOENT** if no syn packet is available when
+ * **BPF_LOAD_HDR_OPT_TCP_SYN** is used.
*
- * **-ENOSPC** Not enough space. Only *len* number of
- * bytes are copied.
+ * **-ENOSPC** if there is not enough space. Only *len* number of
+ * bytes are copied.
*
- * **-EFAULT** Cannot parse the header options in the packet
+ * **-EFAULT** on failure to parse the header options in the
+ * packet.
*
- * **-EPERM** This helper cannot be used under the
- * current sock_ops->op.
+ * **-EPERM** if the helper cannot be used under the current
+ * *skops*\ **->op**.
*
* long bpf_store_hdr_opt(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops, const void *from, u32 len, u64 flags)
* Description
@@ -3483,44 +3486,44 @@ union bpf_attr {
* by searching the same option in the outgoing skb.
*
* This helper can only be called during
- * BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB.
+ * **BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB**.
*
* Return
* 0 on success, or negative error in case of failure:
*
- * **-EINVAL** If param is invalid
+ * **-EINVAL** If param is invalid.
*
- * **-ENOSPC** Not enough space in the header.
- * Nothing has been written
+ * **-ENOSPC** if there is not enough space in the header.
+ * Nothing has been written
*
- * **-EEXIST** The option has already existed
+ * **-EEXIST** if the option already exists.
*
- * **-EFAULT** Cannot parse the existing header options
+ * **-EFAULT** on failrue to parse the existing header options.
*
- * **-EPERM** This helper cannot be used under the
- * current sock_ops->op.
+ * **-EPERM** if the helper cannot be used under the current
+ * *skops*\ **->op**.
*
* long bpf_reserve_hdr_opt(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops, u32 len, u64 flags)
* Description
* Reserve *len* bytes for the bpf header option. The
- * space will be used by bpf_store_hdr_opt() later in
- * BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB.
+ * space will be used by **bpf_store_hdr_opt**\ () later in
+ * **BPF_SOCK_OPS_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB**.
*
- * If bpf_reserve_hdr_opt() is called multiple times,
+ * If **bpf_reserve_hdr_opt**\ () is called multiple times,
* the total number of bytes will be reserved.
*
* This helper can only be called during
- * BPF_SOCK_OPS_HDR_OPT_LEN_CB.
+ * **BPF_SOCK_OPS_HDR_OPT_LEN_CB**.
*
* Return
* 0 on success, or negative error in case of failure:
*
- * **-EINVAL** if param is invalid
+ * **-EINVAL** if a parameter is invalid.
*
- * **-ENOSPC** Not enough space in the header.
+ * **-ENOSPC** if there is not enough space in the header.
*
- * **-EPERM** This helper cannot be used under the
- * current sock_ops->op.
+ * **-EPERM** if the helper cannot be used under the current
+ * *skops*\ **->op**.
*
* void *bpf_inode_storage_get(struct bpf_map *map, void *inode, void *value, u64 flags)
* Description
@@ -3560,9 +3563,9 @@ union bpf_attr {
*
* long bpf_d_path(struct path *path, char *buf, u32 sz)
* Description
- * Return full path for given 'struct path' object, which
- * needs to be the kernel BTF 'path' object. The path is
- * returned in the provided buffer 'buf' of size 'sz' and
+ * Return full path for given **struct path** object, which
+ * needs to be the kernel BTF *path* object. The path is
+ * returned in the provided buffer *buf* of size *sz* and
* is zero terminated.
*
* Return
@@ -3573,7 +3576,7 @@ union bpf_attr {
* long bpf_copy_from_user(void *dst, u32 size, const void *user_ptr)
* Description
* Read *size* bytes from user space address *user_ptr* and store
- * the data in *dst*. This is a wrapper of copy_from_user().
+ * the data in *dst*. This is a wrapper of **copy_from_user**\ ().
* Return
* 0 on success, or a negative error in case of failure.
*/