bpf: introduce bpf_get_current_task() helper

over time there were multiple requests to access different data
structures and fields of task_struct current, so finally add
the helper to access 'current' as-is. Tracing bpf programs will do
the rest of walking the pointers via bpf_probe_read().
Note that current can be null and bpf program has to deal it with,
but even dumb passing null into bpf_probe_read() is still safe.

Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index c14ca1cd6297..262a7e883b19 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -357,6 +357,13 @@ enum bpf_func_id {
 	 */
 	BPF_FUNC_get_hash_recalc,
 
+	/**
+	 * u64 bpf_get_current_task(void)
+	 * Returns current task_struct
+	 * Return: current
+	 */
+	BPF_FUNC_get_current_task,
+
 	__BPF_FUNC_MAX_ID,
 };