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authorAndrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>2020-01-07 17:40:06 -0800
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2020-01-09 09:40:06 -0800
commitf5bfcd953d811dbb8913de36b96b38da6bb62135 (patch)
treead65489a49e1c9a2b54411bff64256c5d6a30159 /tools/include/uapi
parent417759f7d4cf44a5fb526fbafcc9372e3dbfc0ae (diff)
bpf: Document BPF_F_QUERY_EFFECTIVE flag
Document BPF_F_QUERY_EFFECTIVE flag, mostly to clarify how it affects attach_flags what may not be obvious and what may lead to confision. Specifically attach_flags is returned only for target_fd but if programs are inherited from an ancestor cgroup then returned attach_flags for current cgroup may be confusing. For example, two effective programs of same attach_type can be returned but w/o BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI in attach_flags. Simple repro: # bpftool c s /sys/fs/cgroup/path/to/task ID AttachType AttachFlags Name # bpftool c s /sys/fs/cgroup/path/to/task effective ID AttachType AttachFlags Name 95043 ingress tw_ipt_ingress 95048 ingress tw_ingress Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200108014006.938363-1-rdna@fb.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 2d6a2e572f56..52966e758fe5 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -359,7 +359,12 @@ enum bpf_attach_type {
/* Enable memory-mapping BPF map */
#define BPF_F_MMAPABLE (1U << 10)
-/* flags for BPF_PROG_QUERY */
+/* Flags for BPF_PROG_QUERY. */
+
+/* Query effective (directly attached + inherited from ancestor cgroups)
+ * programs that will be executed for events within a cgroup.
+ * attach_flags with this flag are returned only for directly attached programs.
+ */
#define BPF_F_QUERY_EFFECTIVE (1U << 0)
enum bpf_stack_build_id_status {