commit 85a51f8c28b9812642d76db6889f3f39dc3fbab3
author Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com> Fri Mar 22 09:54:00 2019 +0800
committer Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Thu Mar 21 18:59:10 2019 -0700
tree 8a21d1ca05554e8c13687ffcfd3ff668afea8446
parent 0f3adc288df8ba2ac2fea0a8e4890f9fb4cd075d

bpf: allow helpers to return PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON

It's currently not possible to access timewait or request sockets
from eBPF, since there is no way to return a PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON
from a helper. Introduce RET_PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON to enable this
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

include/linux/bpf.h

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index f02367f..f628971 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ enum bpf_return_type {
 	RET_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_OR_NULL,	/* returns a pointer to map elem value or NULL */
 	RET_PTR_TO_SOCKET_OR_NULL,	/* returns a pointer to a socket or NULL */
 	RET_PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK_OR_NULL,	/* returns a pointer to a tcp_sock or NULL */
+	RET_PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON_OR_NULL,	/* returns a pointer to a sock_common or NULL */
 };
 
 /* eBPF function prototype used by verifier to allow BPF_CALLs from eBPF programs

kernel/bpf/verifier.c

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 868a82a..a476e13 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -3148,6 +3148,10 @@ static int check_helper_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int func_id, int insn
 		mark_reg_known_zero(env, regs, BPF_REG_0);
 		regs[BPF_REG_0].type = PTR_TO_SOCKET_OR_NULL;
 		regs[BPF_REG_0].id = ++env->id_gen;
+	} else if (fn->ret_type == RET_PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON_OR_NULL) {
+		mark_reg_known_zero(env, regs, BPF_REG_0);
+		regs[BPF_REG_0].type = PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON_OR_NULL;
+		regs[BPF_REG_0].id = ++env->id_gen;
 	} else if (fn->ret_type == RET_PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK_OR_NULL) {
 		mark_reg_known_zero(env, regs, BPF_REG_0);
 		regs[BPF_REG_0].type = PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK_OR_NULL;