On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:54:01AM -0800, Andrey Ignatov wrote:
> Make bpf_sk_lookup_tcp, bpf_sk_lookup_udp and bpf_sk_release helpers
> available in programs of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR.
>
> Such programs operate on sockets and have access to socket and struct
> sockaddr passed by user to system calls such as sys_bind, sys_connect,
> sys_sendmsg.
>
> It's useful to be able to lookup other sockets from these programs.
> E.g. sys_connect may lookup IP:port endpoint and if there is a server
> socket bound to that endpoint ("server" can be defined by saddr & sport
> being zero), redirect client connection to it by rewriting IP:port in
> sockaddr passed to sys_connect.
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
