bpf: Introduce bpf_sysctl_get_current_value helper

Add bpf_sysctl_get_current_value() helper to copy current sysctl value
into provided by BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL program buffer.

It provides same string as user space can see by reading corresponding
file in /proc/sys/, including new line, etc.

Documentation for the new helper is provided in bpf.h UAPI.

Since current value is kept in ctl_table->data in a parsed form,
ctl_table->proc_handler() with write=0 is called to read that data and
convert it to a string. Such a string can later be parsed by a program
using helpers that will be introduced separately.

Unfortunately it's not trivial to provide API to access parsed data due to
variety of data representations (string, intvec, uintvec, ulongvec,
custom structures, even NULL, etc). Instead it's assumed that user know
how to handle specific sysctl they're interested in and appropriate
helpers can be used.

Since ctl_table->proc_handler() expects __user buffer, conversion to
__user happens for kernel allocated one where the value is stored.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h
index a17732057880..f254ff92819f 100644
--- a/include/linux/filter.h
+++ b/include/linux/filter.h
@@ -1182,6 +1182,8 @@ struct bpf_sock_ops_kern {
 struct bpf_sysctl_kern {
 	struct ctl_table_header *head;
 	struct ctl_table *table;
+	void *cur_val;
+	size_t cur_len;
 	int write;
 };