Pull in updates in BPF helper function description.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
---
tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 4e455018da65..a5aa7d3ac6a1 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1466,8 +1466,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
* If no cookie has been set yet, generate a new cookie. Once
* generated, the socket cookie remains stable for the life of the
* socket. This helper can be useful for monitoring per socket
- * networking traffic statistics as it provides a unique socket
- * identifier per namespace.
+ * networking traffic statistics as it provides a global socket
+ * identifier that can be assumed unique.
* Return
* A 8-byte long non-decreasing number on success, or 0 if the
* socket field is missing inside *skb*.
@@ -1571,8 +1571,11 @@ union bpf_attr {
* but this is only implemented for native XDP (with driver
* support) as of this writing).
*
- * All values for *flags* are reserved for future usage, and must
- * be left at zero.
+ * The lower two bits of *flags* are used as the return code if
+ * the map lookup fails. This is so that the return value can be
+ * one of the XDP program return codes up to XDP_TX, as chosen by
+ * the caller. Any higher bits in the *flags* argument must be
+ * unset.
*
* When used to redirect packets to net devices, this helper
* provides a high performance increase over **bpf_redirect**\ ().
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2.17.1
