bpf: introduce bpf_get_current_task() helper

over time there were multiple requests to access different data
structures and fields of task_struct current, so finally add
the helper to access 'current' as-is. Tracing bpf programs will do
the rest of walking the pointers via bpf_probe_read().
Note that current can be null and bpf program has to deal it with,
but even dumb passing null into bpf_probe_read() is still safe.

Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexei Starovoitov 2016-07-06 22:38:36 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent d390238c4f
commit 606274c5ab
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@ -357,6 +357,13 @@ enum bpf_func_id {
*/
BPF_FUNC_get_hash_recalc,
/**
* u64 bpf_get_current_task(void)
* Returns current task_struct
* Return: current
*/
BPF_FUNC_get_current_task,
__BPF_FUNC_MAX_ID,
};