bpf: Document optval > PAGE_SIZE behavior for sockopt hooks
Extend existing doc with more details about requiring ctx->optlen = 0
for handling optval > PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200617010416.93086-3-sdf@google.com
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst b/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst
index c47d9746..172f957 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/prog_cgroup_sockopt.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,20 @@
*not* the original input ``setsockopt`` arguments. The potentially
modified values will be then passed down to the kernel.
+Large optval
+============
+When the ``optval`` is greater than the ``PAGE_SIZE``, the BPF program
+can access only the first ``PAGE_SIZE`` of that data. So it has to options:
+
+* Set ``optlen`` to zero, which indicates that the kernel should
+ use the original buffer from the userspace. Any modifications
+ done by the BPF program to the ``optval`` are ignored.
+* Set ``optlen`` to the value less than ``PAGE_SIZE``, which
+ indicates that the kernel should use BPF's trimmed ``optval``.
+
+When the BPF program returns with the ``optlen`` greater than
+``PAGE_SIZE``, the userspace will receive ``EFAULT`` errno.
+
Example
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