libbpf: Add safer high-level wrappers for map operations

Add high-level API wrappers for most common and typical BPF map
operations that works directly on instances of struct bpf_map * (so
you don't have to call bpf_map__fd()) and validate key/value size
expectations.

These helpers require users to specify key (and value, where
appropriate) sizes when performing lookup/update/delete/etc. This forces
user to actually think and validate (for themselves) those. This is
a good thing as user is expected by kernel to implicitly provide correct
key/value buffer sizes and kernel will just read/write necessary amount
of data. If it so happens that user doesn't set up buffers correctly
(which bit people for per-CPU maps especially) kernel either randomly
overwrites stack data or return -EFAULT, depending on user's luck and
circumstances. These high-level APIs are meant to prevent such
unpleasant and hard to debug bugs.

This patch also adds bpf_map_delete_elem_flags() low-level API and
requires passing flags to bpf_map__delete_elem() API for consistency
across all similar APIs, even though currently kernel doesn't expect
any extra flags for BPF_MAP_DELETE_ELEM operation.

List of map operations that get these high-level APIs:

  - bpf_map_lookup_elem;
  - bpf_map_update_elem;
  - bpf_map_delete_elem;
  - bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem;
  - bpf_map_get_next_key.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220512220713.2617964-1-andrii@kernel.org

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h
index 34af2232928c..2e0d3731e4c0 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem(int fd, const void *key,
 LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem_flags(int fd, const void *key,
 						    void *value, __u64 flags);
 LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_delete_elem(int fd, const void *key);
+LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_delete_elem_flags(int fd, const void *key, __u64 flags);
 LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_get_next_key(int fd, const void *key, void *next_key);
 LIBBPF_API int bpf_map_freeze(int fd);