Helper function bpf_copy_from_user_task
Definition
Copyright (c) 2015 The Libbpf Authors. All rights reserved.
Read size bytes from user space address user_ptr in tsk's address space, and stores the data in dst. flags is not used yet and is provided for future extensibility. This helper can only be used by sleepable programs.
Returns
0 on success, or a negative error in case of failure. On error dst buffer is zeroed out.
static long (* const bpf_copy_from_user_task)(void *dst, __u32 size, const void *user_ptr, struct task_struct *tsk, __u64 flags) = (void *) 191;
Usage
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Program types
This helper call can be used in the following program types:
BPF_PROG_TYPE_KPROBE
BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM
BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT
BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT_WRITABLE
BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL
BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT
BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING
Example
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