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Amery Hung bc48d4e164 bpf: tcp: Support parse/len/write header option hooks in bpf_tcp_ops
Add the TCP header option callbacks to the bpf_tcp_ops struct_ops type:

  parse_hdr     - parse the options of an incoming skb on an established
                  connection
  hdr_opt_len   - reserve space in the TCP header for bpf options
  write_hdr_opt - write the reserved bpf options

These mirror the BPF_SOCK_OPS_PARSE_HDR_OPT_CB, _HDR_OPT_LEN_CB and
_WRITE_HDR_OPT_CB legacy sockops callbacks, but are exposed as struct_ops
members so a program can implement them with normal function signatures
and per-member helper sets.

The reserved header window is shared between the legacy sockops and
bpf_tcp_ops paths. tcp_{syn,synack,established}_options() first run the
legacy BPF_SOCK_OPS_HDR_OPT_LEN_CB and then call hdr_opt_len, so both
sources accumulate into opts->bpf_opt_len; at write time the legacy
options are emitted first and bpf_tcp_ops writes after them.

API design

bpf_tcp_ops overloads the sock_ops header-option helpers rather than
introducing a new API: bpf_reserve_hdr_opt(), bpf_store_hdr_opt() and
bpf_load_hdr_opt() are exposed per-member (reserve for hdr_opt_len,
store/load for write_hdr_opt, load for parse_hdr) and share the existing
kernel option-walking core via _bpf_sock_ops{store,load}hdr_opt(), with
the bpf_tcp_ops wrappers synthesizing a temporary bpf_sock_ops_kern from
the program ctx. This keeps a port from the legacy
BPF_SOCK_OPS*_HDR_OPT_CB callbacks mechanical (same helper calls) and
adds no new UAPI helper/kfunc surface.

An alternative considered was to drop the option helpers entirely: have
hdr_opt_len reserve space purely through its return value, and introduce
a dedicated TCP-header-option dynptr used for both reading and writing.
That is a cleaner, more self-contained interface, but it is a larger
change and does not reuse the legacy helpers, making a port from sockops
less mechanical. It can be pursued as a follow-up; the helper-based
interface here keeps this series focused on moving the hooks to
struct_ops.

The hdr_opt_len fast path in tcp_established_options() is gated by
cgroup_bpf_enabled(CGROUP_TCP_SOCK_OPS). Note this is a global,
per-attach-type static branch: it is enabled whenever any bpf_tcp_ops is
attached, even one that does not implement hdr_opt_len or that is attached
to a different cgroup. In those cases the block still runs but
bpf_tcp_ops_hdr_opt_len() no-ops via the per-member check in the dispatch
macro. A per-member/per-cgroup gate could be added later if the extra
fast-path work proves measurable.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917200542.3689605-13-ameryhung@gmail.com
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