bpf: add helper for copying attrs to struct bpf_map

All map types reimplement the field-by-field copy of union bpf_attr
members into struct bpf_map.  Add a helper to perform this operation.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index c0ac03a04880..a3f726bb42ea 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ void bpf_map_area_free(void *area)
 	kvfree(area);
 }
 
+void bpf_map_init_from_attr(struct bpf_map *map, union bpf_attr *attr)
+{
+	map->map_type = attr->map_type;
+	map->key_size = attr->key_size;
+	map->value_size = attr->value_size;
+	map->max_entries = attr->max_entries;
+	map->map_flags = attr->map_flags;
+	map->numa_node = bpf_map_attr_numa_node(attr);
+}
+
 int bpf_map_precharge_memlock(u32 pages)
 {
 	struct user_struct *user = get_current_user();