Merge branch 'net-SO_COOKIE'

Chenbo Feng says:

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New getsockopt option to retrieve socket cookie

In the current kernel socket cookie implementation, there is no simple
and direct way to retrieve the socket cookie based on file descriptor. A
process mat need to get it from sock fd if it want to correlate with
sock_diag output or use a bpf map with new socket cookie function.

If userspace wants to receive the socket cookie for a given socket fd,
it must send a SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY dump request and look for the 5-tuple.
This is slow and can be ambiguous in the case of sockets that have the
same 5-tuple (e.g., tproxy / transparent sockets, SO_REUSEPORT sockets,
etc.).

As shown in the example program. The xt_eBPF program is using socket cookie
to record the network traffics statistics and with the socket cookie
retrieved by getsockopt. The program can directly access to a specific
socket data without scanning the whole bpf map.
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Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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