Re: Typo in the man7 bpf-helpers page

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[Resend with Quentin's right address, I hope]

Hi Zexuan, Quentin,

On 1/31/23 11:03, Zexuan Luo wrote:
> Hello Colomar,
>
> I just found a potential bug in the bpf-helpers page.

Thanks for reporting bugs :)

>
> Under the https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/bpf-helpers.7.html:

This page is generated from the Linux kernel sources. I've CCed Quentin and the BPF list so they can check it there.

BTW, I'm refreshing the page now.

Quentin, I realized in the diff that there is some inconsistency in the number of spaces after a sentence-ending period. Could you please use two spaces for that? It's especially important for groff(1), which will render it differently. However, it's not a big issue, so don't feel urged to do that.

Cheers,

Alex

>
> ```
>         u64 bpf_get_socket_cookie(struct sk_buff *skb)
>
>                Description
>                       If the struct sk_buff pointed by skb has a known
>                       socket, retrieve the cookie (generated by the
>                       kernel) of this socket.  If no cookie has been set
>                       yet, generate a new cookie. Once generated, the
>                       socket cookie remains stable for the life of the
>                       socket. This helper can be useful for monitoring
>                       per socket networking traffic statistics as it
>                       provides a global socket identifier that can be
>                       assumed unique.
>
>                Return A 8-byte long non-decreasing number on success, or
>                       0 if the socket field is missing inside skb.
>
>         u64 bpf_get_socket_cookie(struct bpf_sock_addr *ctx)
>
>                Description
>                       Equivalent to bpf_get_socket_cookie() helper that
>                       accepts skb, but gets socket from struct
>                       bpf_sock_addr context.
>
>                Return A 8-byte long non-decreasing number.
>
>         u64 bpf_get_socket_cookie(struct bpf_sock_ops *ctx)
>
>                Description
>                       Equivalent to bpf_get_socket_cookie() helper that
>                       accepts skb, but gets socket from struct
>                       bpf_sock_ops context.
>
>                Return A 8-byte long non-decreasing number.
> ```
>
> The function bpf_get_socket_cookie repeats three times. The second one
> should be bpf_get_socket_cookie_addr and the third one should be
> bpf_get_socket_cookie_ops.

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