From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
To: "nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com" <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
"luto@amacapital.net" <luto@amacapital.net>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: implement CAP_BPF
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 01:39:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46df2c36-4276-33c0-626b-c51e77b3a04f@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59ac111e-7ce7-5e00-32c9-9b55482fe701@6wind.com>
On 8/30/19 8:19 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 29/08/2019 à 19:30, Alexei Starovoitov a écrit :
> [snip]
>> These are the links that showing that k8 can delegates caps.
>> Are you saying that you know of folks who specifically
>> delegate cap_sys_admin and cap_net_admin _only_ to a container to run bpf in there?
>>
> Yes, we need cap_sys_admin only to load bpf:
> tc filter add dev eth0 ingress matchall action bpf obj ./tc_test_kern.o sec test
>
> I'm not sure to understand why cap_net_admin is not enough to run the previous
> command (ie why load is forbidden).
because bpf syscall prog_load command requires cap_sys_admin in
the current implementation.
> I want to avoid sys_admin, thus cap_bpf will be ok. But we need to manage the
> backward compatibility.
re: backward compatibility...
do you know of any case where task is running under userid=nobody
with cap_sys_admin and cap_net_admin in order to do bpf ?
If not then what is the concern about compatibility?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-29 5:12 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/3] capability: introduce CAP_BPF and CAP_TRACING Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 5:12 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: implement CAP_BPF Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 6:04 ` Song Liu
2019-08-29 17:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 15:32 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-08-29 17:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-30 15:19 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-09-04 1:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2019-09-04 15:16 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-09-04 15:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-05 8:37 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-09-05 22:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 5:12 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/3] perf: implement CAP_TRACING Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 6:06 ` Song Liu
2019-08-29 6:00 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/3] capability: introduce CAP_BPF and CAP_TRACING Song Liu
2019-08-29 7:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-29 17:24 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 18:05 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-08-29 20:25 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-08-29 21:10 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 13:36 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-08-29 17:25 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 15:47 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-08-29 16:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-30 4:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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