From: Kenny Ho <y2kenny@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Kenny Ho <Kenny.Ho@amd.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_IOCTL
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 00:39:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOWid-eQSPru0nm8+Xo3r6C0pJGq+5r8mzM8BL2dgNn2c9mt2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201103053244.khibmr66p7lhv7ge@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Thanks for the reply. Cgroup awareness is desired because the intent
is to use this for resource management as well (potentially along with
other cgroup controlled resources.) I will dig into bpf_lsm and learn
more about it.
Regards,
Kenny
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:32 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:23:02PM -0500, Kenny Ho wrote:
> > Adding a few more emails from get_maintainer.pl and bumping this
> > thread since there hasn't been any comments so far. Is this too
> > crazy? Am I missing something fundamental?
>
> sorry for delay. Missed it earlier. Feel free to ping the mailing list
> sooner next time.
>
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:24 AM Kenny Ho <Kenny.Ho@amd.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a skeleton implementation to invite comments and generate
> > > discussion around the idea of introducing a bpf-cgroup program type to
> > > control ioctl access. This is modelled after
> > > BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_DEVICE. The premise is to allow system admins to
> > > write bpf programs to block some ioctl access, potentially in conjunction
> > > with data collected by other bpf programs stored in some bpf maps and
> > > with bpf_spin_lock.
> > >
> > > For example, a bpf program has been accumulating resource usaging
> > > statistic and a second bpf program of BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_IOCTL would
> > > block access to previously mentioned resource via ioctl when the stats
> > > stored in a bpf map reaches certain threshold.
> > >
> > > Like BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_DEVICE, the default is permissive (i.e.,
> > > ioctls are not blocked if no bpf program is present for the cgroup.) to
> > > maintain current interface behaviour when this functionality is unused.
> > >
> > > Performance impact to ioctl calls is minimal as bpf's in-kernel verifier
> > > ensure attached bpf programs cannot crash and always terminate quickly.
> > >
> > > TODOs:
> > > - correct usage of the verifier
> > > - toolings
> > > - samples
> > > - device driver may provide helper functions that take
> > > bpf_cgroup_ioctl_ctx and return something more useful for specific
> > > device
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kenny Ho <Kenny.Ho@amd.com>
> ...
> > > @@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ long vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> > > if (!filp->f_op->unlocked_ioctl)
> > > goto out;
> > >
> > > + error = BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_IOCTL(filp, cmd, arg);
> > > + if (error)
> > > + goto out;
> > > +
>
> That's a bit problematic, since we have bpf_lsm now.
> Could you use security_file_ioctl hook and do the same filtering there?
> It's not cgroup based though. Is it a concern?
> If cgroup scoping is really necessary then it's probably better
> to add it to bpf_lsm. Then all hooks will become cgroup aware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-07 15:23 [RFC] Add BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_IOCTL Kenny Ho
2020-11-02 19:23 ` Kenny Ho
2020-11-03 5:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-03 5:39 ` Kenny Ho [this message]
2020-11-03 5:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-03 19:19 ` Kenny Ho
2020-11-03 21:04 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-03 22:57 ` Kenny Ho
2020-11-03 23:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-02-01 14:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-01 16:51 ` Kenny Ho
2021-02-03 11:09 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-03 19:01 ` Kenny Ho
2021-02-05 13:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-07 2:06 ` Kenny Ho
2021-05-07 8:59 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-07 15:33 ` Kenny Ho
2021-05-07 16:13 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-07 16:19 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-07 16:26 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-07 16:31 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-07 16:50 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-07 16:54 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-05-07 17:04 ` Kenny Ho
2021-05-07 19:33 ` Tejun Heo
2021-05-07 19:55 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-07 20:59 ` Tejun Heo
2021-05-07 22:30 ` Alex Deucher
2021-05-07 23:45 ` Tejun Heo
2021-05-11 15:48 ` Alex Deucher
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