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@ 2019-02-26 22:36 Javier Honduvilla Coto
  2019-02-26 22:36 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] bpf: add bpf_progenyof helper Javier Honduvilla Coto
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From: Javier Honduvilla Coto @ 2019-02-26 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: yhs, kernel-team

Hi all,

This patch add the bpf_progenyof helper which receives a PID and returns
1 if the process currently being executed is in the process hierarchy,
including itself or 0 if not.

This is very useful in tracing programs when we want to filter by a
given PID and all the children it might have. The current workarounds
most people implement for this purpose have issues:

- Attaching to process spawning syscalls and dynamically add those PIDs
  to  some bpf map that would be used to filter is cumbersome and
potentially racy.
- Unrolling some loop to perform what this helper is doing consumes lots
  of instructions. That and the impossibility to jump backwards makes it
really hard to be correct in really large process chains.

Let me know what do you think!

Thanks,

Javier Honduvilla Coto (3):
  bpf: add bpf_progenyof helper
  bpf: sync kernel uapi headers
  bpf: add tests for bpf_progenyof

 include/linux/bpf.h                           |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/bpf.h                      |   3 +-
 kernel/bpf/core.c                             |   1 +
 kernel/bpf/helpers.c                          |  29 ++
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c                      |   2 +
 tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h                |  11 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore        |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile          |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h     |   1 +
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_progenyof_kern.c |  46 ++++
 .../selftests/bpf/test_progenyof_user.c       | 249 ++++++++++++++++++
 11 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_progenyof_kern.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progenyof_user.c

-- 
2.17.1


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2019-02-26 22:36 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] bpf: add bpf_progenyof helper Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-02-27  6:26   ` Martin Lau
2019-03-01 17:28     ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-02  0:01       ` Martin Lau
2019-03-02  1:08         ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-01 17:43     ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-01 18:06   ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-01 18:06     ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-02  0:12       ` Martin Lau
2019-03-02  1:10         ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-05 22:47       ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-05 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-05 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-05 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_progenyof Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-07  9:26         ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: add bpf_progenyof helper Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-22 22:42           ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-22 22:38         ` [PATCH v4 " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-22 22:38           ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-25 14:17             ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-27 15:57               ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-27 20:44                 ` Brendan Gregg
2019-03-27 16:02               ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-22 22:38           ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-22 22:38           ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_progenyof Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-10 20:36           ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: add bpf_descendant_of helper Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-10 20:36             ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 1/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-11 21:55               ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-04-12  0:20                 ` Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-10 20:36             ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-10 20:36             ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_descendant_of Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-04-11 17:59             ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: add bpf_descendant_of helper Song Liu
2019-07-10 18:00             ` [PATCH v6 " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-07-10 18:00               ` [PATCH v6 bpf-next 1/3] " Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-07-10 18:00               ` [PATCH v6 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-07-10 18:00               ` [PATCH v6 bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_descendant_of Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-07-10 19:25                 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-07-12 12:41               ` [PATCH v6 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: add bpf_descendant_of helper Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-01 18:06     ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-03-01 18:06     ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_progenyof Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-02-26 22:36 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpf: sync kernel uapi headers Javier Honduvilla Coto
2019-02-26 22:36 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/3] bpf: add tests for bpf_progenyof Javier Honduvilla Coto

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