From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
yhs@fb.com, andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com, ast@kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bpf-next PATCH v5 2/5] bpf: extend bpf_base_func_proto helpers with probe_* and *current_task*
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 15:58:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ecc4d799cc25_718d2b15b962e5b8b1@john-XPS-13-9370.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3503d44d-799f-5440-781a-3c4cd2d89282@iogearbox.net>
Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 5/24/20 6:50 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> > Often it is useful when applying policy to know something about the
> > task. If the administrator has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights then they can
> > use kprobe + networking hook and link the two programs together to
> > accomplish this. However, this is a bit clunky and also means we have
> > to call both the network program and kprobe program when we could just
> > use a single program and avoid passing metadata through sk_msg/skb->cb,
> > socket, maps, etc.
> >
> > To accomplish this add probe_* helpers to bpf_base_func_proto programs
> > guarded by a perfmon_capable() check. New supported helpers are the
> > following,
> >
> > BPF_FUNC_get_current_task
> > BPF_FUNC_current_task_under_cgroup
>
> Nit: Stale commit message?
>
Correct, stale commit.
> > BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user
> > BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel
> > BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user_str
> > BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel_str
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> > ---
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 16:50 [bpf-next PATCH v5 0/5] bpf: Add sk_msg and networking helpers John Fastabend
2020-05-24 16:50 ` [bpf-next PATCH v5 1/5] bpf, sk_msg: add some generic helpers that may be useful from sk_msg John Fastabend
2020-05-25 21:51 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-25 22:57 ` John Fastabend
2020-05-26 18:33 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-26 20:51 ` John Fastabend
2020-05-26 21:29 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-26 23:12 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-24 16:50 ` [bpf-next PATCH v5 2/5] bpf: extend bpf_base_func_proto helpers with probe_* and *current_task* John Fastabend
2020-05-25 21:52 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-05-25 22:58 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2020-05-24 16:51 ` [bpf-next PATCH v5 3/5] bpf, sk_msg: add get socket storage helpers John Fastabend
2020-05-24 16:51 ` [bpf-next PATCH v5 4/5] bpf, selftests: add sk_msg helpers load and attach test John Fastabend
2020-05-26 18:07 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-05-24 16:51 ` [bpf-next PATCH v5 5/5] bpf, selftests: test probe_* helpers from SCHED_CLS John Fastabend
2020-05-26 18:09 ` Andrii Nakryiko
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