From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
"LSM List" <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, capabilities: introduce CAP_BPF
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:18:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e8b910c-a739-857d-4867-395bd369bc6a@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191001181052.43c9fabb@gandalf.local.home>
On 10/1/19 3:10 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:22:28 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> tracefs is a file system, so clearly file based acls are much better fit
>> for all tracefs operations.
>> But that is not the case for ftrace overall.
>> bpf_trace_printk() calls trace_printk() that dumps into trace pipe.
>> Technically it's ftrace operation, but it cannot be controlled by tracefs
>> and by file permissions. That's the motivation to guard bpf_trace_printk()
>> usage from bpf program with CAP_TRACING.
>
> BTW, I'd rather have bpf use an event that records a string than using
> trace printk itself.
>
> Perhaps something like "bpf_print" event? That could be defined like:
>
> TRACE_EVENT(bpf_print,
> TP_PROTO(const char *msg),
> TP_ARGS(msg),
> TP_STRUCT__entry(
> __string(msg, msg)
> ),
> TP_fast_assign(
> __assign_str(msg, msg)
> ),
> TP_printk("msg=%s", __get_str(msg))
> );
>
> And then you can just format the string from the bpf_trace_printk()
> into msg, and then have:
>
> trace_bpf_print(msg);
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it can work.
Please see bpf_trace_printk implementation in kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
It's a lot more than string printing.
> The user could then just enable the trace event from the file system. I
> could also work on making instances work like /tmp does (with the
> sticky bit) in creation. That way people with write access to the
> instances directory, can make their own buffers that they can use (and
> others can't access).
We tried instances in bcc in the past and eventually removed all the
support. The overhead of instances is too high to be usable.
>
>
>>
>> Both 'trace' and 'trace_pipe' have quirky side effects.
>> Like opening 'trace' file will make all parallel trace_printk() to be ignored.
>> While reading 'trace_pipe' file will clear it.
>> The point that traditional 'read' and 'write' ACLs don't map as-is
>> to tracefs, so I would be careful categorizing things into
>> confidentiality vs integrity only based on access type.
>
> What exactly is the bpf_trace_printk() used for? I may have other ideas
> that can help.
It's debugging of bpf programs. Same is what printk() is used for
by kernel developers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-01 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-08-27 23:01 ` [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, capabilities: introduce CAP_BPF Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-27 23:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-27 23:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 0:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-28 1:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 2:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-28 0:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 3:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-08-28 4:47 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 0:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 0:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 2:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 4:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 6:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 23:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 0:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 4:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 6:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-28 22:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 0:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-29 0:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-29 4:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-28 23:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-30 18:31 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-01 1:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-01 22:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-01 22:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2019-10-01 22:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-02 17:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-02 23:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-03 16:18 ` trace_printk issue. Was: " Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-03 16:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-04 19:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-03 6:12 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-10-03 16:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-28 7:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-28 22:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 13:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-29 15:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-29 17:23 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 17:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-29 17:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-29 17:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-29 17:47 ` Steven Rostedt
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