From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "Jiří Pírko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/7] ebpf: extend program type/subsystem registration
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:06:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54DD15BD.7040306@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMEtUuxwdk8RDbUbo8SO9zMU2ELgf-xZynEeT5i5JBNLc2Y_Hw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/11/2015 02:37 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
...
> My concern that if we allow modules to register new program
> types we allow bypass of gpl and all safety checks we've
> put in place.
Right, I share this concern. That requires to make helper functions
generic enough and shareable among various ebpf users, but that should
be possible, so as mentioned in the other mail, the cls program type
reusing sock_filter_ops is a good way forward.
Thanks for the review!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-12 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-11 1:37 [PATCH net-next 4/7] ebpf: extend program type/subsystem registration Alexei Starovoitov
2015-02-12 21:06 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
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2015-02-11 0:15 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/7] eBPF support for cls_bpf Daniel Borkmann
2015-02-11 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] ebpf: extend program type/subsystem registration Daniel Borkmann
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