On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:20:01PM -0300, Carlos Neira wrote: > > Currently bpf_get_current_pid_tgid(), is used to do pid filtering in bcc's > > scripts but this helper returns the pid as seen by the root namespace which is > > fine when a bcc script is not executed inside a container. > > When the process of interest is inside a container, pid filtering will not work > > if bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() is used. > > This helper addresses this limitation returning the pid as it's seen by the current > > namespace where the script is executing. > > > > In the future different pid_ns files may belong to different devices, according to the > > discussion between Eric Biederman and Yonghong in 2017 Linux plumbers conference. > > To address that situation the helper requires inum and dev_t from /proc/self/ns/pid. > > This helper has the same use cases as bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() as it can be > > used to do pid filtering even inside a container. > > > > Signed-off-by: Carlos Neira <cneirabustos@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Carlos Neira (4): > > fs/nsfs.c: added ns_match > > bpf: added new helper bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid > > tools: Added bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid helper > > tools/testing/selftests/bpf: Add self-tests for new helper. self tests > > added for new helper > > bpf-next is currently closed due to merge window. Please resubmit once back open, thanks. Thanks, Daniel, I'll do so. Bests.
