Re: [RFC 0/3] bpf: Add d_path helper

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On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 11:27:53AM +0200, KP Singh wrote:
> On 06-Apr 18:10, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:09:18AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > 
> > > is there any way we could have d_path functionality (even
> > > reduced and not working for all cases) that could be used
> > > or called like that?
> > 
> > I agree with Al. This helper cannot be enabled for all of bpf tracing.
> > We have to white list its usage for specific callsites only.
> > May be all of lsm hooks are safe. I don't know yet. This has to be
> > analyzed carefully. Every hook. One by one.
> 
> I agree with this, there are some LSM hooks which do get called in
> interrupt context, eg. task_free (which gets called in an RCU
> callback).
> 
> The hooks that we are using it for and we know that it works (using
> our experimental helpers similar to this) are the bprm_* hooks in the
> exec pathway (for logic based on the path of the executable).
> 
> It might be worth whitelisting these functions by adding verifier ops
> for LSM programs?
> 
> Would you want to do it as a part of this series?

I guess we should to do some generic whitelist solution that
would be usable by any prog type.. I'll try to put something
together

jirka




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