Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/5] bpf: Support access to bpf map fields

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John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> [Sat, 2020-06-20 20:27 -0700]:
> Andrey Ignatov wrote:
...
> > 
> > The feature is available only for CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and gated by
> > perfmon_capable() so that unpriv programs won't have access to bpf map
> > fields.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/bpf.h                           |  9 ++
> >  include/linux/bpf_verifier.h                  |  1 +
> >  kernel/bpf/arraymap.c                         |  3 +
> >  kernel/bpf/btf.c                              | 40 +++++++++
> >  kernel/bpf/hashtab.c                          |  3 +
> >  kernel/bpf/verifier.c                         | 82 +++++++++++++++++--
> >  .../selftests/bpf/verifier/map_ptr_mixing.c   |  2 +-
> >  7 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
> > index 07052d44bca1..1e1501ee53ce 100644
> 
> LGTM, but any reason not to allow this with bpf_capable() it looks
> useful for building load balancers which might not be related to
> CAP_PERFMON.

Thanks for review John. I agree that this can be useful for many
use-cases, incl. networking programs.

Accessing a kernel struct looks like "tracing" kind of functionality to
me (that's why CAP_PERFMON), but I'm not quite sure, and using
bpf_capable() looks fine as well.

Alexei, since you introduced CAP_BPF, could you clarify which cap is the
right one to use here and why?


> Otherwise,
> 
> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>


-- 
Andrey Ignatov



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