Re: [QUESTION] Check weird behavior with CO-RE relocations

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:54 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If we use CAP_SYS_ADMIN all seems to work fine. The issue seems
> > related to the fact that during the relocation libbpf is not able
> > to find `audit_task_info` in the running kernel BTF, since we are not
> > running on COS system, and for this reason, it searches for it in
> > modules BTF, but in order to do that we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN[1].
> > Is this the intended behavior?
>
> Not really, though it is unfortunate that we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN just
> to find kernel module's BTF. cc Alexei, maybe we can relax some rules
> at least for BTFs?

Good point. Since BTF_LOAD is guarded by CAP_BPF there is no need
to restrict iteration and get_fd_by_id of BTFs with CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Both can be CAP_BPF.
We can consider relaxing btf load, iter, get_fd_by_id to unpriv,
but let's start with cap_bpf if it addresses the problem.





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