Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] block/bpf: add eBPF based block layer IO filtering

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 04:33:01PM +0000, Leah Rumancik wrote:
> This patch series adds support for a new security mechanism to filter IO
> in the block layer. With this patch series, the policy for IO filtering
> can be programmed into an eBPF program which gets attached to the struct
> gendisk. The filter can either drop or allow IO requests. It cannot modify
> requests. We do not support splitting of IOs, and we do not support
> filtering of IOs that bypass submit_bio (such as SG_IO, NVMe passthrough).

Which means it is not in any way useful for security, but just snake oil.

But even if it wasn't this is a way to big hammer with impact for to
the I/O fast path to be acceptable.



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