Re: [RFC][PATCH] net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmantained

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On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 06:56:38AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> 
> > I have sympathy with your efforts but since the code is currently dead,
> > and in need of work.  I will write a good version of removing
> > CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH on top of -rc1, leaving CONFIG_BPFILTER.
> 
> Of course when I just limit my code removal to code that depends upon
> the user mode helper all that is left is a Kconfig entry and
> include/uapi/linux/bpfilter.h.

This bit you can actually remove.
bpfilter didn't materialize.
But 'elf in vmlinux' is useful. Please keep it.

> I also noticed that the type of do_exeve_file is wrong. envp and argv
> are not "void *", they should be "const char __user *const __user *__argv".

Sounds like a trivial fix.



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