From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@meta.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Team <kernel-team@meta.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Extend test fs_kfuncs to cover security.bpf xattr names
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:56:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZyMqOyswxw1s1Jbt@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41CA4718-EE8E-499B-AC3C-E22C311035E7@fb.com>
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 08:44:26PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> Given bpf kfuncs can read user.* xattrs for almost a year now, I think we
> cannot simply revert it. We already have some users using it.
>
> Instead, we can work on a plan to deprecated it. How about we add a
> WARN_ON_ONCE as part of this patchset, and then remove user.* support
> after some time?
As Christian mentioned having bpf access to user xattrs is probably
not a big issue. OTOH anything that makes security decisions based
on it is probably pretty broken. Not sure how you want to best
handle that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-31 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-02 21:46 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] security.bpf xattr name prefix Song Liu
2024-10-02 21:46 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] fs/xattr: bpf: Introduce " Song Liu
2024-10-07 8:39 ` Jiri Olsa
2024-10-07 17:15 ` Song Liu
2024-10-14 10:18 ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-02 21:46 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Extend test fs_kfuncs to cover security.bpf xattr names Song Liu
2024-10-15 5:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 5:21 ` Song Liu
2024-10-15 5:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 5:52 ` Song Liu
2024-10-15 6:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-15 13:54 ` Song Liu
2024-10-16 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-16 13:51 ` Jan Kara
2024-10-16 14:51 ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-16 16:38 ` Song Liu
2024-10-17 15:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-21 13:24 ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-23 6:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 20:44 ` Song Liu
2024-10-31 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-10-31 15:56 ` Song Liu
2024-10-31 16:10 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2024-10-11 17:40 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] security.bpf xattr name prefix Song Liu
2024-10-14 10:18 ` Christian Brauner
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