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* [PATCH net v8 0/2] tun: fix re-attaching the socket filter
@ 2026-10-28  9:32 Rongguang Wei
  2026-10-28  9:32 ` [PATCH net v8 1/2] tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program Rongguang Wei
  2026-10-28  9:32 ` [PATCH net v8 2/2] selftests: net: add TAP socket filter attach tests Rongguang Wei
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rongguang Wei @ 2026-10-28  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel, jasowangio, andrew+netdev, davem, kuba,
	Rongguang Wei

From: Rongguang Wei <weirongguang@kylinos.cn>

This is v8 of the series that fixes attaching a queue to a TAP device which
re-installs the socket filter of a persistent device.

Patch 1 keeps a copy of the program in the kernel when it is configured,
instead of reading tun->fprog from user space again on every later attach,
and fixes the inverted error check in tun_attach(). The two changes are
one patch on purpose: with only the kernel copy every re-attach returns 0
without publishing the queue, and with only the check fixed a re-attach
that used to succeed without a filter starts to fail. IFF_NOFILTER keeps
working and is no longer needed to work around the re-attach bug. The
program is verified with bpf_prog_validate_classic() when it is copied in,
and the copy is committed only after every queue accepted it, so a program
that is refused later, when it is built, does not replace the saved one.

Patch 2 adds selftests: it re-attaches a queue after the buffer the program
was copied from was made unreadable, attaches a second queue from a fresh
socket to check that the filter is rebuilt from the kernel copy, and checks
that a TUNATTACHFILTER with a bad length or bad instructions keeps the
saved program, plus the ways to attach a queue without a filter.

Thanks to Willem de Bruijn for the reviews, and to the CI reviews for
the comments they raised.

Rongguang Wei (2):
  tun: keep a kernel copy of the socket filter program
  selftests: net: add TAP socket filter attach tests

---
v8:
  - narrow the bpf_prog_validate_classic() contract to the classic
    verifier and note that it can also return -ENOMEM; a program can still
    be refused when it is built, and the commit message now says so
  - commit the new program only after every queue took it, so a late
    failure does not replace the saved one, and filter_attached is left
    alone
  - selftests: check the filter state and a newly attached queue in
    attach_filter_bad_prog_keeps_program() too
v7:
  - verify the instructions in tun_copy_filter() before anything is
    replaced, so an invalid program is rejected even when no queue is
    attached
  - fix the kernel-doc of sk_attach_filter_kern(): drop a reference to a
    function that does not exist and complete the Return section
  - reject a program whose length is out of range before allocating
    memory for it
  - document why the filter is dropped when a later step of tun_attach()
    fails, and why filter_accept[] has three instructions
  - selftests: add a case for a rejected program with valid length and
    bad instructions
v6:
  - add description for return value of sk_attach_filter_kern(); no code
    change is involved
v5:
  - add kernel-doc for sk_attach_filter_kern() describing what the missing
    original program means for SO_GET_FILTER and sock_diag
  - mention in the message that a rejected header now leaves the installed
    filter alone
  - fix the wording of the mprotect() comment and note what the IFF_NOFILTER
    and TUNGETFILTER checks in the re-attach test
  - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261012021113.45939-1-clementwei90@163.com/
v4:
  - merge the kernel copy and the error check into one patch, so that no
    step of the series turns a re-attach into a silent no-op or into a new
    failure
  - charge the kernel copy to the caller's memory cgroup
  - selftests: check that the queue is attached again, and attach a new
    queue to see that the filter was installed from the kernel copy
  - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261003063859.136895-1-clementwei90@163.com/
v3:
  - reorder: the kernel copy of the program comes before the corrected
    error check
  - add sk_attach_filter_kern() in the patch that first uses it
  - address the review of the selftests
  - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260930080746.135017-1-clementwei90@163.com/
v2:
  - roll back the filter attach when a later step of tun_attach() fails
  - keep a copy of the program in the kernel, so that a later attach does
    not depend on the address space of the process that set the filter
  - add selftests for the re-attach and for a rejected TUNATTACHFILTER
  - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260929093712.131096-1-clementwei90@163.com/
v1:
  - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260923025653.59348-1-clementwei90@163.com/
---
 drivers/net/tun.c                 | 125 ++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/filter.h            |   2 +
 net/core/filter.c                 |  67 +++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/net/tun.c | 249 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 431 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)


base-commit: d135ab453a7400a34930bdda1ef4bdc8acfac80e
-- 
2.43.0


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