From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>, Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:13:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pncsj0hv.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEf4Bza4vKbjkj8kBkrVmayFr2j_nvrORF_YkCoVKibB=SmSYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> writes:
>> > So you install your libxdp-based firewalls and are happy. Then you
>> > decide to install this awesome packet analyzer, which doesn't know
>> > about libxdp yet. Suddenly, you get all packets analyzer, but no more
>> > firewall, until users somehow notices that it's gone. Or firewall
>> > periodically checks that it's still runinng. Both not great, IMO, but
>> > might be acceptable for some users, I guess. But imagine all the
>> > confusion for user, especially if he doesn't give a damn about XDP and
>> > other buzzwords, but only needs a reliable firewall :)
>>
>> Yes, whereas if the firewall is using bpf_link, then the packet analyser
>> will be locked out and can't do its thing. Either way you end up with a
>> broken application; it's just moving the breakage. In the case of
>
> Hm... In one case firewall installation reported success and stopped
> working afterwards with no notification and user having no clue. In
> another, packet analyzer refused to start and reported error to user.
> Let's agree to disagree that those are not at all equivalent. To me
> silent failure is so much worse, than application failing to start in
> the first place.
Oh, sure, obvious failures are preferable to silent ones, do doubt about
that. But for things to actually *work*, both applications need to agree
on how to do things, which in practice means they'll need to use the
same library. At which point you can solve this problem in the
library.
So again, I'm not saying the two are equivalent, I am just disagreeing
with you about how big the benefit is. And sure, we can agree to
disagree on that :)
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-31 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-19 13:13 [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] XDP: Support atomic replacement of XDP interface attachments Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 22:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 8:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 18:17 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 18:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 18:30 ` John Fastabend
2020-03-20 20:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 11:24 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-23 16:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-23 18:14 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 19:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-24 1:01 ` David Ahern
2020-03-24 4:53 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 20:55 ` David Ahern
2020-03-24 22:56 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 5:00 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 10:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-24 18:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-24 22:30 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-25 1:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-24 19:22 ` John Fastabend
2020-03-25 1:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 2:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 18:06 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 18:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 19:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 10:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 18:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 10:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 17:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-24 22:25 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-25 9:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 17:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 0:16 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 5:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26 18:09 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 19:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 20:05 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-27 11:09 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-27 23:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 10:04 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-26 17:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26 19:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 18:18 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 19:53 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 11:11 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 20:21 ` bpf: ability to attach freplace to multiple parents Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-02 21:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 21:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-03 8:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-07 1:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-07 9:20 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 8:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 9:53 ` Alan Maguire
2020-05-12 13:02 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 23:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-05-12 23:06 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-05-13 10:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 21:24 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-04-02 22:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 12:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-26 19:06 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 11:06 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-27 16:12 ` David Ahern
2020-03-27 20:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 23:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-30 15:25 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-31 3:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-31 22:05 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-31 22:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 19:42 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 19:45 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 23:09 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 11:46 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 20:07 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 22:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 22:54 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-28 1:09 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 1:44 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-28 19:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-26 19:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 12:06 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 23:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-28 1:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 2:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-28 19:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 23:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-29 10:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-29 19:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-30 10:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-29 20:23 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-30 13:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-30 20:17 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-31 10:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-03-31 13:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-31 15:00 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-31 20:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-31 20:15 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-30 15:41 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-30 19:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-31 4:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-31 11:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-31 18:52 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-20 20:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 20:40 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 21:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 21:55 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 23:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 20:39 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 11:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-23 18:07 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 23:54 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-03-24 10:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 2:13 ` Yonghong Song
2020-03-20 8:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] tools: Add EXPECTED_FD-related definitions in if_link.h Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] libbpf: Add function to set link XDP fd while specifying old fd Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: Add tests for attaching XDP programs Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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