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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ast@fb.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com, kernel-team@fb.com,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 00/10] bpf_link observability APIs
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:40:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sggt3ye7.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200424053505.4111226-1-andriin@fb.com>

Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> writes:

> This patch series adds various observability APIs to bpf_link:
>   - each bpf_link now gets ID, similar to bpf_map and bpf_prog, by which
>     user-space can iterate over all existing bpf_links and create limited FD
>     from ID;
>   - allows to get extra object information with bpf_link general and
>     type-specific information;
>   - implements `bpf link show` command which lists all active bpf_links in the
>     system;
>   - implements `bpf link pin` allowing to pin bpf_link by ID or from other
>     pinned path.
>
> rfc->v1:
>   - dropped read-only bpf_links (Alexei);

Just to make sure I understand this right: With this change, the
GET_FD_BY_ID operation will always return a r/w bpf_link fd that can
subsequently be used to detach the link? And you're doing the 'access
limiting' by just requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for the whole thing. Right? :)

-Toke


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-24 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-24  5:34 [PATCH bpf-next 00/10] bpf_link observability APIs Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next 01/10] bpf: refactor bpf_link update handling Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next 02/10] bpf: allocate ID for bpf_link Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next 03/10] bpf: support GET_FD_BY_ID and GET_NEXT_ID " Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next 04/10] bpf: add support for BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD " Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 05/10] libbpf: add low-level APIs for new bpf_link commands Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 06/10] selftests/bpf: test bpf_link's get_next_id, get_fd_by_id, and get_obj_info Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 07/10] bpftool: expose attach_type-to-string array to non-cgroup code Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 10:32   ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-24 16:27     ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 17:08       ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-25  0:12         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-25 10:19           ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 08/10] bpftool: add bpf_link show and pin support Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 10:32   ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-24 16:30     ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 09/10] bpftool: add bpftool-link manpage Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 10:33   ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-24 16:32     ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24  5:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 10/10] bpftool: add link bash completions Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 10:33   ` Quentin Monnet
2020-04-24 11:40 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-04-24 15:54   ` [PATCH bpf-next 00/10] bpf_link observability APIs Andrii Nakryiko
2020-04-24 16:39     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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