netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/6] net: Add bpf support for sockets

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Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:46:52 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...que.org, ast@...com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, maheshb@...gle.com, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/6] net: Add bpf support for sockets

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2016 08:48:02 -0800

> The recently added VRF support in Linux leverages the bind-to-device
> API for programs to specify an L3 domain for a socket. While
> SO_BINDTODEVICE has been around for ages, not every ipv4/ipv6 capable
> program has support for it. Even for those programs that do support it,
> the API requires processes to be started as root (CAP_NET_RAW) which
> is not desirable from a general security perspective.
> 
> This patch set leverages Daniel Mack's work to attach bpf programs to
> a cgroup to provide a capability to set sk_bound_dev_if for all
> AF_INET{6} sockets opened by a process in a cgroup when the sockets
> are allocated.
 ...

Series applied, thanks David.