linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2] libbpf: Load btf

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:02:58 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...omium.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>,
        Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2] libbpf: Load btf_vmlinux only once per object.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:55 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:28 PM KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>
> >
> > As more programs (TRACING, STRUCT_OPS, and upcoming LSM) use vmlinux
> > BTF information, loading the BTF vmlinux information for every program
> > in an object is sub-optimal. The fix was originally proposed in:
> >
> >    https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzZodr3LKJuM7QwD38BiEH02Cc1UbtnGpVkCJ00Mf+V_Qg@mail.gmail.com/
> >
> > The btf_vmlinux is populated in the object if any of the programs in
> > the object requires it just before the programs are loaded and freed
> > after the programs finish loading.
> >
> > Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...omium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>
> > ---
>
> Looks great!
>
> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>

Applied. Thanks