linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/5] bpf: Introduce cgroup iter

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

Message-ID: <CA+khW7h-fgo+X=OUxAWDe2sPMyWDXUmp574Kq_J884j9whoBfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 17:53:00 -0700
From:   Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/5] bpf: Introduce cgroup iter

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:58 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 7:35 PM Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 5:59 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
> > > On 5/20/22 3:57 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 03:19:19PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > >> We have bpf_map iterator that walks all bpf maps.
> > > >> When map iterator is parametrized with map_fd the iterator walks
> > > >> all elements of that map.
> > > >> cgroup iterator should have similar semantics.
> > > >> When non-parameterized it will walk all cgroups and their descendent
> > > >> depth first way. I believe that's what Yonghong is proposing.
> > > >> When parametrized it will start from that particular cgroup and
> > > >> walk all descendant of that cgroup only.
> > > >> The bpf prog can stop the iteration right away with ret 1.
> > > >> Maybe we can add two parameters. One -> cgroup_fd to use and another ->
> > > >> the order of iteration css_for_each_descendant_pre vs _post.
> > > >> wdyt?
> > > >
> > > > Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
> > >
> > > This works for me too. Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > This sounds good to me. Thanks. Let's try to do it in the next iteration.
>
> Can we, in addition to descendant_pre and descendant_post walk
> algorithms also add the one that does ascendants walk (i.e., start
> from specified cgroup and walk up to the root cgroup)? I don't have
> specific example, but it seems natural to include it for "cgroup
> iterator" in general. Hopefully it won't add much code to the
> implementation.

Yep. Sounds reasonable and doable. It's just adding a flag to specify
traversal order, like:

{
  WALK_DESCENDANT_PRE,
  WALK_DESCENDANT_POST,
  WALK_PARENT_UP,
};

In bpf_iter's seq_next(), change the algorithm to yield the parent of
the current cgroup.