netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 2/4] net: filter: split filter.h and expose eBPF to user space

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: <543CD206.709@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:34:30 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 net-next 2/4] net: filter: split filter.h and expose
 eBPF to user space

On 10/13/2014 11:49 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/03/2014 05:46 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> Ok, given you post the remaining two RFCs later on this window as
>>> you indicate, I have no objections:
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
>>
>> Ping, Alexei, are you still sending the patch for bpf_common.h or
>> do you want me to take care of this?
>
> It's not forgotten.
> I'm not sending it only because net-next is closed
> and it seems to be -next material.

Well, the point was since it's UAPI you're modifying, that it needs
to be shipped before it first gets exposed to user land ...

I think that should be reason enough ... there's no point in doing
this at a later point in time.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html