netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: emit audit messages upon successful prog load and unload

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Message-ID: <20181008115740.GA17355@krava>
Date:   Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:57:40 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, ast@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        acme@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: emit audit messages upon successful prog
 load and unload

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:10:15PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:22:31PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:41:17 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 10/04/2018 08:39 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:11:43 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:  
> > > >> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:50:38PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:  
> > [...]
> > > >>
> > > >> If the purpose of the patch is to give user space visibility into
> > > >> bpf prog load/unload as a notification, then I completely agree that
> > > >> some notification mechanism is necessary.  
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I did only regard it as only that, nothing more. Some means
> > > of timeline and notification that can be kept in a record in user
> > > space and later retrieved e.g. for introspection on what has been
> > > loaded.
> > > 
> > > >> I've started working on such mechanism via perf ring buffer which is
> > > >> the fastest mechanism we have in the kernel so far.
> > > >> See long discussion here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/971970/  

I check that discussion and it's related only to bpf program load/unload,
is there any plan to also notify about bpf program attachment?

in the step 2 you described:

  step 2 (future work)
  single event for bpf prog_load with prog_id only.
  Either via perf ring buffer or ftrace or tracepoints or some
  other notification mechanism.

would you see this to be feasible also for bpf prog attachment notification?

thanks,
jirka