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Message-ID: <49ca473a-efa0-19ec-c054-9e051bc4d401@iogearbox.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:14:10 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@...e.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/3] tools: bpftool: probe features for
unprivileged users
On 4/29/20 4:45 PM, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> This set allows unprivileged users to probe available features with
> bpftool. On Daniel's suggestion, the "unprivileged" keyword must be passed
> on the command line to avoid accidentally dumping a subset of the features
> supported by the system. When used by root, this keyword makes bpftool drop
> the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability and print the features available to
> unprivileged users only.
>
> The first patch makes a variable global in feature.c to avoid piping too
> many booleans through the different functions. The second patch introduces
> the unprivileged probing, adding a dependency to libcap. Then the third
> patch makes this dependency optional, by restoring the initial behaviour
> (root only can probe features) if the library is not available.
>
> Cc: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@...e.com>
> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
>
> v3: Update help message for bpftool feature probe ("unprivileged").
>
> v2: Add "unprivileged" keyword, libcap check (patches 1 and 3 are new).
>
> Quentin Monnet (3):
> tools: bpftool: for "feature probe" define "full_mode" bool as global
> tools: bpftool: allow unprivileged users to probe features
> tools: bpftool: make libcap dependency optional
>
> .../bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-feature.rst | 12 +-
> tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile | 13 +-
> tools/bpf/bpftool/bash-completion/bpftool | 2 +-
> tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c | 143 +++++++++++++++---
> 4 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
Applied, thanks!
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