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Message-ID: <87v9l0t9mi.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 12:25:09 +0200
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>,
Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bpf: ability to attach freplace to multiple parents
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> writes:
>>
>> >> > Currently fentry/fexit/freplace progs have single prog->aux->linked_prog pointer.
>> >> > It just needs to become a linked list.
>> >> > The api extension could be like this:
>> >> > bpf_raw_tp_open(prog_fd, attach_prog_fd, attach_btf_id);
>> >> > (currently it's just bpf_raw_tp_open(prog_fd))
>> >> > The same pair of (attach_prog_fd, attach_btf_id) is already passed into prog_load
>> >> > to hold the linked_prog and its corresponding btf_id.
>> >> > I'm proposing to extend raw_tp_open with this pair as well to
>> >> > attach existing fentry/fexit/freplace prog to another target.
>> >> > Internally the kernel verify that btf of current linked_prog
>> >> > exactly matches to btf of another requested linked_prog and
>> >> > if they match it will attach the same prog to two target programs (in case of freplace)
>> >> > or two kernel functions (in case of fentry/fexit).
>> >>
>> >> API-wise this was exactly what I had in mind as well.
>> >
>> > perfect!
>>
>> Hi Alexei
>>
>> I don't suppose you've had a chance to whip up a patch for this, have
>> you? :)
>
> On my priority list it's after cap_bpf and sleepable.
> If it's urgent for you please start hacking.
OK, ACK. Not extremely urgent right now, just wanted to check in with
what your plans were. Thanks for letting me know!
-Toke
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