netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/4] bpf, netns: Keep a list of attached bpf

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]

Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 22:43:45 -0700
From:   Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
CC:     <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-team@...udflare.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 3/4] bpf, netns: Keep a list of attached
 bpf_link's

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 04:13:56PM +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> To support multi-prog link-based attachments for new netns attach types, we
> need to keep track of more than one bpf_link per attach type. Hence,
> convert net->bpf.links into a list, that currently can be either empty or
> have just one item.
> 
> Instead of reusing bpf_prog_list from bpf-cgroup, we link together
> bpf_netns_link's themselves. This makes list management simpler as we don't
> have to allocate, initialize, and later release list elements. We can do
> this because multi-prog attachment will be available only for bpf_link, and
> we don't need to build a list of programs attached directly and indirectly
> via links.
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>