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Date:   Sat, 12 Jun 2021 02:16:11 +0530
From:   Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Shaun Crampton <shaun@...era.io>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 0/3] Add TC-BPF API

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 01:31:56AM IST, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 3:35 AM Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
> <memxor@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is the seventh version of the TC-BPF series.
> >
> > It adds a simple API that uses netlink to attach the tc filter and its bpf
> > classifier program. Currently, a user needs to shell out to the tc command line
> > to be able to create filters and attach SCHED_CLS programs as classifiers. With
> > the help of this API, it will be possible to use libbpf for doing all parts of
> > bpf program setup and attach.
> >
> > Changelog contains details of patchset evolution.
> >
> > In an effort to keep discussion focused, this series doesn't have the high level
> > TC-BPF API. It was clear that there is a need for a bpf_link API in the kernel,
> > hence that will be submitted as a separate patchset based on this.
> >
> > The individual commit messages contain more details, and also a brief summary of
> > the API.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > ----------
>
> Hey Kartikeya,
>
> There were few issues flagged by Coverity after I synced libbpf to
> Github. A bunch of them are netlink.c-related. Could you please take a
> look and see if they are false positives or something that we can
> actually fix? See links to the issues below. Thanks!
>
>   [0] https://scan3.coverity.com/reports.htm#v40547/p11903/fileInstanceId=53874109&defectInstanceId=10901199&mergedDefectId=141815
>   [1] https://scan3.coverity.com/reports.htm#v40547/p11903/fileInstanceId=53874109&defectInstanceId=10901193&mergedDefectId=322806
>   [2] https://scan3.coverity.com/reports.htm#v40547/p11903/fileInstanceId=53874109&defectInstanceId=10901197&mergedDefectId=322807
>   [3] https://scan3.coverity.com/reports.htm#v40547/p11903/fileInstanceId=53874109&defectInstanceId=10901195&mergedDefectId=322808
>

Hi Andrii,

These links don't work for me (I get a timeout). Would you know why? Is there
some other link where I can look at them?

> [...]
>
> >
> > Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi (3):
> >   libbpf: add netlink helpers
> >   libbpf: add low level TC-BPF API
> >   libbpf: add selftests for TC-BPF API
> >
> >  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h                        |  43 ++
> >  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map                      |   5 +
> >  tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c                       | 554 ++++++++++++++++--
> >  tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.h                        |  48 ++
> >  .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_bpf.c | 395 +++++++++++++
> >  .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tc_bpf.c |  12 +
> >  6 files changed, 993 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_bpf.c
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tc_bpf.c
> >
> > --
> > 2.31.1
> >

--
Kartikeya

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