netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 03/14] bpf: net: Consider optval.is_bpf before capable check in sock

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:54:08 -0700
From:   sdf@...gle.com
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, kernel-team@...com,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 03/14] bpf: net: Consider optval.is_bpf before
 capable check in sock_setsockopt()

On 07/26, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> When bpf program calling bpf_setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET),
> it could be run in softirq and doesn't make sense to do the capable
> check.  There was a similar situation in bpf_setsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION).

Should we instead skip these capability checks based on something like
in_serving_softirq? I wonder if we might be mixing too much into that
is_bpf flag (locking assumptions, context assumptions, etc)?