netdev - Re: [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/11] xdp: hints via kfuncs

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:16:00 -0800
From:   Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
To:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        andrii@...nel.org, song@...nel.org, yhs@...com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, kpsingh@...nel.org, haoluo@...gle.com,
        jolsa@...nel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@...el.com>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>,
        Maryam Tahhan <mtahhan@...hat.com>, xdp-hints@...-project.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/11] xdp: hints via kfuncs

On 11/30/22 3:01 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> It feels like beyond that extra dev_put, we'd need to reset our
>> aux->xdp_netdev and/or add some flag or something else to indicate
>> that this bpf program is "orphaned" and can't be attached anywhere
>> anymore (since the device is gone; netdev_run_todo should free the
>> netdev it seems).

imo, orphan the prog and not able to attach again is ok.  Finding the next 
compatible netdev would be nice but not a must to begin with.  Regardless, it 
needs a bpf_prog<->netdev decoupling approach which allows to unregister netdev 
gracefully instead of getting the "unregister_netdevice: waiting for xyz to 
become free...".

fwiw, offload.c has solved a similar problem and it keeps its own list of prog 
depending on a particular netdev.  Whatever approach makes more sense here. 
Ideally, other non-NIC HW kfunc can reuse a similar approach in the future.