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    bpf: relax inode permission check for retrieving bpf program · e547ff3f
    Chenbo Feng authored
    For iptable module to load a bpf program from a pinned location, it
    only retrieve a loaded program and cannot change the program content so
    requiring a write permission for it might not be necessary.
    Also when adding or removing an unrelated iptable rule, it might need to
    flush and reload the xt_bpf related rules as well and triggers the inode
    permission check. It might be better to remove the write premission
    check for the inode so we won't need to grant write access to all the
    processes that flush and restore iptables rules.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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