Merge branch 'libbpf: add support for privileged/unprivileged control separation'
Mariusz Dudek says: ==================== From: Mariusz Dudek <mariuszx.dudek@intel.com> This patch series adds support for separation of eBPF program load and xsk socket creation. In for example a Kubernetes environment you can have an AF_XDP CNI or daemonset that is responsible for launching pods that execute an application using AF_XDP sockets. It is desirable that the pod runs with as low privileges as possible, CAP_NET_RAW in this case, and that all operations that require privileges are contained in the CNI or daemonset. In this case, you have to be able separate ePBF program load from xsk socket creation. Currently, this will not work with the xsk_socket__create APIs because you need to have CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to load eBPF program and CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges to create update xsk_bpf_maps. To be exact xsk_set_bpf_maps does not need those privileges but it takes the prog_fd and xsks_map_fd and those are known only to process that was loading eBPF program. The api bpf_prog_get_fd_by_id that looks up the fd of the prog using an prog_id and bpf_map_get_fd_by_id that looks for xsks_map_fd usinb map_id both requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. With this patch, the pod can be run with CAP_NET_RAW capability only. In case your umem is larger or equal process limit for MEMLOCK you need either increase the limit or CAP_IPC_LOCK capability. Without this patch in case of insufficient rights ENOPERM is returned by xsk_socket__create. To resolve this privileges issue two new APIs are introduced: - xsk_setup_xdp_prog - loads the built in XDP program. It can also return xsks_map_fd which is needed by unprivileged process to update xsks_map with AF_XDP socket "fd" - xsk_sokcet__update_xskmap - inserts an AF_XDP socket into an xskmap for a particular xsk_socket Usage example: int xsk_setup_xdp_prog(int ifindex, int *xsks_map_fd) int xsk_socket__update_xskmap(struct xsk_socket *xsk, int xsks_map_fd); Inserts AF_XDP socket "fd" into the xskmap. The first patch introduces the new APIs. The second patch provides a new sample applications working as control and modification to existing xdpsock application to work with less privileges. This patch set is based on bpf-next commit 97306be4 (Merge branch 'switch to memcg-based memory accounting') Since v6 - rebase on 97306be4 to resolve RLIMIT conflicts Since v5 - fixed sample/bpf/xdpsock_user.c to resolve merge conflicts Since v4 - sample/bpf/Makefile issues fixed Since v3: - force_set_map flag removed - leaking of xsk struct fixed - unified function error returning policy implemented Since v2: - new APIs moved itto LIBBPF_0.3.0 section - struct bpf_prog_cfg_opts removed - loading own eBPF program via xsk_setup_xdp_prog functionality removed Since v1: - struct bpf_prog_cfg improved for backward/forward compatibility - API xsk_update_xskmap renamed to xsk_socket__update_xskmap - commit message formatting fixed ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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