Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Reduce overhead of LSMs with static calls
From: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-09-16 00:57:19
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:07 PM Paolo Abeni [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi all, On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 19:40 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:quoted
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 6:03 PM KP Singh [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
I tried proposing an idea in https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220609234601.2026362-1-kpsingh@kernel.org/ as an LSM_HOOK_NO_EFFECT but that did not seemed to have stuck.It looks like this was posted about a month before I became responsible for the LSM layer as a whole, and likely was lost (at least on the LSM side of things) as a result. I would much rather see a standalone fix to address the unintended LSM interactions, then the static call performance improvements in a separate patchset.Please allow me to revive this old thread. I learned about this effort only recently and I'm interested into it. Looking at patch 4/4 from this series, it *think* it's doable to extract it from the series and make it work standalone. If so, would that approach be ok from a LSM point of view?
I will rev up the series again. I think it's worth fixing both issues (performance and this side-effect). There are more users who have been asking me for performance improvements for LSMs
One thing that I personally don't understand in said patch is how the '__ro_after_init' annotation for the bpf_lsm_hooks fits the run-time 'default_state' changes?!? Cheers, Paolo