Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: emit audit messages upon successful prog load and unload

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:41:17 +0200 Daniel Borkmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On 10/04/2018 08:39 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:11:43 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref] wrote:  

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On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:50:38PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:  

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If the purpose of the patch is to give user space visibility into
bpf prog load/unload as a notification, then I completely agree that
some notification mechanism is necessary.  

Yeah, I did only regard it as only that, nothing more. Some means
of timeline and notification that can be kept in a record in user
space and later retrieved e.g. for introspection on what has been
loaded.

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I've started working on such mechanism via perf ring buffer which is
the fastest mechanism we have in the kernel so far.
See long discussion here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/971970/  

That one is definitely needed in any case to resolve the kallsyms
limitations, and it does have overlap in that in either case we
want to look at past BPF programs that have been unloaded in the
meantime, so I don't have a strong preference either way, and the
former is needed in any case. Though thought was that audit might
be an option for those not running profiling daemons 24/7, but
presumably bpftool could be extended to record these events as
well if we don't want to reuse audit infra.

Yes, exactly, I don't want to run a profiling daemon 24/7 to record
these events.  I do acknowledge that this perf event is relevant,
especially for catching the kernel symbols (I need that myself), but it
does not cover my use-case.

My use-case is to 24/7 collect and keep records in userspace, and have a
timeline of these notifications, for later retrieval.  The idea is that
our support engineers can look at these records when troubleshooting
the system.  And the plan is also to collect these records as part of
our sosreport tool, which is part of the support case.

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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