Thread (120 messages) 120 messages, 12 authors, 2020-05-13

Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP

From: Yonghong Song <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-20 02:13:58
Also in: bpf


On 3/19/20 6:13 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <redacted>

While it is currently possible for userspace to specify that an existing
XDP program should not be replaced when attaching to an interface, there is
no mechanism to safely replace a specific XDP program with another.

This patch adds a new netlink attribute, IFLA_XDP_EXPECTED_FD, which can be
set along with IFLA_XDP_FD. If set, the kernel will check that the program
currently loaded on the interface matches the expected one, and fail the
operation if it does not. This corresponds to a 'cmpxchg' memory operation.
The patch set itself looks good to me. But previously there is a
discussion regarding a potential similar functionality through bpf_link.
I guess maintainers (Alexei and Daniel) need to weigh in as some
future vision is involved.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
A new companion flag, XDP_FLAGS_EXPECT_FD, is also added to explicitly
request checking of the EXPECTED_FD attribute. This is needed for userspace
to discover whether the kernel supports the new attribute.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <redacted>
---
  include/linux/netdevice.h    |    2 +-
  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h |    4 +++-
  net/core/dev.c               |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
  net/core/rtnetlink.c         |   11 +++++++++++
  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index b6fedd54cd8e..40b12bd93913 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3767,7 +3767,7 @@ struct sk_buff *dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
  
  typedef int (*bpf_op_t)(struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_bpf *bpf);
  int dev_change_xdp_fd(struct net_device *dev, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
-		      int fd, u32 flags);
+		      int fd, int expected_fd, u32 flags);
  u32 __dev_xdp_query(struct net_device *dev, bpf_op_t xdp_op,
  		    enum bpf_netdev_command cmd);
  int xdp_umem_query(struct net_device *dev, u16 queue_id);
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