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2018-06-08bpf: implement dummy fops for bpf objectsDaniel Borkmann
syzkaller was able to trigger the following warning in do_dentry_open(): WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4508 at fs/open.c:778 do_dentry_open+0x4ad/0xe40 fs/open.c:778 Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... CPU: 1 PID: 4508 Comm: syz-executor867 Not tainted 4.17.0+ #90 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: [...] vfs_open+0x139/0x230 fs/open.c:908 do_last fs/namei.c:3370 [inline] path_openat+0x1717/0x4dc0 fs/namei.c:3511 do_filp_open+0x249/0x350 fs/namei.c:3545 do_sys_open+0x56f/0x740 fs/open.c:1101 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1128 [inline] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1122 [inline] __x64_sys_openat+0x9d/0x100 fs/open.c:1122 do_syscall_64+0x1b1/0x800 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Problem was that prog and map inodes in bpf fs did not implement a dummy file open operation that would return an error. The patch in do_dentry_open() checks whether f_ops are present and if not bails out with an error. While this may be fine, we really shouldn't be throwing a warning though. Thus follow the model similar to bad_file_ops and reject the request unconditionally with -EIO. Fixes: b2197755b263 ("bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs") Reported-by: syzbot+2e7fcab0f56fdbb330b8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2018-04-30bpf: remove tracepoints from bpf coreAlexei Starovoitov
tracepoints to bpf core were added as a way to provide introspection to bpf programs and maps, but after some time it became clear that this approach is inadequate, so prog_id, map_id and corresponding get_next_id, get_fd_by_id, get_info_by_fd, prog_query APIs were introduced and fully adopted by bpftool and other applications. The tracepoints in bpf core started to rot and causing syzbot warnings: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3008 at kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:274 Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... perf_trace_bpf_map_keyval+0x260/0xbd0 include/trace/events/bpf.h:228 trace_bpf_map_update_elem include/trace/events/bpf.h:274 [inline] map_update_elem kernel/bpf/syscall.c:597 [inline] SYSC_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1478 [inline] Hence this patch deletes tracepoints in bpf core. Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzbot <bot+a9dbb3c3e64b62536a4bc5ee7bbd4ca627566188@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-04-19bpf: btf: Add pretty print support to the basic arraymapMartin KaFai Lau
This patch adds pretty print support to the basic arraymap. Support for other bpf maps can be added later. This patch adds new attrs to the BPF_MAP_CREATE command to allow specifying the btf_fd, btf_key_id and btf_value_id. The BPF_MAP_CREATE can then associate the btf to the map if the creating map supports BTF. A BTF supported map needs to implement two new map ops, map_seq_show_elem() and map_check_btf(). This patch has implemented these new map ops for the basic arraymap. It also adds file_operations, bpffs_map_fops, to the pinned map such that the pinned map can be opened and read. After that, the user has an intuitive way to do "cat bpffs/pathto/a-pinned-map" instead of getting an error. bpffs_map_fops should not be extended further to support other operations. Other operations (e.g. write/key-lookup...) should be realized by the userspace tools (e.g. bpftool) through the BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD, map's lookup/update interface...etc. Follow up patches will allow the userspace to obtain the BTF from a map-fd. Here is a sample output when reading a pinned arraymap with the following map's value: struct map_value { int count_a; int count_b; }; cat /sys/fs/bpf/pinned_array_map: 0: {1,2} 1: {3,4} 2: {5,6} ... Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-03-09bpf: comment why dots in filenames under BPF virtual FS are not allowedQuentin Monnet
When pinning a file under the BPF virtual file system (traditionally /sys/fs/bpf), using a dot in the name of the location to pin at is not allowed. For example, trying to pin at "/sys/fs/bpf/foo.bar" will be rejected with -EPERM. This check was introduced at the same time as the BPF file system itself, with commit b2197755b263 ("bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs"). At this time, it was checked in a function called "bpf_dname_reserved()", which made clear that using a dot was reserved for future extensions. This function disappeared and the check was moved elsewhere with commit 0c93b7d85d40 ("bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup()"), and the meaning of the dot ban was lost. The present commit simply adds a comment in the source to explain to the reader that the usage of dots is reserved for future usage. Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-01-30Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro: "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing that without abusing ->mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it. Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe Scrivano)" * 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount tidy do_mq_open() up a bit mqueue: clean prepare_open() up do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode() move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open() mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->d_fsdata bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->mknod() new primitive: vfs_mkobj()
2018-01-05bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->mknod()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05fix "netfilter: xt_bpf: Fix XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED mode of 'xt_bpf_info_v1'"Al Viro
Descriptor table is a shared object; it's not a place where you can stick temporary references to files, especially when we don't need an opened file at all. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14 Fixes: 98589a0998b8 ("netfilter: xt_bpf: Fix XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED mode of 'xt_bpf_info_v1'") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-10-20bpf: Add file mode configuration into bpf mapsChenbo Feng
Introduce the map read/write flags to the eBPF syscalls that returns the map fd. The flags is used to set up the file mode when construct a new file descriptor for bpf maps. To not break the backward capability, the f_flags is set to O_RDWR if the flag passed by syscall is 0. Otherwise it should be O_RDONLY or O_WRONLY. When the userspace want to modify or read the map content, it will check the file mode to see if it is allowed to make the change. Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-09netfilter: xt_bpf: Fix XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED mode of 'xt_bpf_info_v1'Shmulik Ladkani
Commit 2c16d6033264 ("netfilter: xt_bpf: support ebpf") introduced support for attaching an eBPF object by an fd, with the 'bpf_mt_check_v1' ABI expecting the '.fd' to be specified upon each IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE call. However this breaks subsequent iptables calls: # iptables -A INPUT -m bpf --object-pinned /sys/fs/bpf/xxx -j ACCEPT # iptables -A INPUT -s 5.6.7.8 -j ACCEPT iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information. That's because iptables works by loading existing rules using IPT_SO_GET_ENTRIES to userspace, then issuing IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE with the replacement set. However, the loaded 'xt_bpf_info_v1' has an arbitrary '.fd' number (from the initial "iptables -m bpf" invocation) - so when 2nd invocation occurs, userspace passes a bogus fd number, which leads to 'bpf_mt_check_v1' to fail. One suggested solution [1] was to hack iptables userspace, to perform a "entries fixup" immediatley after IPT_SO_GET_ENTRIES, by opening a new, process-local fd per every 'xt_bpf_info_v1' entry seen. However, in [2] both Pablo Neira Ayuso and Willem de Bruijn suggested to depricate the xt_bpf_info_v1 ABI dealing with pinned ebpf objects. This fix changes the XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED behavior to ignore the given '.fd' and instead perform an in-kernel lookup for the bpf object given the provided '.path'. It also defines an alias for the XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED mode, named XT_BPF_MODE_PATH_PINNED, to better reflect the fact that the user is expected to provide the path of the pinned object. Existing XT_BPF_MODE_FD_ELF behavior (non-pinned fd mode) is preserved. References: [1] https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=150564724607440&w=2 [2] https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=150575727129880&w=2 Reported-by: Rafael Buchbinder <rafi@rbk.ms> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2017-07-06bpf: Implement show_optionsDavid Howells
Implement the show_options superblock op for bpf as part of a bid to get rid of s_options and generic_show_options() to make it easier to implement a context-based mount where the mount options can be passed individually over a file descriptor. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-04-26fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()Eric Biggers
simple_fill_super() is passed an array of tree_descr structures which describe the files to create in the filesystem's root directory. Since these arrays are never modified intentionally, they should be 'const' so that they are placed in .rodata and benefit from memory protection. This patch updates the function signature and all users, and also constifies tree_descr.name. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-01-25bpf: add initial bpf tracepointsDaniel Borkmann
This work adds a number of tracepoints to paths that are either considered slow-path or exception-like states, where monitoring or inspecting them would be desirable. For bpf(2) syscall, tracepoints have been placed for main commands when they succeed. In XDP case, tracepoint is for exceptions, that is, f.e. on abnormal BPF program exit such as unknown or XDP_ABORTED return code, or when error occurs during XDP_TX action and the packet could not be forwarded. Both have been split into separate event headers, and can be further extended. Worst case, if they unexpectedly should get into our way in future, they can also removed [1]. Of course, these tracepoints (like any other) can be analyzed by eBPF itself, etc. Example output: # ./perf record -a -e bpf:* sleep 10 # ./perf script sock_example 6197 [005] 283.980322: bpf:bpf_map_create: map type=ARRAY ufd=4 key=4 val=8 max=256 flags=0 sock_example 6197 [005] 283.980721: bpf:bpf_prog_load: prog=a5ea8fa30ea6849c type=SOCKET_FILTER ufd=5 sock_example 6197 [005] 283.988423: bpf:bpf_prog_get_type: prog=a5ea8fa30ea6849c type=SOCKET_FILTER sock_example 6197 [005] 283.988443: bpf:bpf_map_lookup_elem: map type=ARRAY ufd=4 key=[06 00 00 00] val=[00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00] [...] sock_example 6197 [005] 288.990868: bpf:bpf_map_lookup_elem: map type=ARRAY ufd=4 key=[01 00 00 00] val=[14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00] swapper 0 [005] 289.338243: bpf:bpf_prog_put_rcu: prog=a5ea8fa30ea6849c type=SOCKET_FILTER [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/705270/ Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-27bpf: allow for mount options to specify permissionsDaniel Borkmann
Since we recently converted the BPF filesystem over to use mount_nodev(), we now have the possibility to also hold mount options in sb's s_fs_info. This work implements mount options support for specifying permissions on the sb's inode, which will be used by tc when it manually needs to mount the fs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-31bpf, inode: add support for symlinks and fix mtime/ctimeDaniel Borkmann
While commit bb35a6ef7da4 ("bpf, inode: allow for rename and link ops") added support for hard links that can be used for prog and map nodes, this work adds simple symlink support, which can be used f.e. for directories also when unpriviledged and works with cmdline tooling that understands S_IFLNK anyway. Since the switch in e27f4a942a0e ("bpf: Use mount_nodev not mount_ns to mount the bpf filesystem"), there can be various mount instances with mount_nodev() and thus hierarchy can be flattened to facilitate object sharing. Thus, we can keep bpf tooling also working by repointing paths. Most of the functionality can be used from vfs library operations. The symlink is stored in the inode itself, that is in i_link, which is sufficient in our case as opposed to storing it in the page cache. While at it, I noticed that bpf_mkdir() and bpf_mkobj() don't update the directories mtime and ctime, so add a common helper for it called bpf_dentry_finalize() that takes care of it for all cases now. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-27fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestampsDeepa Dinamani
CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps. Use current_time() instead. CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe. This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also, current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be y2038 safe. Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they share the same time granularity. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-07-11bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modularPaul Gortmaker
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: init/Kconfig:config BPF_SYSCALL init/Kconfig: bool "Enable bpf() system call" ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. Note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code. We replace module.h with init.h since the file does use __init. Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-23bpf, inode: disallow userns mountsDaniel Borkmann
Follow-up to commit e27f4a942a0e ("bpf: Use mount_nodev not mount_ns to mount the bpf filesystem"), which removes the FS_USERNS_MOUNT flag. The original idea was to have a per mountns instance instead of a single global fs instance, but that didn't work out and we had to switch to mount_nodev() model. The intent of that middle ground was that we avoid users who don't play nice to create endless instances of bpf fs which are difficult to control and discover from an admin point of view, but at the same time it would have allowed us to be more flexible with regard to namespaces. Therefore, since we now did the switch to mount_nodev() as a fix where individual instances are created, we also need to remove userns mount flag along with it to avoid running into mentioned situation. I don't expect any breakage at this early point in time with removing the flag and we can revisit this later should the requirement for this come up with future users. This and commit e27f4a942a0e have been split to facilitate tracking should any of them run into the unlikely case of causing a regression. Fixes: b2197755b263 ("bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-20bpf: Use mount_nodev not mount_ns to mount the bpf filesystemEric W. Biederman
While reviewing the filesystems that set FS_USERNS_MOUNT I spotted the bpf filesystem. Looking at the code I saw a broken usage of mount_ns with current->nsproxy->mnt_ns. As the code does not acquire a reference to the mount namespace it can not possibly be correct to store the mount namespace on the superblock as it does. Replace mount_ns with mount_nodev so that each mount of the bpf filesystem returns a distinct instance, and the code is not buggy. In discussion with Hannes Frederic Sowa it was reported that the use of mount_ns was an attempt to have one bpf instance per mount namespace, in an attempt to keep resources that pin resources from hiding. That intent simply does not work, the vfs is not built to allow that kind of behavior. Which means that the bpf filesystem really is buggy both semantically and in it's implemenation as it does not nor can it implement the original intent. This change is userspace visible, but my experience with similar filesystems leads me to believe nothing will break with a model of each mount of the bpf filesystem is distinct from all others. Fixes: b2197755b263 ("bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs") Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-18Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro: "Assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE coredump: get rid of coredump_params->written ecryptfs_lookup(): try either only encrypted or plaintext name ecryptfs: avoid multiple aliases for directories bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup() __d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1) mtd: switch ubi_open_volume_path() to vfs_stat() mtd: switch open_mtd_by_chdev() to use of vfs_stat()
2016-04-28bpf: fix refcnt overflowAlexei Starovoitov
On a system with >32Gbyte of phyiscal memory and infinite RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, the malicious application may overflow 32-bit bpf program refcnt. It's also possible to overflow map refcnt on 1Tb system. Impose 32k hard limit which means that the same bpf program or map cannot be shared by more than 32k processes. Fixes: 1be7f75d1668 ("bpf: enable non-root eBPF programs") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-27bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup()Al Viro
... and other methods won't see them at all Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-12-12bpf, inode: allow for rename and link opsDaniel Borkmann
Add support for renaming and hard links to the fs. Most of this can be implemented by using simple library operations under the same constraints that we don't use a reserved name like elsewhere. Linking can be useful to share/manage things like maps across subsystem users. It works within the file system boundary, but is not allowed for directories. Symbolic links are explicitly not implemented here, as it can be better done already by doing bind mounts inside bpf fs to set up shared directories f.e. useful when using volumes in docker containers that map a private working directory into /sys/fs/bpf/ which contains itself a bind mounted path from the host's /sys/fs/bpf/ mount that is shared among multiple containers. For single maps instead of whole directory, hard links can be easily used to do the same. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-25bpf: fix clearing on persistent program array mapsDaniel Borkmann
Currently, when having map file descriptors pointing to program arrays, there's still the issue that we unconditionally flush program array contents via bpf_fd_array_map_clear() in bpf_map_release(). This happens when such a file descriptor is released and is independent of the map's refcount. Having this flush independent of the refcount is for a reason: there can be arbitrary complex dependency chains among tail calls, also circular ones (direct or indirect, nesting limit determined during runtime), and we need to make sure that the map drops all references to eBPF programs it holds, so that the map's refcount can eventually drop to zero and initiate its freeing. Btw, a walk of the whole dependency graph would not be possible for various reasons, one being complexity and another one inconsistency, i.e. new programs can be added to parts of the graph at any time, so there's no guaranteed consistent state for the time of such a walk. Now, the program array pinning itself works, but the issue is that each derived file descriptor on close would nevertheless call unconditionally into bpf_fd_array_map_clear(). Instead, keep track of users and postpone this flush until the last reference to a user is dropped. As this only concerns a subset of references (f.e. a prog array could hold a program that itself has reference on the prog array holding it, etc), we need to track them separately. Short analysis on the refcounting: on map creation time usercnt will be one, so there's no change in behaviour for bpf_map_release(), if unpinned. If we already fail in map_create(), we are immediately freed, and no file descriptor has been made public yet. In bpf_obj_pin_user(), we need to probe for a possible map in bpf_fd_probe_obj() already with a usercnt reference, so before we drop the reference on the fd with fdput(). Therefore, if actual pinning fails, we need to drop that reference again in bpf_any_put(), otherwise we keep holding it. When last reference drops on the inode, the bpf_any_put() in bpf_evict_inode() will take care of dropping the usercnt again. In the bpf_obj_get_user() case, the bpf_any_get() will grab a reference on the usercnt, still at a time when we have the reference on the path. Should we later on fail to grab a new file descriptor, bpf_any_put() will drop it, otherwise we hold it until bpf_map_release() time. Joint work with Alexei. Fixes: b2197755b263 ("bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-02bpf: add support for persistent maps/progsDaniel Borkmann
This work adds support for "persistent" eBPF maps/programs. The term "persistent" is to be understood that maps/programs have a facility that lets them survive process termination. This is desired by various eBPF subsystem users. Just to name one example: tc classifier/action. Whenever tc parses the ELF object, extracts and loads maps/progs into the kernel, these file descriptors will be out of reach after the tc instance exits. So a subsequent tc invocation won't be able to access/relocate on this resource, and therefore maps cannot easily be shared, f.e. between the ingress and egress networking data path. The current workaround is that Unix domain sockets (UDS) need to be instrumented in order to pass the created eBPF map/program file descriptors to a third party management daemon through UDS' socket passing facility. This makes it a bit complicated to deploy shared eBPF maps or programs (programs f.e. for tail calls) among various processes. We've been brainstorming on how we could tackle this issue and various approches have been tried out so far, which can be read up further in the below reference. The architecture we eventually ended up with is a minimal file system that can hold map/prog objects. The file system is a per mount namespace singleton, and the default mount point is /sys/fs/bpf/. Any subsequent mounts within a given namespace will point to the same instance. The file system allows for creating a user-defined directory structure. The objects for maps/progs are created/fetched through bpf(2) with two new commands (BPF_OBJ_PIN/BPF_OBJ_GET). I.e. a bpf file descriptor along with a pathname is being passed to bpf(2) that in turn creates (we call it eBPF object pinning) the file system nodes. Only the pathname is being passed to bpf(2) for getting a new BPF file descriptor to an existing node. The user can use that to access maps and progs later on, through bpf(2). Removal of file system nodes is being managed through normal VFS functions such as unlink(2), etc. The file system code is kept to a very minimum and can be further extended later on. The next step I'm working on is to add dump eBPF map/prog commands to bpf(2), so that a specification from a given file descriptor can be retrieved. This can be used by things like CRIU but also applications can inspect the meta data after calling BPF_OBJ_GET. Big thanks also to Alexei and Hannes who significantly contributed in the design discussion that eventually let us end up with this architecture here. Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/925 Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>