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Alexei Starovoitov 43caeec90d Merge branch 'destructive bpf_kfuncs'
Artem Savkov says:

====================

eBPF is often used for kernel debugging, and one of the widely used and
powerful debugging techniques is post-mortem debugging with a full memory dump.
Triggering a panic at exactly the right moment allows the user to get such a
dump and thus a better view at the system's state. Right now the only way to
do this in BPF is to signal userspace to trigger kexec/panic. This is
suboptimal as going through userspace requires context changes and adds
significant delays taking system further away from "the right moment". On a
single-cpu system the situation is even worse because BPF program won't even be
able to block the thread of interest.

This patchset tries to solve this problem by allowing properly marked tracing
bpf programs to call crash_kexec() kernel function. The only requirement for
now to run programs calling crash_kexec() or other destructive kfuncs is
CAP_SYS_BOOT capability. When signature checking for bpf programs is available
it is possible that stricter rules will be applied to programs utilizing
destructive kfuncs.

Changes in v5:
 - documentation numbering fixed
 - no more warning on failed kfunc registration

Changes in v4:
 - added description for KF_DESTRUCTIVE flag to documentation

Changes in v3:
 - moved kfunc set registration to kernel/bpf/helpers.c

Changes in v2:
 - BPF_PROG_LOAD flag dropped as it doesn't fully achieve it's aim of
   preventing accidental execution of destructive bpf programs
 - selftest moved to the end of patchset
 - switched to kfunc destructive flag instead of a separate set

Changes from RFC:
 - sysctl knob dropped
 - using crash_kexec() instead of panic()
 - using kfuncs instead of adding a new helper
====================

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2022-08-10 09:22:19 -07:00
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certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-08-02 17:45:14 -07:00
Documentation bpf: add destructive kfunc flag 2022-08-10 09:22:18 -07:00
drivers Networking changes for 6.0. 2022-08-03 16:29:08 -07:00
fs zonefs changes for 5.20-rc1 2022-08-03 15:21:53 -07:00
include bpf: add destructive kfunc flag 2022-08-10 09:22:18 -07:00
init Several core optimizations: 2022-08-03 09:45:08 -07:00
io_uring iov_iter work, part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations. 2022-08-03 13:50:22 -07:00
ipc ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed 2022-06-22 17:47:41 -05:00
kernel bpf: export crash_kexec() as destructive kfunc 2022-08-10 09:22:18 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm for-5.20-tag 2022-08-03 14:54:52 -07:00
net selftests/bpf: add destructive kfunc test 2022-08-10 09:22:18 -07:00
samples Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2022-07-22 16:55:44 -07:00
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sound ASoC: Drop Rockchip BCLK management for v5.19 2022-07-15 12:31:07 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: add destructive kfunc test 2022-08-10 09:22:18 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: disable preemption around the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_{un|}blocking 2022-06-09 10:52:20 -04:00
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