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author | Quentin Deslandes <qde@naccy.de> | 2023-12-26 14:07:42 +0100 |
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committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2024-01-04 10:23:10 -0800 |
commit | 98e20e5e13d2811898921f999288be7151a11954 (patch) | |
tree | 194da196f85df00ebcc907347627265ea1fa2d72 /net/bpfilter/Kconfig | |
parent | 9ddf872b47e3ac8f27dbfc4a4737a976c7588de6 (diff) |
bpfilter: remove bpfilter
bpfilter was supposed to convert iptables filtering rules into
BPF programs on the fly, from the kernel, through a usermode
helper. The base code for the UMH was introduced in 2018, and
couple of attempts (2, 3) tried to introduce the BPF program
generate features but were abandoned.
bpfilter now sits in a kernel tree unused and unusable, occasionally
causing confusion amongst Linux users (4, 5).
As bpfilter is now developed in a dedicated repository on GitHub (6),
it was suggested a couple of times this year (LSFMM/BPF 2023,
LPC 2023) to remove the deprecated kernel part of the project. This
is the purpose of this patch.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180522022230.2492505-1-ast@kernel.org/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210829183608.2297877-1-me@ubique.spb.ru/#t
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221224000402.476079-1-qde@naccy.de/
[4]: https://dxuuu.xyz/bpfilter.html
[5]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pull/3904
[6]: https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter
Signed-off-by: Quentin Deslandes <qde@naccy.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226130745.465988-1-qde@naccy.de
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bpfilter/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | net/bpfilter/Kconfig | 23 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig b/net/bpfilter/Kconfig deleted file mode 100644 index 3d4a21462458..000000000000 --- a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only -menuconfig BPFILTER - bool "BPF based packet filtering framework (BPFILTER)" - depends on BPF && INET - select USERMODE_DRIVER - help - This builds experimental bpfilter framework that is aiming to - provide netfilter compatible functionality via BPF - -if BPFILTER -config BPFILTER_UMH - tristate "bpfilter kernel module with user mode helper" - depends on CC_CAN_LINK - depends on m || CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC - default m - help - This builds bpfilter kernel module with embedded user mode helper - - Note: To compile this as built-in, your toolchain must support - building static binaries, since rootfs isn't mounted at the time - when __init functions are called and do_execv won't be able to find - the elf interpreter. -endif |