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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>
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To allow for restarts 61fbf5933d42 ("net: bpfilter: restart
bpfilter_umh when error occurred") moved the blob holding the
userspace binary out of the init sections.
Now that loading the blob into a filesystem is separate from executing
the blob the blob no longer needs to live .rodata to allow for restarting.
So move the blob back to .init.rodata.
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sgeidlvq.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftad4ozc.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-11-ebiederm@xmission.com
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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The section of bpfilter UMH blob is the ".bpfilter_umh". but this is not
an explicit section. so linking warning occurred at compile time for the
powerpc.
So, this patch makes use of the ".rodata" instead of the ".bpfilter_umh".
Config condition:
CONFIG_BPFILTER=y
CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=y
Result:
ld: warning: orphan section `.bpfilter_umh' from
`net/bpfilter/bpfilter_umh_blob.o' being placed in section `.bpfilter_umh'
Fixes: 61fbf5933d42 ("net: bpfilter: restart bpfilter_umh when error occurred")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The bpfilter_umh will be stopped via __stop_umh() when the bpfilter
error occurred.
The bpfilter_umh() couldn't start again because there is no restart
routine.
The section of the bpfilter_umh_{start/end} is no longer .init.rodata
because these area should be reused in the restart routine. hence
the section name is changed to .bpfilter_umh.
The bpfilter_ops->start() is restart callback. it will be called when
bpfilter_umh is stopped.
The stop bit means bpfilter_umh is stopped. this bit is set by both
start and stop routine.
Before this patch,
Test commands:
$ iptables -vnL
$ kill -9 <pid of bpfilter_umh>
$ iptables -vnL
[ 480.045136] bpfilter: write fail -32
$ iptables -vnL
All iptables commands will fail.
After this patch,
Test commands:
$ iptables -vnL
$ kill -9 <pid of bpfilter_umh>
$ iptables -vnL
$ iptables -vnL
Now, all iptables commands will work.
Fixes: d2ba09c17a06 ("net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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What we want here is to embed a user-space program into the kernel.
Instead of the complex ELF magic, let's simply wrap it in the assembly
with the '.incbin' directive.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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