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This is the third round of my changeset to split the user mode driver code from the user mode helper code, and to make the code use common facilities to get things done instead of recreating them just for the user mode driver code. I have split the changes into small enough pieces so they should be easily readable and testable. The changes lean into the preexisting interfaces in the kernel and remove special cases for user mode driver code in favor of solutions that don't need special cases. This results in smaller code with fewer bugs. At a practical level this removes the maintenance burden of the user mode drivers from the user mode helper code and from exec as the special cases are removed. Similarly the LSM interaction bugs are fixed by not having unnecessary special cases for user mode drivers. I have tested thes changes by booting with the code compiled in and by killing "bpfilter_umh" and "running iptables -vnL" to restart the userspace driver, also by running "while true; do iptables -L;rmmod bpfilter; done" to verify the module load and unload work properly. I have compiled tested each change with and without CONFIG_BPFILTER enabled. From v2 to v3 I have made two siginficant changes. - I factored thread_group_exit out of pidfd_poll to allow the test to be used by the bpfilter code. - I renamed umd.c and umd.h to usermode_driver.c and usermode_driver.h respectively. I made a few very small changes from v1 to v2: - Updated the function name in a comment when the function is renamed - Moved some more code so that the the !CONFIG_BPFILTER case continues to compile when I moved the code into umd.c - A fix for the module loading case to really flush the file descriptor. - Removed split_argv entirely from fork_usermode_driver. There was nothing to split so it was just confusing. Please let me know if you see any bugs. Once the code review is finished I plan to place the code in a non-rebasing branch so I can pull it into my tree and so it can also be pulled into the bpf-next tree. v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pn9mgfc2.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bll17ili.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Eric W. Biederman (16): umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file. umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver umh: Stop calling do_execve_file exec: Remove do_execve_file bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of struct pid umd: Remove exit_umh umd: Stop using split_argv Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y2o1swee.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.