On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:28:24PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> If BPF_F_ALLOW_OVERRIDE flag is used in BPF_PROG_ATTACH command
> to the given cgroup the descendent cgroup will be able to override
> effective bpf program that was inherited from this cgroup.
> By default it's not passed, therefore override is disallowed.
>
> Examples:
> 1.
> prog X attached to /A with default
> prog Y fails to attach to /A/B and /A/B/C
> Everything under /A runs prog X
>
> 2.
> prog X attached to /A with allow_override.
> prog Y fails to attach to /A/B with default (non-override)
> prog M attached to /A/B with allow_override.
> Everything under /A/B runs prog M only.
>
> 3.
> prog X attached to /A with allow_override.
> prog Y fails to attach to /A with default.
> The user has to detach first to switch the mode.
>
> In the future this behavior may be extended with a chain of
> non-overridable programs.
>
> Also fix the bug where detach from cgroup where nothing is attached
> was not throwing error. Return ENOENT in such case.
>
> Add several testcases and adjust libbpf.
>
> Fixes: 3007098494be ("cgroup: add support for eBPF programs")
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>
The cgroup part looks good to me. Please feel free to add
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
One question tho. Is there a specific reason to disallow attaching
!overridable program under an overridable one? Isn't disallowing
attaching programs if the closest ancestor is !overridable enough?
Thanks.
--
tejun
