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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel•org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat•com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	ast@kernel•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: emit audit messages upon successful prog load and unload
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:42:49 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181005194249.GF20250@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181005184434.uphwrbqkfx2isbx4@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

Em Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 11:44:35AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 08:14:09AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:10:15PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:22:31PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > > My use-case is to 24/7 collect and keep records in userspace, and have a
> > > > timeline of these notifications, for later retrieval.  The idea is that
> > > > our support engineers can look at these records when troubleshooting
> > > > the system.  And the plan is also to collect these records as part of
> > > > our sosreport tool, which is part of the support case.

> > > I don't think you're implying that prog load/unload should be spamming dmesg
> > > and auditd not even running...

> > I think the problem Jesper implied is that in order to collect
> > those logs you'll need perf tool running all the time.. which
> > it's not equipped for yet

> I'm not proposing to run 'perf' binary all the time.

I think Jiri just said that one would have to run something all the time
to get all the records, see below

> Setting up perf ring buffer just for these new bpf prog load/unload events
> and epolling it is simple enough to do from any application including auditd.
> selftests/bpf/ do it for bpf output events.

I think he is talking about the preexisting loaded BPF programs. We have
the same problem with mmaps, where the perf tool will, with races,
enumerate the existing mmaps as PERF_RECORD_MMAP synthesized from
/proc/PIDS/smaps.

There was talk in the past to ask the kernel to emit PERF_RECORD_MMAP
into the ring buffer for those pre-existing entries, reducing a bit the
races, but as there doesn't seem to have a good way of doing it, we
continued with the synthesizing from procfs.

Is there a way for us to synthesize those prog load/unload for
preexisting loaded bpf objects?

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-06  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-04 13:50 [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: emit audit messages upon successful prog load and unload Daniel Borkmann
2018-10-04 17:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-10-04 18:39   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-10-04 19:41     ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-10-04 20:22       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-10-04 22:10         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-10-05  6:14           ` Jiri Olsa
2018-10-05 18:44             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-10-05 19:42               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2018-10-05 20:26                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-10-05 22:05               ` Jiri Olsa
2018-10-07 16:19                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-10-18 19:53                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2018-10-18 22:09                     ` Steve Grubb
2018-10-08 11:57           ` Jiri Olsa
2018-10-10 19:53             ` Alexei Starovoitov

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