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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Check correct cred for CAP_SYSLOG in bpf_dump_raw_ok()</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-02T22:45:23+00:00</published>
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commit 63960260457a02af2a6cb35d75e6bdb17299c882 upstream.

When evaluating access control over kallsyms visibility, credentials at
open() time need to be used, not the "current" creds (though in BPF's
case, this has likely always been the same). Plumb access to associated
file-&gt;f_cred down through bpf_dump_raw_ok() and its callers now that
kallsysm_show_value() has been refactored to take struct cred.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7105e828c087 ("bpf: allow for correlation of maps and helpers in dump")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 63960260457a02af2a6cb35d75e6bdb17299c882 upstream.

When evaluating access control over kallsyms visibility, credentials at
open() time need to be used, not the "current" creds (though in BPF's
case, this has likely always been the same). Plumb access to associated
file-&gt;f_cred down through bpf_dump_raw_ok() and its callers now that
kallsysm_show_value() has been refactored to take struct cred.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7105e828c087 ("bpf: allow for correlation of maps and helpers in dump")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: Refactor kallsyms_show_value() to take cred</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:13:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-02T18:49:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=27801485039d491539d29c262e8927ccff6cf477'/>
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commit 160251842cd35a75edfb0a1d76afa3eb674ff40a upstream.

In order to perform future tests against the cred saved during open(),
switch kallsyms_show_value() to operate on a cred, and have all current
callers pass current_cred(). This makes it very obvious where callers
are checking the wrong credential in their "read" contexts. These will
be fixed in the coming patches.

Additionally switch return value to bool, since it is always used as a
direct permission check, not a 0-on-success, negative-on-error style
function return.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 160251842cd35a75edfb0a1d76afa3eb674ff40a upstream.

In order to perform future tests against the cred saved during open(),
switch kallsyms_show_value() to operate on a cred, and have all current
callers pass current_cred(). This makes it very obvious where callers
are checking the wrong credential in their "read" contexts. These will
be fixed in the coming patches.

Additionally switch return value to bool, since it is always used as a
direct permission check, not a 0-on-success, negative-on-error style
function return.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add name to struct bpf_ksym</title>
<updated>2020-03-13T19:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T19:55:59+00:00</published>
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Adding name to 'struct bpf_ksym' object to carry the name
of the symbol for bpf_prog, bpf_trampoline, bpf_dispatcher
objects.

The current benefit is that name is now generated only when
the symbol is added to the list, so we don't need to generate
it every time it's accessed.

The future benefit is that we will have all the bpf objects
symbols represented by struct bpf_ksym.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Adding name to 'struct bpf_ksym' object to carry the name
of the symbol for bpf_prog, bpf_trampoline, bpf_dispatcher
objects.

The current benefit is that name is now generated only when
the symbol is added to the list, so we don't need to generate
it every time it's accessed.

The future benefit is that we will have all the bpf objects
symbols represented by struct bpf_ksym.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_trampoline_ name prefix for DECLARE_BPF_DISPATCHER</title>
<updated>2020-03-13T19:49:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Töpel</name>
<email>bjorn.topel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T19:55:57+00:00</published>
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Adding bpf_trampoline_ name prefix for DECLARE_BPF_DISPATCHER,
so all the dispatchers have the common name prefix.

And also a small '_' cleanup for bpf_dispatcher_nopfunc function
name.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Adding bpf_trampoline_ name prefix for DECLARE_BPF_DISPATCHER,
so all the dispatchers have the common name prefix.

And also a small '_' cleanup for bpf_dispatcher_nopfunc function
name.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Use migrate_disable/enable in array macros and cgroup/lirc code.</title>
<updated>2020-02-25T00:20:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T14:01:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2a916f2f546ca1c1e3323e2a4269307f6d9890eb'/>
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Replace the preemption disable/enable with migrate_disable/enable() to
reflect the actual requirement and to allow PREEMPT_RT to substitute it
with an actual migration disable mechanism which does not disable
preemption.

Including the code paths that go via __bpf_prog_run_save_cb().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.998293311@linutronix.de
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Replace the preemption disable/enable with migrate_disable/enable() to
reflect the actual requirement and to allow PREEMPT_RT to substitute it
with an actual migration disable mechanism which does not disable
preemption.

Including the code paths that go via __bpf_prog_run_save_cb().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.998293311@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Use bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() at simple call sites.</title>
<updated>2020-02-25T00:20:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T14:01:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3d9f773cf2876c01a505b9fe27270901d464e90a'/>
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All of these cases are strictly of the form:

	preempt_disable();
	BPF_PROG_RUN(...);
	preempt_enable();

Replace this with bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() which wraps BPF_PROG_RUN()
with:

	migrate_disable();
	BPF_PROG_RUN(...);
	migrate_enable();

On non RT enabled kernels this maps to preempt_disable/enable() and on RT
enabled kernels this solely prevents migration, which is sufficient as
there is no requirement to prevent reentrancy to any BPF program from a
preempting task. The only requirement is that the program stays on the same
CPU.

Therefore, this is a trivially correct transformation.

The seccomp loop does not need protection over the loop. It only needs
protection per BPF filter program

[ tglx: Converted to bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() ]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.691493094@linutronix.de
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All of these cases are strictly of the form:

	preempt_disable();
	BPF_PROG_RUN(...);
	preempt_enable();

Replace this with bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() which wraps BPF_PROG_RUN()
with:

	migrate_disable();
	BPF_PROG_RUN(...);
	migrate_enable();

On non RT enabled kernels this maps to preempt_disable/enable() and on RT
enabled kernels this solely prevents migration, which is sufficient as
there is no requirement to prevent reentrancy to any BPF program from a
preempting task. The only requirement is that the program stays on the same
CPU.

Therefore, this is a trivially correct transformation.

The seccomp loop does not need protection over the loop. It only needs
protection per BPF filter program

[ tglx: Converted to bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() ]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.691493094@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Replace cant_sleep() with cant_migrate()</title>
<updated>2020-02-25T00:20:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T14:01:42+00:00</published>
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As already discussed in the previous change which introduced
BPF_RUN_PROG_PIN_ON_CPU() BPF only requires to disable migration to
guarantee per CPUness.

If RT substitutes the preempt disable based migration protection then the
cant_sleep() check will obviously trigger as preemption is not disabled.

Replace it by cant_migrate() which maps to cant_sleep() on a non RT kernel
and will verify that migration is disabled on a full RT kernel.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.583038889@linutronix.de
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As already discussed in the previous change which introduced
BPF_RUN_PROG_PIN_ON_CPU() BPF only requires to disable migration to
guarantee per CPUness.

If RT substitutes the preempt disable based migration protection then the
cant_sleep() check will obviously trigger as preemption is not disabled.

Replace it by cant_migrate() which maps to cant_sleep() on a non RT kernel
and will verify that migration is disabled on a full RT kernel.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.583038889@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Provide bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() helper</title>
<updated>2020-02-25T00:20:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T14:01:41+00:00</published>
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BPF programs require to run on one CPU to completion as they use per CPU
storage, but according to Alexei they don't need reentrancy protection as
obviously BPF programs running in thread context can always be 'preempted'
by hard and soft interrupts and instrumentation and the same program can
run concurrently on a different CPU.

The currently used mechanism to ensure CPUness is to wrap the invocation
into a preempt_disable/enable() pair. Disabling preemption is also
disabling migration for a task.

preempt_disable/enable() is used because there is no explicit way to
reliably disable only migration.

Provide a separate macro to invoke a BPF program which can be used in
migrateable task context.

It wraps BPF_PROG_RUN() in a migrate_disable/enable() pair which maps on
non RT enabled kernels to preempt_disable/enable(). On RT enabled kernels
this merely disables migration. Both methods ensure that the invoked BPF
program runs on one CPU to completion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.474592620@linutronix.de
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BPF programs require to run on one CPU to completion as they use per CPU
storage, but according to Alexei they don't need reentrancy protection as
obviously BPF programs running in thread context can always be 'preempted'
by hard and soft interrupts and instrumentation and the same program can
run concurrently on a different CPU.

The currently used mechanism to ensure CPUness is to wrap the invocation
into a preempt_disable/enable() pair. Disabling preemption is also
disabling migration for a task.

preempt_disable/enable() is used because there is no explicit way to
reliably disable only migration.

Provide a separate macro to invoke a BPF program which can be used in
migrateable task context.

It wraps BPF_PROG_RUN() in a migrate_disable/enable() pair which maps on
non RT enabled kernels to preempt_disable/enable(). On RT enabled kernels
this merely disables migration. Both methods ensure that the invoked BPF
program runs on one CPU to completion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.474592620@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xdp: Use bulking for non-map XDP_REDIRECT and consolidate code paths</title>
<updated>2020-01-17T04:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T15:14:45+00:00</published>
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Since the bulk queue used by XDP_REDIRECT now lives in struct net_device,
we can re-use the bulking for the non-map version of the bpf_redirect()
helper. This is a simple matter of having xdp_do_redirect_slow() queue the
frame on the bulk queue instead of sending it out with __bpf_tx_xdp().

Unfortunately we can't make the bpf_redirect() helper return an error if
the ifindex doesn't exit (as bpf_redirect_map() does), because we don't
have a reference to the network namespace of the ingress device at the time
the helper is called. So we have to leave it as-is and keep the device
lookup in xdp_do_redirect_slow().

Since this leaves less reason to have the non-map redirect code in a
separate function, so we get rid of the xdp_do_redirect_slow() function
entirely. This does lose us the tracepoint disambiguation, but fortunately
the xdp_redirect and xdp_redirect_map tracepoints use the same tracepoint
entry structures. This means both can contain a map index, so we can just
amend the tracepoint definitions so we always emit the xdp_redirect(_err)
tracepoints, but with the map ID only populated if a map is present. This
means we retire the xdp_redirect_map(_err) tracepoints entirely, but keep
the definitions around in case someone is still listening for them.

With this change, the performance of the xdp_redirect sample program goes
from 5Mpps to 8.4Mpps (a 68% increase).

Since the flush functions are no longer map-specific, rename the flush()
functions to drop _map from their names. One of the renamed functions is
the xdp_do_flush_map() callback used in all the xdp-enabled drivers. To
keep from having to update all drivers, use a #define to keep the old name
working, and only update the virtual drivers in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/157918768505.1458396.17518057312953572912.stgit@toke.dk
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Since the bulk queue used by XDP_REDIRECT now lives in struct net_device,
we can re-use the bulking for the non-map version of the bpf_redirect()
helper. This is a simple matter of having xdp_do_redirect_slow() queue the
frame on the bulk queue instead of sending it out with __bpf_tx_xdp().

Unfortunately we can't make the bpf_redirect() helper return an error if
the ifindex doesn't exit (as bpf_redirect_map() does), because we don't
have a reference to the network namespace of the ingress device at the time
the helper is called. So we have to leave it as-is and keep the device
lookup in xdp_do_redirect_slow().

Since this leaves less reason to have the non-map redirect code in a
separate function, so we get rid of the xdp_do_redirect_slow() function
entirely. This does lose us the tracepoint disambiguation, but fortunately
the xdp_redirect and xdp_redirect_map tracepoints use the same tracepoint
entry structures. This means both can contain a map index, so we can just
amend the tracepoint definitions so we always emit the xdp_redirect(_err)
tracepoints, but with the map ID only populated if a map is present. This
means we retire the xdp_redirect_map(_err) tracepoints entirely, but keep
the definitions around in case someone is still listening for them.

With this change, the performance of the xdp_redirect sample program goes
from 5Mpps to 8.4Mpps (a 68% increase).

Since the flush functions are no longer map-specific, rename the flush()
functions to drop _map from their names. One of the renamed functions is
the xdp_do_flush_map() callback used in all the xdp-enabled drivers. To
keep from having to update all drivers, use a #define to keep the old name
working, and only update the virtual drivers in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/157918768505.1458396.17518057312953572912.stgit@toke.dk
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: tcp: Support tcp_congestion_ops in bpf</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T16:46:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>kafai@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-09T00:35:08+00:00</published>
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This patch makes "struct tcp_congestion_ops" to be the first user
of BPF STRUCT_OPS.  It allows implementing a tcp_congestion_ops
in bpf.

The BPF implemented tcp_congestion_ops can be used like
regular kernel tcp-cc through sysctl and setsockopt.  e.g.
[root@arch-fb-vm1 bpf]# sysctl -a | egrep congestion
net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control = reno cubic bpf_cubic
net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control = reno bic cubic bpf_cubic
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bpf_cubic

There has been attempt to move the TCP CC to the user space
(e.g. CCP in TCP).   The common arguments are faster turn around,
get away from long-tail kernel versions in production...etc,
which are legit points.

BPF has been the continuous effort to join both kernel and
userspace upsides together (e.g. XDP to gain the performance
advantage without bypassing the kernel).  The recent BPF
advancements (in particular BTF-aware verifier, BPF trampoline,
BPF CO-RE...) made implementing kernel struct ops (e.g. tcp cc)
possible in BPF.  It allows a faster turnaround for testing algorithm
in the production while leveraging the existing (and continue growing)
BPF feature/framework instead of building one specifically for
userspace TCP CC.

This patch allows write access to a few fields in tcp-sock
(in bpf_tcp_ca_btf_struct_access()).

The optional "get_info" is unsupported now.  It can be added
later.  One possible way is to output the info with a btf-id
to describe the content.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200109003508.3856115-1-kafai@fb.com
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This patch makes "struct tcp_congestion_ops" to be the first user
of BPF STRUCT_OPS.  It allows implementing a tcp_congestion_ops
in bpf.

The BPF implemented tcp_congestion_ops can be used like
regular kernel tcp-cc through sysctl and setsockopt.  e.g.
[root@arch-fb-vm1 bpf]# sysctl -a | egrep congestion
net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control = reno cubic bpf_cubic
net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control = reno bic cubic bpf_cubic
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bpf_cubic

There has been attempt to move the TCP CC to the user space
(e.g. CCP in TCP).   The common arguments are faster turn around,
get away from long-tail kernel versions in production...etc,
which are legit points.

BPF has been the continuous effort to join both kernel and
userspace upsides together (e.g. XDP to gain the performance
advantage without bypassing the kernel).  The recent BPF
advancements (in particular BTF-aware verifier, BPF trampoline,
BPF CO-RE...) made implementing kernel struct ops (e.g. tcp cc)
possible in BPF.  It allows a faster turnaround for testing algorithm
in the production while leveraging the existing (and continue growing)
BPF feature/framework instead of building one specifically for
userspace TCP CC.

This patch allows write access to a few fields in tcp-sock
(in bpf_tcp_ca_btf_struct_access()).

The optional "get_info" is unsupported now.  It can be added
later.  One possible way is to output the info with a btf-id
to describe the content.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200109003508.3856115-1-kafai@fb.com
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