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Commit e459f49b authored by Mariusz Dudek's avatar Mariusz Dudek Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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libbpf: Separate XDP program load with xsk socket creation


Add support for separation of eBPF program load and xsk socket
creation.

This is needed for use-case when you want to privide as little
privileges as possible to the data plane application that will
handle xsk socket creation and incoming traffic.

With this patch the data entity container can be run with only
CAP_NET_RAW capability to fulfill its purpose of creating xsk
socket and handling packages. In case your umem is larger or
equal process limit for MEMLOCK you need either increase the
limit or CAP_IPC_LOCK capability.

To resolve privileges issue two APIs are introduced:

- xsk_setup_xdp_prog - loads the built in XDP program. It can
also return xsks_map_fd which is needed by unprivileged process
to update xsks_map with AF_XDP socket "fd"

- xsk_socket__update_xskmap - inserts an AF_XDP socket into an xskmap
for a particular xsk_socket

Signed-off-by: default avatarMariusz Dudek <mariuszx.dudek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMagnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201203090546.11976-2-mariuszx.dudek@intel.com
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