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    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      Merge branch 'bpf_link' · abbc61a5
      Alexei Starovoitov authored
      Andrii Nakryiko says:
      
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      This patch series adds bpf_link abstraction, analogous to libbpf's already
      existing bpf_link abstraction. This formalizes and makes more uniform existing
      bpf_link-like BPF program link (attachment) types (raw tracepoint and tracing
      links), which are FD-based objects that are automatically detached when last
      file reference is closed. These types of BPF program links are switched to
      using bpf_link framework.
      
      FD-based bpf_link approach provides great safety guarantees, by ensuring there
      is not going to be an abandoned BPF program attached, if user process suddenly
      exits or forgets to clean up after itself. This is especially important in
      production environment and is what all the recent new BPF link types followed.
      
      One of the previously existing  inconveniences of FD-based approach, though,
      was the scenario in which user process wants to install BPF link and exit, but
      let attached BPF program run. Now, with bpf_link abstraction in place, it's
      easy to support pinning links in BPF FS, which is done as part of the same
      patch #1. This allows FD-based BPF program links to survive exit of a user
      process and original file descriptor being closed, by creating an file entry
      in BPF FS. This provides great safety by default, with simple way to opt out
      for cases where it's needed.
      
      Corresponding libbpf APIs are added in the same patch set, as well as
      selftests for this functionality.
      
      Other types of BPF program attachments (XDP, cgroup, perf_event, etc) are
      going to be converted in subsequent patches to follow similar approach.
      
      v1->v2:
      - use bpf_link_new_fd() uniformly (Alexei).
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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