Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] bpf: share helpers between tracing and networking

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On 6/15/15 4:01 PM, David Miller wrote:
> Although I agree with the sentiment that this thing can cause
> surprising results and can be asking for trouble.
>
> If someone wants to filter traffic "by UID" they might make
> a simple ingress TC ebpf program using these new interfaces
> and expect it to work.
>
> But the UID their program will see will be the UID of whatever
> randomly happened to be executing when the packet was received
> and processed.

yes, you're right. Such tc filters will be incorrect.
Will send a partial revert disallowing them in tc.

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