Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf: Expose bpf_d_path helper to sleepable LSM hooks

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Fri Nov 13 2020 - 10:33:50 EST


On 11/13/20 4:18 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:


On 11/12/20 9:19 AM, KP Singh wrote:
From: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sleepable hooks are never called from an NMI/interrupt context, so it is
safe to use the bpf_d_path helper in LSM programs attaching to these
hooks.

The helper is not restricted to sleepable programs and merely uses the
list of sleeable hooks as the initial subset of LSM hooks where it can

sleeable => sleepable

probably not need to resend if no other major changes. The maintainer
can just fix it up before merging.

Did while rebasing & applying, thanks everyone!

be used.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>