Il giorno sab 12 apr 2025 alle ore 02:19 Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

Similar to what I proposed here?

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211203191844.69709-2-mcr...@linux.microsoft.com/

> The verification of module signatures is a job of the module loading process.
> The same thing should be done by the bpf system.
> The signature needs to be passed into sys_bpf syscall
> as a part of BPF_PROG_LOAD command.

 static int bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, bpfptr_t uattr)
 {
@@ -2302,6 +2306,43 @@ static int bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr,
bpfptr_t uattr)

> It probably should be two new fields in union bpf_attr
> (signature and length),

@@ -1346,6 +1346,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
  __aligned_u64 fd_array; /* array of FDs */
  __aligned_u64 core_relos;
  __u32 core_relo_rec_size; /* sizeof(struct bpf_core_relo) */
+ __aligned_u64 signature; /* instruction's signature */
+ __u32 sig_len; /* signature size */

> and the whole thing should be processed as part of the loading
> with human readable error reported back through the verifier log
> in case of signature mismatch, etc.

+ if (err) {
+ pr_warn("Invalid BPF signature for '%s': %pe\n",
+ prog->aux->name, ERR_PTR(err));
+ goto free_prog_sec;
+ }

It's been four years since my submission and the discussion was
lengthy, what was the problem with the proposed signature in bpf_attr?

Regards,
-- 
Matteo Croce

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