BPF: what's good, what's coming, and what's needed
BPF: what's good, what's coming, and what's needed
Posted May 12, 2019 5:14 UTC (Sun) by alison (subscriber, #63752)Parent article: BPF: what's good, what's coming, and what's needed
> A file like /dev/bpf could be used for access control, but that's still > pretty coarse; perhaps what is needed is a hierarchy of files
> describing the different program types and their access
> permissions.
> describing the different program types and their access
> permissions.
Is there some reason why sysfs is not the obvious answer? Maybe /sys/kernel/debug/bpf, or /sys/kernel/bpf? That would certainly clarify the ABI stability question! The solution would be to keep new BPF interfaces in staging branch until we're sure we'll keep them.