The common use-case in production is to have multiple cgroup-bpf programs per attach type that cover multiple use-cases. Such programs are attached with BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI and can be maintained by different people. Order of programs usually matters, for example imagine two egress programs: the first one drops packets and the second one counts packets. If they're swapped the result of counting program will be different. It brings operational challenges with updating cgroup-bpf program(s) attached with BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI since there is no way to replace a program: * One way to update is to detach all programs first and then attach the new version(s) again in the right order. This introduces an interruption in the work a program is doing and may not be acceptable (e.g. if it's egress firewall); * Another way is attach the new version of a program first and only then detach the old version. This introduces the time interval when two versions of same program are working, what may not be acceptable if a program is not idempotent. It also imposes additional burden on program developers to make sure that two versions of their program can co-exist. Solve the problem by introducing a "replace" mode in BPF_PROG_ATTACH command for cgroup-bpf programs being attached with BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI flag. This mode is enabled by newly introduced BPF_F_REPLACE attach flag and bpf_attr.replace_bpf_fd attribute to pass fd of the old program to replace That way user can replace any program among those attached with BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI flag without the problems described above. Details of the new API: * If BPF_F_REPLACE is set but replace_bpf_fd doesn't have valid descriptor of BPF program, BPF_PROG_ATTACH will return corresponding error (EINVAL or EBADF). * If replace_bpf_fd has valid descriptor of BPF program but such a program is not attached to specified cgroup, BPF_PROG_ATTACH will return ENOENT. BPF_F_REPLACE is introduced to make the user intent clear, since replace_bpf_fd alone can't be used for this (its default value, 0, is a valid fd). BPF_F_REPLACE also makes it possible to extend the API in the future (e.g. add BPF_F_BEFORE and BPF_F_AFTER if needed). Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Acked-by: Andrii Narkyiko <andriin@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/30cd850044a0057bdfcaaf154b7d2f39850ba813.1576741281.git.rdna@fb.com
This is a mirror of bpf-next linux tree's
tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.
The following files will by sync'ed with bpf-next repo:
src/<->bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.hinclude/uapi/linux/bpf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.hinclude/uapi/linux/btf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_link.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.hinclude/uapi/linux/netlink.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.hinclude/tools/libc_compat.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h
Other header files at this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at bpf-next's tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation
successful.
Build

libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link
against and must be installed on the system for applications to work.
pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be
overridden with PKG_CONFIG.
If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by setting
NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
License
This work is dual-licensed under BSD 2-clause license and GNU LGPL v2.1 license. You can choose between one of them if you use this work.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR LGPL-2.1