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It is currently not possible to detach the flow dissector program and attach a new one in an atomic fashion, that is with a single syscall. Attempts to do so will be met with EEXIST error. This makes updates to flow dissector program hard. Traffic steering that relies on BPF-powered flow dissection gets disrupted while old program has been already detached but the new one has not been attached yet. There is also a window of opportunity to attach a flow dissector to a non-root namespace while updating the root flow dissector, thus blocking the update. Lastly, the behavior is inconsistent with cgroup BPF programs, which can be replaced with a single bpf(BPF_PROG_ATTACH, ...) syscall without any restrictions. Allow attaching a new flow dissector program when another one is already present with a restriction that it can't be the same program. Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191011082946.22695-2-jakub@cloudflare.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.