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{ "id": 72971, "url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/api/covers/72971/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20200703102332.1101232-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/api/projects/1/?format=api", "name": "DPDK", "link_name": "dpdk", "list_id": "dev.dpdk.org", "list_email": "dev@dpdk.org", "web_url": "http://core.dpdk.org", "scm_url": "git://dpdk.org/dpdk", "webscm_url": "http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev", "list_archive_url_format": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/{}", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<20200703102332.1101232-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200703102332.1101232-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com", "date": "2020-07-03T10:23:28", "name": "[v3,0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers", "submitter": { "id": 20, "url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/api/people/20/?format=api", "name": "Bruce Richardson", "email": "bruce.richardson@intel.com" }, "mbox": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20200703102332.1101232-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 10766, "url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/api/series/10766/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=10766", "date": "2020-07-03T10:23:28", "name": "improve runtime loading of shared drivers", "version": 3, "mbox": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/series/10766/mbox/" } ], "comments": "http://patchwork.dpdk.org/api/covers/72971/comments/", "headers": { "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>", "X-Original-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Delivered-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Received": [ "from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124])\n\tby inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E40A0519;\n\tFri, 3 Jul 2020 12:23:40 +0200 (CEST)", "from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A2E1DB10;\n\tFri, 3 Jul 2020 12:23:40 +0200 (CEST)", "from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100])\n by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3240A1DB0F\n for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:23:38 +0200 (CEST)", "from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20])\n by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;\n 03 Jul 2020 03:23:37 -0700", "from silpixa00399126.ir.intel.com ([10.237.222.84])\n by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Jul 2020 03:23:35 -0700" ], "IronPort-SDR": [ "\n hzR1nIwEU6Y6yvsM42m7Vg6C0sQ1d7FRADbkTcWJ4VrSU6s0xp7vs8HtXfLPo0/e8zOjC+tx/2\n nPLqdMuMHo4Q==", "\n l9YjmRQJRDFmMY3GMeAiCsywn7+vmZDq4RM+V13k8hdpGK9pjUwNohn882MEEbpmqpovJ5nVNL\n 9tkxdJbW2kYA==" ], "X-IronPort-AV": [ "E=McAfee;i=\"6000,8403,9670\"; a=\"212153027\"", "E=Sophos;i=\"5.75,307,1589266800\"; d=\"scan'208\";a=\"212153027\"", "E=Sophos;i=\"5.75,307,1589266800\"; d=\"scan'208\";a=\"481984266\"" ], "X-Amp-Result": "SKIPPED(no attachment in message)", "X-Amp-File-Uploaded": "False", "X-ExtLoop1": "1", "From": "Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "To": "thomas@monjalon.net", "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org,\n\tBruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "Date": "Fri, 3 Jul 2020 11:23:28 +0100", "Message-Id": "<20200703102332.1101232-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "X-Mailer": "git-send-email 2.25.1", "In-Reply-To": "<20200618135049.489773-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "References": "<20200618135049.489773-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>", "MIME-Version": "1.0", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "8bit", "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers", "X-BeenThere": "dev@dpdk.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.15", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>", "List-Post": "<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "dev-bounces@dpdk.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>" }, "content": "This set includes a number of small improvements for handling the loading\nof drivers at runtime using the EAL -d flag.\n\nIt limits the loading of files to only those files which end in .so, which\nmeans that one can pass in the whole \"drivers/\" subfolder from a meson\nbuild and not get an error when DPDK trys to load a .a file.\n\nIt also puts in some basic permission checking to ensure that no drivers\nare loaded from a world-writable location on the filesystem, which would be\na potential security hole on a mis-configured system.\n\nv3: adjusted commit titles based on Thomas' feedback\n skip over any paths which are not relative/absolute - assume any found\n from system directories by linker must be secure.\n\nv2: rebased to fix errors on apply\n fixed one checkpatch issue.\n\nBruce Richardson (4):\n eal: remove unnecessary null-termination in plugin path\n eal: load only shared libs from driver plugin directories\n eal: forbid loading drivers from insecure paths\n eal: cache last directory permissions checked\n\n lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++---\n 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)" }