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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:49:44 +0530
From: Shubham Bansal <illusionist.neo@...il.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for something to WORK ON
Great. I just started working on it.
Best,
Shubham Bansal
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 11:12 PM, Shubham Bansal wrote:
>
>> Hi Kees,
>>
>> I would have already started working on it since we last talked but before
>> that I wanted to check if anybody else is also not working on the same
>> thing. Otherwise it would be waste of time.
>>
>> Anyways. I will start working on it. No point in postponing in.
>>
>
> Very sorry for the late reply, Shubham, seems I missed your earlier email.
> :/
> Afaik, nobody is working on that, so would be nice to tackle this.
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2017 2:59 AM, "Kees Cook" <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Shubham Bansal
>>> <illusionist.neo@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to check out slides etc that are mostly located here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/iovisor/bpf-docs
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, Documentation/networking/filter.txt in the kernel tree provides
>>>>>
>>>> some
>>>
>>>> info as a starting point, an example of eBPF JIT can be found here
>>>>> arch/x86/net/
>>>>> in kernel tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> To give you a basic overview what JITs are still classic BPF (cBPF)
>>>>>
>>>> ones:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> $ git grep -n "select HAVE_CBPF_JIT"
>>>>> arch/arm/Kconfig:44: select HAVE_CBPF_JIT
>>>>> arch/mips/Kconfig:18: select HAVE_CBPF_JIT if !CPU_MICROMIPS
>>>>> arch/powerpc/Kconfig:131: select HAVE_CBPF_JIT if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>>>>> arch/sparc/Kconfig:35: select HAVE_CBPF_JIT
>>>>>
>>>>> ... and which are eBPF (ppc64 one should get merged next window I
>>>>> believe):
>>>>>
>>>>> $ git grep -n "select HAVE_EBPF_JIT"
>>>>> arch/arm64/Kconfig:64: select HAVE_EBPF_JIT
>>>>> arch/s390/Kconfig:131: select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if PACK_STACK &&
>>>>> HAVE_MARCH_Z196_FEATURES
>>>>> arch/x86/Kconfig:94: select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if
>>>>>
>>>> X86_64
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> I have read about the EBPF and BFP. I wanted to start contributing. Do
>>>>
>>> you
>>>
>>>> have any place for me to start with ?
>>>> I mailed you regarding the same few months ago but didn't get the reply.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel may have more ideas, but I would say taking a CBPF jit and
>>> converting it to an EBPF jit would be the best thing to start with.
>>>
>>> Doing ARM first might be easiest to tackle?
>>>
>>> -Kees
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kees Cook
>>> Nexus Security
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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