Commit 0b3b9ca3 authored by Quentin Monnet's avatar Quentin Monnet Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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tools: bpftool: Make libcap dependency optional



The new libcap dependency is not used for an essential feature of
bpftool, and we could imagine building the tool without checks on
CAP_SYS_ADMIN by disabling probing features as an unprivileged users.

Make it so, in order to avoid a hard dependency on libcap, and to ease
packaging/embedding of bpftool.

Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200429144506.8999-4-quentin@isovalent.com
parent cf9bf714
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@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
		  that case usually represent a small subset of the parameters
		  supported by the system. Unprivileged users MUST use the
		  **unprivileged** keyword: This is to avoid misdetection if
		  bpftool is inadvertently run as non-root, for example.
		  bpftool is inadvertently run as non-root, for example. This
		  keyword is unavailable if bpftool was compiled without
		  libcap.

	**bpftool feature probe dev** *NAME* [**full**] [**macros** [**prefix** *PREFIX*]]
		  Probe network device for supported eBPF features and dump
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@@ -55,16 +55,15 @@ ifneq ($(EXTRA_LDFLAGS),)
LDFLAGS += $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
endif

LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lz -lcap

INSTALL ?= install
RM ?= rm -f
CLANG ?= clang

FEATURE_USER = .bpftool
FEATURE_TESTS = libbfd disassembler-four-args reallocarray zlib \
FEATURE_TESTS = libbfd disassembler-four-args reallocarray zlib libcap \
	clang-bpf-global-var
FEATURE_DISPLAY = libbfd disassembler-four-args zlib libcap \
	clang-bpf-global-var
FEATURE_DISPLAY = libbfd disassembler-four-args zlib clang-bpf-global-var

check_feat := 1
NON_CHECK_FEAT_TARGETS := clean uninstall doc doc-clean doc-install doc-uninstall
@@ -90,6 +89,12 @@ ifeq ($(feature-reallocarray), 0)
CFLAGS += -DCOMPAT_NEED_REALLOCARRAY
endif

LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lz
ifeq ($(feature-libcap), 1)
CFLAGS += -DUSE_LIBCAP
LIBS += -lcap
endif

include $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)*.d)

all: $(OUTPUT)bpftool
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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
#include <sys/capability.h>
#endif
#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include <sys/vfs.h>

@@ -37,7 +39,9 @@ static const char * const helper_name[] = {
#undef BPF_HELPER_MAKE_ENTRY

static bool full_mode;
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
static bool run_as_unprivileged;
#endif

/* Miscellaneous utility functions */

@@ -475,11 +479,13 @@ probe_prog_type(enum bpf_prog_type prog_type, bool *supported_types,
		}

	res = bpf_probe_prog_type(prog_type, ifindex);
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
	/* Probe may succeed even if program load fails, for unprivileged users
	 * check that we did not fail because of insufficient permissions
	 */
	if (run_as_unprivileged && errno == EPERM)
		res = false;
#endif

	supported_types[prog_type] |= res;

@@ -535,12 +541,14 @@ probe_helper_for_progtype(enum bpf_prog_type prog_type, bool supported_type,

	if (supported_type) {
		res = bpf_probe_helper(id, prog_type, ifindex);
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
		/* Probe may succeed even if program load fails, for
		 * unprivileged users check that we did not fail because of
		 * insufficient permissions
		 */
		if (run_as_unprivileged && errno == EPERM)
			res = false;
#endif
	}

	if (json_output) {
@@ -738,6 +746,7 @@ static void section_misc(const char *define_prefix, __u32 ifindex)

static int handle_perms(void)
{
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
	cap_value_t cap_list[1] = { CAP_SYS_ADMIN };
	bool has_sys_admin_cap = false;
	cap_flag_value_t val;
@@ -793,6 +802,18 @@ exit_free:
	}

	return res;
#else
	/* Detection assumes user has sufficient privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
	 * We do not use libpcap so let's approximate, and restrict usage to
	 * root user only.
	 */
	if (geteuid()) {
		p_err("full feature probing requires root privileges");
		return -1;
	}

	return 0;
#endif /* USE_LIBCAP */
}

static int do_probe(int argc, char **argv)
@@ -852,8 +873,13 @@ static int do_probe(int argc, char **argv)
				return -1;
			define_prefix = GET_ARG();
		} else if (is_prefix(*argv, "unprivileged")) {
#ifdef USE_LIBCAP
			run_as_unprivileged = true;
			NEXT_ARG();
#else
			p_err("unprivileged run not supported, recompile bpftool with libcap");
			return -1;
#endif
		} else {
			p_err("expected no more arguments, 'kernel', 'dev', 'macros' or 'prefix', got: '%s'?",
			      *argv);