Re: [PATCH v2 security-next 1/4] security: Hornet LSM

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM Blaise Boscaccy
<bboscaccy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The eBPF dev community has spent what, 4-5 years on this, with little to
> no progress. I have little faith that this is going to progress on your
> end in a timely manner or at all, and frankly we (and others) needed
> this yesterday.

History repeats itself.
1. the problem is hard.
2. you're only interested in addressing your own use case.
There is no end-to-end design here and no attempt to
think it through how it will work for others.

> Hornet has zero impact on the bpf subsystem, yet you
> seem viscerally opposed to us doing this.

Hacking into bpf internal objects like maps is not acceptable.

> Why are you trying to stop us
> from securing our cloud?

Keep your lsm hack out-of-tree, please.

> Since this will require an LSM no matter what, there is zero reason for
> us not to proceed with Hornet. If or when you actually figure out how to
> sign an lskel and upstream updated LSM hooks, I can always rework Hornet
> to use that instead.

You can do whatever you want out-of-tree including re-exporting kern_sys_bpf.

> code signing last week. All we are trying to do is make our cloud
> ever-so-slightly more secure and share the results with the community.

You're pushing for a custom microsoft specific hack while
ignoring community feedback.

> The attack vectors I'm looking at are things like CVE-2021-33200.

4 year old bug ? If your kernels are so old you have lots of
other vulnerabilities.





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