Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/4] selftests/bpf: allow tests from verifier.c not to drop CAP_SYS_ADMIN

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 14:55 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Originally prog_tests/verifier.c was developed to run tests ported
> > > from test_verifier binary. test_verifier runs tests with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> > > dropped, hence this behaviour was copied in prog_tests/verifier.c.
> > > BPF_OBJ_GET_NEXT_ID BPF syscall command fails w/o CAP_SYS_ADMIN and
> > > this prevents libbpf from loading module BTFs.
> >
> > You need this only because of 'bpf_kfunc_trusted_num_test' access
> > in patch 4?
> > Can you use kernel kfunc instead?
>
> This turned out non-trivial, not many kernel kfuncs take pointers to
> primitive types, and those that do are either STRUCT_OPS or need
> device bound program or have special checks requiring stack pointers.
>
> I declared a separate prog_tests/mem_rdonly_untrusted.c runner.

Just skip it for now.
Adding unpriv btf access can be a follow up.





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