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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:13:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3999296.XklStIvXRF@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200622143337.562637-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

22/06/2020 16:33, Bruce Richardson:
> This set includes a number of small improvements for handling the loading
> of drivers at runtime using the EAL -d flag.
> 
> It limits the loading of files to only those files which end in .so, which
> means that one can pass in the whole "drivers/" subfolder from a meson
> build and not get an error when DPDK trys to load a .a file.
> 
> It also puts in some basic permission checking to ensure that no drivers
> are loaded from a world-writable location on the filesystem, which would be
> a potential security hole on a mis-configured system.
> 
> v2: rebased to fix errors on apply
>     fixed one checkpatch issue.
> 
> Bruce Richardson (4):
>   eal: remove unnecessary null-termination
>   eal: only load shared libs from driver plugin directory
>   eal: don't load drivers from insecure paths
>   eal: cache last directory permissions checked

There is an error when running devtools/test-null.sh:

EAL: Error with realpath, No such file or directory
EAL: FATAL: Cannot init plugins



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18 13:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Bruce Richardson
2020-06-18 13:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] eal: remove unnecessary null-termination Bruce Richardson
2020-06-18 13:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] eal: only load shared libs from driver plugin directory Bruce Richardson
2020-06-18 13:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] eal: don't load drivers from insecure paths Bruce Richardson
2020-06-18 13:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] eal: cache last directory permissions checked Bruce Richardson
2020-06-22 14:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers Bruce Richardson
2020-06-22 14:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] eal: remove unnecessary null-termination Bruce Richardson
2020-06-22 14:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: only load shared libs from driver plugin directory Bruce Richardson
2020-06-22 14:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] eal: don't load drivers from insecure paths Bruce Richardson
2020-06-22 14:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] eal: cache last directory permissions checked Bruce Richardson
2020-07-02 21:13   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-07-03 10:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers Bruce Richardson
2020-07-02 21:16   ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-03  8:33     ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-03 10:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Bruce Richardson
2020-07-03 10:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] eal: remove unnecessary null-termination in plugin path Bruce Richardson
2020-07-03 10:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] eal: load only shared libs from driver plugin directories Bruce Richardson
2020-07-03 10:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] eal: forbid loading drivers from insecure paths Bruce Richardson
2020-07-03 10:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] eal: cache last directory permissions checked Bruce Richardson
2020-07-05 17:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] improve runtime loading of shared drivers Thomas Monjalon

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