Hi Ferruh

> On 12/7/2022 2:41 PM, Junxiao Shi wrote:
> > This allows a DPDK application running with root privilege to create a
> > memif socket listener with non-root owner uid and gid, which can be
> > connected from client applications running without root privilege.
> >
>
> Do you have an easy way to test unprivileged memif client?

This has been tested with NDN-DPDK software.
https://github.com/usnistgov/ndn-dpdk revision
311de078aa4dc3ea28db5f8858e70a1bef7b9ccd

The systemd service is running as root and it uses DPDK with the owner-uid
and owner-gid args.
The ndndpdk-godemo command is running as unprivileged process.
Directory /run/ndn still needs to be created by root.

These commands can perform a full test:

git clone https://github.com/usnistgov/ndn-dpdk.git
cd ndn-dpdk
./docs/ndndpdk-depends.sh --dpdk-patch=26031
corepack pnpm install
make
sudo make install
sudo dpdk-hugepages.py --setup 8G
sudo ndndpdk-ctrl systemd start
jq -n {} | ndndpdk-ctrl activate-forwarder
sudo mkdir -p /run/ndn
ndndpdk-godemo pingserver --name /A
ndndpdk-godemo pingclient --name /A

You can see packets flowing through.
Run `ls -l /run/ndn` and check the uid:gid of socket files too.


>
> > Signed-off-by: Junxiao Shi <git@mail1.yoursunny.com>
>
> <...>
>
> > @@ -1827,47 +1859,58 @@ rte_pmd_memif_probe(struct rte_vdev_device
*vdev)
> >       flags |= ETH_MEMIF_FLAG_SOCKET_ABSTRACT;
> >
> >       kvlist = rte_kvargs_parse(rte_vdev_device_args(vdev),
valid_arguments);
> > +     if (kvlist == NULL) {
> > +             MIF_LOG(ERR, "Invalid kvargs key");
> > +             ret = -EINVAL;
> > +             goto exit;
> > +     }
>
> Thanks Junxiao for updating this, but since it is not really related to
> this patch, can you please separate it to another patch?

These are reverted and will be submitted separately in the future.