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BPF as a safer kernel programming environment

BPF as a safer kernel programming environment

Posted Oct 6, 2022 21:53 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: BPF as a safer kernel programming environment by Cyberax
Parent article: BPF as a safer kernel programming environment

I think the issue is that if your program is mutating kernel structures, then it may not be safe to kill it mid-stream -- you need some strategy for safely unwinding from an arbitrary point in execution. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to me, but I guess so far eBPF has decided to make the tradeoff of investing in the verifier infrastructure instead of unwinding infrastructure.


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