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| author | Quentin Deslandes <qde@naccy.de> | 2023-12-26 16:07:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2024-01-04 21:23:10 +0300 |
| commit | 98e20e5e13d2811898921f999288be7151a11954 (patch) | |
| tree | 194da196f85df00ebcc907347627265ea1fa2d72 /tools/bpf | |
| parent | 9ddf872b47e3ac8f27dbfc4a4737a976c7588de6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-98e20e5e13d2811898921f999288be7151a11954.tar.xz | |
bpfilter: remove bpfilter
bpfilter was supposed to convert iptables filtering rules into
BPF programs on the fly, from the kernel, through a usermode
helper. The base code for the UMH was introduced in 2018, and
couple of attempts (2, 3) tried to introduce the BPF program
generate features but were abandoned.
bpfilter now sits in a kernel tree unused and unusable, occasionally
causing confusion amongst Linux users (4, 5).
As bpfilter is now developed in a dedicated repository on GitHub (6),
it was suggested a couple of times this year (LSFMM/BPF 2023,
LPC 2023) to remove the deprecated kernel part of the project. This
is the purpose of this patch.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180522022230.2492505-1-ast@kernel.org/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210829183608.2297877-1-me@ubique.spb.ru/#t
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221224000402.476079-1-qde@naccy.de/
[4]: https://dxuuu.xyz/bpfilter.html
[5]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pull/3904
[6]: https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter
Signed-off-by: Quentin Deslandes <qde@naccy.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226130745.465988-1-qde@naccy.de
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/bpf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c index edda4fc2c4d0..708733b0ea06 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c @@ -426,10 +426,6 @@ static void probe_kernel_image_config(const char *define_prefix) { "CONFIG_BPF_STREAM_PARSER", }, /* xt_bpf module for passing BPF programs to netfilter */ { "CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_BPF", }, - /* bpfilter back-end for iptables */ - { "CONFIG_BPFILTER", }, - /* bpftilter module with "user mode helper" */ - { "CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH", }, /* test_bpf module for BPF tests */ { "CONFIG_TEST_BPF", }, |