Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] qmp: Added new command to retrieve eBPF blob.

[Markus Armbruster]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:47:52AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:

[...]

>> So, this is basically a way to retrieve an eBPF program by some
>> well-known name.
>> 
>> Ignorant question: how are these programs desposited?
>
> The eBPF code blob is linked into QEMU at build time. THis API lets
> libvirt fetch it from QEMU, in base64 format. When libvirt later
> creates NICs, it can attach the eBPF code blob to the TAP device (which
> requires elevated privilleges that QEMU lacks). NB, libvirt would fetch
> the eBPF code from QEMU when probing capabilities, as once a VM is
> running it is untrusted.

Okay, I can see how that helps.  I trust the blob is in a read-only
segment.  Ideally, libvirt fetches it before the guest runs.

Please improve the QAPI schema doc comments to explain why and how the
feature is to be used in a bit more detail.  The existing text

    Function returns eBPF object that can be loaded with libbpf.
    Management applications (g.e. libvirt) may load it and pass file
    descriptors to QEMU. Which allows running QEMU without BPF capabilities.

is too terse.