tools: bpftool: Allow unprivileged users to probe features

There is demand for a way to identify what BPF helper functions are
available to unprivileged users. To do so, allow unprivileged users to
run "bpftool feature probe" to list BPF-related features. This will only
show features accessible to those users, and may not reflect the full
list of features available (to administrators) on the system.

To avoid the case where bpftool is inadvertently run as non-root and
would list only a subset of the features supported by the system when it
would be expected to list all of them, running as unprivileged is gated
behind the "unprivileged" keyword passed to the command line. When used
by a privileged user, this keyword allows to drop the CAP_SYS_ADMIN and
to list the features available to unprivileged users. Note that this
addsd a dependency on libpcap for compiling bpftool.

Note that there is no particular reason why the probes were restricted
to root, other than the fact I did not need them for unprivileged and
did not bother with the additional checks at the time probes were added.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200429144506.8999-3-quentin@isovalent.com

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
index f584d1fdfc64..89d7962a4a44 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ ifneq ($(EXTRA_LDFLAGS),)
 LDFLAGS += $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
 endif
 
-LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lz
+LIBS = $(LIBBPF) -lelf -lz -lcap
 
 INSTALL ?= install
 RM ?= rm -f