https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:
1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
our tree (see #7594)
2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.
3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.
Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
The naming of the functions was a complete mess: the most specific functions
which don't know anything about cgroups had "cgroup_" prefix, while more
general functions which took a node path and a cgroup for reporting had no
prefix. Let's use "bpf_devices_" for the latter group, and "bpf_prog_*" for the
rest.
The main goal of this move is to split the implementation from the calling code
and add unit tests in a later patch.
Previously we'd allow pattern expressions such as "char-input" to match
all input devices. Internally, this would look up the right major to
test in /proc/devices. With this commit the syntax is slightly extended:
- "char-*" can be used to match any kind of character device, and
similar "block-*. This expression would work previously already, but
instead of actually installing a wildcard match it would install many
individual matches for everything listed in /proc/devices.
- "char-<MAJOR>" with "<MAJOR>" being a numerical parameter works now
too. This allows clients to install whitelist items by specifying the
major directly.
The main reason to add these is to provide limited compat support for
clients that for some reason contain whitelists with major/minor numbers
(such as OCI containers).
Cgroup v2 provides the eBPF-based device controller, which isn't currently
supported by systemd. This commit aims to provide such support.
There are no user-visible changes, just the device policy and whitelist
start working if cgroup v2 is used.
Lennart Poettering