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>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 73 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/bpfilter/Makefile b/net/ipv4/bpfilter/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 00af5305e05a..000000000000
--- a/net/ipv4/bpfilter/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-obj-$(CONFIG_BPFILTER) += sockopt.o
diff --git a/net/ipv4/bpfilter/sockopt.c b/net/ipv4/bpfilter/sockopt.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 193bcc2acccc..000000000000
--- a/net/ipv4/bpfilter/sockopt.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/uaccess.h>
-#include <linux/bpfilter.h>
-#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
-#include <linux/wait.h>
-#include <linux/kmod.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/file.h>
-
-struct bpfilter_umh_ops bpfilter_ops;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpfilter_ops);
-
-static int bpfilter_mbox_request(struct sock *sk, int optname, sockptr_t optval,
-				 unsigned int optlen, bool is_set)
-{
-	int err;
-	mutex_lock(&bpfilter_ops.lock);
-	if (!bpfilter_ops.sockopt) {
-		mutex_unlock(&bpfilter_ops.lock);
-		request_module("bpfilter");
-		mutex_lock(&bpfilter_ops.lock);
-
-		if (!bpfilter_ops.sockopt) {
-			err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
-			goto out;
-		}
-	}
-	if (bpfilter_ops.info.tgid &&
-	    thread_group_exited(bpfilter_ops.info.tgid))
-		umd_cleanup_helper(&bpfilter_ops.info);
-
-	if (!bpfilter_ops.info.tgid) {
-		err = bpfilter_ops.start();
-		if (err)
-			goto out;
-	}
-	err = bpfilter_ops.sockopt(sk, optname, optval, optlen, is_set);
-out:
-	mutex_unlock(&bpfilter_ops.lock);
-	return err;
-}
-
-int bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname, sockptr_t optval,
-			    unsigned int optlen)
-{
-	return bpfilter_mbox_request(sk, optname, optval, optlen, true);
-}
-
-int bpfilter_ip_get_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname, char __user *optval,
-			    int __user *optlen)
-{
-	int len;
-
-	if (get_user(len, optlen))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	return bpfilter_mbox_request(sk, optname, USER_SOCKPTR(optval), len,
-				     false);
-}
-
-static int __init bpfilter_sockopt_init(void)
-{
-	mutex_init(&bpfilter_ops.lock);
-	bpfilter_ops.info.tgid = NULL;
-	bpfilter_ops.info.driver_name = "bpfilter_umh";
-
-	return 0;
-}
-device_initcall(bpfilter_sockopt_init);