uBPF
Userspace eBPF VM
About
This project aims to create an Apache-licensed library for executing eBPF programs. The primary implementation of eBPF lives in the Linux kernel, but due to its GPL license it can't be used in many projects.
Linux documentation for the eBPF instruction set
This project includes an eBPF assembler, disassembler, interpreter, and JIT compiler for x86-64.
Building
Run make -C vm
to build the VM. This produces a static library libubpf.a
and a simple executable used by the testsuite. After building the
library you can install using make -C vm install
via either root or
sudo.
Running the tests
To run the tests, you first need to build the vm code then use nosetests to execute the tests. Note: The tests have some dependencies that need to be present. See the .travis.yml for details.
Before running the test (assuming Debian derived distro)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install python python-pip python-setuptools python-wheel python-nose
python2 -m pip install --upgrade "pip<21.0"
python2 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python2 -m pip install cpp-coveralls
Running the test
make -C vm COVERAGE=1
nosetests -v # run tests
After running the test
coveralls --gcov-options '\-lp' -i $PWD/vm/ubpf_vm.c -i $PWD/vm/ubpf_jit_x86_64.c -i $PWD/vm/ubpf_loader.c
Compiling C to eBPF
You'll need Clang 3.7.
clang-3.7 -O2 -target bpf -c prog.c -o prog.o
You can then pass the contents of prog.o
to ubpf_load_elf
, or to the stdin of
the vm/test
binary.
Contributing
Please fork the project on GitHub and open a pull request. You can run all the
tests with nosetests
.
License
Copyright 2015, Big Switch Networks, Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>.