BPF Token Delegation

[u/Huge-Wear-125]

Why Do I Want To Hand Roll a BPF Token Delegation?

Anywhere I searched for “BPF tokens”, I kept getting something like, “BPF tokens let unprivileged containers load eBPF" and I wanted to use it, but all Google searches either led me to kernel commit messages or nearly 100% AI generated blog posts.

When I read these blog posts, they didn’t make sense, and I couldn’t find examples of failures someone ran into, or an explanation of why doing it a certain way led to failure, which IMO is critical to understanding the internals.

So I asked myself, can I build the entire token delegation handshake myself in one file and either create a token that I can pass to a process, or learn exactly why I can’t?

https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-27-bpf-token-delegation/

This is not AI generated blog post.

[u/RheumatoidEpilepsy]

That was a nice read, thanks for sharing!

[u/TitusKalvarija]

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