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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2017-11-22 23:40:54 +0300
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2017-11-22 23:40:55 +0300
commit107af8ec117b0af6e90ddfe42e568b2efd8f6ff7 (patch)
tree1606e891bab8ee8bf102c3f0a3b4319d81a0ef2d /net
parentf1a8b8e3d98b0b3d1d88d119f52cc85d05ab3189 (diff)
parenta60dd35d2e39209fa7645945e1192bf9769872c6 (diff)
downloadlinux-107af8ec117b0af6e90ddfe42e568b2efd8f6ff7.tar.xz
Merge branch 'bpf-fix-null-arg-semantics'
Gianluca Borello says: ==================== This set includes some fixes in semantics and usability issues that emerged recently, and would be good to have them in net before the next release. In particular, ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO semantics was recently changed in commit 9fd29c08e520 ("bpf: improve verifier ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO semantics") with the goal of letting the compiler generate simpler code that the verifier can more easily accept. To handle this change in semantics, a few checks in some helpers were added, like in commit 9c019e2bc4b2 ("bpf: change helper bpf_probe_read arg2 type to ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO"), and those checks are less than ideal because once they make it into a released kernel bpf programs can start relying on them, preventing the possibility of being removed later on. This patch tries to fix the issue by introducing a new argument type ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL that can be used for helpers that can receive a <NULL, 0> tuple. By doing so, we can fix the semantics of the other helpers that don't need <NULL, 0> and can just handle <!NULL, 0>, allowing the code to get rid of those checks. ==================== Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/filter.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 1afa17935954..6a85e67fafce 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1646,9 +1646,9 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_csum_diff_proto = {
.gpl_only = false,
.pkt_access = true,
.ret_type = RET_INTEGER,
- .arg1_type = ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
+ .arg1_type = ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL,
.arg2_type = ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
- .arg3_type = ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
+ .arg3_type = ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL,
.arg4_type = ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
.arg5_type = ARG_ANYTHING,
};