netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: filter: initialize A and X registers

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:13:00 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ast@...mgrid.com, dborkman@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: filter: initialize A and X registers

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 23:57 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:18:57 -0700
> 
> > exisiting BPF verifier allows uninitialized access to registers,
> > 'ret A' is considered to be a valid filter.
> > So initialize A and X to zero to prevent leaking kernel memory
> > In the future BPF verifier will be rejecting such filters
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> 
> Has the code always been like this?
> 
> Did the eBPF changes introduce this problem either directly or
> indirectly?

Original code was fine AFAIK

Fixes: bd4cf0ed331a2 ("net: filter: rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set")

David, is it possible for you to push net-next tree ?

Thank !


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