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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:01:56 -0700
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To: roy.qing.li@...il.com, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc: Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next][V2] net: filter: fix the comments
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:56 PM, <roy.qing.li@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
>
> 1. sk_run_filter has been renamed, sk_filter() is using SK_RUN_FILTER.
> 2. Remove wrong comments about storing intermediate value.
> 3. replace sk_run_filter with __bpf_prog_run for check_load_and_stores's
> comments
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Thanks!
> ---
> net/core/filter.c | 9 +++------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
> index fcd3f67..647b122 100644
> --- a/net/core/filter.c
> +++ b/net/core/filter.c
> @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
> * @skb: buffer to filter
> *
> * Run the filter code and then cut skb->data to correct size returned by
> - * sk_run_filter. If pkt_len is 0 we toss packet. If skb->len is smaller
> + * SK_RUN_FILTER. If pkt_len is 0 we toss packet. If skb->len is smaller
> * than pkt_len we keep whole skb->data. This is the socket level
> - * wrapper to sk_run_filter. It returns 0 if the packet should
> + * wrapper to SK_RUN_FILTER. It returns 0 if the packet should
> * be accepted or -EPERM if the packet should be tossed.
> *
> */
> @@ -566,11 +566,8 @@ err:
>
> /* Security:
> *
> - * A BPF program is able to use 16 cells of memory to store intermediate
> - * values (check u32 mem[BPF_MEMWORDS] in sk_run_filter()).
> - *
> * As we dont want to clear mem[] array for each packet going through
> - * sk_run_filter(), we check that filter loaded by user never try to read
> + * __bpf_prog_run(), we check that filter loaded by user never try to read
> * a cell if not previously written, and we check all branches to be sure
> * a malicious user doesn't try to abuse us.
> */
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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