linux-kernel - [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf: Remove unnecessary map checks for ARG_PTR_TO_CONST

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Message-Id: <20210422235543.4007694-3-revest@chromium.org>
Date:   Fri, 23 Apr 2021 01:55:43 +0200
From:   Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
To:     bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, andrii@...nel.org,
        kpsingh@...nel.org, jackmanb@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf: Remove unnecessary map checks for ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR

reg->type is enforced by check_reg_type() and map should never be NULL
(it would already have been dereferenced anyway) so these checks are
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 59799a9b014a..2579f6fbb5c3 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -5075,8 +5075,7 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 arg,
 		u64 map_addr;
 		char *str_ptr;
 
-		if (reg->type != PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE || !map ||
-		    !bpf_map_is_rdonly(map)) {
+		if (!bpf_map_is_rdonly(map)) {
 			verbose(env, "R%d does not point to a readonly map'\n", regno);
 			return -EACCES;
 		}
-- 
2.31.1.498.g6c1eba8ee3d-goog