netdev - Re: RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction

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Date:	Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:04:27 +0100
From:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:13:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Any comments on this, while I proceed? Barring any major complaints,
> > I'll have a hack at some code and present a patch in due course...
> 
> We're not adding loop instructions, it's just asking for trouble
> since any user can attach BPF filters to a socket and it's just
> way too easy to make a loop endless.
> 
> There's a reason no loop primitives were added to the original
> BPF specification, perhaps you should take a look at what their
> reasoning was.

Yes. I am very aware of that.

Please read carefully my suggestion. These loops cannot be made endless
- they will be bounded by, at most, the number of bytes in the packet
buffer. The loop is required to increment X at least 1 at every
iteration, and will not allow it to continue past the end of the packet.
This puts a strict bound on the runtime of the loop.

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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