netdev - Re: [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socketfilters

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Message-ID: <1289422664.2249.1.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:57:44 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socketfilters

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
[...]
> In this patch, I use a bitmap (a single long var) so that only filters
> using mem[] loads/stores pay the price of added security checks.
> 
> For other filters, additional cost is a single instruction.
> 
> [ Since we access fentry->k a lot now, cache it in a local variable
>   and mark filter entry pointer as const. -DaveM ]
[...]

I don't see the justification for combining these changes.  One patch,
one fix, right?

Ben.

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