netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: bpf: consolidate JIT binary allocator

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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:17:44 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, ast@...mgrid.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: bpf: consolidate JIT binary allocator

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 11:42:45AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Introduced in commit 314beb9bcabf ("x86: bpf_jit_comp: secure bpf jit
> against spraying attacks") and later on replicated in aa2d2c73c21f
> ("s390/bpf,jit: address randomize and write protect jit code") for
> s390 architecture, write protection for BPF JIT images got added and
> a random start address of the JIT code, so that it's not on a page
> boundary anymore.
> 
> Since both use a very similar allocator for the BPF binary header,
> we can consolidate this code into the BPF core as it's mostly JIT
> independant anyway.
> 
> This will also allow for future archs that support DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
> to just reuse instead of reimplementing it.
> 
> While reviewing the code, I think on s390, the alignment masking
> seems not to be correct in it's current form, that is, we make sure
> the first instruction starts at an even address as stated by commit
> aa2d2c73c21f but masks the start with '& -2' while 2 byte-alignment
> should rather be '& ~1'.
> 
> JIT tested on x86_64 and s390x with BPF test suite.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 45 ++++++++-------------------------------
>  arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c  | 50 ++++++++++----------------------------------
>  include/linux/filter.h       | 13 ++++++++++++
>  kernel/bpf/core.c            | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

Looks good to me (except for the comment about s390 ;).

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

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