netdev - Re: [PATCH v11 net-next 00/12] eBPF syscall, verifier, testsuite

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <541013CE.6020307@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:03:10 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 net-next 00/12] eBPF syscall, verifier, testsuite

On 09/10/2014 07:09 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
...
>             struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_MAP_*_ELEM commands */
>                 int map_fd;
>                 void *key;
>                 union {
>                     void *value;
>                     void *next_key;
>                 };
>             };
>
>             struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_PROG_LOAD command */
>                 enum bpf_prog_type    prog_type;
>                 __u32                 insn_cnt;
>                 const struct bpf_insn *insns;
>                 const char            *license;
>                 __u32                 log_level; /* verbosity level of eBPF verifier */
>                 __u32                 log_size;  /* size of user buffer */
>                 void                  *log_buf;  /* user supplied buffer */

What is log buffer? Would that mean the verifier will return an error
string if the program will not pass it, or if not, what other data?
I think the man page is missing how to examine the returned verifier
log buffer data.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html