netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: psock_lib: harden socket filter used by psock tests

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Message-ID: <587794A0.8030807@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:37:20 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:     willemb@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: psock_lib: harden socket filter used
 by psock tests

On 01/12/2017 02:10 PM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> The filter added by sock_setfilter is intended to only permit
> packets matching the pattern set up by create_payload(), but
> we only check the ip_len, and a single test-character in
> the IP packet to ensure this condition.
>
> Harden the filter by adding additional constraints so that we only
> permit UDP/IPv4 packets that meet the ip_len and test-character
> requirements. Include the bpf_asm src as a comment, in case this
> needs to be enhanced in the future
>
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>

LGTM, thanks!

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>