netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix byte order test in test

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Date:   Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     yhs@...com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: fix byte order test in test_verifier

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Fri,  4 Aug 2017 22:24:41 +0200

> We really must check with #if __BYTE_ORDER == XYZ instead of
> just presence of #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN. I noticed that when
> actually running this on big endian machine, the latter test
> resolves to true for user space, same for #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN.
> 
> E.g., looking at endian.h from libc, both are also defined
> there, so we really must test this against __BYTE_ORDER instead
> for proper insns selection. For the kernel, such checks are
> fine though e.g. see 13da9e200fe4 ("Revert "endian: #define
> __BYTE_ORDER"") and 415586c9e6d3 ("UAPI: fix endianness conditionals
> in M32R's asm/stat.h") for some more context, but not for
> user space. Lets also make sure to properly include endian.h.
> After that, suite passes for me:
> 
> ./test_verifier: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, [...]
> 
> Linux foo 4.13.0-rc3+ #4 SMP Fri Aug 4 06:59:30 EDT 2017 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux
> 
> Before fix: Summary: 505 PASSED, 11 FAILED
> After  fix: Summary: 516 PASSED,  0 FAILED
> 
> Fixes: 18f3d6be6be1 ("selftests/bpf: Add test cases to test narrower ctx field loads")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!