netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/5] bpf: Make use of probe_user

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Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:59:23 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/5] bpf: Make use of probe_user_write in probe
 write helper

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 1:44 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>
> Convert the bpf_probe_write_user() helper to probe_user_write() such that
> writes are not attempted under KERNEL_DS anymore which is buggy as kernel
> and user space pointers can have overlapping addresses. Also, given we have
> the access_ok() check inside probe_user_write(), the helper doesn't need
> to do it twice.
>
> Fixes: 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> ---

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>

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