netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v2] bpftool: Don't crash on missing jited insns or ksyms

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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:21:45 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
CC:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2] bpftool: Don't crash on missing jited insns or
 ksyms

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 07:14:12PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> When the kptr_restrict sysctl is set, the kernel can fail to return
> jited_ksyms or jited_prog_insns, but still have positive values in
> nr_jited_ksyms and jited_prog_len. This causes bpftool to crash when trying
> to dump the program because it only checks the len fields not the actual
> pointers to the instructions and ksyms.
> 
> Fix this by adding the missing checks.
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>