Okay. My mistake. I just checked the verify function. Apologies. Best, Shubham Bansal
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Shubham Bansal <illusionist....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks David. > > Hi all, > > I have two questions about the code at arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c. > > 1. At line 708, " const u8 r1 = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_1]; /* r1: struct > sk_buff *skb */ ". > Why is this code using BPF_REG_1 before saving it? As far as I > know, BPF_REG_1 has pointer to bpf program context and this code > clearly is overwriting that pointer which makes that pointer useless > for future usage. It clearly looks like a bug. > > 2. At line 256, " emit(A64_LDR64(prg, tmp, r3), ctx); ". > This line of code is used to load an array( of pointers ) element, > where r3 is used as an index of that array. Shouldn't it be be > arithmetic left shifted by 3 or multiplied by 8 to get the right > address in that array of pointers ? > > Apologies if any of the above question is stupid to ask. > > Best, > Shubham > Best, > Shubham Bansal > > > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 12:08 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> From: Shubham Bansal <illusionist....@gmail.com> >> Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 22:18:16 +0530 >> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> Thanks for the last reply about the testing of eBPF JIT. >>> >>> I have one issue though, I am not able to find what BPF_ABS and >>> BPF_IND instruction does exactly. >> >> They are not instructions, they are modifiers for the BPF_LD >> instruction which indicate an SKB load is to be performed. >> >> You never need to ask what a BPF instruction does, it is clear >> defined in the BPF interperter found in kernel/bpf/core.c >> >> Look for the case statement LD_ABS_W and friends in __bpf_prog_run().
