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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86 bpf: Fix extable offset calculation
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On 6/25/21 9:31 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 4:01 AM Ravi Bangoria
> <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> commit 4c5de127598e1 ("bpf: Emit explicit NULL pointer checks
>> for PROBE_LDX instructions.") is emitting couple of instructions
>> before actual load. Consider those additional instructions while
>> calculating extable offset.
>>
>> Fixes: 4c5de127598e1 ("bpf: Emit explicit NULL pointer checks for PROBE_LDX instructions.")
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
>> index 2a2e290fa5d8..231a8178cc11 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
>> @@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ st: if (is_imm8(insn->off))
>> emit_ldx(&prog, BPF_SIZE(insn->code), dst_reg, src_reg, insn->off);
>> if (BPF_MODE(insn->code) == BPF_PROBE_MEM) {
>> struct exception_table_entry *ex;
>> - u8 *_insn = image + proglen;
>> + u8 *_insn = image + proglen + (u8)(start_of_ldx - temp);
>
> Great debugging and the fix. Thanks a lot.
> I've dropped (u8) cast, kept (), and applied to bpf tree.
> I think it looks cleaner without that cast.

Thanks.

> Could you send a followup patch with a selftest, so I don't make
> the same mistake again ? ;)

Unfortunately extable gets involved only for bad kernel pointers and
ideally there should not be any bad pointer in kernel. So there is no
easy way to create a proper selftest for this.

Ravi

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