[PATCHv2] net: bpf: reject invalid shifts

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jan 12 12:56:09 PST 2016


From: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:17:08 +0100

> On ARM64, a BUG() is triggered in the eBPF JIT if a filter with a
> constant shift that can't be encoded in the immediate field of the
> UBFM/SBFM instructions is passed to the JIT.  Since these shifts
> amounts, which are negative or >= regsize, are invalid, reject them in
> the eBPF verifier and the classic BPF filter checker, for all
> architectures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> ---
> v2: handle BPF_ARSH too

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.



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