From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
To: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
andrii@kernel.org, martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com,
song@kernel.org, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me,
haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Clean code with bpf_copy_to_user
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 09:14:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9c78add-d2e0-4d7c-a5a3-2355417cf9a6@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9447cc50-03be-4eba-809d-f9e3381654fa@linux.dev>
On 7/3/25 9:03 AM, Tao Chen wrote:
> 在 2025/7/3 23:35, Yonghong Song 写道:
>>
>>
>> On 7/3/25 5:43 AM, Tao Chen wrote:
>>> No logic change, just use bpf_copy_to_user to clean code.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
>>> ---
>>> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 17 +++--------------
>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>>> index e6eea594f1c..ca152d36312 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>>> @@ -5208,21 +5208,10 @@ static int bpf_task_fd_query_copy(const
>>> union bpf_attr *attr,
>>> if (put_user(zero, ubuf))
>>> return -EFAULT;
>>> - } else if (input_len >= len + 1) {
>>> - /* ubuf can hold the string with NULL terminator */
>>> - if (copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, len + 1))
>>> - return -EFAULT;
>>> } else {
>>> - /* ubuf cannot hold the string with NULL terminator,
>>> - * do a partial copy with NULL terminator.
>>> - */
>>> - char zero = '\0';
>>> -
>>> - err = -ENOSPC;
>>> - if (copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, input_len - 1))
>>> - return -EFAULT;
>>> - if (put_user(zero, ubuf + input_len - 1))
>>> - return -EFAULT;
>>> + err = bpf_copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, input_len, len);
>>> + if (err)
>>> + return err;
>>> }
>>> }
>>
>> Actually, there is a return value change with this patch.
>> bpf_copy_to_user() return returns -ENOSPC while the original
>> implementation may return -EFAULT due to following code.
>>
>> if (put_user(prog_id, &uattr->task_fd_query.prog_id) ||
>> put_user(fd_type, &uattr->task_fd_query.fd_type) ||
>> put_user(probe_offset,
>> &uattr->task_fd_query.probe_offset) ||
>> put_user(probe_addr, &uattr->task_fd_query.probe_addr))
>> return -EFAULT;
>>
>> return err;
>>
>
> You are right, maybe we can just use:
> err = bpf_copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, input_len, len);
> and no return check
> or move these put_user code to the front.
Maybe do the following?
err = bpf_copy_to_user(ubuf, buf, input_len, len);
if (err && err != -ENOSPC)
return err;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-03 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-03 12:43 [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Clean code with bpf_copy_to_user Tao Chen
2025-07-03 15:35 ` Yonghong Song
2025-07-03 16:03 ` Tao Chen
2025-07-03 16:14 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2025-07-03 16:19 ` Tao Chen
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