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From: Marat Khalili <marat.khalili@huawei.com>
To: "Christophe Fontaine" <cfontain@redhat.com>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>,
	Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage@arm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] bpf/arm64: support packet data load instructions
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:16:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea715be437174fa782f3ceb031debe0d@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHVr2NmXSAhKO6EGjh_DDvdaUShPTWH-Eb1y1VrriQBAVnay4w@mail.gmail.com>

> > In Classic BPF, negative "k" has special meaning for both BPF_ABS and BPF_IND.
> > So we should consider it invalid for both cases.
> >
> > That prevents applications from using it the way you describe.
> > And it will allow us to add BPF library support for Linux-compatible special meanings later, without
> breaking the ABI.
> >
> 
> Aren't these invalid offsets already taken care during the syntax
> check when we validate the BPF program ?
> in bpf_validate.c +1499:
>         /* load absolute instructions */
>         [(BPF_LD | BPF_ABS | BPF_B)] = {
>                 .mask = {. dreg = ZERO_REG, .sreg = ZERO_REG},
>                 .off = { .min = 0, .max = 0},
>                 .imm = { .min = 0, .max = INT32_MAX},
>                 .eval = eval_ld_mbuf,
>         },
> 
> IIUC, as __rte_bpf_validate fails when we cal rte_bpf_load ( in
> bpf_load.c +113), we can't even interpret the cBPF program.

Good point, we can probably consider BPF_ABS case covered by this.

For BPF_IND however it does not seem to exclude any values, and even if it did
we don't know what's in the register. Speaking of which, I just noticed that
we're truncating it.

I suggest the following logic in pseudo-code:

static void 
emit_ld_mbuf(struct a64_jit_ctx *ctx, uint32_t op, uint8_t tmp1, uint8_t tmp2, 
	uint8_t src, int32_t imm)
{
	// ...

	/* r1 = off: for ABS use imm, for IND use src + imm */
	if (mode == BPF_ABS) {
		assert imm >= 0, "verified by verifier"
		emit MOV W1, #<imm>
	} else {
		/* add signed imm to the source register */
		emit(s) X1 = src + #<imm>
		/* verify dynamically that offset is within the domain of __rte_pktmbuf_read */
		emit(s) jump_to_epilogue if X1 <s 0 || X1 > INT32_MAX
	}

	// ...
}

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-18 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-10 12:20 [PATCH] bpf/arm64: support packet data load instructions Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-17  9:07 ` David Marchand
2026-03-18 11:59 ` Marat Khalili
2026-03-18 12:54   ` Morten Brørup
2026-03-18 13:07     ` Marat Khalili
2026-03-18 13:39       ` Morten Brørup
2026-03-18 15:34         ` Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-18 16:16           ` Marat Khalili [this message]
2026-03-18 16:37             ` Morten Brørup
2026-03-18 16:43               ` Marat Khalili
2026-03-18 18:10                 ` Konstantin Ananyev
2026-03-19  9:20                   ` Morten Brørup
2026-03-18 23:13     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-19 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-19 11:44   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bpf/arm64: fix offset type to allow a negative jump Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-19 11:44   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bpf/arm64: support packet data load instructions Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-23  8:15     ` Christophe Fontaine
2026-03-23  9:26       ` Marat Khalili
2026-04-09 22:11       ` Wathsala Vithanage

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