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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 08/14] bpf: add eBPF verifier
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:58:50 -0700
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:
>>> Safety of eBPF programs is statically determined by the verifier, which detects:
>>
>> This is a very high-level review.  I haven't tried to read all the
>> code yet, and this is mostly questions rather than real comments.
>

> These were great questions! I hope I answered them. If not, please
> continue asking.

I have plenty more questions, but here's one right now: does anything
prevent programs from using pointers in comparisons, returning
pointers, or otherwise figuring out the value of a pointer?  If so, I
think it would be worthwhile to prevent that so that eBPF programs
can't learn kernel addresses.

--Andy