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From: daniel@iogearbox.net (Daniel Borkmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: filter: make JITs zero A for SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:37:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568BF162.7030008@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105160345.GA3951@debian>

On 01/05/2016 05:03 PM, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:00:45AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 16:23 +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>>> The SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X ancillary is not like the other ancillary data
>>> instructions since it XORs A with X while all the others replace A with
>>> some loaded value.  All the BPF JITs fail to clear A if this is used as
>>> the first instruction in a filter.
>>
>> Is x86_64 part of this 'All' subset ? ;)
>
> No, because it's an eBPF JIT.

Correct, filter conversion to eBPF clears it already.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05 15:23 [PATCH] net: filter: make JITs zero A for SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X Rabin Vincent
2016-01-05 16:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-01-05 16:03   ` Rabin Vincent
2016-01-05 16:37     ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2016-01-05 16:36 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-01-05 17:43   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-01-06  5:44 ` David Miller

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