Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] bpf_jit drops the ball on indirect negative mem references

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 21:15 +0200, Jan Seiffert wrote:
> Consider the following test program:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <pcap-bpf.h>
> 
> #define die(x) do {perror(x); return 1;} while (0)
> struct bpf_insn udp_filter[] = {
> 	/*   0 */ BPF_STMT(BPF_LDX|BPF_W|BPF_IMM, -1048576+(0)), /* leax	net[0] */
> 	/*   1 */ BPF_STMT(BPF_LD|BPF_B|BPF_IND, 0),             /* ldb	[x+0] */
> 	/*   2 */ BPF_STMT(BPF_RET|BPF_A, 0),                    /* ret	a */
> };

When this point was raised some weeks ago, we wanted to see a _real_ use
of negative mem reference.

You provide a test program but what this filter is supposed to do
exactly ?