From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] bpf_jit drops the ball on indirect negative mem references Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:05:29 +0200 Message-ID: <1332965129.2325.12.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Matt Evans To: Jan Seiffert Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 21:15 +0200, Jan Seiffert wrote: > Consider the following test program: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > > #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 ?