Re: [PATCH bpf] xdp: use flags field to disambiguate broadcast redirect

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Hello:

This patch was applied to bpf/bpf.git (master)
by Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>:

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:18:39 +0200 you wrote:
> When redirecting a packet using XDP, the bpf_redirect_map() helper will set
> up the redirect destination information in struct bpf_redirect_info (using
> the __bpf_xdp_redirect_map() helper function), and the xdp_do_redirect()
> function will read this information after the XDP program returns and pass
> the frame on to the right redirect destination.
> 
> When using the BPF_F_BROADCAST flag to do multicast redirect to a whole
> map, __bpf_xdp_redirect_map() sets the 'map' pointer in struct
> bpf_redirect_info to point to the destination map to be broadcast. And
> xdp_do_redirect() reacts to the value of this map pointer to decide whether
> it's dealing with a broadcast or a single-value redirect. However, if the
> destination map is being destroyed before xdp_do_redirect() is called, the
> map pointer will be cleared out (by bpf_clear_redirect_map()) without
> waiting for any XDP programs to stop running. This causes xdp_do_redirect()
> to think that the redirect was to a single target, but the target pointer
> is also NULL (since broadcast redirects don't have a single target), so
> this causes a crash when a NULL pointer is passed to dev_map_enqueue().
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf] xdp: use flags field to disambiguate broadcast redirect
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/5bcf0dcbf906

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