Re: [V3 PATCH net] xdp: implement xdp_redirect_map for generic XDP

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:47:02 +0200

> Using bpf_redirect_map is allowed for generic XDP programs, but the
> appropriate map lookup was never performed in xdp_do_generic_redirect().
> 
> Instead the map-index is directly used as the ifindex.  For the
> xdp_redirect_map sample in SKB-mode '-S', this resulted in trying
> sending on ifindex 0 which isn't valid, resulting in getting SKB
> packets dropped.  Thus, the reported performance numbers are wrong in
> commit 24251c264798 ("samples/bpf: add option for native and skb mode
> for redirect apps") for the 'xdp_redirect_map -S' case.
> 
> Before commit 109980b894e9 ("bpf: don't select potentially stale
> ri->map from buggy xdp progs") it could crash the kernel.  Like this
> commit also check that the map_owner owner is correct before
> dereferencing the map pointer.  But make sure that this API misusage
> can be caught by a tracepoint. Thus, allowing userspace via
> tracepoints to detect misbehaving bpf_progs.
> 
> Fixes: 6103aa96ec07 ("net: implement XDP_REDIRECT for xdp generic")
> Fixes: 24251c264798 ("samples/bpf: add option for native and skb mode for redirect apps")
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks Jesper.