From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 bpf-next 04/10] xdp: Helper function to clear kernel pointers in xdp_frame
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 11:06:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803110610.5f3235f8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1533283098-2397-5-git-send-email-makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 16:58:12 +0900
Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> xdp_frame has kernel pointers which should not be readable from bpf
> programs. When we want to reuse xdp_frame region but it may be read by
> bpf programs later, we can use this helper to clear kernel pointers.
> This is more efficient than calling memset() for the entire struct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
After this patch is applied, I will take care of updating cpumap in a
similar way. Thanks.
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-03 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-03 7:58 [PATCH v8 bpf-next 00/10] veth: Driver XDP Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 01/10] net: Export skb_headers_offset_update Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 02/10] veth: Add driver XDP Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-07 14:26 ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-08-08 0:53 ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 03/10] veth: Avoid drops by oversized packets when XDP is enabled Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 04/10] xdp: Helper function to clear kernel pointers in xdp_frame Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 9:06 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 05/10] veth: Handle xdp_frames in xdp napi ring Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 9:07 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 06/10] veth: Add ndo_xdp_xmit Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 07/10] bpf: Make redirect_info accessible from modules Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 08/10] xdp: Helpers for disabling napi_direct of xdp_return_frame Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 09/10] veth: Add XDP TX and REDIRECT Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 7:58 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 10/10] veth: Support per queue XDP ring Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-03 9:45 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 00/10] veth: Driver XDP Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-08-03 11:14 ` Toshiaki Makita
2018-08-06 8:22 ` Björn Töpel
2018-08-10 14:24 ` Daniel Borkmann
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