Re: Help with the BPF verifier

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 16:13:10 -0300

> Nope... this is inside an if:
> 
>         if (filename_arg <= 5) {
>                 augmented_args.filename.reserved = 0;
>                 augmented_args.filename.size = probe_read_str(&augmented_args.filename.value,
>                                                               sizeof(augmented_args.filename.value),
>                                                               (const void *)args->args[filename_arg]);
>                 if (augmented_args.filename.size < sizeof(augmented_args.filename.value)) {
>                         len -= sizeof(augmented_args.filename.value) - augmented_args.filename.size;
>                         len &= sizeof(augmented_args.filename.value) - 1;
>                 }
>         } else {
> 
> I use 6 to mean "hey, this syscall doesn't have any string argument, don't
> bother with it".

Really weird.  And it's unsigned so I can't imagine it wants you to
check that it's >= 0...

Maybe Deniel or someone else can figure it out.