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From: Ayushman Rout <ayushmanrout27@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
	memxor@gmail.com, hawk@kernel.org, drosen@google.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ayushman Rout <ayushmanrout27@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Use memmove() to load bytes from an skb and an xdp_buff
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:09:57 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021103957.17532-1-ayushmanrout27@gmail.com> (raw)

bpf_dynptr_read() on an skb or xdp dynptr ends in bpf_skb_load_bytes()
or bpf_xdp_load_bytes(). The destination can be a slice of the same
packet, so it can overlap the source, which memcpy() does not allow.
On x86 with FSRM memcpy() copies forward, so a destination above the
source gets the first bytes repeated:

  p = bpf_dynptr_slice_rdwr(&ptr, 8, NULL, 64);
  bpf_dynptr_read(p, 64, &ptr, 0, 0);

leaves bytes 8-71 of the packet as bytes 0-7 repeated, not bytes 0-63.
Reproduced with BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN on both an xdp and a tc program.

Use memmove(), as the store side does since commit 1db084f42884
("bpf: Use memmove() to store bytes in an skb") and commit ab08863c58b1
("bpf: Use memmove() to store bytes in an xdp_buff"). A read that spans
xdp frags still goes through bpf_xdp_copy_buf() and is not changed
here.

Fixes: 2012c867c800 ("bpf: verifier: Accept dynptr mem as mem in helpers")
Signed-off-by: Ayushman Rout <ayushmanrout27@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
 net/core/filter.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index b7ac145b68b1..35d38e02fc1e 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_skb_load_bytes, const struct sk_buff *, skb, u32, offset,
 	if (unlikely(!ptr))
 		goto err_clear;
 	if (ptr != to)
-		memcpy(to, ptr, len);
+		memmove(to, ptr, len);
 
 	return 0;
 err_clear:
@@ -4298,7 +4298,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_xdp_load_bytes, struct xdp_buff *, xdp, u32, offset,
 	if (!ptr)
 		bpf_xdp_copy_buf(xdp, offset, buf, len, false);
 	else
-		memcpy(buf, ptr, len);
+		memmove(buf, ptr, len);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-21 10:39 Ayushman Rout [this message]
2026-10-21 11:04 ` [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Use memmove() to load bytes from an skb and an xdp_buff bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-21 22:04   ` Alexei Starovoitov

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