From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
willemb@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, shuah@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] tools: psock_lib: tighten conditions checked in sock_setfilter
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 23:26:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <586D7692.4000604@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170104222224.GA31756@oracle.com>
On 01/04/2017 11:22 PM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> On (01/04/17 23:16), Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>
>> Just reading up on the thread, sorry to jump in late. Can't you just
>> use the generated code from bpf_asm (tools/net/) and add the asm program
>> as a comment above? Something like we do in net/core/ptp_classifier.c +13.
>
> I was actually using the example from the BSD bpf(4) man page,
> and expanding on that one..
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bpf&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.7-RELEASE
> (I could not find the equivalent linux man page).
>
> It was a lot easier to parse than the existing code .
cBPF with its tooling is all documented here:
Documentation/networking/filter.txt
>> As it stands it makes it a bit harder to parse / less readable with macros
>> actually. Rest seems fine, thanks.
>
> You think the earlier code was readable? I had to use
> gcc -E, with help from the bpf(4) page, to make sense of it.
>
> --Sowmini
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-04 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 18:45 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/2] tools: psock_tpacket bug fixes Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] tools: psock_lib: tighten conditions checked in sock_setfilter Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 22:16 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-01-04 22:22 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 22:26 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-01-04 22:48 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 22:59 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-01-04 22:37 ` Shuah Khan
2017-01-04 22:49 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 22:55 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-04 23:26 ` Shuah Khan
2017-01-05 15:54 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-01-05 18:46 ` Shuah Khan
2017-01-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] tools: psock_tpacket: block Rx until socket filter has been added and socket has been bound to loopback Sowmini Varadhan
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