Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 08/14] bpf: add eBPF verifier

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Tue Jul 01 2014 - 04:06:00 EST


On 06/28/2014 02:06 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
Safety of eBPF programs is statically determined by the verifier, which detects:
- loops
- out of range jumps
- unreachable instructions
- invalid instructions
- uninitialized register access
- uninitialized stack access
- misaligned stack access
- out of range stack access
- invalid calling convention
...
More details in Documentation/networking/filter.txt

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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...
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1431 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Looking at classic BPF verifier which checks safety of BPF
user space programs, it's roughly 200 loc. :-/

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
new file mode 100644
...
+#define _(OP) ({ int ret = OP; if (ret < 0) return ret; })
...
+ _(get_map_info(env, map_id, &map));
...
+ _(size = bpf_size_to_bytes(bpf_size));

Nit: such macros should be removed, please.
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