Re: [PATCH 066/190] Revert "bpf: Remove unnecessary assertion on fp_old"

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 4/27/21 7:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:01PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
[...]
> >   kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 ++
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> > index 75244ecb2389..da29211ea5d8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> > @@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_realloc(struct bpf_prog *fp_old, unsigned int size,
> >   	struct bpf_prog *fp;
> >   	u32 pages;
> >   
> > +	BUG_ON(fp_old == NULL);
> > +
> >   	size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE);
> >   	pages = size / PAGE_SIZE;
> >   	if (pages <= fp_old->pages)
>
> The original commit here is correct, I'll drop this revert.

Ok, sounds good to me, thanks! (If there would ever be an incorrect fp_old with NULL, then at
latest we crash in fp_old->pages anyway, so the BUG_ON() was not needed.)

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h