Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc: Fix BPF JIT for ABIv2 | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:06:45 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 08:45 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On 6/21/16 7:47 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > > > > > > > The calling convention is different with ABIv2 and so we'll need changes > > > > in bpf_slow_path_common() and sk_negative_common(). > > > > > > How big would those changes be? Do we know? > > > > > > How come no one reported this was broken previously? This is the first I've > > > heard of it being broken. > > > > > > > I just heard of it less than two weeks ago, and only could investigate it last > > week, when I realized mainline was also affected. > > > > It looks like the little-endian support for classic JIT were done before the > > conversion to ABIv2. And as JIT is disabled by default, no one seems to have > > exercised it. > > it's not a surprise unfortunately. The JITs that were written before > test_bpf.ko was developed were missing corner cases. Typical tcpdump > would be fine, but fragmented packets, negative offsets and > out-out-bounds wouldn't be handled correctly. > I'd suggest to validate the stable backport with test_bpf as well.
OK thanks.
I have been running seltests/net/test_bpf, but I realise now it doesn't enable the JIT.
cheers
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