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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2014-05-23 18:43:58 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-05-23 16:48:05 -0400
commitb1fcd35cf53553a0a3ef949b05106d921446abc3 (patch)
tree4784eb248a9705f2eae7dcb10968497f0559499f /net/netfilter
parentnet: filter: remove DL macro (diff)
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net: filter: let unattached filters use sock_fprog_kern
The sk_unattached_filter_create() API is used by BPF filters that are not directly attached or related to sockets, and are used in team, ptp, xt_bpf, cls_bpf, etc. As such all users do their own internal managment of obtaining filter blocks and thus already have them in kernel memory and set up before calling into sk_unattached_filter_create(). As a result, due to __user annotation in sock_fprog, sparse triggers false positives (incorrect type in assignment [different address space]) when filters are set up before passing them to sk_unattached_filter_create(). Therefore, let sk_unattached_filter_create() API use sock_fprog_kern to overcome this issue. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c b/net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c
index 12d4da8e6c77..bbffdbdaf603 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("ip6t_bpf");
static int bpf_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
{
struct xt_bpf_info *info = par->matchinfo;
- struct sock_fprog program;
+ struct sock_fprog_kern program;
program.len = info->bpf_program_num_elem;
- program.filter = (struct sock_filter __user *) info->bpf_program;
+ program.filter = info->bpf_program;
+
if (sk_unattached_filter_create(&info->filter, &program)) {
pr_info("bpf: check failed: parse error\n");
return -EINVAL;