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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:33:00 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] bpf: core: fix shift-out-of-bounds in ___bpf_prog_run

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, the UBSAN report is coming from the eBPF interpreter,
>  which is the *slow path* and indeed on many production systems is
>  compiled out for hardening reasons (CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON).
> Perhaps a better approach to the fix would be to change the interpreter
>  to compute "DST = DST << (SRC & 63);" (and similar for other shifts and
>  bitnesses), thus matching the behaviour of most chips' shift opcodes.
> This would shut up UBSAN, without affecting JIT code generation.
> 

Yes, I suggested that last week
(https://lkml.kernel.org/netdev/YMJvbGEz0xu9JU9D@gmail.com).  The AND will even
get optimized out when compiling for most CPUs.

- Eric

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