ebpf: remove self-assignment in interpreter's tail call

ARG1 = BPF_R1 as it stands, evaluates to regs[BPF_REG_1] = regs[BPF_REG_1]
and thus has no effect. Add a comment instead, explaining what happens and
why it's okay to just remove it. Since from user space side, a tail call is
invoked as a pseudo helper function via bpf_tail_call_proto, the verifier
checks the arguments just like with any other helper function and makes
sure that the first argument (regs[BPF_REG_1])'s type is ARG_PTR_TO_CTX.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann 2015-07-13 20:49:32 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent de551f2eb2
commit c4675f9353
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -453,7 +453,11 @@ select_insn:
if (unlikely(!prog))
goto out;
ARG1 = BPF_R1;
/* ARG1 at this point is guaranteed to point to CTX from
* the verifier side due to the fact that the tail call is
* handeled like a helper, that is, bpf_tail_call_proto,
* where arg1_type is ARG_PTR_TO_CTX.
*/
insn = prog->insnsi;
goto select_insn;
out: