Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 15/20] bpf: Annotate context types

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> On Nov 14, 2019, at 10:57 AM, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Annotate BPF program context types with program-side type and kernel-side type.
> This type information is used by the verifier. btf_get_prog_ctx_type() is
> used in the later patches to verify that BTF type of ctx in BPF program matches to
> kernel expected ctx type. For example, the XDP program type is:
> BPF_PROG_TYPE(BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP, xdp, struct xdp_md, struct xdp_buff)
> That means that XDP program should be written as:
> int xdp_prog(struct xdp_md *ctx) { ... }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

[...]

> +	/* only compare that prog's ctx type name is the same as
> +	 * kernel expects. No need to compare field by field.
> +	 * It's ok for bpf prog to do:
> +	 * struct __sk_buff {};
> +	 * int socket_filter_bpf_prog(struct __sk_buff *skb)
> +	 * { // no fields of skb are ever used }
> +	 */
> +	if (strcmp(ctx_tname, tname))
> +		return NULL;

Do we need to check size of the two struct? I guess we should not 
allow something like

	struct __sk_buff {
		char data[REALLY_BIG_NUM]; 
	};
	int socket_filter_bpf_prog(struct __sk_buff *skb)
	{ /* access end of skb */ }

Or did I miss the size check? 

Thanks,
Song



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