On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:06 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I guess the main question: what should happen if a bpf program writer > > > does _not_ use compiler nor check_shl_overflow()? > > I think the BPF runtime needs to make such actions defined, instead of > doing a blind shift. It needs to check the size of the shift explicitly > when handling the shift instruction. Such ideas were brought up in the past and rejected. We're not going to sacrifice performance to make behavior a bit more 'defined'. CPUs are doing it deterministically. It's the C standard that needs fixing. > Sure, but the point of UBSAN is to find and alert about undefined > behavior, so we still need to fix this. No. The undefined behavior of C standard doesn't need "fixing" most of the time.
