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Re: using verifier to ensure a BPF program uses certain metadata?

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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 08:56:31AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Now, I realize that people could trivially just work around this in
> > > their program if they wanted, but I think most will take the
> > > reminder
> > > and just implement
> > > 
> > >     if (ctx->is_data_ethernet)
> > >         return DROP_FRAME;
> > > 
> > > instead, since mostly data frames will not be very relevant to
> > > them.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > sounds fine and considering new verifier ops after Jakub refactoring
> > a check that is_data_ethernet was accessed would fit nicely.
> > Without void** hack.
> 
> Ok, thanks! I'll have to check what Jakub is doing there, do you have a
> pointer to that refactoring?

something similar to
commit 4f9218aaf8a4 ("bpf: move knowledge about post-translation offsets out of verifier")




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