[PATCH] net: filter: make JITs zero A for SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Wed Jan 6 03:03:45 AEDT 2016


On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:00:45AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 16:23 +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > The SKF_AD_ALU_XOR_X ancillary is not like the other ancillary data
> > instructions since it XORs A with X while all the others replace A with
> > some loaded value.  All the BPF JITs fail to clear A if this is used as
> > the first instruction in a filter.
> 
> Is x86_64 part of this 'All' subset ? ;)

No, because it's an eBPF JIT.


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