tree 6e259a45b3767bd80b789814e4d484ee0ac069bf
parent d50bc1575096250aa37f17299c86ea548156efe8
author Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> 1401351770 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1401686218 -0700

net: filter: get rid of BPF_S_* enum

This patch finally allows us to get rid of the BPF_S_* enum.
Currently, the code performs unnecessary encode and decode
workarounds in seccomp and filter migration itself when a filter
is being attached in order to overcome BPF_S_* encoding which
is not used anymore by the new interpreter resp. JIT compilers.

Keeping it around would mean that also in future we would need
to extend and maintain this enum and related encoders/decoders.
We can get rid of all that and save us these operations during
filter attaching. Naturally, also JIT compilers need to be updated
by this.

Before JIT conversion is being done, each compiler checks if A
is being loaded at startup to obtain information if it needs to
emit instructions to clear A first. Since BPF extensions are a
subset of BPF_LD | BPF_{W,H,B} | BPF_ABS variants, case statements
for extensions can be removed at that point. To ease and minimalize
code changes in the classic JITs, we have introduced bpf_anc_helper().

Tested with test_bpf on x86_64 (JIT, int), s390x (JIT, int),
arm (JIT, int), i368 (int), ppc64 (JIT, int); for sparc we
unfortunately didn't have access, but changes are analogous to
the rest.

Joint work with Alexei Starovoitov.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Chema Gonzalez <chemag@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>