Re: [PATCH 066/190] Revert "bpf: Remove unnecessary assertion on fp_old"

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Tue Apr 27 2021 - 15:28:37 EST


On 4/27/21 7:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:01PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
[...]
kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 75244ecb2389..da29211ea5d8 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_realloc(struct bpf_prog *fp_old, unsigned int size,
struct bpf_prog *fp;
u32 pages;
+ BUG_ON(fp_old == NULL);
+
size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE);
pages = size / PAGE_SIZE;
if (pages <= fp_old->pages)

The original commit here is correct, I'll drop this revert.

Ok, sounds good to me, thanks! (If there would ever be an incorrect fp_old with NULL, then at
latest we crash in fp_old->pages anyway, so the BUG_ON() was not needed.)

thanks,

greg k-h