Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: Reject writes through untrusted allocated pointers

Ning Ding <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 21:06:55 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.bpf,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest
Message-ID <CAJP4iusveRqaScJhLJhdkA7fLXZu74_W0MJN0YuHo=3Et5e0NQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Why is this not enough? 'key' is scalar, but 'res' which is being written to is
> still a PTR_TO_BTF_ID with PTR_UNTRUSTED.

Ah, right. I was testing against Linus’ master, where that
PTR_UNTRUSTED write check is not present, and I missed that it had
already been added in bpf-next. That patch is not necessary.