Re: [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] bpf: Reject untrusted pointers in refcount_acquire
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:48:22 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.bpf |
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On Mon Aug 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM CEST, Ning Ding wrote: >> In addition, I would add a comment saying that the BPF_WRITE case for the >> type_is_untrusted_ptr_alloc_obj() types was already rejected earlier, so this >> check only permits reads on them. > > Thanks, I’m preparing the respin and will check every > type_is_ptr_alloc_obj() caller to decide whether it should use the new > stricter one or stay the same. Sounds good. I'd still keep type_is_ptr_alloc_obj() as the naming for stricter one, but auditing all users sounds good. On quick skim I don't think we need to relax anything except this case.