On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Safety of eBPF programs is statically determined by the verifier, which >>> detects: >> >> This is a very high-level review. I haven't tried to read all the >> code yet, and this is mostly questions rather than real comments. >
> These were great questions! I hope I answered them. If not, please > continue asking. I have plenty more questions, but here's one right now: does anything prevent programs from using pointers in comparisons, returning pointers, or otherwise figuring out the value of a pointer? If so, I think it would be worthwhile to prevent that so that eBPF programs can't learn kernel addresses. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
