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authorLi RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>2014-10-10 13:56:51 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-10 15:11:51 -0400
commit8ea6e345a6123fa831e42cd8747f55892a58abff (patch)
tree776a24e2cf26319a43ef537e0cbb3112ac690a25 /net
parent1a9525f68e948d53cf99c963bdbf01223a08f4ed (diff)
net: filter: fix the comments
1. sk_run_filter has been renamed, sk_filter() is using SK_RUN_FILTER. 2. Remove wrong comments about storing intermediate value. 3. replace sk_run_filter with __bpf_prog_run for check_load_and_stores's comments Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/filter.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index fcd3f6742a6a..647b12265e18 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
* @skb: buffer to filter
*
* Run the filter code and then cut skb->data to correct size returned by
- * sk_run_filter. If pkt_len is 0 we toss packet. If skb->len is smaller
+ * SK_RUN_FILTER. If pkt_len is 0 we toss packet. If skb->len is smaller
* than pkt_len we keep whole skb->data. This is the socket level
- * wrapper to sk_run_filter. It returns 0 if the packet should
+ * wrapper to SK_RUN_FILTER. It returns 0 if the packet should
* be accepted or -EPERM if the packet should be tossed.
*
*/
@@ -566,11 +566,8 @@ err:
/* Security:
*
- * A BPF program is able to use 16 cells of memory to store intermediate
- * values (check u32 mem[BPF_MEMWORDS] in sk_run_filter()).
- *
* As we dont want to clear mem[] array for each packet going through
- * sk_run_filter(), we check that filter loaded by user never try to read
+ * __bpf_prog_run(), we check that filter loaded by user never try to read
* a cell if not previously written, and we check all branches to be sure
* a malicious user doesn't try to abuse us.
*/