On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 17:43 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> KaFai Wan <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 11:46 +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > > KaFai Wan <[email protected]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > This fix reverts to the original version and ensures data_hard_start
> > > > correctly points to the xdp_frame structure, eliminating the security
> > > > risk.
> > > 
> > > This is wrong. We should just be checking the meta_len on input to
> > > account for the size of xdp_frame. I'll send a patch.
> > 
> > Current version the actual limit of the max input meta_len for live frames 
> > is 
> > XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM - sizeof(struct xdp_frame), not
> > XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM.
> 
> By "current version", you mean the patch I sent[0], right?
> 
> If so, that was deliberate: the stack limits the maximum data_meta size
> to XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM - sizeof(struct xdp_frame), so there's no reason
> not to do the same for bpf_prog_run(). And some chance that diverging
> here will end up surfacing other bugs down the line.
> 
Oh, I see. Thank you for your explanation.
> -Toke
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> 

-- 
Thanks,
KaFai

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