Re: [PATCH net-next] x86: bpf_jit_comp: secure bpf jit againstspraying attacks

[Eric Dumazet]

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 16:19 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:

> What about emitting additional instructions at random locations in the
> generated code itself?
> 
> Eg., after every instruction, have random chance to insert
> 'xor $0xcc,%al; xor $0xcc,%al', etc?

This will be the latest thing I'll do.

Frankly, whole point of BPF JIT is speed.

If we have slow code, just use the interpretor instead.



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