bpf_dbg's interactive 'select ' command, documented in the file header ("select 3 (run etc will start from the 3rd packet in the pcap)") to use 1-based packet indexing, advances the pcap cursor one packet too many. The loop in cmd_select(): pcap_reset_pkt(); /* cursor on packet 1 */ for (i = 0; i < which && (have_next = pcap_next_pkt()); i++) /* noop */; calls pcap_next_pkt() N times to reach packet N, but pcap_next_pkt() validates the packet at the cursor and then advances past it. After N calls the cursor is on packet N+1, so 'select 3' positions on packet 4, 'select 4' on packet 5, etc. To land on packet N the loop must advance the cursor only N-1 times. Reproduction (deterministic, no kernel needed): build bpf_dbg from the unmodified tree, synthesize a pcap with N>=2 packets each with a distinct payload byte, and drive 'select 1 / step 1 / quit'. Before this fix, 'select 1' shows packet 2's payload. After this fix, 'select K' shows packet K for all K in 1..N, and 'select N+1' correctly errors with "no packet #N+1 available!". Cloudflare's downstream mirror at github.com/cloudflare/bpftools carries the same defect. Fixes: fd981e3c321a ("filter: bpf_dbg: add minimal bpf debugger") Signed-off-by: Hasan Basbunar --- Changes in v2: - Drop the pcap_next_pkt() boundary change (>= -> >). As correctly pointed out by Sashiko AI on the v1 thread, that change was wrong: when the last packet body ends exactly at the mmap boundary (the common case for pcap files with no trailer), the relaxed check let pcap_next_pkt() advance the cursor to pcap_ptr_va_start + pcap_map_size and return true. The cmd_run() do/while loop then re-entered its body, called pcap_curr_pkt() at end-of-mmap, and bpf_run_all() dereferenced hdr->caplen / hdr->len out of bounds. The original >= comparison is correct: when the body ends at the boundary it returns false without advancing, and the loop exits cleanly. The cmd_select() 1-based fix below is sufficient and self-contained; pcap_next_pkt() is left untouched. - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260428100109.56572-1-basbunarhasan@gmail.com/ tools/bpf/bpf_dbg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpf_dbg.c b/tools/bpf/bpf_dbg.c index 00e560a17baf..4895602ab37d 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpf_dbg.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpf_dbg.c @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ static int cmd_select(char *num) pcap_reset_pkt(); bpf_reset(); - for (i = 0; i < which && (have_next = pcap_next_pkt()); i++) + for (i = 1; i < which && (have_next = pcap_next_pkt()); i++) /* noop */; if (!have_next || pcap_curr_pkt() == NULL) { rl_printf("no packet #%u available!\n", which); -- 2.53.0