From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Gilad Reti <gilad.reti@gmail.com>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: support PTR_TO_MEM{,_OR_NULL} register spilling
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:02:20 -0800
Message-ID: <CAADnVQKF=bEzc6UjaSCAyE6dUXsYRXcQe4qBBBczyr75HyVL8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACYkzJ5o7QBR1stFTqxGJv2gbS0qsVKZW6BJ3iBUagy5_S+N0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:29 PM KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 6:38 AM Gilad Reti <gilad.reti@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Add support for pointer to mem register spilling, to allow the verifier
> > to track pointers to valid memory addresses. Such pointers are returned
> > for example by a successful call of the bpf_ringbuf_reserve helper.
> >
> > The patch was partially contributed by CyberArk Software, Inc.
> >
> > Fixes: 457f44363a88 ("bpf: Implement BPF ring buffer and verifier support for it")
> > Suggested-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Gilad Reti <gilad.reti@gmail.com>
>
> Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
It's a border line feature vs fix.
Since the patch is trivial and it addresses a real problem I've
applied to the bpf tree.
Thanks!
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-13 5:38 Gilad Reti
2021-01-13 5:38 ` [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] selftests/bpf: add verifier test for PTR_TO_MEM spill Gilad Reti
2021-01-13 16:05 ` Yonghong Song
2021-01-13 22:28 ` KP Singh
2021-01-13 22:29 ` [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: support PTR_TO_MEM{,_OR_NULL} register spilling KP Singh
2021-01-14 4:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
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