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The verifier assumes that map values are simple blobs of memory, and therefore treats ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE, etc. as such. However, there are map types where this isn't true. For example, sockmap and sockhash store sockets. In general this isn't a big problem: we can just write helpers that explicitly requests PTR_TO_SOCKET instead of ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE. The one exception are the standard map helpers like map_update_elem, map_lookup_elem, etc. Here it would be nice we could overload the function prototype for different kinds of maps. Unfortunately, this isn't entirely straight forward: We only know the type of the map once we have resolved meta->map_ptr in check_func_arg. This means we can't swap out the prototype in check_helper_call until we're half way through the function. Instead, modify check_func_arg to treat ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE to mean "the native type for the map" instead of "pointer to memory" for sockmap and sockhash. This means we don't have to modify the function prototype at all Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200821102948.21918-5-lmb@cloudflare.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.