Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 14/18] bpf: Compare BTF types of functions arguments with actual types

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On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 10:42 PM Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make the verifier check that BTF types of function arguments match actual types
> passed into top-level BPF program and into BPF-to-BPF calls. If types match
> such BPF programs and sub-programs will have full support of BPF trampoline. If
> types mismatch the trampoline has to be conservative. It has to save/restore
> all 5 program arguments and assume 64-bit scalars. If FENTRY/FEXIT program is
> attached to this program in the future such FENTRY/FEXIT program will be able
> to follow pointers only via bpf_probe_read_kernel().
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>

>  include/linux/bpf.h          |   8 +++
>  include/linux/bpf_verifier.h |   1 +
>  kernel/bpf/btf.c             | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/bpf/syscall.c         |   1 +
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c        |  18 +++++-
>  5 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

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