Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 03/11] net, sk_msg: Clear sk_user_data pointer on clone if tagged

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 09:15 PM CET, Martin Lau wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:50:19AM +0100, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
>> sk_user_data can hold a pointer to an object that is not intended to be
>> shared between the parent socket and the child that gets a pointer copy on
>> clone. This is the case when sk_user_data points at reference-counted
>> object, like struct sk_psock.
>> 
>> One way to resolve it is to tag the pointer with a no-copy flag by
>> repurposing its lowest bit. Based on the bit-flag value we clear the child
>> sk_user_data pointer after cloning the parent socket.
> LGTM.  One nit, WARN_ON_ONCE should be enough for all the cases if they
> would ever happen.  Having continuous splat on the same thing is not
> necessary useful while it could be quite distributing for people
> capture/log them.

Will switch to WARN_ON_ONCE in v3. Thanks for the review!

>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>




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