Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: ensure state checkpointing at iter_next() call sites

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Hello:

This patch was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 22:01:49 -0800 you wrote:
> State equivalence check and checkpointing performed in is_state_visited()
> employs certain heuristics to try to save memory by avoiding state checkpoints
> if not enough jumps and instructions happened since last checkpoint. This leads
> to unpredictability of whether a particular instruction will be checkpointed
> and how regularly. While normally this is not causing much problems (except
> inconveniences for predictable verifier tests, which we overcome with
> BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ flag), turns out it's not the case for open-coded
> iterators.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next] bpf: ensure state checkpointing at iter_next() call sites
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/4b5ce570dbef

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