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From: Kui-Feng Lee <sinquersw@gmail.com>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>, thinker.li@gmail.com
Cc: kuifeng@meta.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
	song@kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, andrii@kernel.org,
	davemarchevsky@meta.com, dvernet@meta.com
Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next v4 5/6] bpf: Create argument information for nullable arguments.
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 17:53:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <337bf811-9e20-4a75-95e1-e0e60b831cbc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b1d0822-73c4-472a-a170-947b53f2c66f@linux.dev>



On 2/2/24 16:40, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> 
> I have a question/request.
> 
> On top of tagging nullable, can we extend the ctx_arg_info idea here to 
> allow changing the pointer type?
> 
> In particular, take a stub function in bpf_tcp_ca.c:
> 
> static u32 bpf_tcp_ca_ssthresh(struct tcp_sock *tp)
> {
>          return 0;
> }
> 
> Instead of the "struct sock *sk" argument as defined in the 
> tcp_congestion_ops, the stub function uses "struct tcp_sock *tp'. If we 
> can reuse the ctx_arg_info idea here, then it can remove the existing 
> way of changing the pointer type from bpf_tcp_ca_is_valid_access.
> 

A question just come to me. Why doesn't just define the argument as a 
pointer to struct tpc_sock in the definition of the function pointer?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-05  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-02 22:05 [RFC bpf-next v4 0/6] Support PTR_MAYBE_NULL for struct_ops arguments thinker.li
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 1/6] bpf: Allow PTR_TO_BTF_ID even for pointers to int thinker.li
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 2/6] bpf: Extend PTR_TO_BTF_ID to handle pointers to scalar and array types thinker.li
2024-02-03  0:52   ` Martin KaFai Lau
2024-02-03  1:03     ` Kui-Feng Lee
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 3/6] bpf: Remove an unnecessary check thinker.li
2024-02-03  0:46   ` Martin KaFai Lau
2024-02-03  1:03     ` Kui-Feng Lee
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 4/6] bpf: add btf pointer to struct bpf_ctx_arg_aux thinker.li
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 5/6] bpf: Create argument information for nullable arguments thinker.li
2024-02-03  0:40   ` Martin KaFai Lau
2024-02-03  1:57     ` Kui-Feng Lee
2024-02-04  0:21       ` Kui-Feng Lee
2024-02-05  1:53     ` Kui-Feng Lee [this message]
2024-02-02 22:05 ` [RFC bpf-next v4 6/6] selftests/bpf: Test PTR_MAYBE_NULL arguments of struct_ops operators thinker.li

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