Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: add veristat tool for mass-verifying BPF object files

[Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>]

On 9/9/22 9:30 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> Add a small tool, veristat, that allows mass-verification of
> a set of *libbpf-compatible* BPF ELF object files. For each such object
> file, veristat will attempt to verify each BPF program *individually*.
> Regardless of success or failure, it parses BPF verifier stats and
> outputs them in human-readable table format. In the future we can also
> add CSV and JSON output for more scriptable post-processing, if necessary.
> 
> veristat allows to specify a set of stats that should be output and
> ordering between multiple objects and files (e.g., so that one can
> easily order by total instructions processed, instead of default file
> name, prog name, verdict, total instructions order).
> 
> This tool should be useful for validating various BPF verifier changes
> or even validating different kernel versions for regressions.
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Git was complaining about two locations w/ whitespace issues, so fixed up
while applying. Thanks!