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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 net-next 00/12] eBPF syscall, verifier, testsuite
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:03:10 +0200
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On 09/10/2014 07:09 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
...
>             struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_MAP_*_ELEM commands */
>                 int map_fd;
>                 void *key;
>                 union {
>                     void *value;
>                     void *next_key;
>                 };
>             };
>
>             struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_PROG_LOAD command */
>                 enum bpf_prog_type    prog_type;
>                 __u32                 insn_cnt;
>                 const struct bpf_insn *insns;
>                 const char            *license;
>                 __u32                 log_level; /* verbosity level of eBPF verifier */
>                 __u32                 log_size;  /* size of user buffer */
>                 void                  *log_buf;  /* user supplied buffer */

What is log buffer? Would that mean the verifier will return an error
string if the program will not pass it, or if not, what other data?
I think the man page is missing how to examine the returned verifier
log buffer data.