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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: make bpf_stackmap_copy conditionally called
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:11:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603101011.11010.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310033845.GA62491@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com>

On Thursday 10 March 2016, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> yes. this is also ok-ish fix.
> I've sent different version already:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/595617/
> 
> I considered the option like yours but it's relying on gcc doing
> dead code elimination of 'if (false) {}' branch and though kernel
> is never compiled with -O0. I didn't want to take the risk.
> I'm fine with either approach though.

Ok, and I see yours is already applied, so that's fine.

In general, I don't like __weak symbols in the kernel as they
make it less clear what is actually getting called, and I think my
version would have been safe, we rely on building with -O2 or -Os
in a lot of places because of similar things.

	Arnd

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  1:43 [PATCH] bpf: make bpf_stackmap_copy conditionally called Arnd Bergmann
2016-03-10  3:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-03-10  9:11   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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