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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bpf-next PATCH 3/3] bpf: add sample program to trace map events
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:08:02 -0600
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:08:36PM +0200, Sebastiano Miano wrote:
> 
> That's in fact the real use case for the first two patches. Since bpf
> tracepoints are still a rather common (and easy to use) troubleshooting and
> monitoring tool why shouldn't we "enhance" their support with the newly
> added map/prog IDs?

because these tracepoints can be abused in the way that this patch demonstrated.
Whether to keep this patch in the series or not is irrelevant.