netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: don't zero out the info struct in bpf_obj_get_info_by

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
        kafai@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: don't zero out the info struct in
 bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd()

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:16:12 -0700

> The buffer passed to bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd() should be initialized
> to zeros.  Kernel will enforce that to guarantee we can safely extend
> info structures in the future.
> 
> Making the bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd() call in libbpf perform the zeroing
> is problematic, however, since some members of the info structures
> may need to be initialized by the callers (for instance pointers
> to buffers to which kernel is to dump translated and jited images).
> 
> Remove the zeroing and fix up the in-tree callers before any kernel
> has been released with this code.
> 
> As Daniel points out this seems to be the intended operation anyway,
> since commit 95b9afd3987f ("bpf: Test for bpf ID") is itself setting
> the buffer pointers before calling bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Applied, thanks Jakub.