netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: move knowledge about post-translation offsets out of verifier

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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:45:29 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: move knowledge about post-translation
 offsets out of verifier

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:40:55PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Use the fact that verifier ops are now separate from program
> ops to define a separate set of callbacks for verification of
> already translated programs.
> 
> Since we expect the analyzer ops to be defined only for
> a small subset of all program types initialize their array
> by hand (don't use linux/bpf_types.h).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>