linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: Remove unnecessary assertion on fp

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Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:26:26 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: Remove unnecessary assertion on fp_old

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:57:35AM -0600, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> The two callers of bpf_prog_realloc - bpf_patch_insn_single and
> bpf_migrate_filter dereference the struct fp_old, before passing
> it to the function. Thus assertion to check fp_old is unnecessary
> and can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>

Applied, thanks!