linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, test_run: Remove unnecessary prog type checks

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Date:   Sun, 29 May 2022 22:50:09 -0700
From:   Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, test_run: Remove unnecessary prog type checks

On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 1:16 PM Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz> wrote:
>
> These checks were effectively noops b/c there's only one way these
> functions get called: through prog_ops dispatching. And since there's no
> other callers, we can be sure that `prog` is always the correct type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>