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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:52:54 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc: Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@...weicloud.com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Fix a typo in comment for DFS algorithm
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:32:55PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 7:42 PM Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@...weicloud.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@...wei.com>
> >
> > There is a typo in comment for DFS algorithm in bpf/verifier.c. The top
> > element should not be popped until all its neighbors have been checked.
> > Fix it.
> >
> > Fixes: 475fb78fbf48 ("bpf: verifier (add branch/goto checks)")
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@...wei.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > index b83a8d420520..96ba5ea6d1a6 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > @@ -10662,7 +10662,7 @@ static int check_return_code(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
> > * 3 let S be a stack
> > * 4 S.push(v)
> > * 5 while S is not empty
> > - * 6 t <- S.pop()
> > + * 6 t <- S.top()
>
> Even with this fix the comment is not quite accurate.
> I wonder whether we should keep it or delete it completely.
> At least please use 'peek' instead of 'top'.
I think the comment should be in words (like other code comments in the
kernel) instead.
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