linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/7] bpf: Enable cpumasks to be queried and used as kptrs

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQLtNJ7DYsvzZ0q3So-8PxywiCC4pmV0xKhkDZiw+jx=4A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:01:49 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...a.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...a.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/7] bpf: Enable cpumasks to be queried and
 used as kptrs

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 6:38 AM David Vernet <void@...ifault.com> wrote:
> +
> +void bpf_cpumask_set_cpu(u32 cpu, struct bpf_cpumask *cpumask)
> +{
> +       if (!cpu_valid(cpu))
> +               return;
> +
> +       cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, (struct cpumask *)cpumask);

I was considering suggesting to use &cpumask->cpumask here and
in other cases, but figured it's better to leave it as-is,
since bpf prog will be doing this cast, so it matches.
Maybe some build assertion is necessary to make sure it's the first member.
Probably overkill as well.

Applied.