netdev - Re: [RFC] bpf: remove global verifier state

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Message-ID: <1507087446.8061.37.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:24:06 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        daniel@...earbox.net, dsahern@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, david.beckett@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] bpf: remove global verifier state

On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 19:52 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> yep. looks great.
> Please test it and submit officially :)
> The commit aafe6ae9cee3 ("bpf: dynamically allocate digest scratch buffer")
> fixed the other case where we were relying on the above mutex.
> The only other spot to be adjusted is to add spin_lock/mutex or DO_ONCE() to
> bpf_get_skb_set_tunnel_proto() to protect md_dst init.
> imo that would be it.
> Daniel, anything else comes to mind?


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