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

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Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 20:43:13 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...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, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:24:06PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 16 MB of log (unswappable kernel memory) per active checker.
> 
> We might offer a way to oom hosts.

right. good point!
we need to switch to continuous copy_to_user() after a page or so.
Can even do it after every vscnprintf()
but page at a time is probably faster.