netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] libbpf: parse maps sections of varying size

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Date:   Thu, 5 Oct 2017 19:52:34 +0200
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:     Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Chonggang Li <chonggangli@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] libbpf: parse maps sections of varying
 size


On Thu,  5 Oct 2017 10:41:57 -0400 Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> This library previously assumed a fixed-size map options structure.
> Any new options were ignored.  In order to allow the options structure
> to grow and to support parsing older programs, this patch updates
> the maps section parsing to handle varying sizes.
> 
> Object files with maps sections smaller than expected will have the new
> fields initialized to zero.  Object files which have larger than expected
> maps sections will be rejected unless all of the unrecognized data is zero.
> 
> This change still assumes that each map definition in the maps section
> is the same size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Thank you for working on this! :-)

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer