netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: report verifier bugs as warnings

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Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 16:52:40 +0100
From:   Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@...nge.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Xiao Han <xiao.han@...nge.com>, <paul.chaignon@...il.com>,
        "Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: report verifier bugs as warnings

On 02/04/2019 15:37, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> If we really want to have a kernel warn, then lets add a
> helper macro verbose_and_warn(...) which will trigger a one-time warning, but keeps
> the verbose log intact as well.
+1

Any time the verifier detects that its internal invariants have been broken,
 logging a warning is the right thing to do, just like any other part of the
 kernel.