netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: clarify kernel type use with USER variants of CORE reading macros

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Date:   Sun, 10 Jan 2021 11:46:06 -0800
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <ast@...com>, <daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:     <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: clarify kernel type use with USER
 variants of CORE reading macros



On 1/8/21 11:44 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> Add comments clarifying that USER variants of CO-RE reading macro are still
> only going to work with kernel types, defined in kernel or kernel module BTF.
> This should help preventing invalid use of those macro to read user-defined
> types (which doesn't work with CO-RE).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>