netdev - Re: [PATCH v18 bpf-next 20/23] net: xdp: introduce bpf_xdp

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Date:   Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:31:59 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, ast@...nel.org,
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        jasowang@...hat.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com, saeed@...nel.org,
        maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com, magnus.karlsson@...el.com,
        tirthendu.sarkar@...el.com, toke@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 bpf-next 20/23] net: xdp: introduce bpf_xdp_pointer
 utility routine

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 01:12:41 +0100 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> ack, you are right. Sorry for the issue.
> I did not trigger the problem with xdp-mb self-tests since we will not run
> bpf_xdp_copy_buf() in this specific case, but just the memcpy()
> (but what you reported is a bug and must be fixed). I will add more
> self-tests.
> Moreover, reviewing the code I guess we can just update bpf_xdp_copy() for our case.
> Something like:

Seems reasonable.  We could probably play some tricks with double
pointers to avoid the ternary operator being re-evaluated for each
chunk. But even if it's faster it is probably not worth the ugliness
of the code.