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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzbTJGbixzP7ZoUNTYPAa1=7AqrXoUutZPiHS97Dik4Xfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:55:01 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin Lau <kafai@...com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        john fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Yuze Chi <chiyuze@...gle.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libbpf: Fix is_pow_of_2

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 2:07 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 2:00 PM Andrii Nakryiko
> <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:41 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 11:30 AM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello:
> > > >
> > > > This patch was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
> > > > by Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu,  2 Jun 2022 22:51:56 -0700 you wrote:
> > > > > From: Yuze Chi <chiyuze@...gle.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Move the correct definition from linker.c into libbpf_internal.h.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-by: Yuze Chi <chiyuze@...gle.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Yuze Chi <chiyuze@...gle.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Here is the summary with links:
> > > >   - [v2] libbpf: Fix is_pow_of_2
> > > >     https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/f913ad6559e3
> > > >
> > > > You are awesome, thank you!
> > >
> > > Will this patch get added to 5.19?
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c#n4948
> > >
> >
> > I've applied it to bpf-next, so as it stands right now - no. Do you
> > need this for perf?
>
> Nope. We carry it as a patch against 5.19 in Google and was surprised
> to see I didn't need to drop the patch.  Our internal code had
> encountered the bug, hence needing the fix. I'd expect others could
> encounter it, but I'm unaware of an issue with it and perf.
>

So the fix is in Github mirror ([0]) and it is expected that everyone
is using libbpf based on Github repo, so not sure why you'd care about
this fix in bpf tree. I somehow assumed that you need it due to perf,
but was a bit surprised that perf is affected because I don't think
it's using BPF ringbuf.

So I guess the question I have is why you don't use libbpf from [0]
and what can be done to switch to the official libbpf repo?

  [0] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf

> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > > --
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> > > >
> > > >