netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 0/6] Support direct writes to nf

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Message-Id: <166285681712.18334.81256966061837862.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:40:17 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 0/6] Support direct writes to nf_conn:mark

Hello:

This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>:

On Wed,  7 Sep 2022 10:40:35 -0600 you wrote:
> Support direct writes to nf_conn:mark from TC and XDP prog types. This
> is useful when applications want to store per-connection metadata. This
> is also particularly useful for applications that run both bpf and
> iptables/nftables because the latter can trivially access this metadata.
> 
> One example use case would be if a bpf prog is responsible for advanced
> packet classification and iptables/nftables is later used for routing
> due to pre-existing/legacy code.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next,v5,1/6] bpf: Remove duplicate PTR_TO_BTF_ID RO check
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/65269888c695
  - [bpf-next,v5,2/6] bpf: Add stub for btf_struct_access()
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/d4f7bdb2ed7b
  - [bpf-next,v5,3/6] bpf: Use 0 instead of NOT_INIT for btf_struct_access() writes
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/896f07c07da0
  - [bpf-next,v5,4/6] bpf: Export btf_type_by_id() and bpf_log()
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/84c6ac417cea
  - [bpf-next,v5,5/6] bpf: Add support for writing to nf_conn:mark
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/864b656f82cc
  - [bpf-next,v5,6/6] selftests/bpf: Add tests for writing to nf_conn:mark
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/e2d75e954c0a

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