netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next] bpf: change syscall_nr type to int in struct syscall_tp

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Message-ID: <20231016115342.30b3d357@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:53:42 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc: Artem Savkov <asavkov@...hat.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko
 <andrii@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Masami
 Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next] bpf: change syscall_nr type to int in
 struct syscall_tp_t

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:43:18 -0700
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:


> > Correct. My Ack is based on the current way things are done upstream.
> > It was just that linux-rt showed the issue, where the code was not as
> > robust as it should have been. To me this was a correctness issue, not
> > an issue that had to do with how things are done in linux-rt.  
> 
> I think we should at least add some BUILD_BUG_ON() that validates
> offsets in syscall_tp_t matches the ones in syscall_trace_enter and
> syscall_trace_exit, to fail more loudly if there is any mismatch in
> the future. WDYT?

If you want to, feel free to send a patch.

> 
> >
> > As for the changes in linux-rt, they are not upstream yet. I'll have my
> > comments on that code when that happens.  
> 
> Ah, ok, cool. I'd appreciate you cc'ing bpf@...r.kernel.org in that
> discussion, thank you!

If I remember ;-)

-- Steve