netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: xdp: Disallow attaching device-bound programs in generic mode

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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:40:40 +0000
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To: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>@codeaurora.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: xdp: Disallow attaching device-bound programs in
 generic mode

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:13:42 +0100 you wrote:
> Device-bound programs are used to support RX metadata kfuncs. These
> kfuncs are driver-specific and rely on the driver context to read the
> metadata. This means they can't work in generic XDP mode. However, there
> is no check to disallow such programs from being attached in generic
> mode, in which case the metadata kfuncs will be called in an invalid
> context, leading to crashes.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,1/2] net: xdp: Disallow attaching device-bound programs in generic mode
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/3595599fa836
  - [net,2/2] selftests/net: Add test for loading devbound XDP program in generic mode
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/f7bf624b1fed

You are awesome, thank you!
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