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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-02-18 10:12:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-02-18 10:12:12 -0500 |
| commit | 5f09bc8cc4010a3ea17c5881a62fc45192ebe7b0 (patch) | |
| tree | c8e30ba4eaf357699ef97a786bf56661f4591be8 /Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst | |
| parent | 6fd369dd1cb65a032f1ab9227033ecb7b759656d (diff) | |
| parent | a3b22b9f11d9fbc48b0291ea92259a5a810e9438 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5f09bc8cc4010a3ea17c5881a62fc45192ebe7b0.tar.bz2 | |
Merge tag 'v5.0-rc7' into patchwork
Linux 5.0-rc7
* tag 'v5.0-rc7': (1667 commits)
Linux 5.0-rc7
Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK
Input: st-keyscan - fix potential zalloc NULL dereference
Input: apanel - switch to using brightness_set_blocking()
powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()
efi/arm: Revert "Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()"
arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table
sunrpc: fix 4 more call sites that were using stack memory with a scatterlist
include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module
Compiler Attributes: add support for __copy (gcc >= 9)
lib/crc32.c: mark crc32_le_base/__crc32c_le_base aliases as __pure
auxdisplay: ht16k33: fix potential user-after-free on module unload
x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
i2c: bcm2835: Clear current buffer pointers and counts after a transfer
i2c: cadence: Fix the hold bit setting
drm: Use array_size() when creating lease
dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA
Revert "exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string"
Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head"
net: ethernet: freescale: set FEC ethtool regs version
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst index 6780a6d81745..7cc9e368c1e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst @@ -157,12 +157,11 @@ Q: Does BPF have a stable ABI? ------------------------------ A: YES. BPF instructions, arguments to BPF programs, set of helper functions and their arguments, recognized return codes are all part -of ABI. However when tracing programs are using bpf_probe_read() helper -to walk kernel internal datastructures and compile with kernel -internal headers these accesses can and will break with newer -kernels. The union bpf_attr -> kern_version is checked at load time -to prevent accidentally loading kprobe-based bpf programs written -for a different kernel. Networking programs don't do kern_version check. +of ABI. However there is one specific exception to tracing programs +which are using helpers like bpf_probe_read() to walk kernel internal +data structures and compile with kernel internal headers. Both of these +kernel internals are subject to change and can break with newer kernels +such that the program needs to be adapted accordingly. Q: How much stack space a BPF program uses? ------------------------------------------- |