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From:   KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:18:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Clarify return value of probe str helpers
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:34 PM Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> wrote:
>
> When the buffer is too small to contain the input string, these
> helpers return the length of the buffer, not the length of the
> original string. This tries to make the docs totally clear about
> that, since "the length of the [copied ]string" could also refer to
> the length of the input.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>

Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>