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From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 3 May 2023 11:49:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] bpf: Allow NULL buffers in bpf_dynptr_slice(_rw)
To:     Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
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On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 5:52=E2=80=AFPM Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>=
 wrote:
>
> bpf_dynptr_slice(_rw) uses a user provided buffer if it can not provide
> a pointer to a block of contiguous memory. This buffer is unused in the
> case of local dynptrs, and may be unused in other cases as well. There
> is no need to require the buffer, as the kfunc can just return NULL if
> it was needed and not provided.
>
> This adds another kfunc annotation, __opt, which combines with __sz and
> __szk to allow the buffer associated with the size to be NULL. If the
> buffer is NULL, the verifier does not check that the buffer is of
> sufficient size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
> ---

LGTM

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

>  Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/skbuff.h       |  2 +-
>  kernel/bpf/helpers.c         | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c        | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>

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