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Introduce support for representing pointers to objects allocated by the BPF program, i.e. PTR_TO_BTF_ID that point to a type in program BTF. This is indicated by the presence of MEM_ALLOC type flag in reg->type to avoid having to check btf_is_kernel when trying to match argument types in helpers. Whenever walking such types, any pointers being walked will always yield a SCALAR instead of pointer. In the future we might permit kptr inside such allocated objects (either kernel or program allocated), and it will then form a PTR_TO_BTF_ID of the respective type. For now, such allocated objects will always be referenced in verifier context, hence ref_obj_id == 0 for them is a bug. It is allowed to write to such objects, as long fields that are special are not touched (support for which will be added in subsequent patches). Note that once such a pointer is marked PTR_UNTRUSTED, it is no longer allowed to write to it. No PROBE_MEM handling is therefore done for loads into this type unless PTR_UNTRUSTED is part of the register type, since they can never be in an undefined state, and their lifetime will always be valid. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118015614.2013203-6-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.