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Currently, the verifier has two return types, RET_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM, and
RET_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM_OR_NULL, however the former is confusingly named to
imply that it carries MEM_ALLOC, while only the latter does. This causes
confusion during code review leading to conclusions like that the return
value of RET_PTR_TO_DYNPTR_MEM_OR_NULL (which is RET_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM |
PTR_MAYBE_NULL) may be consumable by bpf_ringbuf_{submit,commit}.
Rename it to make it clear MEM_ALLOC needs to be tacked on top of
RET_PTR_TO_MEM.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114191547.1694267-6-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.