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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/bpf.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bpf.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index be34f7deb6c3..520b238abd5a 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -363,6 +363,13 @@ static inline void bpf_obj_init(const struct btf_field_offs *foffs, void *obj) memset(obj + foffs->field_off[i], 0, foffs->field_sz[i]); } +/* 'dst' must be a temporary buffer and should not point to memory that is being + * used in parallel by a bpf program or bpf syscall, otherwise the access from + * the bpf program or bpf syscall may be corrupted by the reinitialization, + * leading to weird problems. Even 'dst' is newly-allocated from bpf memory + * allocator, it is still possible for 'dst' to be used in parallel by a bpf + * program or bpf syscall. + */ static inline void check_and_init_map_value(struct bpf_map *map, void *dst) { bpf_obj_init(map->field_offs, dst); |