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V2:
- Defer changing BPF-syscall to start at file-descriptor 1
- Use {} to zero initialise struct.
The recent commit fbee97f ("bpf: Add support to attach bpf program to a
devmap entry"), introduced ability to attach (and run) a separate XDP
bpf_prog for each devmap entry. A bpf_prog is added via a file-descriptor.
As zero were a valid FD, not using the feature requires using value minus-1.
The UAPI is extended via tail-extending struct bpf_devmap_val and using
map->value_size to determine the feature set.
This will break older userspace applications not using the bpf_prog feature.
Consider an old userspace app that is compiled against newer kernel
uapi/bpf.h, it will not know that it need to initialise the member
bpf_prog.fd to minus-1. Thus, users will be forced to update source code to
get program running on newer kernels.
This patch remove the minus-1 checks, and have zero mean feature isn't used.
Followup patches either for kernel or libbpf should handle and avoid
returning file-descriptor zero in the first place.
Fixes: fbee97f ("bpf: Add support to attach bpf program to a devmap entry")
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/159170950687.2102545.7235914718298050113.stgit@firesoul
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