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bpf: Allow helpers to accept pointers with a fixed size
Before this commit, the BPF verifier required ARG_PTR_TO_MEM arguments to be followed by ARG_CONST_SIZE holding the size of the memory region. The helpers had to check that size in runtime. There are cases where the size expected by a helper is a compile-time constant. Checking it in runtime is an unnecessary overhead and waste of BPF registers. This commit allows helpers to accept pointers to memory without the corresponding ARG_CONST_SIZE, given that they define the memory region size in struct bpf_func_proto and use ARG_PTR_TO_FIXED_SIZE_MEM type. arg_size is unionized with arg_btf_id to reduce the kernel image size, and it's valid because they are used by different argument types. Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615134847.3753567-3-maximmi@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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