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In kfuncs, a "trusted" pointer is a pointer that the kfunc can assume is safe, and which the verifier will allow to be passed to a KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc. Currently, a KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc disallows any pointer to be passed at a nonzero offset, but sometimes this is in fact safe if the "nested" pointer's lifetime is inherited from its parent. For example, the const cpumask_t *cpus_ptr field in a struct task_struct will remain valid until the task itself is destroyed, and thus would also be safe to pass to a KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc. While it would be conceptually simple to enable this by using BTF tags, gcc unfortunately does not yet support this. In the interim, this patch enables support for this by using a type-naming convention. A new BTF_TYPE_SAFE_NESTED macro is defined in verifier.c which allows a developer to specify the nested fields of a type which are considered trusted if its parent is also trusted. The verifier is also updated to account for this. A patch with selftests will be added in a follow-on change, along with documentation for this feature. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120192523.3650503-2-void@manifault.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.