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Commit 8c42d2fa authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: Support BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG for btf_type_tag attributes

LLVM patches ([1] for clang, [2] and [3] for BPF backend)
added support for btf_type_tag attributes. This patch
added support for the kernel.

The main motivation for btf_type_tag is to bring kernel
annotations __user, __rcu etc. to btf. With such information
available in btf, bpf verifier can detect mis-usages
and reject the program. For example, for __user tagged pointer,
developers can then use proper helper like bpf_probe_read_user()
etc. to read the data.

BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG may also useful for other tracing
facility where instead of to require user to specify
kernel/user address type, the kernel can detect it
by itself with btf.

  [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199
  [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113222
  [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113496



Signed-off-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211112012609.1505032-1-yhs@fb.com
parent 2326ff8d
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