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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/bpf/cpumask.c, branch linux-6.9.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>bpf: treewide: Annotate BPF kfuncs in BTF</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T04:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Xu</name>
<email>dxu@dxuuu.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-29T01:24:08+00:00</published>
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This commit marks kfuncs as such inside the .BTF_ids section. The upshot
of these annotations is that we'll be able to automatically generate
kfunc prototypes for downstream users. The process is as follows:

1. In source, use BTF_KFUNCS_START/END macro pair to mark kfuncs
2. During build, pahole injects into BTF a "bpf_kfunc" BTF_DECL_TAG for
   each function inside BTF_KFUNCS sets
3. At runtime, vmlinux or module BTF is made available in sysfs
4. At runtime, bpftool (or similar) can look at provided BTF and
   generate appropriate prototypes for functions with "bpf_kfunc" tag

To ensure future kfunc are similarly tagged, we now also return error
inside kfunc registration for untagged kfuncs. For vmlinux kfuncs,
we also WARN(), as initcall machinery does not handle errors.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e55150ceecbf0a5d961e608941165c0bee7bc943.1706491398.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit marks kfuncs as such inside the .BTF_ids section. The upshot
of these annotations is that we'll be able to automatically generate
kfunc prototypes for downstream users. The process is as follows:

1. In source, use BTF_KFUNCS_START/END macro pair to mark kfuncs
2. During build, pahole injects into BTF a "bpf_kfunc" BTF_DECL_TAG for
   each function inside BTF_KFUNCS sets
3. At runtime, vmlinux or module BTF is made available in sysfs
4. At runtime, bpftool (or similar) can look at provided BTF and
   generate appropriate prototypes for functions with "bpf_kfunc" tag

To ensure future kfunc are similarly tagged, we now also return error
inside kfunc registration for untagged kfuncs. For vmlinux kfuncs,
we also WARN(), as initcall machinery does not handle errors.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e55150ceecbf0a5d961e608941165c0bee7bc943.1706491398.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix dtor CFI</title>
<updated>2023-12-16T00:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-15T09:12:22+00:00</published>
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Ensure the various dtor functions match their prototype and retain
their CFI signatures, since they don't have their address taken, they
are prone to not getting CFI, making them impossible to call
indirectly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.799451071@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Ensure the various dtor functions match their prototype and retain
their CFI signatures, since they don't have their address taken, they
are prone to not getting CFI, making them impossible to call
indirectly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.799451071@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_cpumask_weight() kfunc</title>
<updated>2023-12-10T05:37:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-07T21:08:42+00:00</published>
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It can be useful to query how many bits are set in a cpumask. For
example, if you want to perform special logic for the last remaining
core that's set in a mask. Let's therefore add a new
bpf_cpumask_weight() kfunc which checks how many bits are set in a mask.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207210843.168466-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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It can be useful to query how many bits are set in a cpumask. For
example, if you want to perform special logic for the last remaining
core that's set in a mask. Let's therefore add a new
bpf_cpumask_weight() kfunc which checks how many bits are set in a mask.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207210843.168466-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add __bpf_kfunc_{start,end}_defs macros</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T05:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Marchevsky</name>
<email>davemarchevsky@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T21:56:24+00:00</published>
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BPF kfuncs are meant to be called from BPF programs. Accordingly, most
kfuncs are not called from anywhere in the kernel, which the
-Wmissing-prototypes warning is unhappy about. We've peppered
__diag_ignore_all("-Wmissing-prototypes", ... everywhere kfuncs are
defined in the codebase to suppress this warning.

This patch adds two macros meant to bound one or many kfunc definitions.
All existing kfunc definitions which use these __diag calls to suppress
-Wmissing-prototypes are migrated to use the newly-introduced macros.
A new __diag_ignore_all - for "-Wmissing-declarations" - is added to the
__bpf_kfunc_start_defs macro based on feedback from Andrii on an earlier
version of this patch [0] and another recent mailing list thread [1].

In the future we might need to ignore different warnings or do other
kfunc-specific things. This change will make it easier to make such
modifications for all kfunc defs.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzaE5dRWtK6RPLnjTW-MW9sx9K3Fn6uwqCTChK2Dcb1Xig@mail.gmail.com/
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZT+2qCc%2FaXep0%2FLf@krava/

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky &lt;davemarchevsky@fb.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031215625.2343848-1-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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BPF kfuncs are meant to be called from BPF programs. Accordingly, most
kfuncs are not called from anywhere in the kernel, which the
-Wmissing-prototypes warning is unhappy about. We've peppered
__diag_ignore_all("-Wmissing-prototypes", ... everywhere kfuncs are
defined in the codebase to suppress this warning.

This patch adds two macros meant to bound one or many kfunc definitions.
All existing kfunc definitions which use these __diag calls to suppress
-Wmissing-prototypes are migrated to use the newly-introduced macros.
A new __diag_ignore_all - for "-Wmissing-declarations" - is added to the
__bpf_kfunc_start_defs macro based on feedback from Andrii on an earlier
version of this patch [0] and another recent mailing list thread [1].

In the future we might need to ignore different warnings or do other
kfunc-specific things. This change will make it easier to make such
modifications for all kfunc defs.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzaE5dRWtK6RPLnjTW-MW9sx9K3Fn6uwqCTChK2Dcb1Xig@mail.gmail.com/
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZT+2qCc%2FaXep0%2FLf@krava/

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky &lt;davemarchevsky@fb.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031215625.2343848-1-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Convert bpf_cpumask to bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu.</title>
<updated>2023-07-12T21:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-06T03:34:46+00:00</published>
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Convert bpf_cpumask to bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu.
Note that migrate_disable() in bpf_cpumask_release() is still necessary, since
bpf_cpumask_release() is a dtor. bpf_obj_free_fields() can be converted to do
migrate_disable() there in a follow up.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230706033447.54696-14-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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Convert bpf_cpumask to bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu.
Note that migrate_disable() in bpf_cpumask_release() is still necessary, since
bpf_cpumask_release() is a dtor. bpf_obj_free_fields() can be converted to do
migrate_disable() there in a follow up.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230706033447.54696-14-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Replace bpf_cpumask_any* with bpf_cpumask_any_distribute*</title>
<updated>2023-06-12T22:09:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-10T03:50:51+00:00</published>
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We currently export the bpf_cpumask_any() and bpf_cpumask_any_and()
kfuncs. Intuitively, one would expect these to choose any CPU in the
cpumask, but what they actually do is alias to cpumask_first() and
cpmkas_first_and().

This is useless given that we already export bpf_cpumask_first() and
bpf_cpumask_first_and(), so this patch replaces them with kfuncs that
call cpumask_any_distribute() and cpumask_any_and_distribute(), which
actually choose any CPU from the cpumask (or the AND of two cpumasks for
the latter).

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230610035053.117605-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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We currently export the bpf_cpumask_any() and bpf_cpumask_any_and()
kfuncs. Intuitively, one would expect these to choose any CPU in the
cpumask, but what they actually do is alias to cpumask_first() and
cpmkas_first_and().

This is useless given that we already export bpf_cpumask_first() and
bpf_cpumask_first_and(), so this patch replaces them with kfuncs that
call cpumask_any_distribute() and cpumask_any_and_distribute(), which
actually choose any CPU from the cpumask (or the AND of two cpumasks for
the latter).

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230610035053.117605-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_cpumask_first_and() kfunc</title>
<updated>2023-06-12T22:09:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-10T03:50:49+00:00</published>
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We currently provide bpf_cpumask_first(), bpf_cpumask_any(), and
bpf_cpumask_any_and() kfuncs. bpf_cpumask_any() and
bpf_cpumask_any_and() are confusing misnomers in that they actually just
call cpumask_first() and cpumask_first_and() respectively.

We'll replace them with bpf_cpumask_any_distribute() and
bpf_cpumask_any_distribute_and() kfuncs in a subsequent patch, so let's
ensure feature parity by adding a bpf_cpumask_first_and() kfunc to
account for bpf_cpumask_any_and() being removed.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230610035053.117605-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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We currently provide bpf_cpumask_first(), bpf_cpumask_any(), and
bpf_cpumask_any_and() kfuncs. bpf_cpumask_any() and
bpf_cpumask_any_and() are confusing misnomers in that they actually just
call cpumask_first() and cpumask_first_and() respectively.

We'll replace them with bpf_cpumask_any_distribute() and
bpf_cpumask_any_distribute_and() kfuncs in a subsequent patch, so let's
ensure feature parity by adding a bpf_cpumask_first_and() kfunc to
account for bpf_cpumask_any_and() being removed.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230610035053.117605-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Treat KF_RELEASE kfuncs as KF_TRUSTED_ARGS</title>
<updated>2023-03-25T23:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-25T21:31:46+00:00</published>
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KF_RELEASE kfuncs are not currently treated as having KF_TRUSTED_ARGS,
even though they have a superset of the requirements of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS.
Like KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, KF_RELEASE kfuncs require a 0-offset argument, and
don't allow NULL-able arguments. Unlike KF_TRUSTED_ARGS which require
_either_ an argument with ref_obj_id &gt; 0, _or_ (ref-&gt;type &amp;
BPF_REG_TRUSTED_MODIFIERS) (and no unsafe modifiers allowed), KF_RELEASE
only allows for ref_obj_id &gt; 0.  Because KF_RELEASE today doesn't
automatically imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, some of these requirements are
enforced in different ways that can make the behavior of the verifier
feel unpredictable. For example, a KF_RELEASE kfunc with a NULL-able
argument will currently fail in the verifier with a message like, "arg#0
is ptr_or_null_ expected ptr_ or socket" rather than "Possibly NULL
pointer passed to trusted arg0". Our intention is the same, but the
semantics are different due to implemenetation details that kfunc authors
and BPF program writers should not need to care about.

Let's make the behavior of the verifier more consistent and intuitive by
having KF_RELEASE kfuncs imply the presence of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS. Our
eventual goal is to have all kfuncs assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS by default
anyways, so this takes us a step in that direction.

Note that it does not make sense to assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS for all
KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs. KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs can have looser semantics than
KF_RELEASE, with e.g. KF_RCU | KF_RET_NULL. We may want to have
KF_ACQUIRE imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS _unless_ KF_RCU is specified, but that
can be left to another patch set, and there are no such subtleties to
address for KF_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230325213144.486885-4-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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KF_RELEASE kfuncs are not currently treated as having KF_TRUSTED_ARGS,
even though they have a superset of the requirements of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS.
Like KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, KF_RELEASE kfuncs require a 0-offset argument, and
don't allow NULL-able arguments. Unlike KF_TRUSTED_ARGS which require
_either_ an argument with ref_obj_id &gt; 0, _or_ (ref-&gt;type &amp;
BPF_REG_TRUSTED_MODIFIERS) (and no unsafe modifiers allowed), KF_RELEASE
only allows for ref_obj_id &gt; 0.  Because KF_RELEASE today doesn't
automatically imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, some of these requirements are
enforced in different ways that can make the behavior of the verifier
feel unpredictable. For example, a KF_RELEASE kfunc with a NULL-able
argument will currently fail in the verifier with a message like, "arg#0
is ptr_or_null_ expected ptr_ or socket" rather than "Possibly NULL
pointer passed to trusted arg0". Our intention is the same, but the
semantics are different due to implemenetation details that kfunc authors
and BPF program writers should not need to care about.

Let's make the behavior of the verifier more consistent and intuitive by
having KF_RELEASE kfuncs imply the presence of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS. Our
eventual goal is to have all kfuncs assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS by default
anyways, so this takes us a step in that direction.

Note that it does not make sense to assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS for all
KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs. KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs can have looser semantics than
KF_RELEASE, with e.g. KF_RCU | KF_RET_NULL. We may want to have
KF_ACQUIRE imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS _unless_ KF_RCU is specified, but that
can be left to another patch set, and there are no such subtleties to
address for KF_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230325213144.486885-4-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Remove now-unnecessary NULL checks for KF_RELEASE kfuncs</title>
<updated>2023-03-25T23:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-25T21:31:45+00:00</published>
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Now that we're not invoking kfunc destructors when the kptr in a map was
NULL, we no longer require NULL checks in many of our KF_RELEASE kfuncs.
This patch removes those NULL checks.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230325213144.486885-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that we're not invoking kfunc destructors when the kptr in a map was
NULL, we no longer require NULL checks in many of our KF_RELEASE kfuncs.
This patch removes those NULL checks.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230325213144.486885-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Remove bpf_cpumask_kptr_get() kfunc</title>
<updated>2023-03-16T19:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-16T05:40:27+00:00</published>
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Now that struct bpf_cpumask is RCU safe, there's no need for this kfunc.
Rather than doing the following:

private(MASK) static struct bpf_cpumask __kptr *global;

int BPF_PROG(prog, s32 cpu, ...)
{
	struct bpf_cpumask *cpumask;

	bpf_rcu_read_lock();
	cpumask = bpf_cpumask_kptr_get(&amp;global);
	if (!cpumask) {
		bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
		return -1;
	}
	bpf_cpumask_setall(cpumask);
	...
	bpf_cpumask_release(cpumask);
	bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
}

Programs can instead simply do (assume same global cpumask):

int BPF_PROG(prog, ...)
{
	struct bpf_cpumask *cpumask;

	bpf_rcu_read_lock();
	cpumask = global;
	if (!cpumask) {
		bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
		return -1;
	}
	bpf_cpumask_setall(cpumask);
	...
	bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
}

In other words, no extra atomic acquire / release, and less boilerplate
code.

This patch removes both the kfunc, as well as its selftests and
documentation.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316054028.88924-5-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that struct bpf_cpumask is RCU safe, there's no need for this kfunc.
Rather than doing the following:

private(MASK) static struct bpf_cpumask __kptr *global;

int BPF_PROG(prog, s32 cpu, ...)
{
	struct bpf_cpumask *cpumask;

	bpf_rcu_read_lock();
	cpumask = bpf_cpumask_kptr_get(&amp;global);
	if (!cpumask) {
		bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
		return -1;
	}
	bpf_cpumask_setall(cpumask);
	...
	bpf_cpumask_release(cpumask);
	bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
}

Programs can instead simply do (assume same global cpumask):

int BPF_PROG(prog, ...)
{
	struct bpf_cpumask *cpumask;

	bpf_rcu_read_lock();
	cpumask = global;
	if (!cpumask) {
		bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
		return -1;
	}
	bpf_cpumask_setall(cpumask);
	...
	bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
}

In other words, no extra atomic acquire / release, and less boilerplate
code.

This patch removes both the kfunc, as well as its selftests and
documentation.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316054028.88924-5-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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