Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/6] bpf: Derive the atomic load register in one place

Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.bpf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2026-08-11 at 00:18 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> check_atomic_rmw() open codes the mapping from a BPF_ATOMIC to the register
> it reads the old value into, the BPF_STX case of insn_def_regno() open codes
> the very same mapping a second time, and BPF JITs need it as well to know
> which register a faulting BPF_PROBE_ATOMIC has to clear. Having the
> derivations sit in different files is how the JITs came to disagree with
> the verifier in the first place. Add a small helper so that all of them can
> share it. No functional change. The BPF_LOAD_ACQ case is there for the JITs,
> which do walk all instruction classes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
> ---

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>

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