On Wed, 2025-11-05 at 14:45 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM Hoyeon Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > The netif_receive_skb BPF program used in snprintf_btf test still uses
> > a custom __strncmp. This is unnecessary as the bpf_strncmp helper is
> > available and provides the same functionality.
> > 
> > This commit refactors the test to use the bpf_strncmp helper, removing
> > the redundant custom implementation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hoyeon Lee <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  .../selftests/bpf/progs/netif_receive_skb.c       | 15 +--------------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/netif_receive_skb.c 
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/netif_receive_skb.c
> > index 9e067dcbf607..186b8c82b9e6 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/netif_receive_skb.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/netif_receive_skb.c
> > @@ -31,19 +31,6 @@ struct {
> >         __type(value, char[STRSIZE]);
> >  } strdata SEC(".maps");
> > 
> > -static int __strncmp(const void *m1, const void *m2, size_t len)
> > -{
> > -       const unsigned char *s1 = m1;
> > -       const unsigned char *s2 = m2;
> > -       int i, delta = 0;
> > -
> > -       for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> > -               delta = s1[i] - s2[i];
> > -               if (delta || s1[i] == 0 || s2[i] == 0)
> > -                       break;
> > -       }
> > -       return delta;
> > -}
> > 
> >  #if __has_builtin(__builtin_btf_type_id)
> >  #define        TEST_BTF(_str, _type, _flags, _expected, ...)               
> >     \
> > @@ -69,7 +56,7 @@ static int __strncmp(const void *m1, const void *m2, 
> > size_t len)
> >                                        &_ptr, sizeof(_ptr), _hflags);   \
> >                 if (ret)                                                \
> >                         break;                                          \
> > -               _cmp = __strncmp(_str, _expectedval, EXPECTED_STRSIZE); \
> > +               _cmp = bpf_strncmp(_str, EXPECTED_STRSIZE, _expectedval); \
> 
> Though it's equivalent, the point of the test is to be heavy
> for the verifier with open coded __strncmp().
> 
> pw-bot: cr

I double checked that before acking, the test was added as a part of [1].
So it seems to be focused on bpf_snprintf_btf(), not on scalability.
And it's not that heavy in terms of instructions budget:

File                     Program                  Verdict  Insns  States
-----------------------  -----------------------  -------  -----  ------
netif_receive_skb.bpf.o  trace_netif_receive_skb  success  18152     629


[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/

Reply via email to