On 6/4/20 9:48 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > I will NOT send a patch that expose this in uapi/bpf.h. As I explained > before, this caused the issues for my userspace application, that > automatically picked-up struct bpf_devmap_val, and started to fail > (with no code changes), because it needed minus-1 as input. I fear > that this will cause more work for me later, when I have to helpout and > support end-users on e.g. xdp-newbies list, as it will not be obvious > to end-users why their programs map-insert start to fail. I have given > up, so I will not NACK anyone sending such a patch. > > Why is it we need to support file-descriptor zero as a valid > file-descriptor for a bpf-prog?
That was a nice property of using the id instead of fd. And the init to -1 is not unique to this; adopters of the bpf_set_link_xdp_fd_opts for example have to do the same.
