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David Vernet
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Currently, if a struct_ops map is loaded with BPF_F_LINK, it must also define the .validate() and .update() callbacks in its corresponding struct bpf_struct_ops in the kernel. Enabling struct_ops link is useful in its own right to ensure that the map is unloaded if an application crashes. For example, with sched_ext, we want to automatically unload the host-wide scheduler if the application crashes. We would likely never support updating elements of a sched_ext struct_ops map, so we'd have to implement these callbacks showing that they _can't_ support element updates just to benefit from the basic lifetime management of struct_ops links. Let's enable struct_ops maps to work with BPF_F_LINK even if they haven't defined these callbacks, by assuming that a struct_ops map element cannot be updated by default. Acked-by: Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814185908.700553-2-void@manifault.com Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
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