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Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <179de8940292950809a1b27a6d37db3772ce42f2.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf] bpf: liveness: Handle ERR_PTR from get_outer_instance() in propagate_to_outer_instance() From: Shardul Bankar To: Eduard Zingerman , bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , John Fastabend , KP Singh , Stanislav Fomichev , Hao Luo , Jiri Olsa , open list Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:40:37 +0530 In-Reply-To: <6cd4bb7732465debf55ef244aaafbc5047323628.camel@gmail.com> References: <20251020060712.4155702-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com> <6cd4bb7732465debf55ef244aaafbc5047323628.camel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4-0ubuntu2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 20:26 -0700, Eduard Zingerman wrote: > This description is misleading. > The only reasons for this patch to land are: > - reduce cognitive load to avoid thinking about special case; > - silence the false-positive notices from the tooling. Thanks, Eduard. I=E2=80=99ve updated the commit message in v3 to reflect your points =E2=80= =94 the patch now clarifies intent and notes that it reduces cognitive load and silences tooling false positives. No functional change is claimed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251021080849.860072-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com/ Thanks again for the detailed review, Shardul