Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Clarify return value of probe str helpers

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Tue Jan 12 2021 - 11:37:45 EST




On 1/12/21 4:34 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
When the buffer is too small to contain the input string, these
helpers return the length of the buffer, not the length of the
original string. This tries to make the docs totally clear about
that, since "the length of the [copied ]string" could also refer to
the length of the input.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>