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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/bpf.h, branch v4.16-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>bpf: offload: report device information about offloaded maps</title>
<updated>2018-01-18T21:54:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T03:13:28+00:00</published>
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Tell user space about device on which the map was created.
Unfortunate reality of user ABI makes sharing this code
with program offload difficult but the information is the
same.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Tell user space about device on which the map was created.
Unfortunate reality of user ABI makes sharing this code
with program offload difficult but the information is the
same.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: add new jited info fields in bpf_dev_offload and bpf_prog_info</title>
<updated>2018-01-18T00:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiong Wang</name>
<email>jiong.wang@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T00:05:19+00:00</published>
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For host JIT, there are "jited_len"/"bpf_func" fields in struct bpf_prog
used by all host JIT targets to get jited image and it's length. While for
offload, targets are likely to have different offload mechanisms that these
info are kept in device private data fields.

Therefore, BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD syscall needs an unified way to get JIT
length and contents info for offload targets.

One way is to introduce new callback to parse device private data then fill
those fields in bpf_prog_info. This might be a little heavy, the other way
is to add generic fields which will be initialized by all offload targets.

This patch follow the second approach to introduce two new fields in
struct bpf_dev_offload and teach bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd about them to fill
correct jited_prog_len and jited_prog_insns in bpf_prog_info.

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang &lt;jiong.wang@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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For host JIT, there are "jited_len"/"bpf_func" fields in struct bpf_prog
used by all host JIT targets to get jited image and it's length. While for
offload, targets are likely to have different offload mechanisms that these
info are kept in device private data fields.

Therefore, BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD syscall needs an unified way to get JIT
length and contents info for offload targets.

One way is to introduce new callback to parse device private data then fill
those fields in bpf_prog_info. This might be a little heavy, the other way
is to add generic fields which will be initialized by all offload targets.

This patch follow the second approach to introduce two new fields in
struct bpf_dev_offload and teach bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd about them to fill
correct jited_prog_len and jited_prog_insns in bpf_prog_info.

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang &lt;jiong.wang@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: offload: add map offload infrastructure</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T22:36:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T04:29:09+00:00</published>
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BPF map offload follow similar path to program offload.  At creation
time users may specify ifindex of the device on which they want to
create the map.  Map will be validated by the kernel's
.map_alloc_check callback and device driver will be called for the
actual allocation.  Map will have an empty set of operations
associated with it (save for alloc and free callbacks).  The real
device callbacks are kept in map-&gt;offload-&gt;dev_ops because they
have slightly different signatures.  Map operations are called in
process context so the driver may communicate with HW freely,
msleep(), wait() etc.

Map alloc and free callbacks are muxed via existing .ndo_bpf, and
are always called with rtnl lock held.  Maps and programs are
guaranteed to be destroyed before .ndo_uninit (i.e. before
unregister_netdev() returns).  Map callbacks are invoked with
bpf_devs_lock *read* locked, drivers must take care of exclusive
locking if necessary.

All offload-specific branches are marked with unlikely() (through
bpf_map_is_dev_bound()), given that branch penalty will be
negligible compared to IO anyway, and we don't want to penalize
SW path unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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BPF map offload follow similar path to program offload.  At creation
time users may specify ifindex of the device on which they want to
create the map.  Map will be validated by the kernel's
.map_alloc_check callback and device driver will be called for the
actual allocation.  Map will have an empty set of operations
associated with it (save for alloc and free callbacks).  The real
device callbacks are kept in map-&gt;offload-&gt;dev_ops because they
have slightly different signatures.  Map operations are called in
process context so the driver may communicate with HW freely,
msleep(), wait() etc.

Map alloc and free callbacks are muxed via existing .ndo_bpf, and
are always called with rtnl lock held.  Maps and programs are
guaranteed to be destroyed before .ndo_uninit (i.e. before
unregister_netdev() returns).  Map callbacks are invoked with
bpf_devs_lock *read* locked, drivers must take care of exclusive
locking if necessary.

All offload-specific branches are marked with unlikely() (through
bpf_map_is_dev_bound()), given that branch penalty will be
negligible compared to IO anyway, and we don't want to penalize
SW path unnecessarily.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: rename bpf_dev_offload -&gt; bpf_prog_offload</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T22:36:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T04:29:07+00:00</published>
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With map offload coming, we need to call program offload structure
something less ambiguous.  Pure rename, no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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With map offload coming, we need to call program offload structure
something less ambiguous.  Pure rename, no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: add helper for copying attrs to struct bpf_map</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T22:36:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T04:29:06+00:00</published>
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All map types reimplement the field-by-field copy of union bpf_attr
members into struct bpf_map.  Add a helper to perform this operation.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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All map types reimplement the field-by-field copy of union bpf_attr
members into struct bpf_map.  Add a helper to perform this operation.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: add map_alloc_check callback</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T22:36:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T04:29:03+00:00</published>
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.map_alloc callbacks contain a number of checks validating user-
-provided map attributes against constraints of a particular map
type.  For offloaded maps we will need to check map attributes
without actually allocating any memory on the host.  Add a new
callback for validating attributes before any memory is allocated.
This callback can be selectively implemented by map types for
sharing code with offloads, or simply to separate the logical
steps of validation and allocation.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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.map_alloc callbacks contain a number of checks validating user-
-provided map attributes against constraints of a particular map
type.  For offloaded maps we will need to check map attributes
without actually allocating any memory on the host.  Add a new
callback for validating attributes before any memory is allocated.
This callback can be selectively implemented by map types for
sharing code with offloads, or simply to separate the logical
steps of validation and allocation.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T01:33:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T17:55:03+00:00</published>
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Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.

Some differences has been made:

- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
  feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
  error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.

Some differences has been made:

- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
  feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
  error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T03:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T02:27:54+00:00</published>
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BPF alignment tests got a conflict because the registers
are output as Rn_w instead of just Rn in net-next, and
in net a fixup for a testcase prohibits logical operations
on pointers before using them.

Also, we should attempt to patch BPF call args if JIT always on is
enabled.  Instead, if we fail to JIT the subprogs we should pass
an error back up and fail immediately.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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BPF alignment tests got a conflict because the registers
are output as Rn_w instead of just Rn in net-next, and
in net a fixup for a testcase prohibits logical operations
on pointers before using them.

Also, we should attempt to patch BPF call args if JIT always on is
enabled.  Instead, if we fail to JIT the subprogs we should pass
an error back up and fail immediately.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T16:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-10T16:17:21+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf 2018-01-09

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.

The main changes are:

1) Prevent out-of-bounds speculation in BPF maps by masking the
   index after bounds checks in order to fix spectre v1, and
   add an option BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON into Kconfig that allows for
   removing the BPF interpreter from the kernel in favor of
   JIT-only mode to make spectre v2 harder, from Alexei.

2) Remove false sharing of map refcount with max_entries which
   was used in spectre v1, from Daniel.

3) Add a missing NULL psock check in sockmap in order to fix
   a race, from John.

4) Fix test_align BPF selftest case since a recent change in
   verifier rejects the bit-wise arithmetic on pointers
   earlier but test_align update was missing, from Alexei.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf 2018-01-09

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.

The main changes are:

1) Prevent out-of-bounds speculation in BPF maps by masking the
   index after bounds checks in order to fix spectre v1, and
   add an option BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON into Kconfig that allows for
   removing the BPF interpreter from the kernel in favor of
   JIT-only mode to make spectre v2 harder, from Alexei.

2) Remove false sharing of map refcount with max_entries which
   was used in spectre v1, from Daniel.

3) Add a missing NULL psock check in sockmap in order to fix
   a race, from John.

4) Fix test_align BPF selftest case since a recent change in
   verifier rejects the bit-wise arithmetic on pointers
   earlier but test_align update was missing, from Alexei.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: avoid false sharing of map refcount with max_entries</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T18:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T12:17:44+00:00</published>
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In addition to commit b2157399cc98 ("bpf: prevent out-of-bounds
speculation") also change the layout of struct bpf_map such that
false sharing of fast-path members like max_entries is avoided
when the maps reference counter is altered. Therefore enforce
them to be placed into separate cachelines.

pahole dump after change:

  struct bpf_map {
        const struct bpf_map_ops  * ops;                 /*     0     8 */
        struct bpf_map *           inner_map_meta;       /*     8     8 */
        void *                     security;             /*    16     8 */
        enum bpf_map_type          map_type;             /*    24     4 */
        u32                        key_size;             /*    28     4 */
        u32                        value_size;           /*    32     4 */
        u32                        max_entries;          /*    36     4 */
        u32                        map_flags;            /*    40     4 */
        u32                        pages;                /*    44     4 */
        u32                        id;                   /*    48     4 */
        int                        numa_node;            /*    52     4 */
        bool                       unpriv_array;         /*    56     1 */

        /* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */

        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
        struct user_struct *       user;                 /*    64     8 */
        atomic_t                   refcnt;               /*    72     4 */
        atomic_t                   usercnt;              /*    76     4 */
        struct work_struct         work;                 /*    80    32 */
        char                       name[16];             /*   112    16 */
        /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */

        /* size: 128, cachelines: 2, members: 17 */
        /* sum members: 121, holes: 1, sum holes: 7 */
  };

Now all entries in the first cacheline are read only throughout
the life time of the map, set up once during map creation. Overall
struct size and number of cachelines doesn't change from the
reordering. struct bpf_map is usually first member and embedded
in map structs in specific map implementations, so also avoid those
members to sit at the end where it could potentially share the
cacheline with first map values e.g. in the array since remote
CPUs could trigger map updates just as well for those (easily
dirtying members like max_entries intentionally as well) while
having subsequent values in cache.

Quoting from Google's Project Zero blog [1]:

  Additionally, at least on the Intel machine on which this was
  tested, bouncing modified cache lines between cores is slow,
  apparently because the MESI protocol is used for cache coherence
  [8]. Changing the reference counter of an eBPF array on one
  physical CPU core causes the cache line containing the reference
  counter to be bounced over to that CPU core, making reads of the
  reference counter on all other CPU cores slow until the changed
  reference counter has been written back to memory. Because the
  length and the reference counter of an eBPF array are stored in
  the same cache line, this also means that changing the reference
  counter on one physical CPU core causes reads of the eBPF array's
  length to be slow on other physical CPU cores (intentional false
  sharing).

While this doesn't 'control' the out-of-bounds speculation through
masking the index as in commit b2157399cc98, triggering a manipulation
of the map's reference counter is really trivial, so lets not allow
to easily affect max_entries from it.

Splitting to separate cachelines also generally makes sense from
a performance perspective anyway in that fast-path won't have a
cache miss if the map gets pinned, reused in other progs, etc out
of control path, thus also avoids unintentional false sharing.

  [1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ch/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In addition to commit b2157399cc98 ("bpf: prevent out-of-bounds
speculation") also change the layout of struct bpf_map such that
false sharing of fast-path members like max_entries is avoided
when the maps reference counter is altered. Therefore enforce
them to be placed into separate cachelines.

pahole dump after change:

  struct bpf_map {
        const struct bpf_map_ops  * ops;                 /*     0     8 */
        struct bpf_map *           inner_map_meta;       /*     8     8 */
        void *                     security;             /*    16     8 */
        enum bpf_map_type          map_type;             /*    24     4 */
        u32                        key_size;             /*    28     4 */
        u32                        value_size;           /*    32     4 */
        u32                        max_entries;          /*    36     4 */
        u32                        map_flags;            /*    40     4 */
        u32                        pages;                /*    44     4 */
        u32                        id;                   /*    48     4 */
        int                        numa_node;            /*    52     4 */
        bool                       unpriv_array;         /*    56     1 */

        /* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */

        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
        struct user_struct *       user;                 /*    64     8 */
        atomic_t                   refcnt;               /*    72     4 */
        atomic_t                   usercnt;              /*    76     4 */
        struct work_struct         work;                 /*    80    32 */
        char                       name[16];             /*   112    16 */
        /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */

        /* size: 128, cachelines: 2, members: 17 */
        /* sum members: 121, holes: 1, sum holes: 7 */
  };

Now all entries in the first cacheline are read only throughout
the life time of the map, set up once during map creation. Overall
struct size and number of cachelines doesn't change from the
reordering. struct bpf_map is usually first member and embedded
in map structs in specific map implementations, so also avoid those
members to sit at the end where it could potentially share the
cacheline with first map values e.g. in the array since remote
CPUs could trigger map updates just as well for those (easily
dirtying members like max_entries intentionally as well) while
having subsequent values in cache.

Quoting from Google's Project Zero blog [1]:

  Additionally, at least on the Intel machine on which this was
  tested, bouncing modified cache lines between cores is slow,
  apparently because the MESI protocol is used for cache coherence
  [8]. Changing the reference counter of an eBPF array on one
  physical CPU core causes the cache line containing the reference
  counter to be bounced over to that CPU core, making reads of the
  reference counter on all other CPU cores slow until the changed
  reference counter has been written back to memory. Because the
  length and the reference counter of an eBPF array are stored in
  the same cache line, this also means that changing the reference
  counter on one physical CPU core causes reads of the eBPF array's
  length to be slow on other physical CPU cores (intentional false
  sharing).

While this doesn't 'control' the out-of-bounds speculation through
masking the index as in commit b2157399cc98, triggering a manipulation
of the map's reference counter is really trivial, so lets not allow
to easily affect max_entries from it.

Splitting to separate cachelines also generally makes sense from
a performance perspective anyway in that fast-path won't have a
cache miss if the map gets pinned, reused in other progs, etc out
of control path, thus also avoids unintentional false sharing.

  [1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ch/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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