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Currently, local storage memory can only be allocated atomically
(GFP_ATOMIC). This restriction is too strict for sleepable bpf
programs.

In this patch, the verifier detects whether the program is sleepable,
and passes the corresponding GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC flag as a
5th argument to bpf_task/sk/inode_storage_get. This flag will propagate
down to the local storage functions that allocate memory.

Please note that bpf_task/sk/inode_storage_update_elem functions are
invoked by userspace applications through syscalls. Preemption is
disabled before bpf_task/sk/inode_storage_update_elem is called, which
means they will always have to allocate memory atomically.
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220318045553.3091807-2-joannekoong@fb.com