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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst index 723408e399ab..7985c6615f3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst @@ -135,6 +135,30 @@ Either way, the returned buffer is either NULL, or of size buffer_szk. Without t annotation, the verifier will reject the program if a null pointer is passed in with a nonzero size. +2.2.5 __str Annotation +---------------------------- +This annotation is used to indicate that the argument is a constant string. + +An example is given below:: + + __bpf_kfunc bpf_get_file_xattr(..., const char *name__str, ...) + { + ... + } + +In this case, ``bpf_get_file_xattr()`` can be called as:: + + bpf_get_file_xattr(..., "xattr_name", ...); + +Or:: + + const char name[] = "xattr_name"; /* This need to be global */ + int BPF_PROG(...) + { + ... + bpf_get_file_xattr(..., name, ...); + ... + } .. _BPF_kfunc_nodef: |