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[1/4] bpf, docs: Fix verifier reference

Message ID 20211214140402.288101-2-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: BPF
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Series [1/4] bpf, docs: Fix verifier reference | expand

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Christoph Hellwig Dec. 14, 2021, 2:03 p.m. UTC
Use normal RST file reference instead of linkage copied from the old filter.rst
document that does not actually work when using HTML output.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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 Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
index fa7cba59031e5..fa469078301be 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/instruction-set.rst
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@  Some core changes of the eBPF format from classic BPF:
     bpf_exit
 
   After the call the registers R1-R5 contain junk values and cannot be read.
-  An in-kernel `eBPF verifier`_ is used to validate eBPF programs.
+  An in-kernel verifier.rst is used to validate eBPF programs.
 
 Also in the new design, eBPF is limited to 4096 insns, which means that any
 program will terminate quickly and will only call a fixed number of kernel
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@  optimizations, socket filters and seccomp are using it as assembler. Tracing
 filters may use it as assembler to generate code from kernel. In kernel usage
 may not be bounded by security considerations, since generated eBPF code
 may be optimizing internal code path and not being exposed to the user space.
-Safety of eBPF can come from the `eBPF verifier`_. In such use cases as
+Safety of eBPF can come from the verifier.rst. In such use cases as
 described, it may be used as safe instruction set.
 
 Just like the original BPF, eBPF runs within a controlled environment,
@@ -462,6 +462,3 @@  of two consecutive ``struct bpf_insn`` 8-byte blocks and interpreted as single
 instruction that loads 64-bit immediate value into a dst_reg.
 Classic BPF has similar instruction: ``BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_IMM`` which loads
 32-bit immediate value into a register.
-
-.. Links:
-.. _eBPF verifier: verifiers.rst