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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2019
Hardware offload support for an operating system offload interface using operation code verification
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Tsirkin, Lexington, MA (US);
Jesper Brouer, Frederikssund, DK;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A method may include receiving, by a privileged component executed by a processing device, bytecode of a packet processing component from an unprivileged component executed by the processing device, analyzing, by the privileged component, the bytecode of the packet processing component to identify whether the bytecode comprises a first command that returns a redirect, analyzing, by the privileged component, the bytecode of the packet processing component to identify whether the bytecode comprises a second command that returns a runtime computed value, and responsive to determining that the bytecode comprises the first command or the second command, setting a redirect flag maintained by the privileged component.