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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/bpf/bpf_struct_ops.c, branch v7.0-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Support associating BPF program with struct_ops</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T00:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amery Hung</name>
<email>ameryhung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T23:37:44+00:00</published>
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Add a new BPF command BPF_PROG_ASSOC_STRUCT_OPS to allow associating
a BPF program with a struct_ops map. This command takes a file
descriptor of a struct_ops map and a BPF program and set
prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc to the kdata of the struct_ops map.

The command does not accept a struct_ops program nor a non-struct_ops
map. Programs of a struct_ops map is automatically associated with the
map during map update. If a program is shared between two struct_ops
maps, prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc will be poisoned to indicate that the
associated struct_ops is ambiguous. The pointer, once poisoned, cannot
be reset since we have lost track of associated struct_ops. For other
program types, the associated struct_ops map, once set, cannot be
changed later. This restriction may be lifted in the future if there is
a use case.

A kernel helper bpf_prog_get_assoc_struct_ops() can be used to retrieve
the associated struct_ops pointer. The returned pointer, if not NULL, is
guaranteed to be valid and point to a fully updated struct_ops struct.
For struct_ops program reused in multiple struct_ops map, the return
will be NULL.

prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc is protected by bumping the refcount for
non-struct_ops programs and RCU for struct_ops programs. Since it would
be inefficient to track programs associated with a struct_ops map, every
non-struct_ops program will bump the refcount of the map to make sure
st_ops_assoc stays valid. For a struct_ops program, it is protected by
RCU as map_free will wait for an RCU grace period before disassociating
the program with the map. The helper must be called in BPF program
context or RCU read-side critical section.

struct_ops implementers should note that the struct_ops returned may not
be initialized nor attached yet. The struct_ops implementer will be
responsible for tracking and checking the state of the associated
struct_ops map if the use case expects an initialized or attached
struct_ops.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251203233748.668365-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
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Add a new BPF command BPF_PROG_ASSOC_STRUCT_OPS to allow associating
a BPF program with a struct_ops map. This command takes a file
descriptor of a struct_ops map and a BPF program and set
prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc to the kdata of the struct_ops map.

The command does not accept a struct_ops program nor a non-struct_ops
map. Programs of a struct_ops map is automatically associated with the
map during map update. If a program is shared between two struct_ops
maps, prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc will be poisoned to indicate that the
associated struct_ops is ambiguous. The pointer, once poisoned, cannot
be reset since we have lost track of associated struct_ops. For other
program types, the associated struct_ops map, once set, cannot be
changed later. This restriction may be lifted in the future if there is
a use case.

A kernel helper bpf_prog_get_assoc_struct_ops() can be used to retrieve
the associated struct_ops pointer. The returned pointer, if not NULL, is
guaranteed to be valid and point to a fully updated struct_ops struct.
For struct_ops program reused in multiple struct_ops map, the return
will be NULL.

prog-&gt;aux-&gt;st_ops_assoc is protected by bumping the refcount for
non-struct_ops programs and RCU for struct_ops programs. Since it would
be inefficient to track programs associated with a struct_ops map, every
non-struct_ops program will bump the refcount of the map to make sure
st_ops_assoc stays valid. For a struct_ops program, it is protected by
RCU as map_free will wait for an RCU grace period before disassociating
the program with the map. The helper must be called in BPF program
context or RCU read-side critical section.

struct_ops implementers should note that the struct_ops returned may not
be initialized nor attached yet. The struct_ops implementer will be
responsible for tracking and checking the state of the associated
struct_ops map if the use case expects an initialized or attached
struct_ops.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251203233748.668365-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Export necessary symbols for modules with struct_ops</title>
<updated>2025-11-10T19:07:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>D. Wythe</name>
<email>alibuda@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-07T03:56:30+00:00</published>
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Exports three necessary symbols for implementing struct_ops with
tristate subsystem.

To hold or release refcnt of struct_ops refcnt by inline funcs
bpf_try_module_get and bpf_module_put which use bpf_struct_ops_get(put)
conditionally.

And to copy obj name from one to the other with effective checks by
bpf_obj_name_cpy.

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe &lt;alibuda@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107035632.115950-2-alibuda@linux.alibaba.com
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Exports three necessary symbols for implementing struct_ops with
tristate subsystem.

To hold or release refcnt of struct_ops refcnt by inline funcs
bpf_try_module_get and bpf_module_put which use bpf_struct_ops_get(put)
conditionally.

And to copy obj name from one to the other with effective checks by
bpf_obj_name_cpy.

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe &lt;alibuda@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107035632.115950-2-alibuda@linux.alibaba.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Allow struct_ops to get map id by kdata</title>
<updated>2025-08-06T20:39:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amery Hung</name>
<email>ameryhung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-06T16:25:38+00:00</published>
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Add bpf_struct_ops_id() to enable struct_ops implementors to use
struct_ops map id as the unique id of a struct_ops in their subsystem.
A subsystem that wishes to create a mapping between id and struct_ops
instance pointer can update the mapping accordingly during
bpf_struct_ops::reg(), unreg(), and update().

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250806162540.681679-2-ameryhung@gmail.com
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Add bpf_struct_ops_id() to enable struct_ops implementors to use
struct_ops map id as the unique id of a struct_ops in their subsystem.
A subsystem that wishes to create a mapping between id and struct_ops
instance pointer can update the mapping accordingly during
bpf_struct_ops::reg(), unreg(), and update().

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250806162540.681679-2-ameryhung@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add attach_type field to bpf_link</title>
<updated>2025-07-11T17:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tao Chen</name>
<email>chen.dylane@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-10T03:20:32+00:00</published>
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Attach_type will be set when a link is created by user. It is better to
record attach_type in bpf_link generically and have it available
universally for all link types. So add the attach_type field in bpf_link
and move the sleepable field to avoid unnecessary gap padding.

Signed-off-by: Tao Chen &lt;chen.dylane@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250710032038.888700-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
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Attach_type will be set when a link is created by user. It is better to
record attach_type in bpf_link generically and have it available
universally for all link types. So add the attach_type field in bpf_link
and move the sleepable field to avoid unnecessary gap padding.

Signed-off-by: Tao Chen &lt;chen.dylane@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250710032038.888700-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Pass the same orig_call value to trampoline functions</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T00:48:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Leoshkevich</name>
<email>iii@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T20:57:30+00:00</published>
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There is currently some confusion in the s390x JIT regarding whether
orig_call can be NULL and what that means. Originally the NULL value
was used to distinguish the struct_ops case, but this was superseded by
BPF_TRAMP_F_INDIRECT (see commit 0c970ed2f87c ("s390/bpf: Fix indirect
trampoline generation").

The remaining reason to have this check is that NULL can actually be
passed to the arch_bpf_trampoline_size() call - but not to the
respective arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline()! call - by
bpf_struct_ops_prepare_trampoline().

Remove this asymmetry by passing stub_func to both functions, so that
JITs may rely on orig_call never being NULL.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512221911.61314-2-iii@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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There is currently some confusion in the s390x JIT regarding whether
orig_call can be NULL and what that means. Originally the NULL value
was used to distinguish the struct_ops case, but this was superseded by
BPF_TRAMP_F_INDIRECT (see commit 0c970ed2f87c ("s390/bpf: Fix indirect
trampoline generation").

The remaining reason to have this check is that NULL can actually be
passed to the arch_bpf_trampoline_size() call - but not to the
respective arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline()! call - by
bpf_struct_ops_prepare_trampoline().

Remove this asymmetry by passing stub_func to both functions, so that
JITs may rely on orig_call never being NULL.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512221911.61314-2-iii@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Allow struct_ops prog to return referenced kptr</title>
<updated>2025-02-18T02:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amery Hung</name>
<email>amery.hung@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-17T19:06:39+00:00</published>
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Allow a struct_ops program to return a referenced kptr if the struct_ops
operator's return type is a struct pointer. To make sure the returned
pointer continues to be valid in the kernel, several constraints are
required:

1) The type of the pointer must matches the return type
2) The pointer originally comes from the kernel (not locally allocated)
3) The pointer is in its unmodified form

Implementation wise, a referenced kptr first needs to be allowed to _leak_
in check_reference_leak() if it is in the return register. Then, in
check_return_code(), constraints 1-3 are checked. During struct_ops
registration, a check is also added to warn about operators with
non-struct pointer return.

In addition, since the first user, Qdisc_ops::dequeue, allows a NULL
pointer to be returned when there is no skb to be dequeued, we will allow
a scalar value with value equals to NULL to be returned.

In the future when there is a struct_ops user that always expects a valid
pointer to be returned from an operator, we may extend tagging to the
return value. We can tell the verifier to only allow NULL pointer return
if the return value is tagged with MAY_BE_NULL.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;amery.hung@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-5-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow a struct_ops program to return a referenced kptr if the struct_ops
operator's return type is a struct pointer. To make sure the returned
pointer continues to be valid in the kernel, several constraints are
required:

1) The type of the pointer must matches the return type
2) The pointer originally comes from the kernel (not locally allocated)
3) The pointer is in its unmodified form

Implementation wise, a referenced kptr first needs to be allowed to _leak_
in check_reference_leak() if it is in the return register. Then, in
check_return_code(), constraints 1-3 are checked. During struct_ops
registration, a check is also added to warn about operators with
non-struct pointer return.

In addition, since the first user, Qdisc_ops::dequeue, allows a NULL
pointer to be returned when there is no skb to be dequeued, we will allow
a scalar value with value equals to NULL to be returned.

In the future when there is a struct_ops user that always expects a valid
pointer to be returned from an operator, we may extend tagging to the
return value. We can tell the verifier to only allow NULL pointer return
if the return value is tagged with MAY_BE_NULL.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;amery.hung@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-5-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Support getting referenced kptr from struct_ops argument</title>
<updated>2025-02-18T02:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amery Hung</name>
<email>amery.hung@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-17T19:06:37+00:00</published>
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Allows struct_ops programs to acqurie referenced kptrs from arguments
by directly reading the argument.

The verifier will acquire a reference for struct_ops a argument tagged
with "__ref" in the stub function in the beginning of the main program.
The user will be able to access the referenced kptr directly by reading
the context as long as it has not been released by the program.

This new mechanism to acquire referenced kptr (compared to the existing
"kfunc with KF_ACQUIRE") is introduced for ergonomic and semantic reasons.
In the first use case, Qdisc_ops, an skb is passed to .enqueue in the
first argument. This mechanism provides a natural way for users to get a
referenced kptr in the .enqueue struct_ops programs and makes sure that a
qdisc will always enqueue or drop the skb.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;amery.hung@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Allows struct_ops programs to acqurie referenced kptrs from arguments
by directly reading the argument.

The verifier will acquire a reference for struct_ops a argument tagged
with "__ref" in the stub function in the beginning of the main program.
The user will be able to access the referenced kptr directly by reading
the context as long as it has not been released by the program.

This new mechanism to acquire referenced kptr (compared to the existing
"kfunc with KF_ACQUIRE") is introduced for ergonomic and semantic reasons.
In the first use case, Qdisc_ops, an skb is passed to .enqueue in the
first argument. This mechanism provides a natural way for users to get a
referenced kptr in the .enqueue struct_ops programs and makes sure that a
qdisc will always enqueue or drop the skb.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;amery.hung@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Use kallsyms to find the function name of a struct_ops's stub function</title>
<updated>2025-02-03T11:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>martin.lau@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-27T22:27:19+00:00</published>
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In commit 1611603537a4 ("bpf: Create argument information for nullable arguments."),
it introduced a "__nullable" tagging at the argument name of a
stub function. Some background on the commit:
it requires to tag the stub function instead of directly tagging
the "ops" of a struct. This is because the btf func_proto of the "ops"
does not have the argument name and the "__nullable" is tagged at
the argument name.

To find the stub function of a "ops", it currently relies on a naming
convention on the stub function "st_ops__ops_name".
e.g. tcp_congestion_ops__ssthresh. However, the new kernel
sub system implementing bpf_struct_ops have missed this and
have been surprised that the "__nullable" and the to-be-landed
"__ref" tagging was not effective.

One option would be to give a warning whenever the stub function does
not follow the naming convention, regardless if it requires arg tagging
or not.

Instead, this patch uses the kallsyms_lookup approach and removes
the requirement on the naming convention. The st_ops-&gt;cfi_stubs has
all the stub function kernel addresses. kallsyms_lookup() is used to
lookup the function name. With the function name, BTF can be used to
find the BTF func_proto. The existing "__nullable" arg name searching
logic will then fall through.

One notable change is,
if it failed in kallsyms_lookup or it failed in looking up the stub
function name from the BTF, the bpf_struct_ops registration will fail.
This is different from the previous behavior that it silently ignored
the "st_ops__ops_name" function not found error.

The "tcp_congestion_ops", "sched_ext_ops", and "hid_bpf_ops" can still be
registered successfully after this patch. There is struct_ops_maybe_null
selftest to cover the "__nullable" tagging.

Other minor changes:
1. Removed the "%s__%s" format from the pr_warn because the naming
   convention is removed.
2. The existing bpf_struct_ops_supported() is also moved earlier
   because prepare_arg_info needs to use it to decide if the
   stub function is NULL before calling the prepare_arg_info.

Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250127222719.2544255-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In commit 1611603537a4 ("bpf: Create argument information for nullable arguments."),
it introduced a "__nullable" tagging at the argument name of a
stub function. Some background on the commit:
it requires to tag the stub function instead of directly tagging
the "ops" of a struct. This is because the btf func_proto of the "ops"
does not have the argument name and the "__nullable" is tagged at
the argument name.

To find the stub function of a "ops", it currently relies on a naming
convention on the stub function "st_ops__ops_name".
e.g. tcp_congestion_ops__ssthresh. However, the new kernel
sub system implementing bpf_struct_ops have missed this and
have been surprised that the "__nullable" and the to-be-landed
"__ref" tagging was not effective.

One option would be to give a warning whenever the stub function does
not follow the naming convention, regardless if it requires arg tagging
or not.

Instead, this patch uses the kallsyms_lookup approach and removes
the requirement on the naming convention. The st_ops-&gt;cfi_stubs has
all the stub function kernel addresses. kallsyms_lookup() is used to
lookup the function name. With the function name, BTF can be used to
find the BTF func_proto. The existing "__nullable" arg name searching
logic will then fall through.

One notable change is,
if it failed in kallsyms_lookup or it failed in looking up the stub
function name from the BTF, the bpf_struct_ops registration will fail.
This is different from the previous behavior that it silently ignored
the "st_ops__ops_name" function not found error.

The "tcp_congestion_ops", "sched_ext_ops", and "hid_bpf_ops" can still be
registered successfully after this patch. There is struct_ops_maybe_null
selftest to cover the "__nullable" tagging.

Other minor changes:
1. Removed the "%s__%s" format from the pr_warn because the naming
   convention is removed.
2. The existing bpf_struct_ops_supported() is also moved earlier
   because prepare_arg_info needs to use it to decide if the
   stub function is NULL before calling the prepare_arg_info.

Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250127222719.2544255-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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