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2025-10-15bpf: Replace bpf_map_kmalloc_node() with kmalloc_nolock() to allocate ↵Alexei Starovoitov
bpf_async_cb structures. The following kmemleak splat: [ 8.105530] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xff11000100e918c0 as Black [ 8.106521] Call Trace: [ 8.106521] <TASK> [ 8.106521] dump_stack_lvl+0x4b/0x70 [ 8.106521] kvfree_call_rcu+0xcb/0x3b0 [ 8.106521] ? hrtimer_cancel+0x21/0x40 [ 8.106521] bpf_obj_free_fields+0x193/0x200 [ 8.106521] htab_map_update_elem+0x29c/0x410 [ 8.106521] bpf_prog_cfc8cd0f42c04044_overwrite_cb+0x47/0x4b [ 8.106521] bpf_prog_8c30cd7c4db2e963_overwrite_timer+0x65/0x86 [ 8.106521] bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0xe1/0x2a0 happens due to the combination of features and fixes, but mainly due to commit 6d78b4473cdb ("bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()") It's using __GFP_HIGH, which instructs slub/kmemleak internals to skip kmemleak_alloc_recursive() on allocation, so subsequent kfree_rcu()-> kvfree_call_rcu()->kmemleak_ignore() complains with the above splat. To fix this imbalance, replace bpf_map_kmalloc_node() with kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_rcu() with call_rcu() + kfree_nolock() to make sure that the objects allocated with kmalloc_nolock() are freed with kfree_nolock() rather than the implicit kfree() that kfree_rcu() uses internally. Note, the kmalloc_nolock() happens under bpf_spin_lock_irqsave(), so it will always fail in PREEMPT_RT. This is not an issue at the moment, since bpf_timers are disabled in PREEMPT_RT. In the future bpf_spin_lock will be replaced with state machine similar to bpf_task_work. Fixes: 6d78b4473cdb ("bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251015000700.28988-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
2025-09-27bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibilityDaniel Borkmann
Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() function within the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference when a BPF program attempts to deference the txq member of struct xdp_buff object. The test initializes two programs of BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP: progA acts as the entry point for bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() and its expected_attach_type can neither be of be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP nor BPF_XDP_CPUMAP. progA calls into a slot of a tailcall map it owns. progB's expected_attach_type must be BPF_XDP_DEVMAP to pass xdp_is_valid_access() validation. The program returns struct xdp_md's egress_ifindex, and the latter is only allowed to be accessed under mentioned expected_attach_type. progB is then inserted into the tailcall which progA calls. The underlying issue goes beyond XDP though. Another example are programs of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR. sock_addr_is_valid_access() as well as sock_addr_func_proto() have different logic depending on the programs' expected_attach_type. Similarly, a program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET4_GETPEERNAME should not be allowed doing a tailcall into a program which calls bpf_bind() out of BPF which is only enabled for BPF_CGROUP_INET4_CONNECT. In short, specifying expected_attach_type allows to open up additional functionality or restrictions beyond what the basic bpf_prog_type enables. The use of tailcalls must not violate these constraints. Fix it by enforcing expected_attach_type in __bpf_prog_map_compatible(). Note that we only enforce this for tailcall maps, but not for BPF devmaps or cpumaps: There, the programs are invoked through dev_map_bpf_prog_run*() and cpu_map_bpf_prog_run*() which set up a new environment / context and therefore these situations are not prone to this issue. Fixes: 5e43f899b03a ("bpf: Check attach type at prog load time") Reported-by: Yinhao Hu <dddddd@hust.edu.cn> Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei <M202472210@hust.edu.cn> Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250926171201.188490-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-27bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h headerJiapeng Chong
./include/linux/bpf.h: crypto/sha2.h is included more than once. Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com> Closes: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=25501 Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250926095240.3397539-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-25bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACETao Chen
The stacktrace map can be easily full, which will lead to failure in obtaining the stack. In addition to increasing the size of the map, another solution is to delete the stack_id after looking it up from the user, so extend the existing bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() functionality to stacktrace map types. Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250925175030.1615837-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
2025-09-24bpf: Allow uprobe program to change context registersJiri Olsa
Currently uprobe (BPF_PROG_TYPE_KPROBE) program can't write to the context registers data. While this makes sense for kprobe attachments, for uprobe attachment it might make sense to be able to change user space registers to alter application execution. Since uprobe and kprobe programs share the same type (BPF_PROG_TYPE_KPROBE), we can't deny write access to context during the program load. We need to check on it during program attachment to see if it's going to be kprobe or uprobe. Storing the program's write attempt to context and checking on it during the attachment. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250916215301.664963-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-23bpf: Allow union argument in trampoline based programsLeon Hwang
Currently, functions with 'union' arguments cannot be traced with fentry/fexit: bpftrace -e 'fentry:release_pages { exit(); }' -v The function release_pages arg0 type UNION is unsupported. The type of the 'release_pages' arg0 is defined as: typedef union { struct page **pages; struct folio **folios; struct encoded_page **encoded_pages; } release_pages_arg __attribute__ ((__transparent_union__)); This patch relaxes the restriction by allowing function arguments of type 'union' to be traced in verifier. Reviewed-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919044110.23729-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-23bpf: bpf task work plumbingMykyta Yatsenko
This patch adds necessary plumbing in verifier, syscall and maps to support handling new kfunc bpf_task_work_schedule and kernel structure bpf_task_work. The idea is similar to how we already handle bpf_wq and bpf_timer. verifier changes validate calls to bpf_task_work_schedule to make sure it is safe and expected invariants hold. btf part is required to detect bpf_task_work structure inside map value and store its offset, which will be used in the next patch to calculate key and value addresses. arraymap and hashtab changes are needed to handle freeing of the bpf_task_work: run code needed to deinitialize it, for example cancel task_work callback if possible. The use of bpf_task_work and proper implementation for kfuncs are introduced in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-6-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-18bpf: Move the signature kfuncs to helpers.cKP Singh
No functional changes, except for the addition of the headers for the kfuncs so that they can be used for signature verification. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-8-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-18bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FDKP Singh
Currently only array maps are supported, but the implementation can be extended for other maps and objects. The hash is memoized only for exclusive and frozen maps as their content is stable until the exclusive program modifies the map. This is required for BPF signing, enabling a trusted loader program to verify a map's integrity. The loader retrieves the map's runtime hash from the kernel and compares it against an expected hash computed at build time. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-7-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-18bpf: Implement exclusive map creationKP Singh
Exclusive maps allow maps to only be accessed by program with a program with a matching hash which is specified in the excl_prog_hash attr. For the signing use-case, this allows the trusted loader program to load the map and verify the integrity Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-3-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-18bpf: Update the bpf_prog_calc_tag to use SHA256KP Singh
Exclusive maps restrict map access to specific programs using a hash. The current hash used for this is SHA1, which is prone to collisions. This patch uses SHA256, which is more resilient against collisions. This new hash is stored in bpf_prog and used by the verifier to determine if a program can access a given exclusive map. The original 64-bit tags are kept, as they are used by users as a short, possibly colliding program identifier for non-security purposes. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-2-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-11bpf: Report arena faults to BPF stderrPuranjay Mohan
Begin reporting arena page faults and the faulting address to BPF program's stderr, this patch adds support in the arm64 and x86-64 JITs, support for other archs can be added later. The fault handlers receive the 32 bit address in the arena region so the upper 32 bits of user_vm_start is added to it before printing the address. This is what the user would expect to see as this is what is printed by bpf_printk() is you pass it an address returned by bpf_arena_alloc_pages(); Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-4-puranjay@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-11bpf: core: introduce main_prog_aux for stream accessPuranjay Mohan
BPF streams are only valid for the main programs, to make it easier to access streams from subprogs, introduce main_prog_aux in struct bpf_prog_aux. prog->aux->main_prog_aux = prog->aux, for main programs and prog->aux->main_prog_aux = main_prog->aux, for subprograms. Make bpf_prog_find_from_stack() use the added main_prog_aux to return the mainprog when a subprog is found on the stack. Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-3-puranjay@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-08-18Merge branch 'bpf-next/skb-meta-dynptr' into 'bpf-next/master'Martin KaFai Lau
Merge 'skb-meta-dynptr' branch into 'master' branch. No conflict. Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2025-08-18bpf: Add dynptr type for skb metadataJakub Sitnicki
Add a dynptr type, similar to skb dynptr, but for the skb metadata access. The dynptr provides an alternative to __sk_buff->data_meta for accessing the custom metadata area allocated using the bpf_xdp_adjust_meta() helper. More importantly, it abstracts away the fact where the storage for the custom metadata lives, which opens up the way to persist the metadata by relocating it as the skb travels through the network stack layers. Writes to skb metadata invalidate any existing skb payload and metadata slices. While this is more restrictive that needed at the moment, it leaves the door open to reallocating the metadata on writes, and should be only a minor inconvenience to the users. Only the program types which can access __sk_buff->data_meta today are allowed to create a dynptr for skb metadata at the moment. We need to modify the network stack to persist the metadata across layers before opening up access to other BPF hooks. Once more BPF hooks gain access to skb_meta dynptr, we will also need to add a read-only variant of the helper similar to bpf_dynptr_from_skb_rdonly. skb_meta dynptr ops are stubbed out and implemented by subsequent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jbrandeburg@cloudflare.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250814-skb-metadata-thru-dynptr-v7-1-8a39e636e0fb@cloudflare.com
2025-08-06bpf: Allow struct_ops to get map id by kdataAmery Hung
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 <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250806162540.681679-2-ameryhung@gmail.com
2025-07-31bpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storageDaniel Borkmann
Lonial reported that an out-of-bounds access in cgroup local storage can be crafted via tail calls. Given two programs each utilizing a cgroup local storage with a different value size, and one program doing a tail call into the other. The verifier will validate each of the indivial programs just fine. However, in the runtime context the bpf_cg_run_ctx holds an bpf_prog_array_item which contains the BPF program as well as any cgroup local storage flavor the program uses. Helpers such as bpf_get_local_storage() pick this up from the runtime context: ctx = container_of(current->bpf_ctx, struct bpf_cg_run_ctx, run_ctx); storage = ctx->prog_item->cgroup_storage[stype]; if (stype == BPF_CGROUP_STORAGE_SHARED) ptr = &READ_ONCE(storage->buf)->data[0]; else ptr = this_cpu_ptr(storage->percpu_buf); For the second program which was called from the originally attached one, this means bpf_get_local_storage() will pick up the former program's map, not its own. With mismatching sizes, this can result in an unintended out-of-bounds access. To fix this issue, we need to extend bpf_map_owner with an array of storage_cookie[] to match on i) the exact maps from the original program if the second program was using bpf_get_local_storage(), or ii) allow the tail call combination if the second program was not using any of the cgroup local storage maps. Fixes: 7d9c3427894f ("bpf: Make cgroup storages shared between programs on the same cgroup") Reported-by: Lonial Con <kongln9170@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730234733.530041-4-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-31bpf: Move cgroup iterator helpers to bpf.hDaniel Borkmann
Move them into bpf.h given we also need them in core code. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730234733.530041-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-31bpf: Move bpf map owner out of common structDaniel Borkmann
Given this is only relevant for BPF tail call maps, it is adding up space and penalizing other map types. We also need to extend this with further objects to track / compare to. Therefore, lets move this out into a separate structure and dynamically allocate it only for BPF tail call maps. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730234733.530041-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-31bpf: Add cookie object to bpf mapsDaniel Borkmann
Add a cookie to BPF maps to uniquely identify BPF maps for the timespan when the node is up. This is different to comparing a pointer or BPF map id which could get rolled over and reused. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730234733.530041-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-16bpf: Add struct bpf_token_infoTao Chen
The 'commit 35f96de04127 ("bpf: Introduce BPF token object")' added BPF token as a new kind of BPF kernel object. And BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD already used to get BPF object info, so we can also get token info with this cmd. One usage scenario, when program runs failed with token, because of the permission failure, we can report what BPF token is allowing with this API for debugging. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250716134654.1162635-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-11bpf: Remove attach_type in bpf_tracing_linkTao Chen
Use attach_type in bpf_link, and remove it in bpf_tracing_link. Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250710032038.888700-7-chen.dylane@linux.dev
2025-07-11bpf: Add attach_type field to bpf_linkTao Chen
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 <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250710032038.888700-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
2025-07-03bpf: Add dump_stack() analogue to print to BPF stderrKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Introduce a kernel function which is the analogue of dump_stack() printing some useful information and the stack trace. This is not exposed to BPF programs yet, but can be made available in the future. When we have a program counter for a BPF program in the stack trace, also additionally output the filename and line number to make the trace helpful. The rest of the trace can be passed into ./decode_stacktrace.sh to obtain the line numbers for kernel symbols. Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-7-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-03bpf: Add function to find program from stack traceKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
In preparation of figuring out the closest program that led to the current point in the kernel, implement a function that scans through the stack trace and finds out the closest BPF program when walking down the stack trace. Special care needs to be taken to skip over kernel and BPF subprog frames. We basically scan until we find a BPF main prog frame. The assumption is that if a program calls into us transitively, we'll hit it along the way. If not, we end up returning NULL. Contextually the function will be used in places where we know the program may have called into us. Due to reliance on arch_bpf_stack_walk(), this function only works on x86 with CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC, arm64, and s390. Remove the warning from arch_bpf_stack_walk as well since we call it outside bpf_throw() context. Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-6-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-03bpf: Add function to extract program source infoKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Prepare a function for use in future patches that can extract the file info, line info, and the source line number for a given BPF program provided it's program counter. Only the basename of the file path is provided, given it can be excessively long in some cases. This will be used in later patches to print source info to the BPF stream. Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-4-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-03bpf: Introduce BPF standard streamsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Add support for a stream API to the kernel and expose related kfuncs to BPF programs. Two streams are exposed, BPF_STDOUT and BPF_STDERR. These can be used for printing messages that can be consumed from user space, thus it's similar in spirit to existing trace_pipe interface. The kernel will use the BPF_STDERR stream to notify the program of any errors encountered at runtime. BPF programs themselves may use both streams for writing debug messages. BPF library-like code may use BPF_STDERR to print warnings or errors on misuse at runtime. The implementation of a stream is as follows. Everytime a message is emitted from the kernel (directly, or through a BPF program), a record is allocated by bump allocating from per-cpu region backed by a page obtained using alloc_pages_nolock(). This ensures that we can allocate memory from any context. The eventual plan is to discard this scheme in favor of Alexei's kmalloc_nolock() [0]. This record is then locklessly inserted into a list (llist_add()) so that the printing side doesn't require holding any locks, and works in any context. Each stream has a maximum capacity of 4MB of text, and each printed message is accounted against this limit. Messages from a program are emitted using the bpf_stream_vprintk kfunc, which takes a stream_id argument in addition to working otherwise similar to bpf_trace_vprintk. The bprintf buffer helpers are extracted out to be reused for printing the string into them before copying it into the stream, so that we can (with the defined max limit) format a string and know its true length before performing allocations of the stream element. For consuming elements from a stream, we expose a bpf(2) syscall command named BPF_PROG_STREAM_READ_BY_FD, which allows reading data from the stream of a given prog_fd into a user space buffer. The main logic is implemented in bpf_stream_read(). The log messages are queued in bpf_stream::log by the bpf_stream_vprintk kfunc, and then pulled and ordered correctly in the stream backlog. For this purpose, we hold a lock around bpf_stream_backlog_peek(), as llist_del_first() (if we maintained a second lockless list for the backlog) wouldn't be safe from multiple threads anyway. Then, if we fail to find something in the backlog log, we splice out everything from the lockless log, and place it in the backlog log, and then return the head of the backlog. Once the full length of the element is consumed, we will pop it and free it. The lockless list bpf_stream::log is a LIFO stack. Elements obtained using a llist_del_all() operation are in LIFO order, thus would break the chronological ordering if printed directly. Hence, this batch of messages is first reversed. Then, it is stashed into a separate list in the stream, i.e. the backlog_log. The head of this list is the actual message that should always be returned to the caller. All of this is done in bpf_stream_backlog_fill(). From the kernel side, the writing into the stream will be a bit more involved than the typical printk. First, the kernel typically may print a collection of messages into the stream, and parallel writers into the stream may suffer from interleaving of messages. To ensure each group of messages is visible atomically, we can lift the advantage of using a lockless list for pushing in messages. To enable this, we add a bpf_stream_stage() macro, and require kernel users to use bpf_stream_printk statements for the passed expression to write into the stream. Underneath the macro, we have a message staging API, where a bpf_stream_stage object on the stack accumulates the messages being printed into a local llist_head, and then a commit operation splices the whole batch into the stream's lockless log list. This is especially pertinent for rqspinlock deadlock messages printed to program streams. After this change, we see each deadlock invocation as a non-interleaving contiguous message without any confusion on the reader's part, improving their user experience in debugging the fault. While programs cannot benefit from this staged stream writing API, they could just as well hold an rqspinlock around their print statements to serialize messages, hence this is kept kernel-internal for now. Overall, this infrastructure provides NMI-safe any context printing of messages to two dedicated streams. Later patches will add support for printing splats in case of BPF arena page faults, rqspinlock deadlocks, and cond_break timeouts, and integration of this facility into bpftool for dumping messages to user space. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250501032718.65476-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-3-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-03bpf: Refactor bprintf buffer supportKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Refactor code to be able to get and put bprintf buffers and use bpf_printf_prepare independently. This will be used in the next patch to implement BPF streams support, particularly as a staging buffer for strings that need to be formatted and then allocated and pushed into a stream. Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-07-03bpf: Show precise link_type for {uprobe,kprobe}_multi fdinfoTao Chen
Alexei suggested, 'link_type' can be more precise and differentiate for human in fdinfo. In fact BPF_LINK_TYPE_KPROBE_MULTI includes kretprobe_multi type, the same as BPF_LINK_TYPE_UPROBE_MULTI, so we can show it more concretely. link_type: kprobe_multi link_id: 1 prog_tag: d2b307e915f0dd37 ... link_type: kretprobe_multi link_id: 2 prog_tag: ab9ea0545870781d ... link_type: uprobe_multi link_id: 9 prog_tag: e729f789e34a8eca ... link_type: uretprobe_multi link_id: 10 prog_tag: 7db356c03e61a4d4 Co-developed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702153958.639852-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-06-09bpf, arm64, powerpc: Add bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v1/v4()Luis Gerhorst
JITs can set bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v1/v4() if they want the verifier to skip analysis/patching for the respective vulnerability. For v4, this will reduce the number of barriers the verifier inserts. For v1, it allows more programs to be accepted. The primary motivation for this is to not regress unpriv BPF's performance on ARM64 in a future commit where BPF_NOSPEC is also used against Spectre v1. This has the user-visible change that v1-induced rejections on non-vulnerable PowerPC CPUs are avoided. For now, this does not change the semantics of BPF_NOSPEC. It is still a v4-only barrier and must not be implemented if bypass_spec_v4 is always true for the arch. Changing it to a v1 AND v4-barrier is done in a future commit. As an alternative to bypass_spec_v1/v4, one could introduce NOSPEC_V1 AND NOSPEC_V4 instructions and allow backends to skip their lowering as suggested by commit f5e81d111750 ("bpf: Introduce BPF nospec instruction for mitigating Spectre v4"). Adding bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v1/v4() was found to be preferable for the following reason: * bypass_spec_v1/v4 benefits non-vulnerable CPUs: Always performing the same analysis (not taking into account whether the current CPU is vulnerable), needlessly restricts users of CPUs that are not vulnerable. The only use case for this would be portability-testing, but this can later be added easily when needed by allowing users to force bypass_spec_v1/v4 to false. * Portability is still acceptable: Directly disabling the analysis instead of skipping the lowering of BPF_NOSPEC(_V1/V4) might allow programs on non-vulnerable CPUs to be accepted while the program will be rejected on vulnerable CPUs. With the fallback to speculation barriers for Spectre v1 implemented in a future commit, this will only affect programs that do variable stack-accesses or are very complex. For PowerPC, the SEC_FTR checking in bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v4() is based on the check that was previously located in the BPF_NOSPEC case. For LoongArch, it would likely be safe to set both bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v1() and _v4() according to commit a6f6a95f2580 ("LoongArch, bpf: Fix jit to skip speculation barrier opcode"). This is omitted here as I am unable to do any testing for LoongArch. Hari's ack concerns the PowerPC part only. Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Henriette Herzog <henriette.herzog@rub.de> Cc: Maximilian Ott <ott@cs.fau.de> Cc: Milan Stephan <milan.stephan@fau.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603211318.337474-1-luis.gerhorst@fau.de Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-05-19bpf: WARN_ONCE on verifier bugsPaul Chaignon
Throughout the verifier's logic, there are multiple checks for inconsistent states that should never happen and would indicate a verifier bug. These bugs are typically logged in the verifier logs and sometimes preceded by a WARN_ONCE. This patch reworks these checks to consistently emit a verifier log AND a warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled. The consistent use of WARN_ONCE should help fuzzers (ex. syzkaller) expose any situation where they are actually able to reach one of those buggy verifier states. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aCs1nYvNNMq8dAWP@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-05-12helpers: make few bpf helpers publicMykyta Yatsenko
Make bpf_dynptr_slice_rdwr, bpf_dynptr_check_off_len and __bpf_dynptr_write available outside of the helpers.c by adding their prototypes into linux/include/bpf.h. bpf_dynptr_check_off_len() implementation is moved to header and made inline explicitly, as small function should typically be inlined. These functions are going to be used from bpf_trace.c in the next patch of this series. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512205348.191079-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-30Merge tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov: "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot of help from Michal and Shakeel. This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches make page allocator safe from any context. Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024: https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/ and we continued at LSFMM 2025: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/ Why: SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G, 1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF map preallocation won't be necessary. How: Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -> slab_alloc -> new_slab -> alloc_pages -> rmqueue_pcplist -> __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already relying on trylock. This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and return ENOMEM if alloc_flags & ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT. End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call from any context. try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page. Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator, this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of small objects (up to one page in size) is high. Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in BPF" * tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning() bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs. mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages(). memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock. mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock() mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
2025-03-30Merge tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov: "This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs). This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress. This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress. Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting loop of a lock slow path. Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy. There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are mitigated at runtime. This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across different contexts. We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case, we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such, benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock. More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e932 ("Merge branch 'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")" * tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits) selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock rqspinlock: Add locktorture support rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64 rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header ...
2025-03-20bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_auxJuntong Deng
This patch adds struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux. This context information will be used in the kfunc filter. Currently the added context information includes struct_ops member offset and a pointer to struct bpf_struct_ops. Signed-off-by: Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250319215358.2287371-2-ameryhung@gmail.com
2025-03-19bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlockKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Introduce verifier-side support for rqspinlock kfuncs. The first step is allowing bpf_res_spin_lock type to be defined in map values and allocated objects, so BTF-side is updated with a new BPF_RES_SPIN_LOCK field to recognize and validate. Any object cannot have both bpf_spin_lock and bpf_res_spin_lock, only one of them (and at most one of them per-object, like before) must be present. The bpf_res_spin_lock can also be used to protect objects that require lock protection for their kfuncs, like BPF rbtree and linked list. The verifier plumbing to simulate success and failure cases when calling the kfuncs is done by pushing a new verifier state to the verifier state stack which will verify the failure case upon calling the kfunc. The path where success is indicated creates all lock reference state and IRQ state (if necessary for irqsave variants). In the case of failure, the state clears the registers r0-r5, sets the return value, and skips kfunc processing, proceeding to the next instruction. When marking the return value for success case, the value is marked as 0, and for the failure case as [-MAX_ERRNO, -1]. Then, in the program, whenever user checks the return value as 'if (ret)' or 'if (ret < 0)' the verifier never traverses such branches for success cases, and would be aware that the lock is not held in such cases. We push the kfunc state in check_kfunc_call whenever rqspinlock kfuncs are invoked. We introduce a kfunc_class state to avoid mixing lock irqrestore kfuncs with IRQ state created by bpf_local_irq_save. With all this infrastructure, these kfuncs become usable in programs while satisfying all safety properties required by the kernel. Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-24-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-19bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Introduce four new kfuncs, bpf_res_spin_lock, and bpf_res_spin_unlock, and their irqsave/irqrestore variants, which wrap the rqspinlock APIs. bpf_res_spin_lock returns a conditional result, depending on whether the lock was acquired (NULL is returned when lock acquisition succeeds, non-NULL upon failure). The memory pointed to by the returned pointer upon failure can be dereferenced after the NULL check to obtain the error code. Instead of using the old bpf_spin_lock type, introduce a new type with the same layout, and the same alignment, but a different name to avoid type confusion. Preemption is disabled upon successful lock acquisition, however IRQs are not. Special kfuncs can be introduced later to allow disabling IRQs when taking a spin lock. Resilient locks are safe against AA deadlocks, hence not disabling IRQs currently does not allow violation of kernel safety. __irq_flag annotation is used to accept IRQ flags for the IRQ-variants, with the same semantics as existing bpf_local_irq_{save, restore}. These kfuncs will require additional verifier-side support in subsequent commits, to allow programs to hold multiple locks at the same time. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-23-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-18bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.Emil Tsalapatis
The perf_event_read_event_output helper is currently only available to tracing protrams, but is useful for other BPF programs like sched_ext schedulers. When the helper is available, provide its bpf_func_proto directly from the bpf base_proto. Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis (Meta) <emil@etsalapatis.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318030753.10949-1-emil@etsalapatis.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: Introduce load-acquire and store-release instructionsPeilin Ye
Introduce BPF instructions with load-acquire and store-release semantics, as discussed in [1]. Define 2 new flags: #define BPF_LOAD_ACQ 0x100 #define BPF_STORE_REL 0x110 A "load-acquire" is a BPF_STX | BPF_ATOMIC instruction with the 'imm' field set to BPF_LOAD_ACQ (0x100). Similarly, a "store-release" is a BPF_STX | BPF_ATOMIC instruction with the 'imm' field set to BPF_STORE_REL (0x110). Unlike existing atomic read-modify-write operations that only support BPF_W (32-bit) and BPF_DW (64-bit) size modifiers, load-acquires and store-releases also support BPF_B (8-bit) and BPF_H (16-bit). As an exception, however, 64-bit load-acquires/store-releases are not supported on 32-bit architectures (to fix a build error reported by the kernel test robot). An 8- or 16-bit load-acquire zero-extends the value before writing it to a 32-bit register, just like ARM64 instruction LDARH and friends. Similar to existing atomic read-modify-write operations, misaligned load-acquires/store-releases are not allowed (even if BPF_F_ANY_ALIGNMENT is set). As an example, consider the following 64-bit load-acquire BPF instruction (assuming little-endian): db 10 00 00 00 01 00 00 r0 = load_acquire((u64 *)(r1 + 0x0)) opcode (0xdb): BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_DW | BPF_STX imm (0x00000100): BPF_LOAD_ACQ Similarly, a 16-bit BPF store-release: cb 21 00 00 10 01 00 00 store_release((u16 *)(r1 + 0x0), w2) opcode (0xcb): BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_H | BPF_STX imm (0x00000110): BPF_STORE_REL In arch/{arm64,s390,x86}/net/bpf_jit_comp.c, have bpf_jit_supports_insn(..., /*in_arena=*/true) return false for the new instructions, until the corresponding JIT compiler supports them in arena. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240729183246.4110549-1-yepeilin@google.com/ Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a217f46f0e445fbd573a1a024be5c6bf1d5fe716.1741049567.git.yepeilin@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: Add verifier support for timed may_gotoKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Implement support in the verifier for replacing may_goto implementation from a counter-based approach to one which samples time on the local CPU to have a bigger loop bound. We implement it by maintaining 16-bytes per-stack frame, and using 8 bytes for maintaining the count for amortizing time sampling, and 8 bytes for the starting timestamp. To minimize overhead, we need to avoid spilling and filling of registers around this sequence, so we push this cost into the time sampling function 'arch_bpf_timed_may_goto'. This is a JIT-specific wrapper around bpf_check_timed_may_goto which returns us the count to store into the stack through BPF_REG_AX. All caller-saved registers (r0-r5) are guaranteed to remain untouched. The loop can be broken by returning count as 0, otherwise we dispatch into the function when the count drops to 0, and the runtime chooses to refresh it (by returning count as BPF_MAX_TIMED_LOOPS) or returning 0 and aborting the loop on next iteration. Since the check for 0 is done right after loading the count from the stack, all subsequent cond_break sequences should immediately break as well, of the same loop or subsequent loops in the program. We pass in the stack_depth of the count (and thus the timestamp, by adding 8 to it) to the arch_bpf_timed_may_goto call so that it can be passed in to bpf_check_timed_may_goto as an argument after r1 is saved, by adding the offset to r10/fp. This adjustment will be arch specific, and the next patch will introduce support for x86. Note that depending on loop complexity, time spent in the loop can be more than the current limit (250 ms), but imposing an upper bound on program runtime is an orthogonal problem which will be addressed when program cancellations are supported. The current time afforded by cond_break may not be enough for cases where BPF programs want to implement locking algorithms inline, and use cond_break as a promise to the verifier that they will eventually terminate. Below are some benchmarking numbers on the time taken per-iteration for an empty loop that counts the number of iterations until cond_break fires. For comparison, we compare it against bpf_for/bpf_repeat which is another way to achieve the same number of spins (BPF_MAX_LOOPS). The hardware used for benchmarking was a Sapphire Rapids Intel server with performance governor enabled, mitigations were enabled. +-----------------------------+--------------+--------------+------------------+ | Loop type | Iterations | Time (ms) | Time/iter (ns) | +-----------------------------|--------------+--------------+------------------+ | may_goto | 8388608 | 3 | 0.36 | | timed_may_goto (count=65535)| 589674932 | 250 | 0.42 | | bpf_for | 8388608 | 10 | 1.19 | +-----------------------------+--------------+--------------+------------------+ This gives a good approximation at low overhead while staying close to the current implementation. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304003239.2390751-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: Summarize sleepable global subprogsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
The verifier currently does not permit global subprog calls when a lock is held, preemption is disabled, or when IRQs are disabled. This is because we don't know whether the global subprog calls sleepable functions or not. In case of locks, there's an additional reason: functions called by the global subprog may hold additional locks etc. The verifier won't know while verifying the global subprog whether it was called in context where a spin lock is already held by the program. Perform summarization of the sleepable nature of a global subprog just like changes_pkt_data and then allow calls to global subprogs for non-sleepable ones from atomic context. While making this change, I noticed that RCU read sections had no protection against sleepable global subprog calls, include it in the checks and fix this while we're at it. Care needs to be taken to not allow global subprog calls when regular bpf_spin_lock is held. When resilient spin locks is held, we want to potentially have this check relaxed, but not for now. Also make sure extensions freplacing global functions cannot do so in case the target is non-sleepable, but the extension is. The other combination is ok. Tests are included in the next patch to handle all special conditions. Fixes: 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()") Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250301151846.1552362-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-27bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.Alexei Starovoitov
Use try_alloc_pages() and free_pages_nolock() for BPF needs when context doesn't allow using normal alloc_pages. This is a prerequisite for further work. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-7-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-17bpf: Support getting referenced kptr from struct_ops argumentAmery Hung
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 <amery.hung@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-3-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-17bpf: Make every prog keep a copy of ctx_arg_infoAmery Hung
Currently, ctx_arg_info is read-only in the view of the verifier since it is shared among programs of the same attach type. Make each program have their own copy of ctx_arg_info so that we can use it to store program specific information. In the next patch where we support acquiring a referenced kptr through a struct_ops argument tagged with "__ref", ctx_arg_info->ref_obj_id will be used to store the unique reference object id of the argument. This avoids creating a requirement in the verifier that "__ref" tagged arguments must be the first set of references acquired [0]. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241220195619.2022866-2-amery.hung@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217190640.1748177-2-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-01-23Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: "A smaller than usual release cycle. The main changes are: - Prepare selftest to run with GCC-BPF backend (Ihor Solodrai) In addition to LLVM-BPF runs the BPF CI now runs GCC-BPF in compile only mode. Half of the tests are failing, since support for btf_decl_tag is still WIP, but this is a great milestone. - Convert various samples/bpf to selftests/bpf/test_progs format (Alexis Lothoré and Bastien Curutchet) - Teach verifier to recognize that array lookup with constant in-range index will always succeed (Daniel Xu) - Cleanup migrate disable scope in BPF maps (Hou Tao) - Fix bpf_timer destroy path in PREEMPT_RT (Hou Tao) - Always use bpf_mem_alloc in bpf_local_storage in PREEMPT_RT (Martin KaFai Lau) - Refactor verifier lock support (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) This is a prerequisite for upcoming resilient spin lock. - Remove excessive 'may_goto +0' instructions in the verifier that LLVM leaves when unrolls the loops (Yonghong Song) - Remove unhelpful bpf_probe_write_user() warning message (Marco Elver) - Add fd_array_cnt attribute for prog_load command (Anton Protopopov) This is a prerequisite for upcoming support for static_branch" * tag 'bpf-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (125 commits) selftests/bpf: Add some tests related to 'may_goto 0' insns bpf: Remove 'may_goto 0' instruction in opt_remove_nops() bpf: Allow 'may_goto 0' instruction in verifier selftests/bpf: Add test case for the freeing of bpf_timer bpf: Cancel the running bpf_timer through kworker for PREEMPT_RT bpf: Free element after unlock in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() bpf: Bail out early in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() bpf: Free special fields after unlock in htab_lru_map_delete_node() tools: Sync if_xdp.h uapi tooling header libbpf: Work around kernel inconsistently stripping '.llvm.' suffix bpf: selftests: verifier: Add nullness elision tests bpf: verifier: Support eliding map lookup nullness bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking bpf: tcp: Mark bpf_load_hdr_opt() arg2 as read-write bpf: verifier: Add missing newline on verbose() call selftests/bpf: Add distilled BTF test about marking BTF_IS_EMBEDDED libbpf: Fix incorrect traversal end type ID when marking BTF_IS_EMBEDDED libbpf: Fix return zero when elf_begin failed selftests/bpf: Fix btf leak on new btf alloc failure in btf_distill test veristat: Load struct_ops programs only once ...
2024-12-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.13-rc4). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.h 32fd46f5b69e ("net: renesas: rswitch: remove speed from gwca structure") 922b4b955a03 ("net: renesas: rswitch: rework ts tags management") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-12-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfAlexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent changes in: Auto-merging include/linux/bpf.h Auto-merging include/linux/bpf_verifier.h Auto-merging kernel/bpf/btf.c Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c Auto-merging kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tp_btf_nullable.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-12-13bpf: Revert "bpf: Mark raw_tp arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
This patch reverts commit cb4158ce8ec8 ("bpf: Mark raw_tp arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL"). The patch was well-intended and meant to be as a stop-gap fixing branch prediction when the pointer may actually be NULL at runtime. Eventually, it was supposed to be replaced by an automated script or compiler pass detecting possibly NULL arguments and marking them accordingly. However, it caused two main issues observed for production programs and failed to preserve backwards compatibility. First, programs relied on the verifier not exploring == NULL branch when pointer is not NULL, thus they started failing with a 'dereference of scalar' error. Next, allowing raw_tp arguments to be modified surfaced the warning in the verifier that warns against reg->off when PTR_MAYBE_NULL is set. More information, context, and discusson on both problems is available in [0]. Overall, this approach had several shortcomings, and the fixes would further complicate the verifier's logic, and the entire masking scheme would have to be removed eventually anyway. Hence, revert the patch in preparation of a better fix avoiding these issues to replace this commit. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241206161053.809580-1-memxor@gmail.com Reported-by: Manu Bretelle <chantra@meta.com> Fixes: cb4158ce8ec8 ("bpf: Mark raw_tp arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL") Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213221929.3495062-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-12-13bpf: Add a __btf_get_by_fd helperAnton Protopopov
Add a new helper to get a pointer to a struct btf from a file descriptor. This helper doesn't increase a refcnt. Add a comment explaining this and pointing to a corresponding function which does take a reference. Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <aspsk@isovalent.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241213130934.1087929-2-aspsk@isovalent.com
2024-12-10bpf: Fix theoretical prog_array UAF in __uprobe_perf_func()Jann Horn
Currently, the pointer stored in call->prog_array is loaded in __uprobe_perf_func(), with no RCU annotation and no immediately visible RCU protection, so it looks as if the loaded pointer can immediately be dangling. Later, bpf_prog_run_array_uprobe() starts a RCU-trace read-side critical section, but this is too late. It then uses rcu_dereference_check(), but this use of rcu_dereference_check() does not actually dereference anything. Fix it by aligning the semantics to bpf_prog_run_array(): Let the caller provide rcu_read_lock_trace() protection and then load call->prog_array with rcu_dereference_check(). This issue seems to be theoretical: I don't know of any way to reach this code without having handle_swbp() further up the stack, which is already holding a rcu_read_lock_trace() lock, so where we take rcu_read_lock_trace() in __uprobe_perf_func()/bpf_prog_run_array_uprobe() doesn't actually have any effect. Fixes: 8c7dcb84e3b7 ("bpf: implement sleepable uprobes by chaining gps") Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241210-bpf-fix-uprobe-uaf-v4-1-5fc8959b2b74@google.com