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2025-03-18bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error messageAndrea Terzolo
The current verifier error message states that tail_calls are not allowed in non-JITed programs with BPF-to-BPF calls. While this is accurate, it is not the only scenario where this restriction applies. Some architectures do not support this feature combination even when programs are JITed. This update improves the error message to better reflect these limitations. Suggested-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Terzolo <andreaterzolo3@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318083551.8192-1-andreaterzolo3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-18bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functionsYafang Shao
If we attach fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions, it will cause an issue that the bpf trampoline image will be left over even if the bpf link has been destroyed. Take attaching do_exit() with fexit for example. The fexit works as follows, bpf_trampoline + __bpf_tramp_enter + percpu_ref_get(&tr->pcref); + call do_exit() + __bpf_tramp_exit + percpu_ref_put(&tr->pcref); Since do_exit() never returns, the refcnt of the trampoline image is never decremented, preventing it from being freed. That can be verified with as follows, $ bpftool link show <<<< nothing output $ grep "bpf_trampoline_[0-9]" /proc/kallsyms ffffffffc04cb000 t bpf_trampoline_6442526459 [bpf] <<<< leftover In this patch, all functions annotated with __noreturn are rejected, except for the following cases: - Functions that result in a system reboot, such as panic, machine_real_restart and rust_begin_unwind - Functions that are never executed by tasks, such as rest_init and cpu_startup_entry - Functions implemented in assembly, such as rewind_stack_and_make_dead and xen_cpu_bringup_again, lack an associated BTF ID. With this change, attaching fexit probes to functions like do_exit() will be rejected. $ ./fexit libbpf: prog 'fexit': BPF program load failed: -EINVAL libbpf: prog 'fexit': -- BEGIN PROG LOAD LOG -- Attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions is rejected. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318114447.75484-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-18bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates ↵Martin KaFai Lau
storage The current cgrp storage has a percpu counter, bpf_cgrp_storage_busy, to detect potential deadlock at a spin_lock that the local storage acquires during new storage creation. There are false positives. It turns out to be too noisy in production. For example, a bpf prog may be doing a bpf_cgrp_storage_get on map_a. An IRQ comes in and triggers another bpf_cgrp_storage_get on a different map_b. It will then trigger the false positive deadlock check in the percpu counter. On top of that, both are doing lookup only and no need to create new storage, so practically it does not need to acquire the spin_lock. The bpf_task_storage_get already has a strategy to minimize this false positive by only failing if the bpf_task_storage_get needs to create a new storage and the percpu counter is busy. Creating a new storage is the only time it must acquire the spin_lock. This patch borrows the same idea. Unlike task storage that has a separate variant for tracing (_recur) and non-tracing, this patch stays with one bpf_cgrp_storage_get helper to keep it simple for now in light of the upcoming res_spin_lock. The variable could potentially use a better name noTbusy instead of nobusy. This patch follows the same naming in bpf_task_storage_get for now. I have tested it by temporarily adding noinline to the cgroup_storage_lookup(), traced it by fentry, and the fentry program succeeded in calling bpf_cgrp_storage_get(). Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318182759.3676094-1-martin.lau@linux.dev 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>
2025-03-17bpftool: Using the right format specifiersJiayuan Chen
Fixed some formatting specifiers errors, such as using %d for int and %u for unsigned int, as well as other byte-length types. Perform type cast using the type derived from the data type itself, for example, if it's originally an int, it will be cast to unsigned int if forced to unsigned. Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250311112809.81901-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
2025-03-17bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable checkMykyta Yatsenko
Return prog's btf_id from bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd regardless of capable check. This patch enables scenario, when freplace program, running from user namespace, requires to query target prog's btf. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250317174039.161275-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
2025-03-17bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_IDMykyta Yatsenko
Currently BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which does not allow running it from user namespace. This creates a problem when freplace program running from user namespace needs to query target program BTF. This patch relaxes capable check from CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_BPF and adds support for BPF token that can be passed in attributes to syscall. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250317174039.161275-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
2025-03-15bpf: Check map->record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()Hou Tao
When there are no special fields in the map value, there is no need to invoke bpf_obj_free_fields(). Therefore, checking the validity of map->record in advance. After the change, the benchmark result of the per-cpu update case in map_perf_test increased by 40% under a 16-CPU VM. Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250315150930.1511727-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: preload: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTIONArnd Bergmann
Modpost complains when extra warnings are enabled: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload.o Add a description from the Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250310134920.4123633-1-arnd@kernel.org ---- Not sure if that description actually fits what the module does. If not, please add a different description instead. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15security: Propagate caller information in bpf hooksBlaise Boscaccy
Certain bpf syscall subcommands are available for usage from both userspace and the kernel. LSM modules or eBPF gatekeeper programs may need to take a different course of action depending on whether or not a BPF syscall originated from the kernel or userspace. Additionally, some of the bpf_attr struct fields contain pointers to arbitrary memory. Currently the functionality to determine whether or not a pointer refers to kernel memory or userspace memory is exposed to the bpf verifier, but that information is missing from various LSM hooks. Here we augment the LSM hooks to provide this data, by simply passing a boolean flag indicating whether or not the call originated in the kernel, in any hook that contains a bpf_attr struct that corresponds to a subcommand that may be called from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Blaise Boscaccy <bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310221737.821889-2-bboscaccy@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: fix missing kdoc string fields in cpumask.cEmil Tsalapatis
Some bpf_cpumask-related kfuncs have kdoc strings that are missing return values. Add a the missing descriptions for the return values. Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis (Meta) <emil@etsalapatis.com> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250309230427.26603-4-emil@etsalapatis.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: add kfunc for populating cpumask bitsEmil Tsalapatis
Add a helper kfunc that sets the bitmap of a bpf_cpumask from BPF memory. Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis (Meta) <emil@etsalapatis.com> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250309230427.26603-2-emil@etsalapatis.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: correct use/def for may_goto instructionEduard Zingerman
may_goto instruction does not use any registers, but in compute_insn_live_regs() it was treated as a regular conditional jump of kind BPF_K with r0 as source register. Thus unnecessarily marking r0 as used. Fixes: 14c8552db644 ("bpf: simple DFA-based live registers analysis") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305085436.2731464-1-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: use register liveness information for func_states_equalEduard Zingerman
Liveness analysis DFA computes a set of registers live before each instruction. Leverage this information to skip comparison of dead registers in func_states_equal(). This helps with convergance of iterator processing loops, as bpf_reg_state->live marks can't be used when loops are processed. This has certain performance impact for selftests, here is a veristat listing using `-f "insns_pct>5" -f "!insns<200"` selftests: File Program States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) -------------------- ----------------------------- ---------- ---------- -------------- arena_htab.bpf.o arena_htab_llvm 37 35 -2 (-5.41%) arena_htab_asm.bpf.o arena_htab_asm 37 33 -4 (-10.81%) arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_add 37 22 -15 (-40.54%) dynptr_success.bpf.o test_dynptr_copy 22 16 -6 (-27.27%) dynptr_success.bpf.o test_dynptr_copy_xdp 68 58 -10 (-14.71%) iters.bpf.o checkpoint_states_deletion 918 40 -878 (-95.64%) iters.bpf.o clean_live_states 136 66 -70 (-51.47%) iters.bpf.o iter_nested_deeply_iters 43 37 -6 (-13.95%) iters.bpf.o iter_nested_iters 72 62 -10 (-13.89%) iters.bpf.o iter_pass_iter_ptr_to_subprog 30 26 -4 (-13.33%) iters.bpf.o iter_subprog_iters 68 59 -9 (-13.24%) iters.bpf.o loop_state_deps2 35 32 -3 (-8.57%) iters_css.bpf.o iter_css_for_each 32 29 -3 (-9.38%) pyperf600_iter.bpf.o on_event 286 192 -94 (-32.87%) Total progs: 3578 Old success: 2061 New success: 2061 States diff min: -95.64% States diff max: 0.00% -100 .. -90 %: 1 -55 .. -45 %: 3 -45 .. -35 %: 2 -35 .. -25 %: 5 -20 .. -10 %: 12 -10 .. 0 %: 6 sched_ext: File Program States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) ----------------- ---------------------- ---------- ---------- --------------- bpf.bpf.o lavd_dispatch 8950 7065 -1885 (-21.06%) bpf.bpf.o lavd_init 516 480 -36 (-6.98%) bpf.bpf.o layered_dispatch 662 501 -161 (-24.32%) bpf.bpf.o layered_dump 298 237 -61 (-20.47%) bpf.bpf.o layered_init 523 423 -100 (-19.12%) bpf.bpf.o layered_init_task 24 22 -2 (-8.33%) bpf.bpf.o layered_runnable 151 125 -26 (-17.22%) bpf.bpf.o p2dq_dispatch 66 53 -13 (-19.70%) bpf.bpf.o p2dq_init 170 142 -28 (-16.47%) bpf.bpf.o refresh_layer_cpumasks 120 78 -42 (-35.00%) bpf.bpf.o rustland_init 37 34 -3 (-8.11%) bpf.bpf.o rustland_init 37 34 -3 (-8.11%) bpf.bpf.o rusty_select_cpu 125 108 -17 (-13.60%) scx_central.bpf.o central_dispatch 59 43 -16 (-27.12%) scx_central.bpf.o central_init 39 28 -11 (-28.21%) scx_nest.bpf.o nest_init 58 51 -7 (-12.07%) scx_pair.bpf.o pair_dispatch 142 111 -31 (-21.83%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_dispatch 174 141 -33 (-18.97%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_init 768 654 -114 (-14.84%) Total progs: 216 Old success: 186 New success: 186 States diff min: -35.00% States diff max: 0.00% -35 .. -25 %: 3 -25 .. -20 %: 6 -20 .. -15 %: 6 -15 .. -5 %: 7 -5 .. 0 %: 6 Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-5-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: simple DFA-based live registers analysisEduard Zingerman
Compute may-live registers before each instruction in the program. The register is live before the instruction I if it is read by I or some instruction S following I during program execution and is not overwritten between I and S. This information would be used in the next patch as a hint in func_states_equal(). Use a simple algorithm described in [1] to compute this information: - define the following: - I.use : a set of all registers read by instruction I; - I.def : a set of all registers written by instruction I; - I.in : a set of all registers that may be alive before I execution; - I.out : a set of all registers that may be alive after I execution; - I.successors : a set of instructions S that might immediately follow I for some program execution; - associate separate empty sets 'I.in' and 'I.out' with each instruction; - visit each instruction in a postorder and update corresponding 'I.in' and 'I.out' sets as follows: I.out = U [S.in for S in I.successors] I.in = (I.out / I.def) U I.use (where U stands for set union, / stands for set difference) - repeat the computation while I.{in,out} changes for any instruction. On implementation side keep things as simple, as possible: - check_cfg() already marks instructions EXPLORED in post-order, modify it to save the index of each EXPLORED instruction in a vector; - represent I.{in,out,use,def} as bitmasks; - don't split the program into basic blocks and don't maintain the work queue, instead: - do fixed-point computation by visiting each instruction; - maintain a simple 'changed' flag if I.{in,out} for any instruction change; Measurements show that even such simplistic implementation does not add measurable verification time overhead (for selftests, at-least). Note on check_cfg() ex_insn_beg/ex_done change: To avoid out of bounds access to env->cfg.insn_postorder array, it should be guaranteed that instruction transitions to EXPLORED state only once. Previously this was not the fact for incorrect programs with direct calls to exception callbacks. The 'align' selftest needs adjustment to skip computed insn/live registers printout. Otherwise it matches lines from the live registers printout. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-variable_analysis Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-4-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: get_call_summary() utility functionEduard Zingerman
Refactor mark_fastcall_pattern_for_call() to extract a utility function get_call_summary(). For a helper or kfunc call this function fills the following information: {num_params, is_void, fastcall}. This function would be used in the next patch in order to get number of parameters of a helper or kfunc call. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-3-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: jmp_offset() and verbose_insn() utility functionsEduard Zingerman
Extract two utility functions: - One BPF jump instruction uses .imm field to encode jump offset, while the rest use .off. Encapsulate this detail as jmp_offset() function. - Avoid duplicating instruction printing callback definitions by defining a verbose_insn() function, which disassembles an instruction into the verifier log while hiding this detail. These functions will be used in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-2-eddyz87@gmail.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: Factor out check_load_mem() and check_store_reg()Peilin Ye
Extract BPF_LDX and most non-ATOMIC BPF_STX instruction handling logic in do_check() into helper functions to be used later. While we are here, make that comment about "reserved fields" more specific. Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8b39c94eac2bb7389ff12392ca666f939124ec4f.1740978603.git.yepeilin@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: Factor out check_atomic_rmw()Peilin Ye
Currently, check_atomic() only handles atomic read-modify-write (RMW) instructions. Since we are planning to introduce other types of atomic instructions (i.e., atomic load/store), extract the existing RMW handling logic into its own function named check_atomic_rmw(). Remove the @insn_idx parameter as it is not really necessary. Use 'env->insn_idx' instead, as in other places in verifier.c. Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6323ac8e73a10a1c8ee547c77ed68cf8eb6b90e1.1740978603.git.yepeilin@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: Factor out atomic_ptr_type_ok()Peilin Ye
Factor out atomic_ptr_type_ok() as a helper function to be used later. Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e5ef8b3116f3fffce78117a14060ddce05eba52a.1740978603.git.yepeilin@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf: no longer acquire map_idr_lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero()Eric Dumazet
bpf_sk_storage_clone() is the only caller of bpf_map_inc_not_zero() and is holding rcu_read_lock(). map_idr_lock does not add any protection, just remove the cost for passive TCP flows. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@meta.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250301191315.1532629-1-edumazet@google.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>
2025-03-15bpf: Allow pre-ordering for bpf cgroup progsYonghong Song
Currently for bpf progs in a cgroup hierarchy, the effective prog array is computed from bottom cgroup to upper cgroups (post-ordering). For example, the following cgroup hierarchy root cgroup: p1, p2 subcgroup: p3, p4 have BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI for both cgroup levels. The effective cgroup array ordering looks like p3 p4 p1 p2 and at run time, progs will execute based on that order. But in some cases, it is desirable to have root prog executes earlier than children progs (pre-ordering). For example, - prog p1 intends to collect original pkt dest addresses. - prog p3 will modify original pkt dest addresses to a proxy address for security reason. The end result is that prog p1 gets proxy address which is not what it wants. Putting p1 to every child cgroup is not desirable either as it will duplicate itself in many child cgroups. And this is exactly a use case we are encountering in Meta. To fix this issue, let us introduce a flag BPF_F_PREORDER. If the flag is specified at attachment time, the prog has higher priority and the ordering with that flag will be from top to bottom (pre-ordering). For example, in the above example, root cgroup: p1, p2 subcgroup: p3, p4 Let us say p2 and p4 are marked with BPF_F_PREORDER. The final effective array ordering will be p2 p4 p3 p1 Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224230116.283071-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf/helpers: Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy kfuncMykyta Yatsenko
Introducing bpf_dynptr_copy kfunc allowing copying data from one dynptr to another. This functionality is useful in scenarios such as capturing XDP data to a ring buffer. The implementation consists of 4 branches: * A fast branch for contiguous buffer capacity in both source and destination dynptrs * 3 branches utilizing __bpf_dynptr_read and __bpf_dynptr_write to copy data to/from non-contiguous buffer Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15bpf/helpers: Refactor bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_writeMykyta Yatsenko
Refactor bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write helpers: extract code into the static functions namely __bpf_dynptr_read and __bpf_dynptr_write, this allows calling these without compiler warnings. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-26bpf: Fix deadlock between rcu_tasks_trace and event_mutex.Alexei Starovoitov
Fix the following deadlock: CPU A _free_event() perf_kprobe_destroy() mutex_lock(&event_mutex) perf_trace_event_unreg() synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() There are several paths where _free_event() grabs event_mutex and calls sync_rcu_tasks_trace. Above is one such case. CPU B bpf_prog_test_run_syscall() rcu_read_lock_trace() bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() bpf_prog_load() bpf_tracing_func_proto() trace_set_clr_event() mutex_lock(&event_mutex) Delegate trace_set_clr_event() to workqueue to avoid such lock dependency. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250224221637.4780-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
2025-02-25selftests/bpf: Test gen_pro/epilogue that generate kfuncsAmery Hung
Test gen_prologue and gen_epilogue that generate kfuncs that have not been seen in the main program. The main bpf program and return value checks are identical to pro_epilogue.c introduced in commit 47e69431b57a ("selftests/bpf: Test gen_prologue and gen_epilogue"). However, now when bpf_testmod_st_ops detects a program name with prefix "test_kfunc_", it generates slightly different prologue and epilogue: They still add 1000 to args->a in prologue, add 10000 to args->a and set r0 to 2 * args->a in epilogue, but involve kfuncs. At high level, the alternative version of prologue and epilogue look like this: cgrp = bpf_cgroup_from_id(0); if (cgrp) bpf_cgroup_release(cgrp); else /* Perform what original bpf_testmod_st_ops prologue or * epilogue does */ Since 0 is never a valid cgroup id, the original prologue or epilogue logic will be performed. As a result, the __retval check should expect the exact same return value. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250225233545.285481-2-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-25bpf: Search and add kfuncs in struct_ops prologue and epilogueAmery Hung
Currently, add_kfunc_call() is only invoked once before the main verification loop. Therefore, the verifier could not find the bpf_kfunc_btf_tab of a new kfunc call which is not seen in user defined struct_ops operators but introduced in gen_prologue or gen_epilogue during do_misc_fixup(). Fix this by searching kfuncs in the patching instruction buffer and add them to prog->aux->kfunc_tab. 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/20250225233545.285481-1-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-25bpf: abort verification if env->cur_state->loop_entry != NULLEduard Zingerman
In addition to warning abort verification with -EFAULT. If env->cur_state->loop_entry != NULL something is irrecoverably buggy. Fixes: bbbc02b7445e ("bpf: copy_verifier_state() should copy 'loop_entry' field") Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250225003838.135319-1-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-24bpf: Fix kmemleak warning for percpu hashmapYonghong Song
Vlad Poenaru reported the following kmemleak issue: unreferenced object 0x606fd7c44ac8 (size 32): backtrace (crc 0): pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x730/0xeb0 bpf_map_alloc_percpu+0x69/0xc0 prealloc_init+0x9d/0x1b0 htab_map_alloc+0x363/0x510 map_create+0x215/0x3a0 __sys_bpf+0x16b/0x3e0 __x64_sys_bpf+0x18/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 Further investigation shows the reason is due to not 8-byte aligned store of percpu pointer in htab_elem_set_ptr(): *(void __percpu **)(l->key + key_size) = pptr; Note that the whole htab_elem alignment is 8 (for x86_64). If the key_size is 4, that means pptr is stored in a location which is 4 byte aligned but not 8 byte aligned. In mm/kmemleak.c, scan_block() scans the memory based on 8 byte stride, so it won't detect above pptr, hence reporting the memory leak. In htab_map_alloc(), we already have htab->elem_size = sizeof(struct htab_elem) + round_up(htab->map.key_size, 8); if (percpu) htab->elem_size += sizeof(void *); else htab->elem_size += round_up(htab->map.value_size, 8); So storing pptr with 8-byte alignment won't cause any problem and can fix kmemleak too. The issue can be reproduced with bpf selftest as well: 1. Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK config 2. Add a getchar() before skel destroy in test_hash_map() in prog_tests/for_each.c. The purpose is to keep map available so kmemleak can be detected. 3. run './test_progs -t for_each/hash_map &' and a kmemleak should be reported. Reported-by: Vlad Poenaru <thevlad@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224175514.2207227-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-23bpf: Refactor check_ctx_access()Amery Hung
Reduce the variable passing madness surrounding check_ctx_access(). Currently, check_mem_access() passes many pointers to local variables to check_ctx_access(). They are used to initialize "struct bpf_insn_access_aux info" in check_ctx_access() and then passed to is_valid_access(). Then, check_ctx_access() takes the data our from info and write them back the pointers to pass them back. This can be simpilified by moving info up to check_mem_access(). No functional change. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221175644.1822383-1-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-20bpf: Do not allow tail call in strcut_ops program with __ref argumentAmery Hung
Reject struct_ops programs with refcounted kptr arguments (arguments tagged with __ref suffix) that tail call. Once a refcounted kptr is passed to a struct_ops program from the kernel, it can be freed or xchged into maps. As there is no guarantee a callee can get the same valid refcounted kptr in the ctx, we cannot allow such usage. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220221532.1079331-1-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-20bpf: Use preempt_count() directly in bpf_send_signal_common()Hou Tao
bpf_send_signal_common() uses preemptible() to check whether or not the current context is preemptible. If it is preemptible, it will use irq_work to send the signal asynchronously instead of trying to hold a spin-lock, because spin-lock is sleepable under PREEMPT_RT. However, preemptible() depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. When CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is turned off (e.g., CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y), !preemptible() will be evaluated as 1 and bpf_send_signal_common() will use irq_work unconditionally. Fix it by unfolding "!preemptible()" and using "preempt_count() != 0 || irqs_disabled()" instead. Fixes: 87c544108b61 ("bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible") Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220042259.1583319-1-houtao@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf bpf-6.14-rc4Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR (bpf-6.14-rc4). Minor conflict: kernel/bpf/btf.c Adjacent changes: kernel/bpf/arena.c kernel/bpf/btf.c kernel/bpf/syscall.c kernel/bpf/verifier.c mm/memory.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-20Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfLinus Torvalds
Pull BPF fixes from Daniel Borkmann: - Fix a soft-lockup in BPF arena_map_free on 64k page size kernels (Alan Maguire) - Fix a missing allocation failure check in BPF verifier's acquire_lock_state (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference in trace_kfree_skb by adding kfree_skb to the raw_tp_null_args set (Kuniyuki Iwashima) - Fix a deadlock when freeing BPF cgroup storage (Abel Wu) - Fix a syzbot-reported deadlock when holding BPF map's freeze_mutex (Andrii Nakryiko) - Fix a use-after-free issue in bpf_test_init when eth_skb_pkt_type is accessing skb data not containing an Ethernet header (Shigeru Yoshida) - Fix skipping non-existing keys in generic_map_lookup_batch (Yan Zhai) - Several BPF sockmap fixes to address incorrect TCP copied_seq calculations, which prevented correct data reads from recv(2) in user space (Jiayuan Chen) - Two fixes for BPF map lookup nullness elision (Daniel Xu) - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference from vmlinux BTF lookup in bpf_sk_storage_tracing_allowed (Jared Kangas) * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: selftests: bpf: test batch lookup on array of maps with holes bpf: skip non exist keys in generic_map_lookup_batch bpf: Handle allocation failure in acquire_lock_state bpf: verifier: Disambiguate get_constant_map_key() errors bpf: selftests: Test constant key extraction on irrelevant maps bpf: verifier: Do not extract constant map keys for irrelevant maps bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel net: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[]. bpf: Fix deadlock when freeing cgroup storage selftests/bpf: Add strparser test for bpf selftests/bpf: Fix invalid flag of recv() bpf: Disable non stream socket for strparser bpf: Fix wrong copied_seq calculation strparser: Add read_sock callback bpf: avoid holding freeze_mutex during mmap operation bpf: unify VM_WRITE vs VM_MAYWRITE use in BPF map mmaping logic selftests/bpf: Adjust data size to have ETH_HLEN bpf, test_run: Fix use-after-free issue in eth_skb_pkt_type() bpf: Remove unnecessary BTF lookups in bpf_sk_storage_tracing_allowed
2025-02-19bpf: Add bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfuncJordan Rome
This new kfunc will be able to copy a zero-terminated C strings from another task's address space. This is similar to `bpf_copy_from_user_str()` but reads memory of specified task. Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome <linux@jordanrome.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250213152125.1837400-2-linux@jordanrome.com
2025-02-18bpf: fix env->peak_states computationEduard Zingerman
Compute env->peak_states as a maximum value of sum of env->explored_states and env->free_list size. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-11-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: free verifier states when they are no longer referencedEduard Zingerman
When fixes from patches 1 and 3 are applied, Patrick Somaru reported an increase in memory consumption for sched_ext iterator-based programs hitting 1M instructions limit. For example, 2Gb VMs ran out of memory while verifying a program. Similar behaviour could be reproduced on current bpf-next master. Here is an example of such program: /* verification completes if given 16G or RAM, * final env->free_list size is 369,960 entries. */ SEC("raw_tp") __flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ) __success int free_list_bomb(const void *ctx) { volatile char buf[48] = {}; unsigned i, j; j = 0; bpf_for(i, 0, 10) { /* this forks verifier state: * - verification of current path continues and * creates a checkpoint after 'if'; * - verification of forked path hits the * checkpoint and marks it as loop_entry. */ if (bpf_get_prandom_u32()) asm volatile (""); /* this marks 'j' as precise, thus any checkpoint * created on current iteration would not be matched * on the next iteration. */ buf[j++] = 42; j %= ARRAY_SIZE(buf); } asm volatile (""::"r"(buf)); return 0; } Memory consumption increased due to more states being marked as loop entries and eventually added to env->free_list. This commit introduces logic to free states from env->free_list during verification. A state in env->free_list can be freed if: - it has no child states; - it is not used as a loop_entry. This commit: - updates bpf_verifier_state->used_as_loop_entry to be a counter that tracks how many states use this one as a loop entry; - adds a function maybe_free_verifier_state(), which: - frees a state if its ->branches and ->used_as_loop_entry counters are both zero; - if the state is freed, state->loop_entry->used_as_loop_entry is decremented, and an attempt is made to free state->loop_entry. In the example above, this approach reduces the maximum number of states in the free list from 369,960 to 16,223. However, this approach has its limitations. If the buf size in the example above is modified to 64, state caching overflows: the state for j=0 is evicted from the cache before it can be used to stop traversal. As a result, states in the free list accumulate because their branch counters do not reach zero. The effect of this patch on the selftests looks as follows: File Program Max free list (A) Max free list (B) Max free list (DIFF) -------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------- -------------------- arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_add 17 3 -14 (-82.35%) bpf_iter_task_stack.bpf.o dump_task_stack 39 9 -30 (-76.92%) iters.bpf.o checkpoint_states_deletion 265 89 -176 (-66.42%) iters.bpf.o clean_live_states 19 0 -19 (-100.00%) profiler2.bpf.o tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill 102 1 -101 (-99.02%) profiler3.bpf.o tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill 144 0 -144 (-100.00%) pyperf600_iter.bpf.o on_event 15 0 -15 (-100.00%) pyperf600_nounroll.bpf.o on_event 1170 1158 -12 (-1.03%) setget_sockopt.bpf.o skops_sockopt 18 0 -18 (-100.00%) strobemeta_nounroll1.bpf.o on_event 147 83 -64 (-43.54%) strobemeta_nounroll2.bpf.o on_event 312 209 -103 (-33.01%) strobemeta_subprogs.bpf.o on_event 124 86 -38 (-30.65%) test_cls_redirect_subprogs.bpf.o cls_redirect 15 0 -15 (-100.00%) timer.bpf.o test1 30 15 -15 (-50.00%) Measured using "do-not-submit" patches from here: https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup Reported-by: Patrick Somaru <patsomaru@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-10-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: use list_head to track explored states and free listEduard Zingerman
The next patch in the set needs the ability to remove individual states from env->free_list while only holding a pointer to the state. Which requires env->free_list to be a doubly linked list. This patch converts env->free_list and struct bpf_verifier_state_list to use struct list_head for this purpose. The change to env->explored_states is collateral. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-9-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: do not update state->loop_entry in get_loop_entry()Eduard Zingerman
The patch 9 is simpler if less places modify loop_entry field. The loop deleted by this patch does not affect correctness, but is a performance optimization. However, measurements on selftests and sched_ext programs show that this optimization is unnecessary: - at most 2 steps are done in get_loop_entry(); - most of the time 0 or 1 steps are done in get_loop_entry(). Measured using "do-not-submit" patches from here: https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-8-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: make state->dfs_depth < state->loop_entry->dfs_depth an invariantEduard Zingerman
For a generic loop detection algorithm a graph node can be a loop header for itself. However, state loop entries are computed for use in is_state_visited(), where get_loop_entry(state)->branches is checked. is_state_visited() also checks state->branches, thus the case when state == state->loop_entry is not interesting for is_state_visited(). This change does not affect correctness, but simplifies get_loop_entry() a bit and also simplifies change to update_loop_entry() in patch 9. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-7-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: detect infinite loop in get_loop_entry()Eduard Zingerman
Tejun Heo reported an infinite loop in get_loop_entry(), when verifying a sched_ext program layered_dispatch in [1]. After some investigation I'm sure that root cause is fixed by patches 1,3 in this patch-set. To err on the safe side, this commit modifies get_loop_entry() to detect infinite loops and abort verification in such cases. The number of steps get_loop_entry(S) can make while moving along the bpf_verifier_state->loop_entry chain is bounded by the DFS depth of state S. This fact is exploited to implement the check. To avoid dealing with the potential error code returned from get_loop_entry() in update_loop_entry(), remove the get_loop_entry() calls there: - This change does not affect correctness. Loop entries would still be updated during the backward DFS move in update_branch_counts(). - This change does not affect performance. Measurements show that get_loop_entry() performs at most 1 step on selftests and at most 2 steps on sched_ext programs (1 step in 17 cases, 2 steps in 3 cases, measured using "do-not-submit" patches from [2]). [1] https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/ commit f0b27038ea10 ("XXX - kernel stall") [2] https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-6-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: don't do clean_live_states when state->loop_entry->branches > 0Eduard Zingerman
verifier.c:is_state_visited() uses RANGE_WITHIN states comparison rules for cached states that have loop_entry with non-zero branches count (meaning that loop_entry's verification is not yet done). The RANGE_WITHIN rules in regsafe()/stacksafe() require register and stack objects types to be identical in current and old states. verifier.c:clean_live_states() replaces registers and stack spills with NOT_INIT/STACK_INVALID marks, if these registers/stack spills are not read in any child state. This means that clean_live_states() works against loop convergence logic under some conditions. See selftest in the next patch for a specific example. Mitigate this by prohibiting clean_verifier_state() when state->loop_entry->branches > 0. This undoes negative verification performance impact of the copy_verifier_state() fix from the previous patch. Below is comparison between master and current patch. selftests: File Program Insns (A) Insns (B) Insns (DIFF) States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) ---------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------- --------- --------------- ---------- ---------- -------------- arena_htab.bpf.o arena_htab_llvm 717 423 -294 (-41.00%) 57 37 -20 (-35.09%) arena_htab_asm.bpf.o arena_htab_asm 597 445 -152 (-25.46%) 47 37 -10 (-21.28%) arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_add 1493 1822 +329 (+22.04%) 30 37 +7 (+23.33%) arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_del 309 261 -48 (-15.53%) 23 15 -8 (-34.78%) iters.bpf.o checkpoint_states_deletion 18125 22154 +4029 (+22.23%) 818 918 +100 (+12.22%) iters.bpf.o iter_nested_deeply_iters 593 367 -226 (-38.11%) 67 43 -24 (-35.82%) iters.bpf.o iter_nested_iters 813 772 -41 (-5.04%) 79 72 -7 (-8.86%) iters.bpf.o iter_subprog_check_stacksafe 155 135 -20 (-12.90%) 15 14 -1 (-6.67%) iters.bpf.o iter_subprog_iters 1094 808 -286 (-26.14%) 88 68 -20 (-22.73%) iters.bpf.o loop_state_deps2 479 356 -123 (-25.68%) 46 35 -11 (-23.91%) iters.bpf.o triple_continue 35 31 -4 (-11.43%) 3 3 +0 (+0.00%) kmem_cache_iter.bpf.o open_coded_iter 63 59 -4 (-6.35%) 7 6 -1 (-14.29%) mptcp_subflow.bpf.o _getsockopt_subflow 501 446 -55 (-10.98%) 25 23 -2 (-8.00%) pyperf600_iter.bpf.o on_event 12339 6379 -5960 (-48.30%) 441 286 -155 (-35.15%) verifier_bits_iter.bpf.o max_words 92 84 -8 (-8.70%) 8 7 -1 (-12.50%) verifier_iterating_callbacks.bpf.o cond_break2 113 192 +79 (+69.91%) 12 21 +9 (+75.00%) sched_ext: File Program Insns (A) Insns (B) Insns (DIFF) States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) ----------------- ---------------------- --------- --------- ----------------- ---------- ---------- ---------------- bpf.bpf.o layered_dispatch 11485 9039 -2446 (-21.30%) 848 662 -186 (-21.93%) bpf.bpf.o layered_dump 7422 5022 -2400 (-32.34%) 681 298 -383 (-56.24%) bpf.bpf.o layered_enqueue 16854 13753 -3101 (-18.40%) 1611 1308 -303 (-18.81%) bpf.bpf.o layered_init 1000001 5549 -994452 (-99.45%) 84672 523 -84149 (-99.38%) bpf.bpf.o layered_runnable 3149 1899 -1250 (-39.70%) 288 151 -137 (-47.57%) bpf.bpf.o p2dq_init 2343 1936 -407 (-17.37%) 201 170 -31 (-15.42%) bpf.bpf.o refresh_layer_cpumasks 16487 1285 -15202 (-92.21%) 1770 120 -1650 (-93.22%) bpf.bpf.o rusty_select_cpu 1937 1386 -551 (-28.45%) 177 125 -52 (-29.38%) scx_central.bpf.o central_dispatch 636 600 -36 (-5.66%) 63 59 -4 (-6.35%) scx_central.bpf.o central_init 913 632 -281 (-30.78%) 48 39 -9 (-18.75%) scx_nest.bpf.o nest_init 636 601 -35 (-5.50%) 60 58 -2 (-3.33%) scx_pair.bpf.o pair_dispatch 1000001 1914 -998087 (-99.81%) 58169 142 -58027 (-99.76%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_dispatch 2393 2187 -206 (-8.61%) 196 174 -22 (-11.22%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_init 16367 22777 +6410 (+39.16%) 603 768 +165 (+27.36%) 'layered_init' and 'pair_dispatch' hit 1M on master, but are verified ok with this patch. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-4-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: copy_verifier_state() should copy 'loop_entry' fieldEduard Zingerman
The bpf_verifier_state.loop_entry state should be copied by copy_verifier_state(). Otherwise, .loop_entry values from unrelated states would poison env->cur_state. Additionally, env->stack should not contain any states with .loop_entry != NULL. The states in env->stack are yet to be verified, while .loop_entry is set for states that reached an equivalent state. This means that env->cur_state->loop_entry should always be NULL after pop_stack(). See the selftest in the next commit for an example of the program that is not safe yet is accepted by verifier w/o this fix. This change has some verification performance impact for selftests: File Program Insns (A) Insns (B) Insns (DIFF) States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) ---------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------- --------- -------------- ---------- ---------- ------------- arena_htab.bpf.o arena_htab_llvm 717 426 -291 (-40.59%) 57 37 -20 (-35.09%) arena_htab_asm.bpf.o arena_htab_asm 597 445 -152 (-25.46%) 47 37 -10 (-21.28%) arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_del 309 279 -30 (-9.71%) 23 14 -9 (-39.13%) iters.bpf.o iter_subprog_check_stacksafe 155 141 -14 (-9.03%) 15 14 -1 (-6.67%) iters.bpf.o iter_subprog_iters 1094 1003 -91 (-8.32%) 88 83 -5 (-5.68%) iters.bpf.o loop_state_deps2 479 725 +246 (+51.36%) 46 63 +17 (+36.96%) kmem_cache_iter.bpf.o open_coded_iter 63 59 -4 (-6.35%) 7 6 -1 (-14.29%) verifier_bits_iter.bpf.o max_words 92 84 -8 (-8.70%) 8 7 -1 (-12.50%) verifier_iterating_callbacks.bpf.o cond_break2 113 107 -6 (-5.31%) 12 12 +0 (+0.00%) And significant negative impact for sched_ext: File Program Insns (A) Insns (B) Insns (DIFF) States (A) States (B) States (DIFF) ----------------- ---------------------- --------- --------- -------------------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ bpf.bpf.o lavd_init 7039 14723 +7684 (+109.16%) 490 1139 +649 (+132.45%) bpf.bpf.o layered_dispatch 11485 10548 -937 (-8.16%) 848 762 -86 (-10.14%) bpf.bpf.o layered_dump 7422 1000001 +992579 (+13373.47%) 681 31178 +30497 (+4478.27%) bpf.bpf.o layered_enqueue 16854 71127 +54273 (+322.02%) 1611 6450 +4839 (+300.37%) bpf.bpf.o p2dq_dispatch 665 791 +126 (+18.95%) 68 78 +10 (+14.71%) bpf.bpf.o p2dq_init 2343 2980 +637 (+27.19%) 201 237 +36 (+17.91%) bpf.bpf.o refresh_layer_cpumasks 16487 674760 +658273 (+3992.68%) 1770 65370 +63600 (+3593.22%) bpf.bpf.o rusty_select_cpu 1937 40872 +38935 (+2010.07%) 177 3210 +3033 (+1713.56%) scx_central.bpf.o central_dispatch 636 2687 +2051 (+322.48%) 63 227 +164 (+260.32%) scx_nest.bpf.o nest_init 636 815 +179 (+28.14%) 60 73 +13 (+21.67%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_dispatch 2393 3580 +1187 (+49.60%) 196 253 +57 (+29.08%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_dump 233 318 +85 (+36.48%) 22 30 +8 (+36.36%) scx_qmap.bpf.o qmap_init 16367 17436 +1069 (+6.53%) 603 669 +66 (+10.95%) Note 'layered_dump' program, which now hits 1M instructions limit. This impact would be mitigated in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-2-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-18bpf: skip non exist keys in generic_map_lookup_batchYan Zhai
The generic_map_lookup_batch currently returns EINTR if it fails with ENOENT and retries several times on bpf_map_copy_value. The next batch would start from the same location, presuming it's a transient issue. This is incorrect if a map can actually have "holes", i.e. "get_next_key" can return a key that does not point to a valid value. At least the array of maps type may contain such holes legitly. Right now these holes show up, generic batch lookup cannot proceed any more. It will always fail with EINTR errors. Rather, do not retry in generic_map_lookup_batch. If it finds a non existing element, skip to the next key. This simple solution comes with a price that transient errors may not be recovered, and the iteration might cycle back to the first key under parallel deletion. For example, Hou Tao <houtao@huaweicloud.com> pointed out a following scenario: For LPM trie map: (1) ->map_get_next_key(map, prev_key, key) returns a valid key (2) bpf_map_copy_value() return -ENOMENT It means the key must be deleted concurrently. (3) goto next_key It swaps the prev_key and key (4) ->map_get_next_key(map, prev_key, key) again prev_key points to a non-existing key, for LPM trie it will treat just like prev_key=NULL case, the returned key will be duplicated. With the retry logic, the iteration can continue to the key next to the deleted one. But if we directly skip to the next key, the iteration loop would restart from the first key for the lpm_trie type. However, not all races may be recovered. For example, if current key is deleted after instead of before bpf_map_copy_value, or if the prev_key also gets deleted, then the loop will still restart from the first key for lpm_tire anyway. For generic lookup it might be better to stay simple, i.e. just skip to the next key. To guarantee that the output keys are not duplicated, it is better to implement map type specific batch operations, which can properly lock the trie and synchronize with concurrent mutators. Fixes: cb4d03ab499d ("bpf: Add generic support for lookup batch op") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Z6JXtA1M5jAZx8xD@debian.debian/ Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai <yan@cloudflare.com> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/85618439eea75930630685c467ccefeac0942e2b.1739171594.git.yan@cloudflare.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-02-17bpf: Allow struct_ops prog to return referenced kptrAmery Hung
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 <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/20250217190640.1748177-5-ameryhung@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>