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Most tracepoints in the kernel are created with TRACE_EVENT(). The
TRACE_EVENT() macro (and DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() where in
reality, TRACE_EVENT() is just a helper macro that calls those other two
macros), will create not only a tracepoint (the function trace_<event>()
used in the kernel), it also exposes the tracepoint to user space along
with defining what fields will be saved by that tracepoint.
There are a few places that tracepoints are created in the kernel that are
not exposed to userspace via tracefs. They can only be accessed from code
within the kernel. These tracepoints are created with DEFINE_TRACE()
Most of these tracepoints end with "_tp". This is useful as when the
developer sees that, they know that the tracepoint is for in-kernel only
(meaning it can only be accessed inside the kernel, either directly by the
kernel or indirectly via modules and BPF programs) and is not exposed to
user space.
Instead of making this only a process to add "_tp", enforce it by making
the DECLARE_TRACE() append the "_tp" suffix to the tracepoint. This
requires adding DECLARE_TRACE_EVENT() macros for the TRACE_EVENT() macro
to use that keeps the original name.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418083351.20a60e64@gandalf.local.home/
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250510163730.092fad5b@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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>
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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>
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The selftests build four kernel modules which use copy-pasted Makefile
targets. This is a bit messy, and doesn't scale so well when we add more
modules, so let's consolidate these rules into a single rule generated
for each module name, and move the module sources into a single
directory.
To avoid parallel builds of the different modules stepping on each
other's toes during the 'modpost' phase of the Kbuild 'make modules',
the module files should really be a grouped target. However, make only
added explicit support for grouped targets in version 4.3, which is
newer than the minimum version supported by the kernel. However, make
implicitly treats pattern matching rules with multiple targets as a
grouped target, so we can work around this by turning the rule into a
pattern matching target. We do this by replacing '.ko' with '%ko' in the
targets with subst().
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241204-bpf-selftests-mod-compile-v5-1-b96231134a49@redhat.com
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Arguments to a raw tracepoint are tagged as trusted, which carries the
semantics that the pointer will be non-NULL. However, in certain cases,
a raw tracepoint argument may end up being NULL. More context about this
issue is available in [0].
Thus, there is a discrepancy between the reality, that raw_tp arguments
can actually be NULL, and the verifier's knowledge, that they are never
NULL, causing explicit NULL checks to be deleted, and accesses to such
pointers potentially crashing the kernel.
To fix this, mark raw_tp arguments as PTR_MAYBE_NULL, and then special
case the dereference and pointer arithmetic to permit it, and allow
passing them into helpers/kfuncs; these exceptions are made for raw_tp
programs only. Ensure that we don't do this when ref_obj_id > 0, as in
that case this is an acquired object and doesn't need such adjustment.
The reason we do mask_raw_tp_trusted_reg logic is because other will
recheck in places whether the register is a trusted_reg, and then
consider our register as untrusted when detecting the presence of the
PTR_MAYBE_NULL flag.
To allow safe dereference, we enable PROBE_MEM marking when we see loads
into trusted pointers with PTR_MAYBE_NULL.
While trusted raw_tp arguments can also be passed into helpers or kfuncs
where such broken assumption may cause issues, a future patch set will
tackle their case separately, as PTR_TO_BTF_ID (without PTR_TRUSTED) can
already be passed into helpers and causes similar problems. Thus, they
are left alone for now.
It is possible that these checks also permit passing non-raw_tp args
that are trusted PTR_TO_BTF_ID with null marking. In such a case,
allowing dereference when pointer is NULL expands allowed behavior, so
won't regress existing programs, and the case of passing these into
helpers is the same as above and will be dealt with later.
Also update the failure case in tp_btf_nullable selftest to capture the
new behavior, as the verifier will no longer cause an error when
directly dereference a raw tracepoint argument marked as __nullable.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZrCZS6nisraEqehw@jlelli-thinkpadt14gen4.remote.csb
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Fixes: 3f00c5239344 ("bpf: Allow trusted pointers to be passed to KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfuncs")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104171959.2938862-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Add a tracepoint with __nullable suffix in bpf_testmod, and add cases
for it:
$ ./test_progs -t "tp_btf_nullable"
#406/1 tp_btf_nullable/handle_tp_btf_nullable_bare1:OK
#406/2 tp_btf_nullable/handle_tp_btf_nullable_bare2:OK
#406 tp_btf_nullable:OK
Summary: 1/2 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED
Signed-off-by: Philo Lu <lulie@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240911033719.91468-3-lulie@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
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