Core & protocols
----------------
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list. Resulting
in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending twice the
number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue. Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out
of idle, but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly
busy. Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already did
for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is sadly
quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock pressure,
improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor fit
for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid unnecessarily
aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC 5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API
----------
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics,
as defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features
for 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads IPsec
and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the default
or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame duplication
for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers
--------------
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback
for reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which supports
Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as other
drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211 debugfs
interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.
Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue.
Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.
Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
did for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
pressure, improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API:
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
IPsec and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers:
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
debugfs interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"
* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
...
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc7).
No conflicts, adjacent changes:
tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/Makefile
e1bb28bf13 ("selftest: af_unix: Add test for SO_PEEK_OFF.")
45a1cd8346 ("selftests: af_unix: Add tests for ECONNRESET and EOF semantics")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
bpf_try_get_buffers() returns one of multiple per-CPU buffers based on a
per-CPU nesting counter. This mechanism expects that buffers are not
endlessly acquired before being returned. migrate_disable() ensures that a
task remains on the same CPU, but it does not prevent the task from being
preempted by another task on that CPU.
Without disabled preemption, a task may be preempted while holding a
buffer, allowing another task to run on same CPU and acquire an
additional buffer. Several such preemptions can cause the per-CPU
nest counter to exceed MAX_BPRINTF_NEST_LEVEL and trigger the warning in
bpf_try_get_buffers(). Adding preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() around
buffer acquisition and release prevents this task preemption and
preserves the intended bounded nesting behavior.
Reported-by: syzbot+b0cff308140f79a9c4cb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68f6a4c8.050a0220.1be48.0011.GAE@google.com/
Fixes: 4223bf833c ("bpf: Remove preempt_disable in bpf_try_get_buffers")
Suggested-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.sahil@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251114064922.11650-1-chandna.sahil@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently bpf_dynptr_from_skb_meta() marks the dynptr as read-only when
the skb is cloned, preventing writes to metadata.
Remove this restriction and unclone the skb head on bpf_dynptr_write() to
metadata, now that the metadata is preserved during uncloning. This makes
metadata dynptr consistent with skb dynptr, allowing writes regardless of
whether the skb is cloned.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-skb-meta-rx-path-v4-3-5ceb08a9b37b@cloudflare.com
Rename bpf_stream_vprintk() to bpf_stream_vprintk_impl().
This makes bpf_stream_vprintk() follow the already established "_impl"
suffix-based naming convention for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux
argument provided by the verifier implicitly. This convention will be
taken advantage of with the upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to
preserve backwards compatibility to BPF programs.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-2-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Rename:
bpf_task_work_schedule_resume()->bpf_task_work_schedule_resume_impl()
bpf_task_work_schedule_signal()->bpf_task_work_schedule_signal_impl()
This aligns task work scheduling kfuncs with the established naming
scheme for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux argument provided by the
verifier implicitly. This convention will be taken advantage of with the
upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to preserve backwards compatibility to
BPF programs.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-1-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
File dynptr reads may sleep when the requested folios are not in
the page cache. To avoid sleeping in non-sleepable contexts while still
supporting valid sleepable use, given that dynptrs are non-sleepable by
default, enable sleeping only when bpf_dynptr_from_file() is invoked
from a sleepable context.
This change:
* Introduces a sleepable constructor: bpf_dynptr_from_file_sleepable()
* Override non-sleepable constructor with sleepable if it's always
called in sleepable context
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026203853.135105-10-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add support for file dynptr.
Introduce struct bpf_dynptr_file_impl to hold internal state for file
dynptrs, with 64-bit size and offset support.
Introduce lifecycle management kfuncs:
- bpf_dynptr_from_file() for initialization
- bpf_dynptr_file_discard() for destruction
Extend existing helpers to support file dynptrs in:
- bpf_dynptr_read()
- bpf_dynptr_slice()
Write helpers (bpf_dynptr_write() and bpf_dynptr_data()) are not
modified, as file dynptr is read-only.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026203853.135105-8-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add the necessary verifier plumbing for the new file-backed dynptr type.
Introduce two kfuncs for its lifecycle management:
* bpf_dynptr_from_file() for initialization
* bpf_dynptr_file_discard() for destruction
Currently there is no mechanism for kfunc to release dynptr, this patch
add one:
* Dynptr release function sets meta->release_regno
* Call unmark_stack_slots_dynptr() if meta->release_regno is set and
dynptr ref_obj_id is set as well.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026203853.135105-7-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Dynptr currently caps size and offset at 24 bits, which isn’t sufficient
for file-backed use cases; even 32 bits can be limiting. Refactor dynptr
helpers/kfuncs to use 64-bit size and offset, ensuring consistency
across the APIs.
This change does not affect internals of xdp, skb or other dynptrs,
which continue to behave as before. Also it does not break binary
compatibility.
The widening enables large-file access support via dynptr, implemented
in the next patches.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026203853.135105-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
We have many places which open-code what's now is bpf_rcu_lock_held()
macro, so replace all those places with a clean and short macro invocation.
For that, move bpf_rcu_lock_held() macro into include/linux/bpf.h.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251014201403.4104511-1-andrii@kernel.org
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 6d78b4473c ("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: 6d78b4473c ("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
The arraymap and hashtab duplicate the logic that checks for and frees
internal structs (timer, workqueue, task_work) based on
BTF record flags. Centralize this by introducing two helpers:
* bpf_map_has_internal_structs(map)
Returns true if the map value contains any of internal structs:
BPF_TIMER | BPF_WORKQUEUE | BPF_TASK_WORK.
* bpf_map_free_internal_structs(map, obj)
Frees the internal structs for a single value object.
Convert arraymap and both the prealloc/malloc hashtab paths to use the
new generic functions. This keeps the functionality for when/how to free
these special fields in one place and makes it easier to add support for
new internal structs in the future without touching every map
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251010164606.147298-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
bpf_strcasestr() and bpf_strncasestr() functions perform same like
bpf_strstr() and bpf_strnstr() except ignoring the case of the
characters.
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rongtao@cestc.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_B01165355D42A8B8BF5E8D0A21EE1A88090A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Implementation of the new bpf_task_work_schedule kfuncs, that let a BPF
program schedule task_work callbacks for a target task:
* bpf_task_work_schedule_signal() - schedules with TWA_SIGNAL
* bpf_task_work_schedule_resume() - schedules with TWA_RESUME
Each map value should embed a struct bpf_task_work, which the kernel
side pairs with struct bpf_task_work_kern, containing a pointer to
struct bpf_task_work_ctx, that maintains metadata relevant for the
concrete callback scheduling.
A small state machine and refcounting scheme ensures safe reuse and
teardown. State transitions:
_______________________________
| |
v |
[standby] ---> [pending] --> [scheduling] --> [scheduled]
^ |________________|_________
| |
| v
| [running]
|_______________________________________________________|
All states may transition into FREED state:
[pending] [scheduling] [scheduled] [running] [standby] -> [freed]
A FREED terminal state coordinates with map-value
deletion (bpf_task_work_cancel_and_free()).
Scheduling itself is deferred via irq_work to keep the kfunc callable
from NMI context.
Lifetime is guarded with refcount_t + RCU Tasks Trace.
Main components:
* struct bpf_task_work_context – Metadata and state management per task
work.
* enum bpf_task_work_state – A state machine to serialize work
scheduling and execution.
* bpf_task_work_schedule() – The central helper that initiates
scheduling.
* bpf_task_work_acquire_ctx() - Attempts to take ownership of the context,
pointed by passed struct bpf_task_work, allocates new context if none
exists yet.
* bpf_task_work_callback() – Invoked when the actual task_work runs.
* bpf_task_work_irq() – An intermediate step (runs in softirq context)
to enqueue task work.
* bpf_task_work_cancel_and_free() – Cleanup for deleted BPF map entries.
Flow of successful task work scheduling
1) bpf_task_work_schedule_* is called from BPF code.
2) Transition state from STANDBY to PENDING, mark context as owned by
this task work scheduler
3) irq_work_queue() schedules bpf_task_work_irq().
4) Transition state from PENDING to SCHEDULING (noop if transition
successful)
5) bpf_task_work_irq() attempts task_work_add(). If successful, state
transitions to SCHEDULED.
6) Task work calls bpf_task_work_callback(), which transition state to
RUNNING.
7) BPF callback is executed
8) Context is cleaned up, refcounts released, context state set back to
STANDBY.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-8-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Calculation of the BPF map key, given the pointer to a value is
duplicated in a couple of places in helpers already, in the next patch
another use case is introduced as well.
This patch extracts that functionality into a separate function.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-7-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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>
This patch extends the BPF_PROG_LOAD command by adding three new fields
to `union bpf_attr` in the user-space API:
- signature: A pointer to the signature blob.
- signature_size: The size of the signature blob.
- keyring_id: The serial number of a loaded kernel keyring (e.g.,
the user or session keyring) containing the trusted public keys.
When a BPF program is loaded with a signature, the kernel:
1. Retrieves the trusted keyring using the provided `keyring_id`.
2. Verifies the supplied signature against the BPF program's
instruction buffer.
3. If the signature is valid and was generated by a key in the trusted
keyring, the program load proceeds.
4. If no signature is provided, the load proceeds as before, allowing
for backward compatibility. LSMs can chose to restrict unsigned
programs and implement a security policy.
5. If signature verification fails for any reason,
the program is not loaded.
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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>
The bpf_cgroup_from_id kfunc relies on cgroup_get_from_id to obtain the
cgroup corresponding to a given cgroup ID. This helper can be called in
a lot of contexts where the current thread can be random. A recent
example was its use in sched_ext's ops.tick(), to obtain the root cgroup
pointer. Since the current task can be whatever random user space task
preempted by the timer tick, this makes the behavior of the helper
unreliable.
Refactor out __cgroup_get_from_id as the non-namespace aware version of
cgroup_get_from_id, and change bpf_cgroup_from_id to make use of it.
There is no compatibility breakage here, since changing the namespace
against which the lookup is being done to the root cgroup namespace only
permits a wider set of lookups to succeed now. The cgroup IDs across
namespaces are globally unique, and thus don't need to be retranslated.
Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915032618.1551762-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently, calling bpf_map_kmalloc_node() from __bpf_async_init() can
cause various locking issues; see the following stack trace (edited for
style) as one example:
...
[10.011566] do_raw_spin_lock.cold
[10.011570] try_to_wake_up (5) double-acquiring the same
[10.011575] kick_pool rq_lock, causing a hardlockup
[10.011579] __queue_work
[10.011582] queue_work_on
[10.011585] kernfs_notify
[10.011589] cgroup_file_notify
[10.011593] try_charge_memcg (4) memcg accounting raises an
[10.011597] obj_cgroup_charge_pages MEMCG_MAX event
[10.011599] obj_cgroup_charge_account
[10.011600] __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook
[10.011603] __kmalloc_node_noprof
...
[10.011611] bpf_map_kmalloc_node
[10.011612] __bpf_async_init
[10.011615] bpf_timer_init (3) BPF calls bpf_timer_init()
[10.011617] bpf_prog_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_fcg_runnable
[10.011619] bpf__sched_ext_ops_runnable
[10.011620] enqueue_task_scx (2) BPF runs with rq_lock held
[10.011622] enqueue_task
[10.011626] ttwu_do_activate
[10.011629] sched_ttwu_pending (1) grabs rq_lock
...
The above was reproduced on bpf-next (b338cf849e) by modifying
./tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c to call bpf_timer_init() during
ops.runnable(), and hacking the memcg accounting code a bit to make
a bpf_timer_init() call more likely to raise an MEMCG_MAX event.
We have also run into other similar variants (both internally and on
bpf-next), including double-acquiring cgroup_file_kn_lock, the same
worker_pool::lock, etc.
As suggested by Shakeel, fix this by using __GFP_HIGH instead of
GFP_ATOMIC in __bpf_async_init(), so that e.g. if try_charge_memcg()
raises an MEMCG_MAX event, we call __memcg_memory_event() with
@allow_spinning=false and avoid calling cgroup_file_notify() there.
Depends on mm patch
"memcg: skip cgroup_file_notify if spinning is not allowed":
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905201606.66198-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev/
v0 approach s/bpf_map_kmalloc_node/bpf_mem_alloc/
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/
v1 approach:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250905234547.862249-1-yepeilin@google.com/
Fixes: b00628b1c7 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.")
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250909095222.2121438-1-yepeilin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
bpf_strnstr() should not treat the ending '\0' of s2 as a matching character
if the parameter 'len' equal to s2 string length, for example:
1. bpf_strnstr("openat", "open", 4) = -ENOENT
2. bpf_strnstr("openat", "open", 5) = 0
This patch makes (1) return 0, fix just the `len == strlen(s2)` case.
And fix a more general case when s2 is a suffix of the first len
characters of s1.
Fixes: e91370550f ("bpf: Add kfuncs for read-only string operations")
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rongtao@cestc.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/tencent_17DC57B9D16BC443837021BEACE84B7C1507@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.
Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.
queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be
printed along with a wq redirect to the new one.
The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905085309.94596-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
bpf_strcasecmp() function performs same like bpf_strcmp() except ignoring
the case of the characters.
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rongtao@cestc.cn>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_292BD3682A628581AA904996D8E59F4ACD06@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Now BPF program will run with migration disabled, so it is safe
to access this_cpu_inc_return(bpf_bprintf_nest_level).
Fixes: d9c9e4db18 ("bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250819125638.2544715-1-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Now that we can create a dynptr to skb metadata, make reads to the metadata
area possible with bpf_dynptr_read() or through a bpf_dynptr_slice(), and
make writes to the metadata area possible with bpf_dynptr_write() or
through a bpf_dynptr_slice_rdwr().
Note that for cloned skbs which share data with the original, we limit the
skb metadata dynptr to be read-only since we don't unclone on a
bpf_dynptr_write to metadata.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250814-skb-metadata-thru-dynptr-v7-2-8a39e636e0fb@cloudflare.com
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
Add a warning to ensure RCU lock is held around tree lookup, and then
fix one of the invocations in bpf_stack_walker. The program has an
active stack frame and won't disappear. Use the opportunity to remove
unneeded invocation of is_bpf_text_address.
Fixes: f18b03faba ("bpf: Implement BPF exceptions")
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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>
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>
Currently there is no straightforward way to fill dynptr memory with a
value (most commonly zero). One can do it with bpf_dynptr_write(), but
a temporary buffer is necessary for that.
Implement bpf_dynptr_memset() - an analogue of memset() from libc.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <isolodrai@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250702210309.3115903-2-isolodrai@meta.com
static const char fmt[] = "%p%";
bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt));
The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at
runtime:
Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0
This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %,
detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by
not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next
iteration and rejected.
Reported-by: syzbot+e2c932aec5c8a6e1d31c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 48cac3f4a9 ("bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf")
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a0e06cc479faec9e802ae51ba5d66420523251ee.1751395489.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Function bpf_cgroup_read_xattr is defined in fs/bpf_fs_kfuncs.c,
which is compiled only when CONFIG_BPF_LSM is set. Add CONFIG_BPF_LSM
check to bpf_cgroup_read_xattr spec in common_btf_ids in
kernel/bpf/helpers.c to avoid build failures for configs w/o
CONFIG_BPF_LSM.
Build failure example:
BTF .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o
btf_encoder__tag_kfunc: failed to find kfunc 'bpf_cgroup_read_xattr' in BTF
...
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_cgroup_read_xattr
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:91: vmlinux.unstripped] Error 255
Fixes: 535b070f4a ("bpf: Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr to read xattr of cgroup's node")
Reported-by: Jake Hillion <jakehillion@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627175309.2710973-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
String operations are commonly used so this exposes the most common ones
to BPF programs. For now, we limit ourselves to operations which do not
copy memory around.
Unfortunately, most in-kernel implementations assume that strings are
%NUL-terminated, which is not necessarily true, and therefore we cannot
use them directly in the BPF context. Instead, we open-code them using
__get_kernel_nofault instead of plain dereference to make them safe and
limit the strings length to XATTR_SIZE_MAX to make sure the functions
terminate. When __get_kernel_nofault fails, functions return -EFAULT.
Similarly, when the size bound is reached, the functions return -E2BIG.
In addition, we return -ERANGE when the passed strings are outside of
the kernel address space.
Note that thanks to these dynamic safety checks, no other constraints
are put on the kfunc args (they are marked with the "__ign" suffix to
skip any verifier checks for them).
All of the functions return integers, including functions which normally
(in kernel or libc) return pointers to the strings. The reason is that
since the strings are generally treated as unsafe, the pointers couldn't
be dereferenced anyways. So, instead, we return an index to the string
and let user decide what to do with it. This also nicely fits with
returning various error codes when necessary (see above).
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b008a6212852c1b056a413f86e3efddac73551c.1750917800.git.vmalik@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
BPF programs, such as LSM and sched_ext, would benefit from tags on
cgroups. One common practice to apply such tags is to set xattrs on
cgroupfs folders.
Introduce kfunc bpf_cgroup_read_xattr, which allows reading cgroup's
xattr.
Note that, we already have bpf_get_[file|dentry]_xattr. However, these
two APIs are not ideal for reading cgroupfs xattrs, because:
1) These two APIs only works in sleepable contexts;
2) There is no kfunc that matches current cgroup to cgroupfs dentry.
bpf_cgroup_read_xattr is generic and can be useful for many program
types. It is also safe, because it requires trusted or rcu protected
argument (KF_RCU). Therefore, we make it available to all program types.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250623063854.1896364-3-song@kernel.org
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Marc Suñé (Isovalent, part of Cisco) reported an issue where an
uninitialized variable caused generating bpf prog binary code not
working as expected. The reproducer is in [1] where the flags
“-Wall -Werror” are enabled, but there is no warning as the compiler
takes advantage of uninitialized variable to do aggressive optimization.
The optimized code looks like below:
; {
0: bf 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 r6 = r1
; bpf_printk("Start");
1: 18 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 r1 = 0x0 ll
0000000000000008: R_BPF_64_64 .rodata
3: b4 02 00 00 06 00 00 00 w2 = 0x6
4: 85 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 call 0x6
; DEFINE_FUNC_CTX_POINTER(data)
5: 61 61 4c 00 00 00 00 00 w1 = *(u32 *)(r6 + 0x4c)
; bpf_printk("pre ipv6_hdrlen_offset");
6: 18 01 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 r1 = 0x6 ll
0000000000000030: R_BPF_64_64 .rodata
8: b4 02 00 00 17 00 00 00 w2 = 0x17
9: 85 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 call 0x6
<END>
The verifier will report the following failure:
9: (85) call bpf_trace_printk#6
last insn is not an exit or jmp
The above verifier log does not give a clear hint about how to fix
the problem and user may take quite some time to figure out that
the issue is due to compiler taking advantage of uninitialized variable.
In llvm internals, uninitialized variable usage may generate
'unreachable' IR insn and these 'unreachable' IR insns may indicate
uninitialized variable impact on code optimization. So far, llvm
BPF backend ignores 'unreachable' IR hence the above code is generated.
With clang21 patch [2], those 'unreachable' IR insn are converted
to func __bpf_trap(). In order to maintain proper control flow
graph for bpf progs, [2] also adds an 'exit' insn after bpf_trap()
if __bpf_trap() is the last insn in the function. The new code looks like:
; {
0: bf 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 r6 = r1
; bpf_printk("Start");
1: 18 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 r1 = 0x0 ll
0000000000000008: R_BPF_64_64 .rodata
3: b4 02 00 00 06 00 00 00 w2 = 0x6
4: 85 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 call 0x6
; DEFINE_FUNC_CTX_POINTER(data)
5: 61 61 4c 00 00 00 00 00 w1 = *(u32 *)(r6 + 0x4c)
; bpf_printk("pre ipv6_hdrlen_offset");
6: 18 01 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 r1 = 0x6 ll
0000000000000030: R_BPF_64_64 .rodata
8: b4 02 00 00 17 00 00 00 w2 = 0x17
9: 85 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 call 0x6
10: 85 10 00 00 ff ff ff ff call -0x1
0000000000000050: R_BPF_64_32 __bpf_trap
11: 95 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 exit
<END>
In kernel, a new kfunc __bpf_trap() is added. During insn
verification, any hit with __bpf_trap() will result in
verification failure. The kernel is able to provide better
log message for debugging.
With llvm patch [2] and without this patch (no __bpf_trap()
kfunc for existing kernel), e.g., for old kernels, the verifier
outputs
10: <invalid kfunc call>
kfunc '__bpf_trap' is referenced but wasn't resolved
Basically, kernel does not support __bpf_trap() kfunc.
This still didn't give clear signals about possible reason.
With llvm patch [2] and with this patch, the verifier outputs
10: (85) call __bpf_trap#74479
unexpected __bpf_trap() due to uninitialized variable?
It gives much better hints for verification failure.
[1] https://github.com/msune/clang_bpf/blob/main/Makefile#L3
[2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/131731
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250523205326.1291640-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This open coded iterator allows for more flexibility when creating BPF
programs. It can support output in formats other than text. With an open
coded iterator, a single BPF program can traverse multiple kernel data
structures (now including dmabufs), allowing for more efficient analysis
of kernel data compared to multiple reads from procfs, sysfs, or
multiple traditional BPF iterator invocations.
Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250522230429.941193-4-tjmercier@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Instead of hardcoding the list of kfuncs that need prog->aux passed to
them with a combination of fixup_kfunc_call adjustment + __ign suffix,
combine both in __prog suffix, which ignores the argument passed in, and
fixes it up to the prog->aux. This allows kfuncs to have the prog->aux
passed into them without having to touch the verifier.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250513142812.1021591-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch introduces a new set of kfuncs for working with dynptrs in
BPF programs, enabling reading variable-length user or kernel data
into dynptr directly. To enable memory-safety, verifier allows only
constant-sized reads via existing bpf_probe_read_{user|kernel} etc.
kfuncs, dynptr-based kfuncs allow dynamically-sized reads without memory
safety shortcomings.
The following kfuncs are introduced:
* `bpf_probe_read_kernel_dynptr()`: probes kernel-space data into a dynptr
* `bpf_probe_read_user_dynptr()`: probes user-space data into a dynptr
* `bpf_probe_read_kernel_str_dynptr()`: probes kernel-space string into
a dynptr
* `bpf_probe_read_user_str_dynptr()`: probes user-space string into a
dynptr
* `bpf_copy_from_user_dynptr()`: sleepable, copies user-space data into
a dynptr for the current task
* `bpf_copy_from_user_str_dynptr()`: sleepable, copies user-space string
into a dynptr for the current task
* `bpf_copy_from_user_task_dynptr()`: sleepable, copies user-space data
of the task into a dynptr
* `bpf_copy_from_user_task_str_dynptr()`: sleepable, copies user-space
string of the task into a dynptr
The implementation is built on two generic functions:
* __bpf_dynptr_copy
* __bpf_dynptr_copy_str
These functions take function pointers as arguments, enabling the
copying of data from various sources, including both kernel and user
space.
Use __always_inline for generic functions and callbacks to make sure the
compiler doesn't generate indirect calls into callbacks, which is more
expensive, especially on some kernel configurations. Inlining allows
compiler to put direct calls into all the specific callback implementations
(copy_user_data_sleepable, copy_user_data_nofault, and so on).
Reviewed-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512205348.191079-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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>
Linus Torvalds
Jakub Kicinski
Alexei Starovoitov
Sahil Chandna
Jakub Sitnicki
Mykyta Yatsenko
Malin Jonsson
Andrii Nakryiko
Rong Tao
KP Singh
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Peilin Ye
Marco Crivellari
Tao Chen
Ihor Solodrai
Paul Chaignon
Eduard Zingerman
Viktor Malik
Song Liu
Hou Tao
Yonghong Song
T.J. Mercier
Feng Yang