user/sven/linux.git/kernel/bpf/btf.c, branch v6.19

bpf: Allow union argument in trampoline based programs

2025-09-23T19:07:46Z

Currently, functions with 'union' arguments cannot be traced with fentry/fexit: bpftrace -e 'fentry:release_pages { exit(); }' -v The function release_pages arg0 type UNION is unsupported. The type of the 'release_pages' arg0 is defined as: typedef union { struct page **pages; struct folio **folios; struct encoded_page **encoded_pages; } release_pages_arg __attribute__ ((__transparent_union__)); This patch relaxes the restriction by allowing function arguments of type 'union' to be traced in verifier. Reviewed-by: Amery Hung Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919044110.23729-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: bpf task work plumbing

2025-09-23T14:34:38Z

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 Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-6-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: refactor special field-type detection

2025-09-23T14:34:38Z

Reduce code duplication in detection of the known special field types in map values. This refactoring helps to avoid copying a chunk of code in the next patch of the series. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2025-07-30T16:58:50Z

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Remove usermode driver (UMD) framework (Thomas Weißschuh) - Introduce Strongly Connected Component (SCC) in the verifier to detect loops and refine register liveness (Eduard Zingerman) - Allow 'void *' cast using bpf_rdonly_cast() and corresponding '__arg_untrusted' for global function parameters (Eduard Zingerman) - Improve precision for BPF_ADD and BPF_SUB operations in the verifier (Harishankar Vishwanathan) - Teach the verifier that constant pointer to a map cannot be NULL (Ihor Solodrai) - Introduce BPF streams for error reporting of various conditions detected by BPF runtime (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Teach the verifier to insert runtime speculation barrier (lfence on x86) to mitigate speculative execution instead of rejecting the programs (Luis Gerhorst) - Various improvements for 'veristat' (Mykyta Yatsenko) - For CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL config warn on internal verifier errors to improve bug detection by syzbot (Paul Chaignon) - Support BPF private stack on arm64 (Puranjay Mohan) - Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr() kfunc to read xattr of cgroup's node (Song Liu) - Introduce kfuncs for read-only string opreations (Viktor Malik) - Implement show_fdinfo() for bpf_links (Tao Chen) - Reduce verifier's stack consumption (Yonghong Song) - Implement mprog API for cgroup-bpf programs (Yonghong Song) * tag 'bpf-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (192 commits) selftests/bpf: Migrate fexit_noreturns case into tracing_failure test suite selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching tracing programs to functions in deny list bpf: Add log for attaching tracing programs to functions in deny list bpf: Show precise rejected function when attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions bpf: Fix various typos in verifier.c comments bpf: Add third round of bounds deduction selftests/bpf: Test invariants on JSLT crossing sign selftests/bpf: Test cross-sign 64bits range refinement selftests/bpf: Update reg_bound range refinement logic bpf: Improve bounds when s64 crosses sign boundary bpf: Simplify bounds refinement from s32 selftests/bpf: Enable private stack tests for arm64 bpf, arm64: JIT support for private stack bpf: Move bpf_jit_get_prog_name() to core.c bpf, arm64: Fix fp initialization for exception boundary umd: Remove usermode driver framework bpf/preload: Don't select USERMODE_DRIVER selftests/bpf: Fix test dynptr/test_dynptr_memset_xdp_chunks failure selftests/bpf: Fix test dynptr/test_dynptr_copy_xdp failure selftests/bpf: Increase xdp data size for arm64 64K page size ...

bpf: Clean up individual BTF_ID code

2025-07-17T01:34:42Z

Use BTF_ID_LIST_SINGLE(a, b, c) instead of BTF_ID_LIST(a) BTF_ID(b, c) Signed-off-by: Feng Yang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710055419.70544-1-yangfeng59949@163.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: support for void/primitive __arg_untrusted global func params

2025-07-07T15:25:07Z

Allow specifying __arg_untrusted for void */char */int */long * parameters. Treat such parameters as PTR_TO_MEM|MEM_RDONLY|PTR_UNTRUSTED of size zero. Intended usage is as follows: int memcmp(char *a __arg_untrusted, char *b __arg_untrusted, size_t n) { bpf_for(i, 0, n) { if (a[i] - b[i]) // load at any offset is allowed return a[i] - b[i]; } return 0; } Allocate register id for ARG_PTR_TO_MEM parameters only when PTR_MAYBE_NULL is set. Register id for PTR_TO_MEM is used only to propagate non-null status after conditionals. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704230354.1323244-8-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: attribute __arg_untrusted for global function parameters

2025-07-07T15:25:06Z

Add support for PTR_TO_BTF_ID | PTR_UNTRUSTED global function parameters. Anything is allowed to pass to such parameters, as these are read-only and probe read instructions would protect against invalid memory access. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704230354.1323244-5-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: rdonly_untrusted_mem for btf id walk pointer leafs

2025-07-07T15:25:06Z

When processing a load from a PTR_TO_BTF_ID, the verifier calculates the type of the loaded structure field based on the load offset. For example, given the following types: struct foo { struct foo *a; int *b; } *p; The verifier would calculate the type of `p->a` as a pointer to `struct foo`. However, the type of `p->b` is currently calculated as a SCALAR_VALUE. This commit updates the logic for processing PTR_TO_BTF_ID to instead calculate the type of p->b as PTR_TO_MEM|MEM_RDONLY|PTR_UNTRUSTED. This change allows further dereferencing of such pointers (using probe memory instructions). Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704230354.1323244-3-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: add btf_type_is_i{32,64} helpers

2025-06-25T22:15:49Z

There are places in BPF code which check if a BTF type is an integer of particular size. This code can be made simpler by using helpers. Add new btf_type_is_i{32,64} helpers, and simplify code in a few files. (Suggested by Eduard for a patch which copy-pasted such a check [1].) v1 -> v2: * export less generic helpers (Eduard) * make subject less generic than in [v1] (Eduard) [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/7edb47e73baa46705119a23c6bf4af26517a640f.camel@gmail.com/ [v1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250624193655.733050-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625151621.1000584-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

sysfs: treewide: switch back to bin_attribute::read()/write()

2025-06-17T08:44:13Z

The bin_attribute argument of bin_attribute::read() is now const. This makes the _new() callbacks unnecessary. Switch all users back. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530-sysfs-const-bin_attr-final-v3-3-724bfcf05b99@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman