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7 daysbpf: Add unwind_goto and unwind_exit insnsAlexei Starovoitov
Rust Drop, C++ destructors and __attribute__((cleanup)) in C have to run when a panic or an exception passes through a frame. v1 [1] did it with a flag in r3 and 'if r3 != 0 goto pad' after the call. Three bugs that the bots found there had the same cause: r3 is an ordinary register, and JITs guessed the meaning from the shape of the code. Kumar suggested new insns instead [2]: unwind_goto pad BPF_JMP | BPF_JCOND, src_reg = BPF_UNWIND_GOTO unwind_exit BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT, src_reg = BPF_UNWIND_EXIT 'call foo; unwind_goto pad' goes to the pad when foo left with unwind_exit and falls through when it left with exit. No register says which one it was. In everything else unwind_exit is exit. llvm lowers unwinding to them [3]: ret exit invoke foo unwind pad call foo; unwind_goto pad resume r0 = 0; unwind_exit call _Unwind_RaiseException r0 = 0; unwind_exit invoke _Unwind_RaiseException goto pad In a function that returns 16 bytes it's 'r0 = 0; r2 = 0; unwind_exit'. Landing pads are ordinary blocks, so the verifier checks them like any other code. A pad that forgets to drop a lock or a reference is a leak on that path. There are no tables, no stack walk, no kfuncs, no BTF and nothing to do for libbpf and other loaders. In the verifier: - unwind_goto has to follow a call or callx of a subprog and cannot be a jump target. For cfg, liveness and the rest it's one more conditional jump, like may_goto. - How the callee left is one bit of the verifier state. It lives from the exit of the callee to the next insn. states_equal() looks at it, since the registers can be the same either way. - unwind_exit is rejected when unwind_goto doesn't follow the call. - A global subprog that has unwind_exit can leave either way. Both are explored after the call, like it's done for might_throw. - A sync callback cannot unwind. The helper that calls it doesn't expect that: bpf_loop() would go on. - unwind_exit of the main prog is exit, unless it's an extension. So it is in async and exception callbacks. The kernel calls them, and there is no frame to unwind to. - An extension leaves either way, like the subprog that it replaced. freplace is a jump, so the extension returns to the caller of the subprog. An extension that has unwind_exit can replace only a subprog that has it too. Otherwise there is no unwind_goto after the calls. - Of tracing progs only fentry can attach to a subprog or an extension that has unwind_exit. It would return to the trampoline that called it. - unwind_exit changes its return address, so the cpu mispredicts the return and runs what follows unwind_goto speculatively. Without CAP_PERFMON the verifier looks at that path too. - unwind_goto goes away together with a pad that turned out to be dead code. It stays when what follows it is dead code. The cpu predicts that the callee returns there, so 'goto pc-1' takes the place of the dead code. Otherwise its removal would move other code there. JITs don't emit a branch: unwind_goto: extable[n++] = { ret_addr - 1 -> pad } unwind_exit: my_ret_addr = bpf_unwind_target(my_ret_addr) epilogue So exit and the normal path after the call cost nothing. Every frame fixes only its own return address. There is no stack walk. The lookup is what the page fault handler does for bpf progs. The interpreter cannot do that, so the prog has to be JITed, and JITs opt in with bpf_jit_supports_unwind(). x86-64 and arm64 are in the next patches. BPF_JCOND is the same opcode as BPF_CALL_ARGS of the interpreter, and BPF_UNWIND_GOTO is the same number as BPF_PSEUDO_CALL. may_goto is gone by the time a prog is dumped, unwind_goto is not. bpf_insn_prepare_dump() tells them apart: a prog with unwind_goto is always JITed. Compared to v1 there is no BTF decl_tag and no 'r3 = 0' before every exit. Tail call and ld_abs are fine in a subprog that can unwind, since they leave it like exit does. unwind_exit doesn't set r0. An implicit definition of r0 would need special cases in backtracking, in liveness and in the check of the return value of the main prog. A plain 'r0 = 0' in front of it needs none. Rust rust-bpf [4] builds with that llvm as it is. The programs are built with -C panic=unwind. The panic handler prints the message and calls _Unwind_RaiseException(). exc_cleanup.rs panics three frames deep, with preemption disabled in one frame and rcu_read_lock held in another. All Drop impls run and the prog returns 0. scx_simple.rs is 2195 insns with 48 unwind_goto, 20 of them after callx, and 16 unwind_exit. With r3 it was 2216 insns. scx_cosmos.rs is 3694 insns with 68 and 18. It was 3716. C++ Exceptions work too. This compiles, loads and runs: struct rcu_guard { rcu_guard() { bpf_rcu_read_lock(); } ~rcu_guard() { bpf_rcu_read_unlock(); } }; static __noinline int inner(int len) { rcu_guard guard; if (len > 100) throw 1; return len; } SEC("tc") int prog(struct __sk_buff *skb) { try { return inner(skb->len); } catch (...) { return 42; } } It returns 64 for a packet of 64 bytes and 42 for a packet of 200 bytes. The destructor runs in both cases, otherwise the verifier would reject the prog. 'throw' is a jump to the pad with the destructor. 'catch' is unwind_goto: inner: w6 = w1 call bpf_rcu_read_lock if w6 s< 101 goto ret r1 = exc_obj ll *(u32 *)(r1 + 0) = 1 goto pad ret: call bpf_rcu_read_unlock w0 = w6 exit pad: call bpf_rcu_read_unlock r0 = 0 unwind_exit prog: w6 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 0) w1 = w6 call inner unwind_goto catch out: w0 = w6 exit catch: w6 = 42 goto out It needs -fexceptions -funwind-tables and four one line __cxa_*() functions, where __cxa_throw() calls _Unwind_RaiseException(). Every pad is entered whatever was thrown, so llvm takes catch (...) only. It's a selftest in patch 5. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20261018010246.1643877-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/DM7KR7J8VY2T.1CZIRUF6QRCWG@gmail.com/ [3] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/233649 [4] https://github.com/4ast/rust-bpf Suggested-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261020181320.1284798-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
10 daysbpf: Keep the symbols of a program until it has endedJosef Bacik
When the last reference to a program goes, __bpf_prog_put_noref() takes its symbols out of the kallsyms tree and frees its line info at once, and waits for the grace periods only with the rest. But the program may still be running: the link or the array it was called from is gone, the call is not over. search_bpf_extables() finds the exception table of a program by its symbol. A load that faults, and that the table is there to fix up, is fatal from then on: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead0000000006f8: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:0xffffffffc06008f6 It takes a program that is detached and closed on one CPU while it runs on another. Unwinders and bpf_prog_find_from_stack() do not know the program any more either, and the stack dump of a BPF stream reads the freed line info. Free the line info behind the grace periods the program needs, as it is done with the BTF that its text comes from. Remove the symbols in bpf_prog_free_deferred(), which runs behind them as well. The symbols are looked up under rcu_read_lock(), so the images and the program itself are freed one more grace period later. All that the program refers to is released when it was before. Fixes: 3dec541b2e63 ("bpf: Add support for BTF pointers to x86 JIT") Fixes: d7c431cafcb4 ("bpf: Add dump_stack() analogue to print to BPF stderr") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261017230950.802052-6-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
10 daysbpf: Don't let an extension reach further into the context than its targetAlexei Starovoitov
How large the context of a raw tracepoint, tracepoint or syscall program is depends on what the program is attached to, or is run with. bpf_probe_register(), perf_event_set_bpf_prog() and the test runs compare that with max_ctx_offset of the program. An extension of the program, or of one of its global functions, gets the same context. How far it reaches is noted in its own max_ctx_offset, which nobody looks at. On a tracepoint with one argument it reads the stack behind the arguments, in a test run the memory behind the context, or from NULL if there is none: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in bpf_prog_954b5d2051843629_ts28_ext_far+0x7e/0x113 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000def7b8 by task ts28/104 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in bpf_prog_954b5d2051843629_ts28_ext_far+0x7e/0x113 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810712c3e8 by task ts28/104 Refuse to attach an extension that reaches further than the program which it extends. A program that leaves the context to its extensions has to touch as much of it as they do. Fixes: be8704ff07d2 ("bpf: Introduce dynamic program extensions") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261017230950.802052-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
10 daysbpf: Count sleepable callbacks as sleepable map usersJosef Bacik
map->sleepable_refcnt tells bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() whether an inner map that is taken out of its outer map has to wait for an RCU Tasks Trace grace period as well. It counts the sleepable programs that use the outer map. The bpf_wq or bpf_task_work callback of a program that is not sleepable runs under rcu_read_lock_trace() only, and is not counted. Such a callback can look an inner map up and keep it while user space deletes it from the outer map. The inner map is freed behind a plain RCU grace period, under the callback: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in array_map_update_elem+0x6bc/0x7d0 Count a program with such a callback. The maps are bound before the verifier meets the callback, so raise the count of those that are bound when it does. Fixes: 8e83da9732d9 ("bpf: add bpf_wq_start") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261017163745.3341787-24-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
10 daysbpf: Keep a program until its bpf_wq callback has endedJosef Bacik
bpf_wq_work() runs the callback under rcu_read_lock_trace() only, since the callback may sleep. The program it belongs to need not be sleepable, and such a program is freed behind a plain RCU grace period. The reference that the bpf_wq holds is dropped when the map element goes, or when another callback is set, no matter whether the work is running. If that was the last reference the program is freed under the running callback, and the worker goes on in the freed JIT image: Oops: int3: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:0xffffffffc0600947 All it takes is to close the map and the program while the callback runs. Note in the program that it has a callback that runs sleepable, and wait for an RCU Tasks Trace grace period, which implies a plain one, before such a program is freed. Let bpf_wq_work() enter its read side critical section before it reads callback_fn. bpf_task_work holds a reference to the program until the callback is done. Fixes: 8e83da9732d9 ("bpf: add bpf_wq_start") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261017163745.3341787-23-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
10 daysbpf: Read the probe of a perf event under event_mutexJosef Bacik
For a perf event on a kprobe or uprobe event which was made in tracefs, bpf_get_kprobe_info() and bpf_get_uprobe_info() look the probe up by name in the list of dynamic events, and hand a pointer to its symbol or file name back to the caller. None of the callers holds event_mutex. The perf event keeps its trace event alive, nothing else. Other dynamic events are removed from the list and freed during the walk. And a probe which shares its event with other probes can be deleted while the event is in use, so even the probe which is found can be freed, together with the string, before the caller has measured and copied it. The result is a use-after-free in the walk, in strlen() and in the copy to user space, or a NULL pointer dereference. The readers are BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD and fdinfo of a perf link, for whoever holds a descriptor of the link, and BPF_TASK_FD_QUERY. The other side is anybody who may write to dynamic_events, kprobe_events or uprobe_events. Take event_mutex in bpf_get_perf_event_info() and give the caller a copy of the name, which it has to free. Fixes: 41bdc4b40ed6 ("bpf: introduce bpf subcommand BPF_TASK_FD_QUERY") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261017163745.3341787-10-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
11 daysbpf: Don't echo user-supplied map info fields back to userspaceDaniel Borkmann
Commit ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD") started copying struct bpf_map_info in from userspace in order to read the new hash and hash_size input fields. Before that, the kernel ignored the contents of the user buffer and returned a zeroed structure with only the output fields filled in. Some output fields are only set for certain maps: btf_id, btf_key_type_id and btf_value_type_id when the map has BTF (and btf_vmlinux_id for struct_ops maps, ifindex, netns_dev and netns_ino when the map is offloaded). For all other maps, these fields now return whatever userspace passed in before. This breaks userspace which reuses one bpf_map_info for several queries. Restore the original behavior by zeroing the structure and copying in only hash and hash_size from userspace before the output fields are filled in. Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD") Reported-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org> Reported-by: Tianyi Chen <hi@tychen.cc> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261016191635.662690-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
2026-10-03bpf: Treat load and store through a number as arena accessAlexei Starovoitov
There are no address spaces in Rust. LLVM emits plain loads and stores for arena memory, without cast_kern: r3 = 0x20 ll // R_BPF_64_64 .bss, libbpf puts it into arena r2 = *(u64 *)(r3 + 0) // R3 invalid mem access 'scalar' lock *(u64 *)(r2 + 8) += r1 Add BPF_F_ARENA_SCALAR flag of BPF_PROG_LOAD. When the program is loaded with it and has an arena treat ldx, stx, st and atomics through a number as arena access. It's as safe as access through PTR_TO_ARENA: JIT adds the base of arena to the low 32 bits of the address. The program has an arena only with CAP_BPF and CAP_PERFMON. Registers of the program are not changed, since Rust compares and stores the address after the access. bpf_do_misc_fixups() copies the low 32 bits into BPF_REG_AX and the access goes through it: r2 = *(u64 *)(r3 + 0) -> w12 = w3 r2 = *(u64 *)(r12 + 0) Constant blinding needs BPF_REG_AX for immediates and leaves insns that use BPF_REG_AX alone. So the immediate of st through a number is not blinded, the rest of the program is: *(u64 *)(r3 + 0) = 1 -> w12 = w3 *(u64 *)(r12 + 0) = 1 The same insn may see PTR_TO_ARENA on another path. It works for both. It's a flag, since a number is also what the verifier makes of a pointer that went away when the program has CAP_PERFMON: a ringbuf record after bpf_ringbuf_submit(), a pointer to the packet after bpf_skb_pull_data(). Programs in C that have an arena keep "invalid mem access 'scalar'" for such bugs. JIT tells with bpf_jit_supports_arena_scalar() that it takes BPF_REG_AX as the address of arena access. With other JITs the flag is rejected with -EOPNOTSUPP. x86 and arm64 do: - x86: the fault handler finds the register that holds the address through reg2pt_regs[]. Add BPF_REG_AX, r10 of x86, there. - arm64: nothing else is needed. The JIT takes any register as the address and the fault handler reads it by its number. Compile tested only. Any number is an address of arena, NULL and small numbers included, like it is for PTR_TO_ARENA: arena code in C dereferences NULL and relies on the fault being handled. Still rejected: - insn that sees a number on one path and a pointer that is not PTR_TO_ARENA on another. - numbers passed to helpers and kfuncs, except __arena arguments. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20261002124714.180012-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-10-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.3-rc5Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Conflicts: arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-10-02bpf: Add sleepable argument to bpf_alloc_pages()Emil Tsalapatis
bpf_alloc_pages() currently decides whether it may use the blocking page allocator from the current execution context alone. Let callers further restrict that choice by passing whether their context is sleepable. Use the blocking allocator only when both the caller and runtime context allow sleeping. Add __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL so this path can reclaim without invoking the OOM killer when the allocation is charged to another memcg. Existing non-sleepable callers retain the no-lock allocation behavior. Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261002105218.6171-3-emil@etsalapatis.com
2026-10-02bpf: Use an llist for page allocationsEmil Tsalapatis
bpf_map_alloc_pages() does not use its map argument. Storing allocated pages in an array also forces arena callers to allocate a separate pointer array. Expose the single-page allocator as bpf_alloc_page(), rename the bulk helper to bpf_alloc_pages(), and return bulk allocations through an llist using page->pcp_llist. Add bpf_free_pages() to safely release all pages remaining on such a list. Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261002105218.6171-2-emil@etsalapatis.com
2026-09-29bpf: Wait for an RCU tasks grace period before freeing trampoline progsFlorent Revest (Anthropic)
When a prog is detached from a trampoline, it is freed after an RCU grace period, or an RCU tasks trace one if it is sleepable. This covers the tasks that are running the prog, since the prog's enter helper takes the matching read lock before the prog is called. On a preemptible kernel, it doesn't cover a task that was preempted in the trampoline just before the enter helper. That task holds no lock yet, and it calls the prog after it was freed: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x3a5/0x3f0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000055040 by task candidate/110 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 110 Comm: candidate Not tainted 7.3.0-rc2-00014-g15071f2a1263-dirty #2 PREEMPT(full) Call Trace: <TASK> __bpf_prog_enter_recur+0x3a5/0x3f0 bpf_trampoline_6442509193+0x37/0xf1 __x64_sys_futex+0x9/0x410 do_syscall_64+0xb0/0x530 ... Wait for an RCU tasks grace period before the existing one when freeing a prog that was linked to a trampoline. An RCU tasks grace period only ends once the tasks that were preempted have run again, and bpf_tramp_image_put() already relies on it to free the image. It doesn't wait for tasks that sleep in the trampoline, the next commit takes care of those. Only progs that were linked to a trampoline can be called this way, so bpf_trampoline_add_prog() marks them and other progs are still freed as before. Fixes: e21aa341785c ("bpf: Fix fexit trampoline.") Reported-by: Junseo Lim <zirajs7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Florent Revest (Anthropic) <florent.revest@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260926135605.1217928-2-florent.revest@linux.dev Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/aqdrwVpanH3WGurX@omen-arch/
2026-09-25bpf: Add file descriptor interface for program streamsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
The existing BPF_PROG_STREAM_READ_BY_FD command only supports polling a program stream through repeated bpf() calls. It cannot block for new data or integrate with poll-based event loops. Add BPF_PROG_STREAM_OPEN to return a read-only, close-on-exec file descriptor for a selected program stream. Reads block by default and BPF_F_STREAM_NONBLOCK, the only accepted flag, provides non-blocking behavior. poll reports readable data and reports hangup once the program has been freed. Like pipes and sockets, the descriptor is not seekable and lseek fails with ESPIPE. A stream descriptor deliberately does not retain the program. Move each stream into a separately refcounted allocation so program teardown can mark it dead and wake descriptor users while outstanding descriptors drain buffered data safely. Readers sample the dead flag before looking for data, so EOF is reported only when the stream was already dead before it was found empty; data published right before teardown is never skipped. Only programs loaded through BPF_PROG_LOAD get streams. Classic BPF filters, JIT subprograms and shim programs never write to one, and kernel-side writers already resolve a subprogram to its main program, so those programs no longer carry stream state. Readiness needs its own counter. Stream capacity is charged before allocation and before an element is published to the stream log, so using that reservation as the read and poll condition can report readable data while no element exists: a blocking reader retries instead of sleeping and a lone non-blocking reader can see POLLIN followed by EAGAIN. Publish bytes with release ordering after adding elements to the lockless log, use acquire loads before consuming them or reporting readiness, limit each read to its readable snapshot and subtract only bytes actually copied. This keeps the aggregate count correct even when concurrent publishers update it out of publication order. With several readers on one stream, readiness remains advisory, as it is for pipes. The capacity counter is kept solely for enforcing the stream size limit. Wakeups are always deferred through irq_work. Stream writers run in whatever context the program runs in: NMI context for perf_event programs, sections with interrupts disabled inside bpf_spin_lock or rqspinlock critical sections since bpf_stream_vprintk() is KF_SPINLOCK_SAFE, and tracing programs attached anywhere in the kernel, including inside the wait queue and epoll code itself. Waking waiters directly from there can deadlock, and no cheap context check covers every case: on PREEMPT_RT, spinlock_t sections do not disable interrupts, so in_nmi() or irqs_disabled() cannot tell such a program apart from a benign one. Queue an irq_work item instead, as bpf_ringbuf does. Queue it only when a publication turns an empty stream readable. Readers block and pollers wait only after finding the stream empty, and the readable count never drops below zero because each read is bounded by its snapshot, so the first publication after such an observation is the one that makes the count positive, and it is the one that queues the wakeup. Publications into a stream that already holds data raise no interrupt, so a program that prints while nobody drains its stream pays for a single irq_work until the stream is emptied again. This matches bpf_ringbuf, which notifies only once the consumer has caught up. Blocking readers and level-triggered pollers re-check the readable count before waiting, so they cannot miss data, and edge-triggered epoll consumers drain until EAGAIN before waiting again, as epoll(7) requires. Synchronize pending work before releasing the final stream reference so the callback cannot outlive the stream, but only when the work was ever queued: irq_work_sync() waits for an RCU grace period on PREEMPT_RT and on architectures without an irq_work interrupt. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260925045536.1480933-3-memxor@gmail.com
2026-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.3-rc4Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Conflicts: kernel/bpf/helpers.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/cb_refs.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verifier.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-22bpf: Add bpf_call_rcu() kfuncPuranjay Mohan
BPF programs that manage their own objects have no way to run their own logic once an RCU grace period has elapsed. bpf_obj_drop() defers a free, but returning an index to an allocator or unpinning a resource once readers are done has no equivalent. sched_ext's BPF library works around this today by pushing freed nodes onto a list and having a userspace thread call membarrier(MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL) and then run a BPF program to reclaim them. Add: int bpf_call_rcu(struct bpf_rcu_head *rh, void *map, int (*callback)(struct bpf_map *map, void *key, void *value)); @rh is a struct bpf_rcu_head embedded in a value of @map, so the callback runs as callback(map, key, value) for the element it lives in and needs no cookie. A head can only be armed once, which bounds outstanding work by the number of elements. struct bpf_rcu_head holds the callback state inline rather than a pointer to it, as bpf_timer, bpf_wq and bpf_task_work do, because there is nothing to cancel and so nothing that has to outlive the map value. That avoids an allocation and a state machine on the arming path at the cost of 48 bytes per element. An RCU callback cannot be cancelled, so everything it touches has to stay alive until it runs: - The callback is the program's text, so arming takes a program reference as bpf_timer, bpf_wq and bpf_task_work do, dropped once the callback returns. bpf_prog_inc_not_zero() also fails the arm with -EBADF once the program is dying. - The map is held by that reference through used_maps. An inner map is not, so bpf_rcu_head is rejected in one. - The field is only accepted in BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY, whose elements are never freed individually. A hash element can be deleted and recycled while a callback is queued on it. - The head is disarmed before the callback runs so it can be armed again from there, which takes a new program reference before the running callback drops its own. Arming therefore fails with -EPERM once the map is held by neither a process nor bpffs. bpf_iter hands a program a writable pointer to the live element, which would let it overwrite a queued head, so bpf_iter_attach_map() rejects maps carrying one. The callback is verified non-sleepable even when the caller is sleepable, and RCU invokes it with BH disabled. Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260922200208.3203834-2-puranjay@kernel.org
2026-09-19bpf: Add infrastructure to support attaching struct_ops to cgroupsMartin KaFai Lau
This patch adds necessary infrastructure to attach a struct_ops map to a cgroup. The initial need was to support migrating the legacy BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCK_OPS to a struct_ops. Recently, there are other struct_ops use cases that need to attach struct_ops to a cgroup. For example, the recent BPF OOM and memcg discussion in LSFMMBPF 2026. The motivation is to create a consistent expectation for attaching struct_ops to cgroup instead of each subsystem creating its own infrastructure. This logic includes hierarchy expectation, ordering expectation, attachment API, and rcu gp. There is already an existing implementation for attaching multiple bpf progs to a cgroup. There are also tools built around it for querying. Attaching a struct_ops map (which is a group of bpf programs) could also adhere to a similar API and potentially reuse most of the existing implementation. A couple of ideas have been tried. One of them is to use mprog.c. In terms of the amount of changes, I eventually came to the same conclusion as in commit 120933984460 ("bpf: Implement mprog API on top of existing cgroup progs"). I then shifted the focus to reusing the current {update,compute,activate,purge}_effective_progs() which has the main logic that implements the mprog API. Since then, I tried to add a 'struct cgroup *cgroup' member to the existing 'struct bpf_struct_ops_link' and link_create will create a 'struct bpf_struct_ops_link' object to be stored in the pl->link. This turns out to have more changes on both cgroup.c and bpf_struct_ops.c than I like. This patch directly reuses the 'struct bpf_cgroup_link' which cgroup.c already understands. Add 'struct bpf_map *map' to 'struct bpf_cgroup_link'. In the future, as more subsystems are extended by struct_ops, we may consider to make 'struct bpf_map *map' as a primary citizen of a link like 'struct bpf_prog *prog' and directly add 'struct bpf_map *map' to the generic 'struct bpf_link'. The pl->link could be the traditional 'prog' link or the new 'map' link. The places that need to handle them differently have already been refactored into the new prog_list_*() added in the earlier patch. In those new prog_list_*(), this patch will check "pl->link && pl->link->map", learn that it is a 'map' link and handle it correctly. The bpf_prog_array also needs to handle that its item can store the traditional 'prog' or it can store a struct_ops map. The places that need to handle them differently have also been refactored into the new bpf_cgroup_array_*() added in the earlier patch. The two differences are: - different sentinel (dummy_bpf_prog in prog vs cfi_stub in struct_ops) - the array for struct_ops may need to go through different rcu gp. The bpf_cgroup_array_*() functions use the cgroup_bpf_attach_type (ie atype) to distinguish the array is storing prog or storing struct_ops map. This patch also implements a separate struct bpf_link_ops "cgroup_struct_ops_link_ops" to have a separate link_ops implementation that only handles the cgroup's struct_ops link. Questions: - Although this patch did not change it, it is not obvious to me how the replace_effective_progs() and purge_effective_progs() handle cases when there are existing BPF_F_PREORDER progs attached in the hlist. Misc notes: - CGROUP_TCP_SOCK_OPS is added to the 'enum cgroup_bpf_attach_type'. The actual implementation of the tcp_bpf_ops (a struct_ops) will be added in the next patch. - free_after_mult_rcu_gp is added to 'struct bpf_struct_ops' such that the bpf_prog_array can have a mix of sleepable and non-sleepable prog in a struct_ops. This can tell how the bpf_prog_array should be freed. - For a struct_ops that supports cgroup attachment, it does not need to implement its own reg/unreg function. reg/unreg to a cgroup is done by the common infrastructure added in this patch. - The cgroup's struct_ops link only supports BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI. This is enforced internally in cgroup_bpf_struct_ops_attach. This should be consistent with the current prog's link behavior in cgroup_bpf_link_attach. In the future, we may allow each subsystem to choose differently. - A cgroup_atype member is added to 'struct bpf_struct_ops'. When a subsystem struct_ops needs to support cgroup attachment, it needs to add a value to 'enum cgroup_bpf_attach_type' and then assign it to the newly added cgroup_atype member in the bpf_struct_ops. - During LINK_CREATE in syscall, the patch uses the same BPF_STRUCT_OPS (in attr->link_create.attach_type). The bpf_struct_ops_link_create learns the map and from the map it learns the st_ops. If the st_ops->cgroup_atype is not 0, it will create a cgroup's link. - When a subsystem registers a struct_ops that supports cgroup attachment, the struct_ops infrastructure will also ask the cgroup infrastructure to remember a few things. This is done by calling cgroup_bpf_struct_ops_register(). Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917200542.3689605-10-ameryhung@gmail.com
2026-09-19bpf: Make struct_ops tasks_rcu grace period optionalMartin KaFai Lau
bpf_struct_ops_map_free() currently waits for both a regular RCU grace period and a tasks RCU grace period for every struct_ops map through synchronize_rcu_mult(call_rcu, call_rcu_tasks). A regular RCU grace period is still required for all struct_ops maps because the struct_ops trampoline ksyms requires a rcu grace period (take a look at the list_del_rcu in __bpf_ksym_del). Add a map_free_pre_rcu() callback so the struct_ops map can remove ksyms before bpf_map_put() wait for the regular rcu grace period. The tasks RCU grace period is only needed by tcp_congestion_ops. Add free_after_tasks_rcu_gp only to struct bpf_struct_ops instead of the bpf_map. When CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=n, synchronize_rcu_tasks() is the same as synchronize_rcu(). Since all struct_ops maps now complete a regular RCU grace period before bpf_struct_ops_map_free() runs, skip the extra synchronize_rcu_tasks() call in this case. This cleanup prepares for a later patch that needs to support free_after_mult_rcu_gp. Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917200542.3689605-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
2026-09-17bpf: Skip unsettled links in link iteratorWeiming Shi
bpf_link_prime() inserts a link into link_idr before anon_inode_getfile() succeeds and before bpf_link_settle() publishes the ID in link->id. bpf_link_by_id() treats such an ID-zero link as unsettled, but the link iterator takes a reference without this check. If anon_inode_getfile() then fails, the creator removes the ID and frees its still-private link directly. The iterator is left with a dangling reference and its next bpf_link_put() accesses freed memory. Treat ID-zero entries as transient in bpf_link_get_curr_or_next(), just as bpf_link_by_id() does. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bpf_link_put Write of size 8 by task exp/384 Call Trace: bpf_link_put kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3372 bpf_link_seq_next kernel/bpf/link_iter.c:33 bpf_seq_read kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c:158 vfs_read fs/read_write.c:572 ksys_read fs/read_write.c:716 do_syscall_64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121 Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ... Fixes: 9f8836127308 ("bpf: Add bpf_link iterator") Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260914170206.170723-2-bestswngs@gmail.com
2026-09-13bpf: Fix u32 overflow issue in map batch operationsMasoud Aghasi
Several map batch operation implementations such as generic_map_lookup_batch() use calculations in the form of "values + cp * map->value_size" to compute the desired userspace memory address for reading or writing. This can overflow the u32 type (the result of "cp * map->value_size") when the map size exceeds 4GB. generic_map_lookup_batch() may corrupt values for some keys in userspace memory, and in some cases it mismatches values for some keys while still reporting success. Other batch operations may fail to delete or update some keys, or the syscall may return unexpected errors. Add size_t casts to prevent the affected offset and size calculations from overflowing. Fixes: cb4d03ab499d ("bpf: Add generic support for lookup batch op") Fixes: aa2e93b8e58e ("bpf: Add generic support for update and delete batch ops") Fixes: 057996380a42 ("bpf: Add batch ops to all htab bpf map") Signed-off-by: Masoud Aghasi <maghasi@disroot.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903082734.623904-1-maghasi@disroot.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-11bpf: Fix program BTF use-after-free in sleepable programsSanghyun Park
Object kfunc calls embed metadata owned by the program BTF. A sleepable program can remain active under Tasks Trace RCU after its last reference is dropped, while program teardown releases the BTF through ordinary RCU. The invocation can then dereference freed metadata in bpf_obj_new(). Move btf_put() into __bpf_prog_put_rcu(), the callback that frees the program. When teardown is deferred, that callback runs after the program's own grace period (Tasks Trace RCU for sleepable programs and ordinary RCU otherwise), so the BTF outlives every active invocation. The non-deferred path invokes the callback synchronously, so load-error cleanup stays direct. Fixes: 958cf2e273f0 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_obj_new") Signed-off-by: Sanghyun Park <sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260901014829.3504342-2-sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com
2026-09-03bpf: Mark syscall helpers as sleepableKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
bpf_sys_bpf() executes the bpf(2) syscall body, which can take mutexes, allocate with GFP_KERNEL, and wait for an RCU grace period. bpf_sys_close() reaches close_fd() and filp_close(), which can sleep as well. Both helpers are limited to BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, whose main program is sleepable. That does not make every callback sleepable: a syscall program can register a bpf_timer callback, and the verifier checks that callback in a non-sleepable context while retaining the syscall helper set. Without .might_sleep on the prototypes, such a callback can invoke bpf_sys_bpf() from hrtimer softirq context and trigger a scheduling-while-atomic failure. bpf_sys_close() is exposed through the same missing context check. Set .might_sleep on both prototypes so the existing helper-context check rejects them from timer callbacks and other atomic regions. Calls from the sleepable main body remain valid. Fixes: 79a7f8bdb159 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_sys_bpf() helper and program type.") Fixes: 3abea089246f ("bpf: Add bpf_sys_close() helper.") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903144433.1716731-10-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-08-14bpf: Populate mmap-able array map memory lazilySong Liu
An mmap-able BPF array map (BPF_F_MMAPABLE) has its backing memory vmalloc'ed up front at map creation time. array_map_mmap() then wired up the whole mapping eagerly via remap_vmalloc_range(), which calls vm_insert_page() for every page of the map. For large maps this makes every mmap() O(number of pages): an 8MiB map inserts 2048 PTEs per mmap() and tears them all down again on munmap(), even when user space only touches a few pages (or none at all). Populate the mapping lazily instead, the same way the arena map already does. array_map_mmap() now only performs the bounds check and returns, leaving the PTEs unpopulated; pages are inserted on demand by a new array_map_mmap_fault() handler. Because the memory is already resident, the fault handler simply resolves the vmalloc page and hands it to the fault path. This makes mmap() O(1), and munmap() proportional to the number of pages that were actually faulted in rather than to the size of the map. The handler is reached through a new optional ->map_mmap_fault callback. Maps that provide it get a vm_operations_struct with a .fault handler; maps that populate their mapping eagerly keep the one they had. Both share the same open/close callbacks, so the existing VMA accounting (VM_MAYWRITE write-active tracking, freeze handling) stays centralized rather than each map installing its own vm_operations_struct. Callers that want the pages populated up front can still request that explicitly with MAP_POPULATE. Kernel-side access to the map (via the vmalloc address) is unaffected. Time for one mmap()+munmap() of an 8MiB mmap-able array map: before after no MAP_POPULATE, no access 226us 1.1us no MAP_POPULATE, access all pages 236us 1341us MAP_POPULATE, no access 312us 493us MAP_POPULATE, access all pages 318us 519us Mapping without touching the data, which is what this change targets, gets ~160x cheaper. Faulting in the whole mapping one page at a time is more expensive than the eager remap_vmalloc_range() loop, so users that do touch every page should ask for MAP_POPULATE. Note that MAP_POPULATE is not free before this change either: it adds ~85us (226us => 312us) for no benefit, as the mapping is already fully populated. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260814155623.111565-1-song@kernel.org
2026-08-13bpf: Drop duplicate blank lines in kernel/bpf/Leon Hwang
There are many adjacent blank lines in kernel/bpf/ that have accumulated over time. Drop them for cleanup. No functional changes intended. Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260813152324.97937-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
2026-08-03bpf: Generate kfunc argument prototype at add-call timeAmery Hung
Kfunc argument checking re-derives each argument's kfunc_ptr_arg_type from BTF on every verification of a call in check_kfunc_args(). Now that get_kfunc_arg_type() is a function of the kfunc's BTF alone, it no longer inspects register state. The classification can be computed once when the call is added and cached. This is a step toward describing kfuncs with a bpf_func_proto and sharing the helper argument-checking path. Generate the classification at bpf_add_kfunc_call() time: - Extend struct bpf_func_proto to be able to describe a kfunc: widen arg_type[] and the arg_btf_id[]/arg_size[] union from 5 to MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS, since a kfunc may take up to 12 arguments (5 in registers, 7 on the stack). - Embed a bpf_func_proto in struct bpf_kfunc_desc, populated by gen_kfunc_arg_proto() which runs get_kfunc_arg_type() for each argument and stores the result in proto.arg_type[]. Grow the descriptor table's descs[] as a flexible array to not waste memory. - check_kfunc_args() reads the cached classification from meta->fn The KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX classification depends on the resolved program type, and for BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT that is the target program's type, which resolve_prog_type() reads from prog->aux->saved_dst_prog_type. That field is normally recorded later during verification in check_attach_btf_id(), after bpf_add_kfunc_call() has run. Record saved_dst_prog_type and saved_dst_attach_type from dst_prog at program load time in bpf_prog_load() so the resolved type is available at add-call time without reordering check_attach_btf_id(). This keeps e.g. an freplace of an XDP program calling bpf_xdp_metadata_rx_hash() classifying its struct xdp_md * argument as context. The classification result is unchanged; it is only computed earlier and cached. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260801074633.1595644-19-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-08-03bpf: Rename ARG_CONST_SIZE{,_OR_ZERO} to ARG_MEM_SIZE{,_OR_ZERO}Amery Hung
ARG_CONST_SIZE does not require a constant: check_mem_size_reg() accepts any bounded scalar and verifies the memory access against its maximum (reg_umax). Rename ARG_CONST_SIZE and ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO to ARG_MEM_SIZE and ARG_MEM_SIZE_OR_ZERO to reflect that. ARG_CONST_ALLOC_ SIZE_OR_ZERO, which does require a constant, is left unchanged. Pure rename, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260801074633.1595644-10-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-30bpf: Log error code on trampoline unlink failureXu Xin
Replace silent WARN_ON_ONCE with WARN_ONCE that prints the actual error code from bpf_trampoline_unlink_prog(). This aids debugging of race conditions during link teardown, while keeping the warning rate limited to avoid log flooding. This will be very helpful for speeding up trouble-shooting of some crash UAF due to bpf_trampoline_unlink_prog failures. No change to unlink behavior. Signed-off-by: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Acked-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260729141159128mEJmS_aujBKr-cBu1p_UI@zte.com.cn
2026-07-30bpf: Fix potential UAF when reading bpf link infoPu Lehui
In bpf_link_show_fdinfo and bpf_link_get_info_by_fd, link->prog is accessed without holding any locks. If the prog is concurrently replaced via bpf_link_update, the old prog can be freed, leading to a potential UAF issue. Fix this by accessing link->prog under RCU protection to safely fetch the pointer and guarantee its lifetime while reading its fields. Fixes: 0c991ebc8c69 ("bpf: Implement bpf_prog replacement for an active bpf_cgroup_link") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Reviewed-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/f87b53c0-8f00-45a6-82db-8242fa9b143f@huaweicloud.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260728025457.2814876-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
2026-07-09bpf: Fix security_bpf_map_create error handlingDaniel Borkmann
Commit 5816bf4273ed ("lsm,selinux: Add LSM blob support for BPF objects") made the LSM hook wrappers for BPF object creation clean up the LSM state internally upon denial, e.g. security_bpf_map_create() internally calls security_bpf_map_free() when the bpf_map_create hook returns an error. map_create() however still routes a denial to its free_map_sec label, which invokes security_bpf_map_free() a second time, so the bpf_map_free hook fires twice for a single denied map. In-tree LSMs are unaffected in practice since the blob kfree() inside security_bpf_map_free() is NULL-safe and idempotent and none of them implement bpf_map_free, but a BPF LSM program attached to that hook observes double invocations. Route the denial to free_map instead. Fixes: 5816bf4273ed ("lsm,selinux: Add LSM blob support for BPF objects") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260709073422.379247-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08libbpf: Drop in-loader metadata check for load-time verificationDaniel Borkmann
The signed gen_loader used to police its own metadata map from within BPF: emit_signature_match() read the kernel-cached map->sha[] back through hardcoded struct bpf_map offsets and compared it against a hash that compute_sha_update_offsets() baked into the signed instructions, after a BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD round-trip to populate map->sha[]. The kernel now verifies the metadata at BPF_PROG_LOAD time by folding the frozen contents of the loader's exclusive fd_array maps into the signature, so the loader no longer checks anything itself. Generated loaders thus carry no verification logic of their own anymore: Nothing in the signing chain depends on emitted loader bytecode doing the right thing. On the loading side, skel_internal.h now sets fd_array_cnt for a signed load so the kernel scans fd_array for the exclusive metadata map - still frozen, as the kernel requires - and the BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD round-trip to populate map->sha[] is gone. The struct bpf_map layout BUILD_BUG_ON()s on the kernel side are removed as well: they only pinned the ABI for the in-BPF read of map->sha[] that is no longer needed. Same for the map->excl member. Note: gen_hash is retained; it still marks a loader as signed so an untrusted host cannot re-dimension maps or override initial values now covered by the signature. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708075343.358712-4-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Verify signed loader metadata at load timeDaniel Borkmann
A signed gen_loader program carries the programs, maps and relocations it installs in a metadata array map. The loader instructions are covered by the PKCS#7 signature, but the metadata map is not: Today the loader compares the map contents from within BPF against a hash baked into its (signed) instructions, using the kernel-cached map hash. The kernel itself never actually attests that the metadata the loader installs is the metadata that was signed. This split is the core of the long-standing objection to the BPF signing scheme from the LSM / integrity side: the integrity check of a light skeleton only completes once the loader program runs, that is, after the security_bpf_prog_load() hook, so at admission time an LSM observes a program whose payload has not yet been verified. Auditing the chain link is also not a purely cryptographic operation: whoever signs or reviews an lskel has to disassemble the loader's preamble to convince themselves that the embedded hash check is present and correct [0][1]. Two acceptable fixes were identified in those threads: Complete the integrity check before the admission hook fires, or add a second hook that collects the verification result after the loader ran [2]. Covering both the loader and its maps directly with the PKCS#7 signature is what Blaise Boscaccy's patchsets proposed in several forms. Let's implement the former, without growing the UAPI, and in particular as a single unified scheme where the signature spans the raw bytes rather than derived hashes. A signed loader binds its metadata map(s) through the existing fd_array, and an exclusive map is already bound to a program digest (excl_prog_hash). So when a signature is present, collect the exclusive maps from fd_array and append their frozen contents to the instructions before verification: The signature now covers insns || metadata_0 || metadata_1 || [...] in the fd_array order, and verification completes in bpf_check(), once the fd_array maps are resolved into used_maps, before the LSM admission hook and the rest of verification. A program is either BPF_SIG_UNSIGNED or BPF_SIG_VERIFIED, with nothing in between. While folding the fd_array maps, a non-exclusive map bound to a signed program is rejected, so every map folded into the signature is exclusive. A signed loader that fails to cover its metadata thus does not load, and BPF_SIG_VERIFIED always means the instructions and every exclusive map are authentic. The maps must be frozen so the hashed bytes cannot change before the loader runs; the map <-> program digest binding is enforced by the verifier for every used map. Binding maps through fd_array_cnt makes the verifier resolve and excl-check them (excl_prog_sha vs prog->digest) before it would otherwise compute the digest, so compute prog->digest up front in bpf_check(), over the unmodified instructions the signature covers, for a load that folds metadata. Unsigned programs are not affected by the signature path; for them the LSM admission hook merely moves below fd_array resolution, with minimal bounded work in between. Note, signed loaders generated by older libbpf/ bpftool versions need to be regenerated; some of the recent fixes we've had on the signed loader side require the latter already to close gaps. Finally, some remarks around the security_bpf_prog_load() placement given there was discussion on whether a new hook is needed or the existing security_bpf_prog() hook should be reused [3]: For a new hook it would mean that just for loading a single BPF program it has to pass through four layers of LSM hooks: 1) security_bpf (cmd=PROG_LOAD): for gating various bpf subcmds 2) security_bpf_prog_load: historical admission hook (CAP/token, prog_type, attach point), pre-verification 3) security_bpf_prog_verify_signature: newly asked admission hook, same role as 2), plus the BPF signature verdict 4) security_bpf_prog: gate handing the prog fd back to userspace, verification done & signature verified The use-cases of 2) and 3) conflate, thus BPF community prefers to just keep a total of 3 LSM hooks (as-is today): 3) makes 2) incoherent given they are the /same class/ of hook, that is, access-control admission on the load and split only by _what_ they can see. Worse, with the split, for a signed BPF program security_bpf_prog_load 2) admits a program whose signature has not been checked, so a policy gating at 2) is structurally unable to express "admit only verified" and every such policy is forced onto 3) *anyway*. In other words, one doesn't get two complementary hooks, but rather, one real admission hook aka 3) plus a now-degraded /legacy/ hook 2) that can't answer the question operators actually want to ask. Reusing security_bpf_prog() 4) for admission is no alternative either: it fires only after the entire verifier (and JIT) pipeline ran, so denying a not-yet-verified program at that point burns exactly the work a denial is supposed to avoid, and by then the program has an id assigned and the kallsyms/perf/audit load events fired. Policies are free to also consume the signature verdict at 4), but admission control belongs into security_bpf_prog_load(). Hence the latter remains the only admission hook, merely moved past signature verification; with moving large allocations further down into the BPF verifier, there is now only minimal work between the old and new location: The preparation work in bpf_check() is reordered such that only the minimally necessary setup happens up front: Allocating the env, initializing the verifier log and resolving the fd_array that a signed BPF metadata map needs. The worst case allocation up until security_bpf_prog_load() is ~90K which is the env itself (~54K) plus the continuous fd_array cache (at most 32K). The insn_aux_data array is moved into a later stage in the verification. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/2f71d6c03698eb17d51f7247efde777627ee578a.camel@HansenPartnership.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ecf0521ed302db672672ebfbc670ecfba36a6e00.camel@HansenPartnership.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/88703f00d5b7a779728451008626efa45e42db3d.camel@HansenPartnership.com [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/DJOFY21DYUI4.19WKQ3NPZ4H5R@gmail.com [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708075343.358712-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-06-21bpf: Fix BPF_PROG_ASSOC_STRUCT_OPS last field checkThiébaud Weksteen
When struct prog_assoc_struct_ops was added, BPF_PROG_ASSOC_STRUCT_OPS_LAST_FIELD referenced prog_fd instead of the actual last field, flags. Fixes: b5709f6d26d6 ("bpf: Support associating BPF program with struct_ops") Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260618040934.4113938-1-tweek@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-14bpf: Add support to specify uprobe_multi target via file descriptorJiri Olsa
Allow uprobe_multi link to identify the target binary by an already opened file descriptor. Adding new BPF_F_UPROBE_MULTI_PATH_FD flag and the path_fd field for the attr.link_create.uprobe_multi struct. When the flag is set, we resolve the target from path_fd, without the flag, we keep the existing string path behavior. I don't see a use case for supporting O_PATH file descriptors, because we need to read the binary first to get probes offsets, so I'm using the CLASS(fd, f), which fails for O_PATH fds. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4 Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260611114230.950379-4-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-09bpf: Cancel special fields on map value recycleJustin Suess
Map update and delete paths currently call bpf_obj_free_fields() when a value is being replaced or recycled. That makes field destruction depend on the context of the update/delete operation. For tracing programs this can include NMI context, where referenced kptr destructors, uptr unpinning, and graph root destruction are not generally safe. Introduce bpf_obj_cancel_fields() for the reusable-value path. It only performs NMI-safe cleanup for timer, workqueue, and task_work fields. Fields that need full destruction are left attached to the recycled value and are destroyed by the final cleanup path instead. Switch array and hashtab update/delete/recycle paths to this cancel helper. Keep bpf_obj_free_fields() for final map destruction and for bpf_mem_alloc destructors. Preallocated hashtabs do not have allocator destructors, so teardown continues to walk the normal and extra elements and fully destroy their fields. This deliberately relaxes the eager-free semantics of map update/delete for special fields. Programs that relied on a recycled map slot becoming empty immediately after update/delete were relying on behavior that cannot be implemented safely from every BPF execution context without offloading arbitrary destructors. There is a chance this change breaks programs making assumptions regarding the eager freeing of fields. If so, we can relax semantics to cancellation only when irqs_disabled() is true in the future. However, theoretically, map values that get reused eagerly already have weaker guarantees as parallel users can recreate freed fields before the new element becomes visible again. Fixes: 14a324f6a67e ("bpf: Wire up freeing of referenced kptr") Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260609202548.3571690-3-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-07bpf: Add support for tracing_multi link sessionJiri Olsa
Adding support to use session attachment with tracing_multi link. Adding new BPF_TRACE_FSESSION_MULTI program attach type, that follows the BPF_TRACE_FSESSION behaviour but on the tracing_multi link. Such program is called on entry and exit of the attached function and allows to pass cookie value from entry to exit execution. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260606123955.345967-16-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-07bpf: Add support for tracing multi linkJiri Olsa
Adding new link to allow to attach program to multiple function BTF IDs. The link is represented by struct bpf_tracing_multi_link. To configure the link, new fields are added to bpf_attr::link_create to pass array of BTF IDs; struct { __aligned_u64 ids; __u32 cnt; } tracing_multi; Each BTF ID represents function (BTF_KIND_FUNC) that the link will attach bpf program to. We use previously added bpf_trampoline_multi_attach/detach functions to attach/detach the link. The linkinfo/fdinfo callbacks will be implemented in following changes. Note this is supported only for archs (x86_64) with ftrace direct and have single ops support. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS && CONFIG_HAVE_SINGLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_OPS Note using sort_r (instead of plain sort) in check_dup_ids, because we will use the swap callback in following changes. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260606123955.345967-14-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-07bpf: Add multi tracing attach typesJiri Olsa
Adding new program attach types multi tracing attachment: BPF_TRACE_FENTRY_MULTI BPF_TRACE_FEXIT_MULTI and their base support in verifier code. Programs with such attach type will use specific link attachment interface coming in following changes. This was suggested by Andrii some (long) time ago and turned out to be easier than having special program flag for that. Bpf programs with such types have 'bpf_multi_func' function set as their attach_btf_id and keep module reference when it's specified by attach_prog_fd. They are also accepted as sleepable programs during verification, and the real validation for specific BTF_IDs/functions will happen during the multi link attachment in following changes. Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260606123955.345967-11-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-07bpf: Factor fsession link to use struct bpf_tramp_nodeJiri Olsa
Now that we split trampoline attachment object (bpf_tramp_node) from the link object (bpf_tramp_link) we can use bpf_tramp_node as fsession's fexit attachment object and get rid of the bpf_fsession_link object. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260606123955.345967-10-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-07bpf: Add struct bpf_tramp_node objectJiri Olsa
Adding struct bpf_tramp_node to decouple the link out of the trampoline attachment info. At the moment the object for attaching bpf program to the trampoline is 'struct bpf_tramp_link': struct bpf_tramp_link { struct bpf_link link; struct hlist_node tramp_hlist; u64 cookie; } The link holds the bpf_prog pointer and forces one link - one program binding logic. In following changes we want to attach program to multiple trampolines but we want to keep just one bpf_link object. Splitting struct bpf_tramp_link into: struct bpf_tramp_link { struct bpf_link link; struct bpf_tramp_node node; }; struct bpf_tramp_node { struct bpf_link *link; struct hlist_node tramp_hlist; u64 cookie; }; The 'struct bpf_tramp_link' defines standard single trampoline link and 'struct bpf_tramp_node' is the attachment trampoline object with pointer to the bpf_link object. This will allow us to define link for multiple trampolines, like: struct bpf_tracing_multi_link { struct bpf_link link; ... int nodes_cnt; struct bpf_tracing_multi_node nodes[] __counted_by(nodes_cnt); }; Cc: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260606123955.345967-9-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-05bpf: Expose signature verdict via bpf_prog_auxKP Singh
BPF_PROG_LOAD verifies the loader signature but does not record the outcome on the BPF program. [BPF] LSMs and audit can read attr->signature and attr->keyring_id to infer "was this signed, and if so, against which keyring". Add prog->aux->sig (verdict + keyring_{type,serial}), populated by bpf_prog_load before the LSM hook. keyring_type classifies the keyring the load referenced (builtin, secondary, platform or user), while keyring_serial records the serial of the keyring the signature was actually validated against. System keyrings carry a pseudo key pointer with no user-visible serial and are reported as 0, as are unsigned loads. Failed verifications reject the load before the hook runs, so it observes only either UNSIGNED or VERIFIED. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605213518.544262-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-05bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_prog_infoLeon Hwang
Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_prog_info, they won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero(). pahole -C bpf_prog_info ./vmlinux struct bpf_prog_info { ... __u32 attach_btf_obj_id; /* 220 4 */ __u32 attach_btf_id; /* 224 4 */ /* size: 232, cachelines: 4, members: 38 */ /* sum members: 224 */ /* sum bitfield members: 1 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 31 bits */ /* padding: 4 */ /* forced alignments: 9 */ /* last cacheline: 40 bytes */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1] Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to offsetofend(struct bpf_prog_info, attach_btf_id). And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_prog_info. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/ Fixes: aba64c7da983 ("bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo") Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-3-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-05bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_map_infoLeon Hwang
Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_map_info, they won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero(). pahole -C bpf_map_info ./vmlinux struct bpf_map_info { ... __u64 hash __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 88 8 */ __u32 hash_size; /* 96 4 */ /* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 18 */ /* padding: 4 */ /* forced alignments: 1 */ /* last cacheline: 40 bytes */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1] Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to offsetofend(struct bpf_map_info, hash_size). And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_map_info. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/ Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD") Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-05bpf: Allow special fields in resizable hashtabMykyta Yatsenko
Add support for timers, workqueues, task work, spin locks and kptrs. Without this, users needing deferred callbacks, BPF_F_LOCK, or refcounted kernel pointers in a dynamically-sized map have no option - fixed-size htab is the only map supporting these field types. Resizable hashtab should offer the same capability. kptr semantics under in-place updates are identical to array map. Properly clean up BTF record fields on element delete and map teardown by wiring up bpf_obj_free_fields through a memory allocator destructor, matching the pattern used by htab for non-prealloc maps. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605-rhash-v7-6-5b8e05f8630d@meta.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-05bpf: Implement resizable hashmap basic functionsMykyta Yatsenko
Use rhashtable_lookup_likely() for lookups, rhashtable_remove_fast() for deletes, and rhashtable_lookup_get_insert_fast() for inserts. Updates modify values in place under RCU rather than allocating a new element and swapping the pointer (as regular htab does). This trades read consistency for performance: concurrent readers may see partial updates. BPF_F_LOCK support and special-field handling (timers, kptrs, etc.) follow in a later commit. Initialize rhashtable with bpf_mem_alloc element cache. Require BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC. Limit max_entries to 2^31. Free elements via rhashtable_free_and_destroy(). Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605-rhash-v7-4-5b8e05f8630d@meta.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-01libbpf: Reject non-exclusive metadata maps in the signed loaderKP Singh
The loader verifies map->sha against the metadata hash in its instructions. map->sha is calculated when BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD is called on the frozen map. While the map is frozen, the /signed loader/ must also ensure the map is exclusive, as, without exclusivity (which a hostile host could just omit when loading the loader), another BPF program with map access can mutate the contents afterwards, so the check passes on stale data. With the extra check as part of the signed loader, it now refuses to move on with map->sha validation if the host set it up wrongly. Fixes: fb2b0e290147 ("libbpf: Update light skeleton for signing") Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260601150248.394863-4-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-06-01bpf: Drop redundant hash_buf from map_get_hash operationDaniel Borkmann
bpf_map_get_info_by_fd() is the only caller of the ->map_get_hash and always invokes it with hash_buf == map->sha and hash_buf_size of SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE. array_map_get_hash() in turn lets sha256() write the digest directly into that buffer (map->sha) and then performs a trailing memcpy(), which evaluates to memcpy(map->sha, map->sha, 32): a redundant self-copy. The hash_buf_size argument was never used at all. Simplify this a bit, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260601150248.394863-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-05-31bpf: Fix security_bpf_prog_load() error handlingPaul Moore
If security_bpf_prog_load() fails there is no need to call into security_bpf_prog_free() as the LSM will handle the cleanup of any partial LSM state before returning to the caller with an error. Thankfully this isn't an issue with any of the existing code as the LSMs which currently provide BPF hook callback implementations don't allocate any internal state, but this is something we want to fix for potential future users. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260523160025.16363-2-paul@paul-moore.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-05-31bpf: fix BPF_PROG_QUERY OOB write and cgroup backward compatYuyang Huang
BPF_PROG_QUERY writes back the 'query.revision' field unconditionally to userspace. If userspace passes a smaller 'bpf_attr' structure (e.g. 40 bytes, which was the layout before the addition of 'query.revision'), the kernel performs an out-of-bounds write. Fix this by propagating the user-provided attribute size 'uattr_size' down to the cgroup query handlers, and conditionally skipping writing the revision field to userspace when the provided buffer size is insufficient. query.revision in bpf_mprog_query is structurally identical to the cgroup case: a late tail field, written unconditionally. But the backward-compat hazard is not the same. The min-historical-size test is per command, and bpf_mprog_query only serves attach types that were born with revision in the struct: - tcx_prog_query -> BPF_TCX_INGRESS/EGRESS - netkit_prog_query -> BPF_NETKIT_PRIMARY/PEER tcx, netkit, the revision field, and bpf_mprog_query itself all landed in the same v6.6 merge window (053c8e1f235d added the mprog query API + revision; tcx in e420bed02507, netkit in 35dfaad7188c). There has never been a tcx/netkit BPF_PROG_QUERY userspace that doesn't know about revision. So for these commands the minimum legitimate struct already covers offset 56-64 — no old binary can be broken here. Contrast with cgroup: BPF_PROG_QUERY on cgroup attach types shipped in 2017; revision write-back was bolted on years later (120933984460). That path has a real population of pre-revision callers. Fixes: 120933984460 ("bpf: Implement mprog API on top of existing cgroup progs") Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <yuyanghuang@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260531075600.4058207-2-yuyanghuang@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-05-28bpf: Fix race between bpf_map_new_fd() and close_fd()Leon Hwang
Because there is time gap between bpf_map_new_fd() and close_fd(), a concurrent thread is able to close the new fd and opens a new, unrelated file with the exact same fd number. Thereafter, this close_fd() might inadvertently close the unrelated file. To avoid such regression, do finalize log before security_bpf_map_create(). However, in order to achieve it, move bpf_get_file_flag(), security_bpf_map_create(), bpf_map_alloc_id(), and bpf_map_new_fd() from __map_create() to map_create(). And, rename __map_create() to map_create_alloc() meanwhile. Then, in order to reuse the map and token when all checks pass in map_create_alloc(), pass "struct bpf_map **" and "struct bpf_token **" to map_create_alloc(). Fixes: 49f9b2b2a18c ("bpf: Add syscall common attributes support for map_create") Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260521142909.95818-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-05-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.1-rc5Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-05-18bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_common_attr using offsetofendLeon Hwang
Because of the 8-byte alignment, the compiler will pad struct bpf_common_attr to 24 bytes. That said, sizeof(attr_common) is 24 instead of 20. When check tail zero using sizeof(attr_common) in bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero(), there will be 4 bytes that won't be checked. To also check the padding 4 bytes, replace sizeof(attr_common) with offsetofend(struct bpf_common_attr, log_true_size). Fixes: f28771c0691b ("bpf: Extend BPF syscall with common attributes support") Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260518145446.6794-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>