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<title>bpf: Make remote_port field in struct bpf_sk_lookup 16-bit wide</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T17:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Sitnicki</name>
<email>jakub@cloudflare.com</email>
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<published>2022-02-09T18:43:32+00:00</published>
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commit 9a69e2b385f443f244a7e8b8bcafe5ccfb0866b4 upstream.

remote_port is another case of a BPF context field documented as a 32-bit
value in network byte order for which the BPF context access converter
generates a load of a zero-padded 16-bit integer in network byte order.

First such case was dst_port in bpf_sock which got addressed in commit
4421a582718a ("bpf: Make dst_port field in struct bpf_sock 16-bit wide").

Loading 4-bytes from the remote_port offset and converting the value with
bpf_ntohl() leads to surprising results, as the expected value is shifted
by 16 bits.

Reduce the confusion by splitting the field in two - a 16-bit field holding
a big-endian integer, and a 16-bit zero-padding anonymous field that
follows it.

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220209184333.654927-2-jakub@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a69e2b385f443f244a7e8b8bcafe5ccfb0866b4 upstream.

remote_port is another case of a BPF context field documented as a 32-bit
value in network byte order for which the BPF context access converter
generates a load of a zero-padded 16-bit integer in network byte order.

First such case was dst_port in bpf_sock which got addressed in commit
4421a582718a ("bpf: Make dst_port field in struct bpf_sock 16-bit wide").

Loading 4-bytes from the remote_port offset and converting the value with
bpf_ntohl() leads to surprising results, as the expected value is shifted
by 16 bits.

Reduce the confusion by splitting the field in two - a 16-bit field holding
a big-endian integer, and a 16-bit zero-padding anonymous field that
follows it.

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220209184333.654927-2-jakub@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Make dst_port field in struct bpf_sock 16-bit wide</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T17:27:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Sitnicki</name>
<email>jakub@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-30T11:55:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4421a582718ab81608d8486734c18083b822390d ]

Menglong Dong reports that the documentation for the dst_port field in
struct bpf_sock is inaccurate and confusing. From the BPF program PoV, the
field is a zero-padded 16-bit integer in network byte order. The value
appears to the BPF user as if laid out in memory as so:

  offsetof(struct bpf_sock, dst_port) + 0  &lt;port MSB&gt;
                                      + 8  &lt;port LSB&gt;
                                      +16  0x00
                                      +24  0x00

32-, 16-, and 8-bit wide loads from the field are all allowed, but only if
the offset into the field is 0.

32-bit wide loads from dst_port are especially confusing. The loaded value,
after converting to host byte order with bpf_ntohl(dst_port), contains the
port number in the upper 16-bits.

Remove the confusion by splitting the field into two 16-bit fields. For
backward compatibility, allow 32-bit wide loads from offsetof(struct
bpf_sock, dst_port).

While at it, allow loads 8-bit loads at offset [0] and [1] from dst_port.

Reported-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220130115518.213259-2-jakub@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4421a582718ab81608d8486734c18083b822390d ]

Menglong Dong reports that the documentation for the dst_port field in
struct bpf_sock is inaccurate and confusing. From the BPF program PoV, the
field is a zero-padded 16-bit integer in network byte order. The value
appears to the BPF user as if laid out in memory as so:

  offsetof(struct bpf_sock, dst_port) + 0  &lt;port MSB&gt;
                                      + 8  &lt;port LSB&gt;
                                      +16  0x00
                                      +24  0x00

32-, 16-, and 8-bit wide loads from the field are all allowed, but only if
the offset into the field is 0.

32-bit wide loads from dst_port are especially confusing. The loaded value,
after converting to host byte order with bpf_ntohl(dst_port), contains the
port number in the upper 16-bits.

Remove the confusion by splitting the field into two 16-bit fields. For
backward compatibility, allow 32-bit wide loads from offsetof(struct
bpf_sock, dst_port).

While at it, allow loads 8-bit loads at offset [0] and [1] from dst_port.

Reported-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220130115518.213259-2-jakub@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix comment for helper bpf_current_task_under_cgroup()</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:59:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hengqi Chen</name>
<email>hengqi.chen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-10T15:53:35+00:00</published>
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commit 58617014405ad5c9f94f464444f4972dabb71ca7 upstream.

Fix the descriptions of the return values of helper bpf_current_task_under_cgroup().

Fixes: c6b5fb8690fa ("bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (42-50)")
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220310155335.1278783-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 58617014405ad5c9f94f464444f4972dabb71ca7 upstream.

Fix the descriptions of the return values of helper bpf_current_task_under_cgroup().

Fixes: c6b5fb8690fa ("bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (42-50)")
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220310155335.1278783-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Adjust BPF stack helper functions to accommodate skip &gt; 0</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:59:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T18:20:41+00:00</published>
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commit ee2a098851bfbe8bcdd964c0121f4246f00ff41e upstream.

Let's say that the caller has storage for num_elem stack frames.  Then,
the BPF stack helper functions walk the stack for only num_elem frames.
This means that if skip &gt; 0, one keeps only 'num_elem - skip' frames.

This is because it sets init_nr in the perf_callchain_entry to the end
of the buffer to save num_elem entries only.  I believe it was because
the perf callchain code unwound the stack frames until it reached the
global max size (sysctl_perf_event_max_stack).

However it now has perf_callchain_entry_ctx.max_stack to limit the
iteration locally.  This simplifies the code to handle init_nr in the
BPF callstack entries and removes the confusion with the perf_event's
__PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY which sets init_nr to 0.

Also change the comment on bpf_get_stack() in the header file to be
more explicit what the return value means.

Fixes: c195651e565a ("bpf: add bpf_get_stack helper")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/30a7b5d5-6726-1cc2-eaee-8da2828a9a9c@oracle.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220314182042.71025-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Based-on-patch-by: Eugene Loh &lt;eugene.loh@oracle.com&gt;
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commit ee2a098851bfbe8bcdd964c0121f4246f00ff41e upstream.

Let's say that the caller has storage for num_elem stack frames.  Then,
the BPF stack helper functions walk the stack for only num_elem frames.
This means that if skip &gt; 0, one keeps only 'num_elem - skip' frames.

This is because it sets init_nr in the perf_callchain_entry to the end
of the buffer to save num_elem entries only.  I believe it was because
the perf callchain code unwound the stack frames until it reached the
global max size (sysctl_perf_event_max_stack).

However it now has perf_callchain_entry_ctx.max_stack to limit the
iteration locally.  This simplifies the code to handle init_nr in the
BPF callstack entries and removes the confusion with the perf_event's
__PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY which sets init_nr to 0.

Also change the comment on bpf_get_stack() in the header file to be
more explicit what the return value means.

Fixes: c195651e565a ("bpf: add bpf_get_stack helper")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/30a7b5d5-6726-1cc2-eaee-8da2828a9a9c@oracle.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220314182042.71025-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Based-on-patch-by: Eugene Loh &lt;eugene.loh@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add get_func_[arg|ret|arg_cnt] helpers</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T17:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-08T19:32:44+00:00</published>
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Adding following helpers for tracing programs:

Get n-th argument of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_arg(void *ctx, u32 n, u64 *value)

Get return value of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_ret(void *ctx, u64 *value)

Get arguments count of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_arg_cnt(void *ctx)

The trampoline now stores number of arguments on ctx-8
address, so it's easy to verify argument index and find
return value argument's position.

Moving function ip address on the trampoline stack behind
the number of functions arguments, so it's now stored on
ctx-16 address if it's needed.

All helpers above are inlined by verifier.

Also bit unrelated small change - using newly added function
bpf_prog_has_trampoline in check_get_func_ip.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211208193245.172141-5-jolsa@kernel.org
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Adding following helpers for tracing programs:

Get n-th argument of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_arg(void *ctx, u32 n, u64 *value)

Get return value of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_ret(void *ctx, u64 *value)

Get arguments count of the traced function:
  long bpf_get_func_arg_cnt(void *ctx)

The trampoline now stores number of arguments on ctx-8
address, so it's easy to verify argument index and find
return value argument's position.

Moving function ip address on the trampoline stack behind
the number of functions arguments, so it's now stored on
ctx-16 address if it's needed.

All helpers above are inlined by verifier.

Also bit unrelated small change - using newly added function
bpf_prog_has_trampoline in check_get_func_ip.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211208193245.172141-5-jolsa@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_strncmp helper</title>
<updated>2021-12-12T01:40:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-10T14:16:49+00:00</published>
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The helper compares two strings: one string is a null-terminated
read-only string, and another string has const max storage size
but doesn't need to be null-terminated. It can be used to compare
file name in tracing or LSM program.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211210141652.877186-2-houtao1@huawei.com
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The helper compares two strings: one string is a null-terminated
read-only string, and another string has const max storage size
but doesn't need to be null-terminated. It can be used to compare
file name in tracing or LSM program.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211210141652.877186-2-houtao1@huawei.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Pass a set of bpf_core_relo-s to prog_load command.</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T19:18:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-01T18:10:28+00:00</published>
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struct bpf_core_relo is generated by llvm and processed by libbpf.
It's a de-facto uapi.
With CO-RE in the kernel the struct bpf_core_relo becomes uapi de-jure.
Add an ability to pass a set of 'struct bpf_core_relo' to prog_load command
and let the kernel perform CO-RE relocations.

Note the struct bpf_line_info and struct bpf_func_info have the same
layout when passed from LLVM to libbpf and from libbpf to the kernel
except "insn_off" fields means "byte offset" when LLVM generates it.
Then libbpf converts it to "insn index" to pass to the kernel.
The struct bpf_core_relo's "insn_off" field is always "byte offset".

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211201181040.23337-6-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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struct bpf_core_relo is generated by llvm and processed by libbpf.
It's a de-facto uapi.
With CO-RE in the kernel the struct bpf_core_relo becomes uapi de-jure.
Add an ability to pass a set of 'struct bpf_core_relo' to prog_load command
and let the kernel perform CO-RE relocations.

Note the struct bpf_line_info and struct bpf_func_info have the same
layout when passed from LLVM to libbpf and from libbpf to the kernel
except "insn_off" fields means "byte offset" when LLVM generates it.
Then libbpf converts it to "insn index" to pass to the kernel.
The struct bpf_core_relo's "insn_off" field is always "byte offset".

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211201181040.23337-6-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Define enum bpf_core_relo_kind as uapi.</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T19:18:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-01T18:10:27+00:00</published>
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enum bpf_core_relo_kind is generated by llvm and processed by libbpf.
It's a de-facto uapi.
With CO-RE in the kernel the bpf_core_relo_kind values become uapi de-jure.
Also rename them with BPF_CORE_ prefix to distinguish from conflicting names in
bpf_core_read.h. The enums bpf_field_info_kind, bpf_type_id_kind,
bpf_type_info_kind, bpf_enum_value_kind are passing different values from bpf
program into llvm.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211201181040.23337-5-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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enum bpf_core_relo_kind is generated by llvm and processed by libbpf.
It's a de-facto uapi.
With CO-RE in the kernel the bpf_core_relo_kind values become uapi de-jure.
Also rename them with BPF_CORE_ prefix to distinguish from conflicting names in
bpf_core_read.h. The enums bpf_field_info_kind, bpf_type_id_kind,
bpf_type_info_kind, bpf_enum_value_kind are passing different values from bpf
program into llvm.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211201181040.23337-5-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_loop helper</title>
<updated>2021-11-30T18:56:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannekoong@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-30T03:06:19+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the kernel-side and API changes for a new helper
function, bpf_loop:

long bpf_loop(u32 nr_loops, void *callback_fn, void *callback_ctx,
u64 flags);

where long (*callback_fn)(u32 index, void *ctx);

bpf_loop invokes the "callback_fn" **nr_loops** times or until the
callback_fn returns 1. The callback_fn can only return 0 or 1, and
this is enforced by the verifier. The callback_fn index is zero-indexed.

A few things to please note:
~ The "u64 flags" parameter is currently unused but is included in
case a future use case for it arises.
~ In the kernel-side implementation of bpf_loop (kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c),
bpf_callback_t is used as the callback function cast.
~ A program can have nested bpf_loop calls but the program must
still adhere to the verifier constraint of its stack depth (the stack depth
cannot exceed MAX_BPF_STACK))
~ Recursive callback_fns do not pass the verifier, due to the call stack
for these being too deep.
~ The next patch will include the tests and benchmark

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannekoong@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211130030622.4131246-2-joannekoong@fb.com
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This patch adds the kernel-side and API changes for a new helper
function, bpf_loop:

long bpf_loop(u32 nr_loops, void *callback_fn, void *callback_ctx,
u64 flags);

where long (*callback_fn)(u32 index, void *ctx);

bpf_loop invokes the "callback_fn" **nr_loops** times or until the
callback_fn returns 1. The callback_fn can only return 0 or 1, and
this is enforced by the verifier. The callback_fn index is zero-indexed.

A few things to please note:
~ The "u64 flags" parameter is currently unused but is included in
case a future use case for it arises.
~ In the kernel-side implementation of bpf_loop (kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c),
bpf_callback_t is used as the callback function cast.
~ A program can have nested bpf_loop calls but the program must
still adhere to the verifier constraint of its stack depth (the stack depth
cannot exceed MAX_BPF_STACK))
~ Recursive callback_fns do not pass the verifier, due to the call stack
for these being too deep.
~ The next patch will include the tests and benchmark

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannekoong@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211130030622.4131246-2-joannekoong@fb.com
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<title>bpf: Change value of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT from 32 to 33</title>
<updated>2021-11-16T13:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
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<published>2021-11-05T01:30:00+00:00</published>
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In the current code, the actual max tail call count is 33 which is greater
than MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT (defined as 32). The actual limit is not consistent
with the meaning of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT and thus confusing at first glance.
We can see the historical evolution from commit 04fd61ab36ec ("bpf: allow
bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs") and commit f9dabe016b63
("bpf: Undo off-by-one in interpreter tail call count limit"). In order
to avoid changing existing behavior, the actual limit is 33 now, this is
reasonable.

After commit 874be05f525e ("bpf, tests: Add tail call test suite"), we can
see there exists failed testcase.

On all archs when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is not set:
 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf
 # dmesg | grep -w FAIL
 Tail call error path, max count reached jited:0 ret 34 != 33 FAIL

On some archs:
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf
 # dmesg | grep -w FAIL
 Tail call error path, max count reached jited:1 ret 34 != 33 FAIL

Although the above failed testcase has been fixed in commit 18935a72eb25
("bpf/tests: Fix error in tail call limit tests"), it would still be good
to change the value of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT from 32 to 33 to make the code
more readable.

The 32-bit x86 JIT was using a limit of 32, just fix the wrong comments and
limit to 33 tail calls as the constant MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT updated. For the
mips64 JIT, use "ori" instead of "addiu" as suggested by Johan Almbladh.
For the riscv JIT, use RV_REG_TCC directly to save one register move as
suggested by Björn Töpel. For the other implementations, no function changes,
it does not change the current limit 33, the new value of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT
can reflect the actual max tail call count, the related tail call testcases
in test_bpf module and selftests can work well for the interpreter and the
JIT.

Here are the test results on x86_64:

 # uname -m
 x86_64
 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf test_suite=test_tail_calls
 # dmesg | tail -1
 test_bpf: test_tail_calls: Summary: 8 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [0/8 JIT'ed]
 # rmmod test_bpf
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf test_suite=test_tail_calls
 # dmesg | tail -1
 test_bpf: test_tail_calls: Summary: 8 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [8/8 JIT'ed]
 # rmmod test_bpf
 # ./test_progs -t tailcalls
 #142 tailcalls:OK
 Summary: 1/11 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1636075800-3264-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
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In the current code, the actual max tail call count is 33 which is greater
than MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT (defined as 32). The actual limit is not consistent
with the meaning of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT and thus confusing at first glance.
We can see the historical evolution from commit 04fd61ab36ec ("bpf: allow
bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs") and commit f9dabe016b63
("bpf: Undo off-by-one in interpreter tail call count limit"). In order
to avoid changing existing behavior, the actual limit is 33 now, this is
reasonable.

After commit 874be05f525e ("bpf, tests: Add tail call test suite"), we can
see there exists failed testcase.

On all archs when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is not set:
 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf
 # dmesg | grep -w FAIL
 Tail call error path, max count reached jited:0 ret 34 != 33 FAIL

On some archs:
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf
 # dmesg | grep -w FAIL
 Tail call error path, max count reached jited:1 ret 34 != 33 FAIL

Although the above failed testcase has been fixed in commit 18935a72eb25
("bpf/tests: Fix error in tail call limit tests"), it would still be good
to change the value of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT from 32 to 33 to make the code
more readable.

The 32-bit x86 JIT was using a limit of 32, just fix the wrong comments and
limit to 33 tail calls as the constant MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT updated. For the
mips64 JIT, use "ori" instead of "addiu" as suggested by Johan Almbladh.
For the riscv JIT, use RV_REG_TCC directly to save one register move as
suggested by Björn Töpel. For the other implementations, no function changes,
it does not change the current limit 33, the new value of MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT
can reflect the actual max tail call count, the related tail call testcases
in test_bpf module and selftests can work well for the interpreter and the
JIT.

Here are the test results on x86_64:

 # uname -m
 x86_64
 # echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf test_suite=test_tail_calls
 # dmesg | tail -1
 test_bpf: test_tail_calls: Summary: 8 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [0/8 JIT'ed]
 # rmmod test_bpf
 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
 # modprobe test_bpf test_suite=test_tail_calls
 # dmesg | tail -1
 test_bpf: test_tail_calls: Summary: 8 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [8/8 JIT'ed]
 # rmmod test_bpf
 # ./test_progs -t tailcalls
 #142 tailcalls:OK
 Summary: 1/11 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johan Almbladh &lt;johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1636075800-3264-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
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