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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix bpf_check_mod_kfunc_call for built-in modules</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T21:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T14:47:41+00:00</published>
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When module registering its set is built-in, THIS_MODULE will be NULL,
hence we cannot return early in case owner is NULL.

Fixes: 14f267d95fe4 ("bpf: btf: Introduce helpers for dynamic BTF set registration")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211122144742.477787-3-memxor@gmail.com
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When module registering its set is built-in, THIS_MODULE will be NULL,
hence we cannot return early in case owner is NULL.

Fixes: 14f267d95fe4 ("bpf: btf: Introduce helpers for dynamic BTF set registration")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211122144742.477787-3-memxor@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF depend upon CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T21:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T14:47:40+00:00</published>
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Vinicius Costa Gomes reported [0] that build fails when
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled and CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is disabled.
This leads to btf.c not being compiled, and then no symbol being present
in vmlinux for the declarations in btf.h. Since BTF is not useful
without enabling BPF subsystem, disallow this combination.

However, theoretically disabling both now could still fail, as the
symbol for kfunc_btf_id_list variables is not available. This isn't a
problem as the compiler usually optimizes the whole register/unregister
call, but at lower optimization levels it can fail the build in linking
stage.

Fix that by adding dummy variables so that modules taking address of
them still work, but the whole thing is a noop.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211110205418.332403-1-vinicius.gomes@intel.com

Fixes: 14f267d95fe4 ("bpf: btf: Introduce helpers for dynamic BTF set registration")
Reported-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211122144742.477787-2-memxor@gmail.com
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Vinicius Costa Gomes reported [0] that build fails when
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled and CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is disabled.
This leads to btf.c not being compiled, and then no symbol being present
in vmlinux for the declarations in btf.h. Since BTF is not useful
without enabling BPF subsystem, disallow this combination.

However, theoretically disabling both now could still fail, as the
symbol for kfunc_btf_id_list variables is not available. This isn't a
problem as the compiler usually optimizes the whole register/unregister
call, but at lower optimization levels it can fail the build in linking
stage.

Fix that by adding dummy variables so that modules taking address of
them still work, but the whole thing is a noop.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211110205418.332403-1-vinicius.gomes@intel.com

Fixes: 14f267d95fe4 ("bpf: btf: Introduce helpers for dynamic BTF set registration")
Reported-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211122144742.477787-2-memxor@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG typedef support</title>
<updated>2021-10-23T00:04:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T19:56:28+00:00</published>
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The llvm patches ([1], [2]) added support to attach btf_decl_tag
attributes to typedef declarations. This patch added
support in kernel.

  [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D110127
  [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D112259

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021195628.4018847-1-yhs@fb.com
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The llvm patches ([1], [2]) added support to attach btf_decl_tag
attributes to typedef declarations. This patch added
support in kernel.

  [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D110127
  [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D112259

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021195628.4018847-1-yhs@fb.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Rename BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG</title>
<updated>2021-10-19T01:35:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-12T16:48:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=223f903e9c832699f4e5f422281a60756c1c6cfe'/>
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Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.

After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).

This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199

Fixes: b5ea834dde6b ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd10363e ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec003 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
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Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.

After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).

This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199

Fixes: b5ea834dde6b ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd10363e ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec003 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: selftests: Add selftests for module kfunc support</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T00:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-02T01:17:57+00:00</published>
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This adds selftests that tests the success and failure path for modules
kfuncs (in presence of invalid kfunc calls) for both libbpf and
gen_loader. It also adds a prog_test kfunc_btf_id_list so that we can
add module BTF ID set from bpf_testmod.

This also introduces  a couple of test cases to verifier selftests for
validating whether we get an error or not depending on if invalid kfunc
call remains after elimination of unreachable instructions.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-10-memxor@gmail.com
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This adds selftests that tests the success and failure path for modules
kfuncs (in presence of invalid kfunc calls) for both libbpf and
gen_loader. It also adds a prog_test kfunc_btf_id_list so that we can
add module BTF ID set from bpf_testmod.

This also introduces  a couple of test cases to verifier selftests for
validating whether we get an error or not depending on if invalid kfunc
call remains after elimination of unreachable instructions.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-10-memxor@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Enable TCP congestion control kfunc from modules</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T00:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-02T01:17:53+00:00</published>
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This commit moves BTF ID lookup into the newly added registration
helper, in a way that the bbr, cubic, and dctcp implementation set up
their sets in the bpf_tcp_ca kfunc_btf_set list, while the ones not
dependent on modules are looked up from the wrapper function.

This lifts the restriction for them to be compiled as built in objects,
and can be loaded as modules if required. Also modify Makefile.modfinal
to call resolve_btfids for each module.

Note that since kernel kfunc_ids never overlap with module kfunc_ids, we
only match the owner for module btf id sets.

See following commits for background on use of:

 CONFIG_X86 ifdef:
 569c484f9995 (bpf: Limit static tcp-cc functions in the .BTF_ids list to x86)

 CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE ifdef:
 7aae231ac93b (bpf: tcp: Limit calling some tcp cc functions to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-6-memxor@gmail.com
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This commit moves BTF ID lookup into the newly added registration
helper, in a way that the bbr, cubic, and dctcp implementation set up
their sets in the bpf_tcp_ca kfunc_btf_set list, while the ones not
dependent on modules are looked up from the wrapper function.

This lifts the restriction for them to be compiled as built in objects,
and can be loaded as modules if required. Also modify Makefile.modfinal
to call resolve_btfids for each module.

Note that since kernel kfunc_ids never overlap with module kfunc_ids, we
only match the owner for module btf id sets.

See following commits for background on use of:

 CONFIG_X86 ifdef:
 569c484f9995 (bpf: Limit static tcp-cc functions in the .BTF_ids list to x86)

 CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE ifdef:
 7aae231ac93b (bpf: tcp: Limit calling some tcp cc functions to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-6-memxor@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: btf: Introduce helpers for dynamic BTF set registration</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T00:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-02T01:17:51+00:00</published>
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This adds helpers for registering btf_id_set from modules and the
bpf_check_mod_kfunc_call callback that can be used to look them up.

With in kernel sets, the way this is supposed to work is, in kernel
callback looks up within the in-kernel kfunc whitelist, and then defers
to the dynamic BTF set lookup if it doesn't find the BTF id. If there is
no in-kernel BTF id set, this callback can be used directly.

Also fix includes for btf.h and bpfptr.h so that they can included in
isolation. This is in preparation for their usage in tcp_bbr, tcp_cubic
and tcp_dctcp modules in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-4-memxor@gmail.com
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This adds helpers for registering btf_id_set from modules and the
bpf_check_mod_kfunc_call callback that can be used to look them up.

With in kernel sets, the way this is supposed to work is, in kernel
callback looks up within the in-kernel kfunc whitelist, and then defers
to the dynamic BTF set lookup if it doesn't find the BTF id. If there is
no in-kernel BTF id set, this callback can be used directly.

Also fix includes for btf.h and bpfptr.h so that they can included in
isolation. This is in preparation for their usage in tcp_bbr, tcp_cubic
and tcp_dctcp modules in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211002011757.311265-4-memxor@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T01:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T22:30:15+00:00</published>
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LLVM14 added support for a new C attribute ([1])
  __attribute__((btf_tag("arbitrary_str")))
This attribute will be emitted to dwarf ([2]) and pahole
will convert it to BTF. Or for bpf target, this
attribute will be emitted to BTF directly ([3], [4]).
The attribute is intended to provide additional
information for
  - struct/union type or struct/union member
  - static/global variables
  - static/global function or function parameter.

For linux kernel, the btf_tag can be applied
in various places to specify user pointer,
function pre- or post- condition, function
allow/deny in certain context, etc. Such information
will be encoded in vmlinux BTF and can be used
by verifier.

The btf_tag can also be applied to bpf programs
to help global verifiable functions, e.g.,
specifying preconditions, etc.

This patch added basic parsing and checking support
in kernel for new BTF_KIND_TAG kind.

 [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106614
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106621
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106622
 [4] https://reviews.llvm.org/D109560

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@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/20210914223015.245546-1-yhs@fb.com
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LLVM14 added support for a new C attribute ([1])
  __attribute__((btf_tag("arbitrary_str")))
This attribute will be emitted to dwarf ([2]) and pahole
will convert it to BTF. Or for bpf target, this
attribute will be emitted to BTF directly ([3], [4]).
The attribute is intended to provide additional
information for
  - struct/union type or struct/union member
  - static/global variables
  - static/global function or function parameter.

For linux kernel, the btf_tag can be applied
in various places to specify user pointer,
function pre- or post- condition, function
allow/deny in certain context, etc. Such information
will be encoded in vmlinux BTF and can be used
by verifier.

The btf_tag can also be applied to bpf programs
to help global verifiable functions, e.g.,
specifying preconditions, etc.

This patch added basic parsing and checking support
in kernel for new BTF_KIND_TAG kind.

 [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106614
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106621
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106622
 [4] https://reviews.llvm.org/D109560

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@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/20210914223015.245546-1-yhs@fb.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix bpf-next builds without CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T02:41:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Xu</name>
<email>dxu@dxuuu.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-26T01:48:31+00:00</published>
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This commit fixes linker errors along the lines of:

    s390-linux-ld: task_iter.c:(.init.text+0xa4): undefined reference to `btf_task_struct_ids'`

Fix by defining btf_task_struct_ids unconditionally in kernel/bpf/btf.c
since there exists code that unconditionally uses btf_task_struct_ids.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/05d94748d9f4b3eecedc4fddd6875418a396e23c.1629942444.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
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This commit fixes linker errors along the lines of:

    s390-linux-ld: task_iter.c:(.init.text+0xa4): undefined reference to `btf_task_struct_ids'`

Fix by defining btf_task_struct_ids unconditionally in kernel/bpf/btf.c
since there exists code that unconditionally uses btf_task_struct_ids.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/05d94748d9f4b3eecedc4fddd6875418a396e23c.1629942444.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Emit better log message if bpf_iter ctx arg btf_id == 0</title>
<updated>2021-07-29T22:10:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
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To avoid kernel build failure due to some missing .BTF-ids referenced
functions/types, the patch ([1]) tries to fill btf_id 0 for
these types.

In bpf verifier, for percpu variable and helper returning btf_id cases,
verifier already emitted proper warning with something like
  verbose(env, "Helper has invalid btf_id in R%d\n", regno);
  verbose(env, "invalid return type %d of func %s#%d\n",
          fn-&gt;ret_type, func_id_name(func_id), func_id);

But this is not the case for bpf_iter context arguments.
I hacked resolve_btfids to encode btf_id 0 for struct task_struct.
With `./test_progs -n 7/5`, I got,
  0: (79) r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0)
  func 'bpf_iter_task' arg0 has btf_id 29739 type STRUCT 'bpf_iter_meta'
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  1: (79) r6 = *(u64 *)(r2 +0)
  ; struct task_struct *task = ctx-&gt;task;
  2: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r1 +8)
  ; if (task == (void *)0) {
  3: (55) if r7 != 0x0 goto pc+11
  ...
  ; BPF_SEQ_PRINTF(seq, "%8d %8d\n", task-&gt;tgid, task-&gt;pid);
  26: (61) r1 = *(u32 *)(r7 +1372)
  Type '(anon)' is not a struct

Basically, verifier will return btf_id 0 for task_struct.
Later on, when the code tries to access task-&gt;tgid, the
verifier correctly complains the type is '(anon)' and it is
not a struct. Users still need to backtrace to find out
what is going on.

Let us catch the invalid btf_id 0 earlier
and provide better message indicating btf_id is wrong.
The new error message looks like below:
  R1 type=ctx expected=fp
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  0: (79) r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0)
  func 'bpf_iter_task' arg0 has btf_id 29739 type STRUCT 'bpf_iter_meta'
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  1: (79) r6 = *(u64 *)(r2 +0)
  ; struct task_struct *task = ctx-&gt;task;
  2: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r1 +8)
  invalid btf_id for context argument offset 8
  invalid bpf_context access off=8 size=8

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210727132532.2473636-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210728183025.1461750-1-yhs@fb.com
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To avoid kernel build failure due to some missing .BTF-ids referenced
functions/types, the patch ([1]) tries to fill btf_id 0 for
these types.

In bpf verifier, for percpu variable and helper returning btf_id cases,
verifier already emitted proper warning with something like
  verbose(env, "Helper has invalid btf_id in R%d\n", regno);
  verbose(env, "invalid return type %d of func %s#%d\n",
          fn-&gt;ret_type, func_id_name(func_id), func_id);

But this is not the case for bpf_iter context arguments.
I hacked resolve_btfids to encode btf_id 0 for struct task_struct.
With `./test_progs -n 7/5`, I got,
  0: (79) r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0)
  func 'bpf_iter_task' arg0 has btf_id 29739 type STRUCT 'bpf_iter_meta'
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  1: (79) r6 = *(u64 *)(r2 +0)
  ; struct task_struct *task = ctx-&gt;task;
  2: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r1 +8)
  ; if (task == (void *)0) {
  3: (55) if r7 != 0x0 goto pc+11
  ...
  ; BPF_SEQ_PRINTF(seq, "%8d %8d\n", task-&gt;tgid, task-&gt;pid);
  26: (61) r1 = *(u32 *)(r7 +1372)
  Type '(anon)' is not a struct

Basically, verifier will return btf_id 0 for task_struct.
Later on, when the code tries to access task-&gt;tgid, the
verifier correctly complains the type is '(anon)' and it is
not a struct. Users still need to backtrace to find out
what is going on.

Let us catch the invalid btf_id 0 earlier
and provide better message indicating btf_id is wrong.
The new error message looks like below:
  R1 type=ctx expected=fp
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  0: (79) r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0)
  func 'bpf_iter_task' arg0 has btf_id 29739 type STRUCT 'bpf_iter_meta'
  ; struct seq_file *seq = ctx-&gt;meta-&gt;seq;
  1: (79) r6 = *(u64 *)(r2 +0)
  ; struct task_struct *task = ctx-&gt;task;
  2: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r1 +8)
  invalid btf_id for context argument offset 8
  invalid bpf_context access off=8 size=8

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210727132532.2473636-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210728183025.1461750-1-yhs@fb.com
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