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<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T19:43:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-03-30T19:43:03+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for
  higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages.

  These are the main BPF changes:

   - Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of
     programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add
     x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye)

   - Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet)

   - Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis)

   - Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs
     format (Bastien Curutchet)

   - Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery
     Hung)

   - Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing
     (Blaise Boscaccy)

   - Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM
     and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome)

   - Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya
     Dwivedi)

   - Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy)

   - Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup
     local storage (Martin KaFai Lau)

   - Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix
     (Song Liu)

   - Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao)

   - Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong
     Song)"

* tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid
  bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()
  libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr
  bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux
  selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose()
  selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs
  selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections
  bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message
  selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage
  bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.
  bpftool: Using the right format specifiers
  bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors
  selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace
  libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check
  bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto
  bpf: Check map-&gt;record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()
  ...
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for
  higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages.

  These are the main BPF changes:

   - Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of
     programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add
     x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye)

   - Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet)

   - Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis)

   - Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs
     format (Bastien Curutchet)

   - Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery
     Hung)

   - Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing
     (Blaise Boscaccy)

   - Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM
     and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome)

   - Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya
     Dwivedi)

   - Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy)

   - Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup
     local storage (Martin KaFai Lau)

   - Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix
     (Song Liu)

   - Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao)

   - Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong
     Song)"

* tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid
  bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()
  libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr
  bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux
  selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose()
  selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs
  selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections
  bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message
  selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage
  bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.
  bpftool: Using the right format specifiers
  bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors
  selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace
  libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check
  bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto
  bpf: Check map-&gt;record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()
  ...
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<title>bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T17:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Tsalapatis</name>
<email>emil@etsalapatis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-18T03:07:53+00:00</published>
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The perf_event_read_event_output helper is currently only available to
tracing protrams, but is useful for other BPF programs like sched_ext
schedulers. When the helper is available, provide its bpf_func_proto
directly from the bpf base_proto.

Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis (Meta) &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318030753.10949-1-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The perf_event_read_event_output helper is currently only available to
tracing protrams, but is useful for other BPF programs like sched_ext
schedulers. When the helper is available, provide its bpf_func_proto
directly from the bpf base_proto.

Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis (Meta) &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318030753.10949-1-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf/helpers: Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy kfunc</title>
<updated>2025-03-15T18:48:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mykyta Yatsenko</name>
<email>yatsenko@meta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-26T18:32:00+00:00</published>
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Introducing bpf_dynptr_copy kfunc allowing copying data from one dynptr to
another. This functionality is useful in scenarios such as capturing XDP
data to a ring buffer.
The implementation consists of 4 branches:
  * A fast branch for contiguous buffer capacity in both source and
destination dynptrs
  * 3 branches utilizing __bpf_dynptr_read and __bpf_dynptr_write to copy
data to/from non-contiguous buffer

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Introducing bpf_dynptr_copy kfunc allowing copying data from one dynptr to
another. This functionality is useful in scenarios such as capturing XDP
data to a ring buffer.
The implementation consists of 4 branches:
  * A fast branch for contiguous buffer capacity in both source and
destination dynptrs
  * 3 branches utilizing __bpf_dynptr_read and __bpf_dynptr_write to copy
data to/from non-contiguous buffer

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf/helpers: Refactor bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write</title>
<updated>2025-03-15T18:47:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mykyta Yatsenko</name>
<email>yatsenko@meta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-26T18:31:59+00:00</published>
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Refactor bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write helpers: extract code
into the static functions namely __bpf_dynptr_read and
__bpf_dynptr_write, this allows calling these without compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Refactor bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write helpers: extract code
into the static functions namely __bpf_dynptr_read and
__bpf_dynptr_write, this allows calling these without compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250226183201.332713-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc</title>
<updated>2025-02-20T01:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jordan Rome</name>
<email>linux@jordanrome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-13T15:21:24+00:00</published>
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This new kfunc will be able to copy a zero-terminated C strings from
another task's address space. This is similar to `bpf_copy_from_user_str()`
but reads memory of specified task.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome &lt;linux@jordanrome.com&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/20250213152125.1837400-2-linux@jordanrome.com
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This new kfunc will be able to copy a zero-terminated C strings from
another task's address space. This is similar to `bpf_copy_from_user_str()`
but reads memory of specified task.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome &lt;linux@jordanrome.com&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/20250213152125.1837400-2-linux@jordanrome.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()</title>
<updated>2025-02-18T09:32:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nam Cao</name>
<email>namcao@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T10:39:05+00:00</published>
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hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.

Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.

Patch was created by using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e4be2486f02a8e0ef5aa42624f1708d23e88ad57.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de

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hrtimer_setup() takes the callback function pointer as argument and
initializes the timer completely.

Replace hrtimer_init() and the open coded initialization of
hrtimer::function with the new setup mechanism.

Patch was created by using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e4be2486f02a8e0ef5aa42624f1708d23e88ad57.1738746821.git.namcao@linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>bpf: Cancel the running bpf_timer through kworker for PREEMPT_RT</title>
<updated>2025-01-20T17:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-17T10:18:15+00:00</published>
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During the update procedure, when overwrite element in a pre-allocated
htab, the freeing of old_element is protected by the bucket lock. The
reason why the bucket lock is necessary is that the old_element has
already been stashed in htab-&gt;extra_elems after alloc_htab_elem()
returns. If freeing the old_element after the bucket lock is unlocked,
the stashed element may be reused by concurrent update procedure and the
freeing of old_element will run concurrently with the reuse of the
old_element. However, the invocation of check_and_free_fields() may
acquire a spin-lock which violates the lockdep rule because its caller
has already held a raw-spin-lock (bucket lock). The following warning
will be reported when such race happens:

  BUG: scheduling while atomic: test_progs/676/0x00000003
  3 locks held by test_progs/676:
  #0: ffffffff864b0240 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x2c0/0x830
  #1: ffff88810e961188 (&amp;htab-&gt;lockdep_key){....}-{2:2}, at: htab_map_update_elem+0x306/0x1500
  #2: ffff8881f4eac1b8 (&amp;base-&gt;softirq_expiry_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(O)
  Preemption disabled at:
  [&lt;ffffffff817837a3&gt;] htab_map_update_elem+0x293/0x1500
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 676 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G ... 6.12.0+ #11
  Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)...
  Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x70
  dump_stack+0x10/0x20
  __schedule_bug+0x120/0x170
  __schedule+0x300c/0x4800
  schedule_rtlock+0x37/0x60
  rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x6d9/0x54c0
  rt_spin_lock+0x168/0x230
  hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  hrtimer_cancel+0x24/0x30
  bpf_timer_delete_work+0x1d/0x40
  bpf_timer_cancel_and_free+0x5e/0x80
  bpf_obj_free_fields+0x262/0x4a0
  check_and_free_fields+0x1d0/0x280
  htab_map_update_elem+0x7fc/0x1500
  bpf_prog_9f90bc20768e0cb9_overwrite_cb+0x3f/0x43
  bpf_prog_ea601c4649694dbd_overwrite_timer+0x5d/0x7e
  bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x322/0x830
  __sys_bpf+0x135d/0x3ca0
  __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
  x64_sys_call+0x1b5/0xa10
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  ...
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

It seems feasible to break the reuse and refill of per-cpu extra_elems
into two independent parts: reuse the per-cpu extra_elems with bucket
lock being held and refill the old_element as per-cpu extra_elems after
the bucket lock is unlocked. However, it will make the concurrent
overwrite procedures on the same CPU return unexpected -E2BIG error when
the map is full.

Therefore, the patch fixes the lock problem by breaking the cancelling
of bpf_timer into two steps for PREEMPT_RT:
1) use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() and check its return value
2) if the timer is running, use hrtimer_cancel() through a kworker to
   cancel it again
Considering that the current implementation of hrtimer_cancel() will try
to acquire a being held softirq_expiry_lock when the current timer is
running, these steps above are reasonable. However, it also has
downside. When the timer is running, the cancelling of the timer is
delayed when releasing the last map uref. The delay is also fixable
(e.g., break the cancelling of bpf timer into two parts: one part in
locked scope, another one in unlocked scope), it can be revised later if
necessary.

It is a bit hard to decide the right fix tag. One reason is that the
problem depends on PREEMPT_RT which is enabled in v6.12. Considering the
softirq_expiry_lock lock exists since v5.4 and bpf_timer is introduced
in v5.15, the bpf_timer commit is used in the fixes tag and an extra
depends-on tag is added to state the dependency on PREEMPT_RT.

Fixes: b00628b1c7d5 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.")
Depends-on: v6.12+ with PREEMPT_RT enabled
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241106084527.4gPrMnHt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117101816.2101857-5-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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During the update procedure, when overwrite element in a pre-allocated
htab, the freeing of old_element is protected by the bucket lock. The
reason why the bucket lock is necessary is that the old_element has
already been stashed in htab-&gt;extra_elems after alloc_htab_elem()
returns. If freeing the old_element after the bucket lock is unlocked,
the stashed element may be reused by concurrent update procedure and the
freeing of old_element will run concurrently with the reuse of the
old_element. However, the invocation of check_and_free_fields() may
acquire a spin-lock which violates the lockdep rule because its caller
has already held a raw-spin-lock (bucket lock). The following warning
will be reported when such race happens:

  BUG: scheduling while atomic: test_progs/676/0x00000003
  3 locks held by test_progs/676:
  #0: ffffffff864b0240 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x2c0/0x830
  #1: ffff88810e961188 (&amp;htab-&gt;lockdep_key){....}-{2:2}, at: htab_map_update_elem+0x306/0x1500
  #2: ffff8881f4eac1b8 (&amp;base-&gt;softirq_expiry_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(O)
  Preemption disabled at:
  [&lt;ffffffff817837a3&gt;] htab_map_update_elem+0x293/0x1500
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 676 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G ... 6.12.0+ #11
  Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)...
  Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x70
  dump_stack+0x10/0x20
  __schedule_bug+0x120/0x170
  __schedule+0x300c/0x4800
  schedule_rtlock+0x37/0x60
  rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x6d9/0x54c0
  rt_spin_lock+0x168/0x230
  hrtimer_cancel_wait_running+0xe9/0x1b0
  hrtimer_cancel+0x24/0x30
  bpf_timer_delete_work+0x1d/0x40
  bpf_timer_cancel_and_free+0x5e/0x80
  bpf_obj_free_fields+0x262/0x4a0
  check_and_free_fields+0x1d0/0x280
  htab_map_update_elem+0x7fc/0x1500
  bpf_prog_9f90bc20768e0cb9_overwrite_cb+0x3f/0x43
  bpf_prog_ea601c4649694dbd_overwrite_timer+0x5d/0x7e
  bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x322/0x830
  __sys_bpf+0x135d/0x3ca0
  __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
  x64_sys_call+0x1b5/0xa10
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  ...
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

It seems feasible to break the reuse and refill of per-cpu extra_elems
into two independent parts: reuse the per-cpu extra_elems with bucket
lock being held and refill the old_element as per-cpu extra_elems after
the bucket lock is unlocked. However, it will make the concurrent
overwrite procedures on the same CPU return unexpected -E2BIG error when
the map is full.

Therefore, the patch fixes the lock problem by breaking the cancelling
of bpf_timer into two steps for PREEMPT_RT:
1) use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() and check its return value
2) if the timer is running, use hrtimer_cancel() through a kworker to
   cancel it again
Considering that the current implementation of hrtimer_cancel() will try
to acquire a being held softirq_expiry_lock when the current timer is
running, these steps above are reasonable. However, it also has
downside. When the timer is running, the cancelling of the timer is
delayed when releasing the last map uref. The delay is also fixable
(e.g., break the cancelling of bpf timer into two parts: one part in
locked scope, another one in unlocked scope), it can be revised later if
necessary.

It is a bit hard to decide the right fix tag. One reason is that the
problem depends on PREEMPT_RT which is enabled in v6.12. Considering the
softirq_expiry_lock lock exists since v5.4 and bpf_timer is introduced
in v5.15, the bpf_timer commit is used in the fixes tag and an extra
depends-on tag is added to state the dependency on PREEMPT_RT.

Fixes: b00628b1c7d5 ("bpf: Introduce bpf timers.")
Depends-on: v6.12+ with PREEMPT_RT enabled
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241106084527.4gPrMnHt@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117101816.2101857-5-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Remove migrate_{disable|enable} in bpf_obj_free_fields()</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T02:06:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-08T01:07:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1d2dbe7120e89090ed4f6be03d6fbadfbfff59bf'/>
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The callers of bpf_obj_free_fields() have already guaranteed that the
migration is disabled, therefore, there is no need to invoke
migrate_{disable,enable} pair in bpf_obj_free_fields()'s underly
implementation.

This patch removes unnecessary migrate_{disable|enable} pairs from
bpf_obj_free_fields() and its callees: bpf_list_head_free() and
bpf_rb_root_free().

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108010728.207536-12-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The callers of bpf_obj_free_fields() have already guaranteed that the
migration is disabled, therefore, there is no need to invoke
migrate_{disable,enable} pair in bpf_obj_free_fields()'s underly
implementation.

This patch removes unnecessary migrate_{disable|enable} pairs from
bpf_obj_free_fields() and its callees: bpf_list_head_free() and
bpf_rb_root_free().

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108010728.207536-12-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix configuration-dependent BTF function references</title>
<updated>2024-12-13T23:06:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-12T23:00:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=00a5acdbf39816ad23b8db3255c366bbc77e69af'/>
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These BTF functions are not available unconditionally,
only reference them when they are available.

Avoid the following build warnings:

  BTF     .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o
btf_encoder__tag_kfunc: failed to find kfunc 'bpf_send_signal_task' in BTF
btf_encoder__tag_kfuncs: failed to tag kfunc 'bpf_send_signal_task'
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux2.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.o
  LD      vmlinux
  BTFIDS  vmlinux
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol prog_test_ref_kfunc
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_crypto_ctx
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_send_signal_task
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_modify_return_test_tp
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_dynptr_from_xdp
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_dynptr_from_skb

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&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/20241213-bpf-cond-ids-v1-1-881849997219@weissschuh.net
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These BTF functions are not available unconditionally,
only reference them when they are available.

Avoid the following build warnings:

  BTF     .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o
btf_encoder__tag_kfunc: failed to find kfunc 'bpf_send_signal_task' in BTF
btf_encoder__tag_kfuncs: failed to tag kfunc 'bpf_send_signal_task'
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux2.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.o
  LD      vmlinux
  BTFIDS  vmlinux
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol prog_test_ref_kfunc
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_crypto_ctx
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_send_signal_task
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_modify_return_test_tp
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_dynptr_from_xdp
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_dynptr_from_skb

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&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/20241213-bpf-cond-ids-v1-1-881849997219@weissschuh.net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Introduce support for bpf_local_irq_{save,restore}</title>
<updated>2024-12-04T16:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-04T03:03:57+00:00</published>
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Teach the verifier about IRQ-disabled sections through the introduction
of two new kfuncs, bpf_local_irq_save, to save IRQ state and disable
them, and bpf_local_irq_restore, to restore IRQ state and enable them
back again.

For the purposes of tracking the saved IRQ state, the verifier is taught
about a new special object on the stack of type STACK_IRQ_FLAG. This is
a 8 byte value which saves the IRQ flags which are to be passed back to
the IRQ restore kfunc.

Renumber the enums for REF_TYPE_* to simplify the check in
find_lock_state, filtering out non-lock types as they grow will become
cumbersome and is unecessary.

To track a dynamic number of IRQ-disabled regions and their associated
saved states, a new resource type RES_TYPE_IRQ is introduced, which its
state management functions: acquire_irq_state and release_irq_state,
taking advantage of the refactoring and clean ups made in earlier
commits.

One notable requirement of the kernel's IRQ save and restore API is that
they cannot happen out of order. For this purpose, when releasing reference
we keep track of the prev_id we saw with REF_TYPE_IRQ. Since reference
states are inserted in increasing order of the index, this is used to
remember the ordering of acquisitions of IRQ saved states, so that we
maintain a logical stack in acquisition order of resource identities,
and can enforce LIFO ordering when restoring IRQ state. The top of the
stack is maintained using bpf_verifier_state's active_irq_id.

To maintain the stack property when releasing reference states, we need
to modify release_reference_state to instead shift the remaining array
left using memmove instead of swapping deleted element with last that
might break the ordering. A selftest to test this subtle behavior is
added in late patches.

The logic to detect initialized and unitialized irq flag slots, marking
and unmarking is similar to how it's done for iterators. No additional
checks are needed in refsafe for REF_TYPE_IRQ, apart from the usual
check_id satisfiability check on the ref[i].id. We have to perform the
same check_ids check on state-&gt;active_irq_id as well.

To ensure we don't get assigned REF_TYPE_PTR by default after
acquire_reference_state, if someone forgets to assign the type, let's
also renumber the enum ref_state_type. This way any unassigned types
get caught by refsafe's default switch statement, don't assume
REF_TYPE_PTR by default.

The kfuncs themselves are plain wrappers over local_irq_save and
local_irq_restore macros.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Teach the verifier about IRQ-disabled sections through the introduction
of two new kfuncs, bpf_local_irq_save, to save IRQ state and disable
them, and bpf_local_irq_restore, to restore IRQ state and enable them
back again.

For the purposes of tracking the saved IRQ state, the verifier is taught
about a new special object on the stack of type STACK_IRQ_FLAG. This is
a 8 byte value which saves the IRQ flags which are to be passed back to
the IRQ restore kfunc.

Renumber the enums for REF_TYPE_* to simplify the check in
find_lock_state, filtering out non-lock types as they grow will become
cumbersome and is unecessary.

To track a dynamic number of IRQ-disabled regions and their associated
saved states, a new resource type RES_TYPE_IRQ is introduced, which its
state management functions: acquire_irq_state and release_irq_state,
taking advantage of the refactoring and clean ups made in earlier
commits.

One notable requirement of the kernel's IRQ save and restore API is that
they cannot happen out of order. For this purpose, when releasing reference
we keep track of the prev_id we saw with REF_TYPE_IRQ. Since reference
states are inserted in increasing order of the index, this is used to
remember the ordering of acquisitions of IRQ saved states, so that we
maintain a logical stack in acquisition order of resource identities,
and can enforce LIFO ordering when restoring IRQ state. The top of the
stack is maintained using bpf_verifier_state's active_irq_id.

To maintain the stack property when releasing reference states, we need
to modify release_reference_state to instead shift the remaining array
left using memmove instead of swapping deleted element with last that
might break the ordering. A selftest to test this subtle behavior is
added in late patches.

The logic to detect initialized and unitialized irq flag slots, marking
and unmarking is similar to how it's done for iterators. No additional
checks are needed in refsafe for REF_TYPE_IRQ, apart from the usual
check_id satisfiability check on the ref[i].id. We have to perform the
same check_ids check on state-&gt;active_irq_id as well.

To ensure we don't get assigned REF_TYPE_PTR by default after
acquire_reference_state, if someone forgets to assign the type, let's
also renumber the enum ref_state_type. This way any unassigned types
get caught by refsafe's default switch statement, don't assume
REF_TYPE_PTR by default.

The kfuncs themselves are plain wrappers over local_irq_save and
local_irq_restore macros.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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