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<title>bpf: properly verify tail call behavior</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:03:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Teichmann</name>
<email>martin.teichmann@xfel.eu</email>
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<published>2025-11-19T16:03:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e3245f8990431950d20631c72236d4e8cb2dcde8 ]

A successful ebpf tail call does not return to the caller, but to the
caller-of-the-caller, often just finishing the ebpf program altogether.

Any restrictions that the verifier needs to take into account - notably
the fact that the tail call might have modified packet pointers - are to
be checked on the caller-of-the-caller. Checking it on the caller made
the verifier refuse perfectly fine programs that would use the packet
pointers after a tail call, which is no problem as this code is only
executed if the tail call was unsuccessful, i.e. nothing happened.

This patch simulates the behavior of a tail call in the verifier. A
conditional jump to the code after the tail call is added for the case
of an unsucessful tail call, and a return to the caller is simulated for
a successful tail call.

For the successful case we assume that the tail call returns an int,
as tail calls are currently only allowed in functions that return and
int. We always assume that the tail call modified the packet pointers,
as we do not know what the tail call did.

For the unsuccessful case we know nothing happened, so we do not need to
add new constraints.

This approach also allows to check other problems that may occur with
tail calls, namely we are now able to check that precision is properly
propagated into subprograms using tail calls, as well as checking the
live slots in such a subprogram.

Fixes: 1a4607ffba35 ("bpf: consider that tail calls invalidate packet pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251029105828.1488347-1-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu/
Signed-off-by: Martin Teichmann &lt;martin.teichmann@xfel.eu&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119160355.1160932-2-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu
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 e3245f8990431950d20631c72236d4e8cb2dcde8 ]

A successful ebpf tail call does not return to the caller, but to the
caller-of-the-caller, often just finishing the ebpf program altogether.

Any restrictions that the verifier needs to take into account - notably
the fact that the tail call might have modified packet pointers - are to
be checked on the caller-of-the-caller. Checking it on the caller made
the verifier refuse perfectly fine programs that would use the packet
pointers after a tail call, which is no problem as this code is only
executed if the tail call was unsuccessful, i.e. nothing happened.

This patch simulates the behavior of a tail call in the verifier. A
conditional jump to the code after the tail call is added for the case
of an unsucessful tail call, and a return to the caller is simulated for
a successful tail call.

For the successful case we assume that the tail call returns an int,
as tail calls are currently only allowed in functions that return and
int. We always assume that the tail call modified the packet pointers,
as we do not know what the tail call did.

For the unsuccessful case we know nothing happened, so we do not need to
add new constraints.

This approach also allows to check other problems that may occur with
tail calls, namely we are now able to check that precision is properly
propagated into subprograms using tail calls, as well as checking the
live slots in such a subprogram.

Fixes: 1a4607ffba35 ("bpf: consider that tail calls invalidate packet pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251029105828.1488347-1-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu/
Signed-off-by: Martin Teichmann &lt;martin.teichmann@xfel.eu&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119160355.1160932-2-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu
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 handling maps with no BTF and non-constant offsets for the bpf_wq</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mykyta Yatsenko</name>
<email>yatsenko@meta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-10T16:46:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5f8d41172931a92339c5cce81a3142065fa56e45 ]

Fix handling maps with no BTF and non-constant offsets for the bpf_wq.

This de-duplicates logic with other internal structs (task_work, timer),
keeps error reporting consistent, and makes future changes to the layout
handling centralized.

Fixes: d940c9b94d7e ("bpf: add support for KF_ARG_PTR_TO_WORKQUEUE")
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251010164606.147298-1-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.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 5f8d41172931a92339c5cce81a3142065fa56e45 ]

Fix handling maps with no BTF and non-constant offsets for the bpf_wq.

This de-duplicates logic with other internal structs (task_work, timer),
keeps error reporting consistent, and makes future changes to the layout
handling centralized.

Fixes: d940c9b94d7e ("bpf: add support for KF_ARG_PTR_TO_WORKQUEUE")
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251010164606.147298-1-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.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>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix sleepable context for async callbacks</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T22:03:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 469d638d1520a9332cd0d034690e75e845610a51 ]

Fix the BPF verifier to correctly determine the sleepable context of
async callbacks based on the async primitive type rather than the arming
program's context.

The bug is in in_sleepable() which uses OR logic to check if the current
execution context is sleepable. When a sleepable program arms a timer
callback, the callback's state correctly has in_sleepable=false, but
in_sleepable() would still return true due to env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable being
true. This incorrectly allows sleepable helpers like
bpf_copy_from_user() inside timer callbacks when armed from sleepable
programs, even though timer callbacks always execute in non-sleepable
context.

Fix in_sleepable() to rely solely on env-&gt;cur_state-&gt;in_sleepable, and
initialize state-&gt;in_sleepable to env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable in
do_check_common() for the main program entry. This ensures the sleepable
context is properly tracked per verification state rather than being
overridden by the program's sleepability.

The env-&gt;cur_state NULL check in in_sleepable() was only needed for
do_misc_fixups() which runs after verification when env-&gt;cur_state is
set to NULL. Update do_misc_fixups() to use env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable
directly for the storage_get_function check, and remove the redundant
NULL check from in_sleepable().

Introduce is_async_cb_sleepable() helper to explicitly determine async
callback sleepability based on the primitive type:
  - bpf_timer callbacks are never sleepable
  - bpf_wq and bpf_task_work callbacks are always sleepable

Add verifier_bug() check to catch unhandled async callback types,
ensuring future additions cannot be silently mishandled. Move the
is_task_work_add_kfunc() forward declaration to the top alongside other
callback-related helpers. We update push_async_cb() to adjust to the new
changes.

At the same time, while simplifying in_sleepable(), we notice a problem
in do_misc_fixups. Fix storage_get helpers to use GFP_ATOMIC when called
from non-sleepable contexts within sleepable programs, such as bpf_timer
callbacks.

Currently, the check in do_misc_fixups assumes that env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable,
previously in_sleepable(env) which only resolved to this check before
last commit, holds across the program's execution, but that is not true.
Instead, the func_atomic bit must be set whenever we see the function
being called in an atomic context. Previously, this is being done when
the helper is invoked in atomic contexts in sleepable programs, we can
simply just set the value to true without doing an in_sleepable() check.

We must also do a standalone in_sleepable() check to handle cases where
the async callback itself is armed from a sleepable program, but is
itself non-sleepable (e.g., timer callback) and invokes such a helper,
thus needing the func_atomic bit to be true for the said call.

Adjust do_misc_fixups() to drop any checks regarding sleepable nature of
the program, and just depend on the func_atomic bit to decide which GFP
flag to pass.

Fixes: 81f1d7a583fa ("bpf: wq: add bpf_wq_set_callback_impl")
Fixes: b00fa38a9c1c ("bpf: Enable non-atomic allocations in local storage")
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/20251007220349.3852807-2-memxor@gmail.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 469d638d1520a9332cd0d034690e75e845610a51 ]

Fix the BPF verifier to correctly determine the sleepable context of
async callbacks based on the async primitive type rather than the arming
program's context.

The bug is in in_sleepable() which uses OR logic to check if the current
execution context is sleepable. When a sleepable program arms a timer
callback, the callback's state correctly has in_sleepable=false, but
in_sleepable() would still return true due to env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable being
true. This incorrectly allows sleepable helpers like
bpf_copy_from_user() inside timer callbacks when armed from sleepable
programs, even though timer callbacks always execute in non-sleepable
context.

Fix in_sleepable() to rely solely on env-&gt;cur_state-&gt;in_sleepable, and
initialize state-&gt;in_sleepable to env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable in
do_check_common() for the main program entry. This ensures the sleepable
context is properly tracked per verification state rather than being
overridden by the program's sleepability.

The env-&gt;cur_state NULL check in in_sleepable() was only needed for
do_misc_fixups() which runs after verification when env-&gt;cur_state is
set to NULL. Update do_misc_fixups() to use env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable
directly for the storage_get_function check, and remove the redundant
NULL check from in_sleepable().

Introduce is_async_cb_sleepable() helper to explicitly determine async
callback sleepability based on the primitive type:
  - bpf_timer callbacks are never sleepable
  - bpf_wq and bpf_task_work callbacks are always sleepable

Add verifier_bug() check to catch unhandled async callback types,
ensuring future additions cannot be silently mishandled. Move the
is_task_work_add_kfunc() forward declaration to the top alongside other
callback-related helpers. We update push_async_cb() to adjust to the new
changes.

At the same time, while simplifying in_sleepable(), we notice a problem
in do_misc_fixups. Fix storage_get helpers to use GFP_ATOMIC when called
from non-sleepable contexts within sleepable programs, such as bpf_timer
callbacks.

Currently, the check in do_misc_fixups assumes that env-&gt;prog-&gt;sleepable,
previously in_sleepable(env) which only resolved to this check before
last commit, holds across the program's execution, but that is not true.
Instead, the func_atomic bit must be set whenever we see the function
being called in an atomic context. Previously, this is being done when
the helper is invoked in atomic contexts in sleepable programs, we can
simply just set the value to true without doing an in_sleepable() check.

We must also do a standalone in_sleepable() check to handle cases where
the async callback itself is armed from a sleepable program, but is
itself non-sleepable (e.g., timer callback) and invokes such a helper,
thus needing the func_atomic bit to be true for the said call.

Adjust do_misc_fixups() to drop any checks regarding sleepable nature of
the program, and just depend on the func_atomic bit to decide which GFP
flag to pass.

Fixes: 81f1d7a583fa ("bpf: wq: add bpf_wq_set_callback_impl")
Fixes: b00fa38a9c1c ("bpf: Enable non-atomic allocations in local storage")
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/20251007220349.3852807-2-memxor@gmail.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: account for current allocated stack depth in widen_imprecise_scalars()</title>
<updated>2025-11-14T17:26:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-14T02:57:29+00:00</published>
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The usage pattern for widen_imprecise_scalars() looks as follows:

    prev_st = find_prev_entry(env, ...);
    queued_st = push_stack(...);
    widen_imprecise_scalars(env, prev_st, queued_st);

Where prev_st is an ancestor of the queued_st in the explored states
tree. This ancestor is not guaranteed to have same allocated stack
depth as queued_st. E.g. in the following case:

    def main():
      for i in 1..2:
        foo(i)        // same callsite, differnt param

    def foo(i):
      if i == 1:
        use 128 bytes of stack
      iterator based loop

Here, for a second 'foo' call prev_st-&gt;allocated_stack is 128,
while queued_st-&gt;allocated_stack is much smaller.
widen_imprecise_scalars() needs to take this into account and avoid
accessing bpf_verifier_state-&gt;frame[*]-&gt;stack out of bounds.

Fixes: 2793a8b015f7 ("bpf: exact states comparison for iterator convergence checks")
Reported-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251114025730.772723-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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The usage pattern for widen_imprecise_scalars() looks as follows:

    prev_st = find_prev_entry(env, ...);
    queued_st = push_stack(...);
    widen_imprecise_scalars(env, prev_st, queued_st);

Where prev_st is an ancestor of the queued_st in the explored states
tree. This ancestor is not guaranteed to have same allocated stack
depth as queued_st. E.g. in the following case:

    def main():
      for i in 1..2:
        foo(i)        // same callsite, differnt param

    def foo(i):
      if i == 1:
        use 128 bytes of stack
      iterator based loop

Here, for a second 'foo' call prev_st-&gt;allocated_stack is 128,
while queued_st-&gt;allocated_stack is much smaller.
widen_imprecise_scalars() needs to take this into account and avoid
accessing bpf_verifier_state-&gt;frame[*]-&gt;stack out of bounds.

Fixes: 2793a8b015f7 ("bpf: exact states comparison for iterator convergence checks")
Reported-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251114025730.772723-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf:add _impl suffix for bpf_task_work_schedule* kfuncs</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T01:50:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mykyta Yatsenko</name>
<email>yatsenko@meta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T22:54:25+00:00</published>
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Rename:
bpf_task_work_schedule_resume()-&gt;bpf_task_work_schedule_resume_impl()
bpf_task_work_schedule_signal()-&gt;bpf_task_work_schedule_signal_impl()

This aligns task work scheduling kfuncs with the established naming
scheme for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux argument provided by the
verifier implicitly. This convention will be taken advantage of with the
upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to preserve backwards compatibility to
BPF programs.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-1-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
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Rename:
bpf_task_work_schedule_resume()-&gt;bpf_task_work_schedule_resume_impl()
bpf_task_work_schedule_signal()-&gt;bpf_task_work_schedule_signal_impl()

This aligns task work scheduling kfuncs with the established naming
scheme for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux argument provided by the
verifier implicitly. This convention will be taken advantage of with the
upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to preserve backwards compatibility to
BPF programs.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-1-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T22:43:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yazhou Tang</name>
<email>tangyazhou518@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T15:04:33+00:00</published>
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When verifying BPF programs, the check_alu_op() function validates
instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in these
instructions is a signed 16-bit integer.

The existing check 'insn-&gt;off &gt; 1' was intended to ensure the offset is
either 0, or 1 for BPF_MOD/BPF_DIV. However, because 'insn-&gt;off' is
signed, this check incorrectly accepts all negative values (e.g., -1).

This commit tightens the validation by changing the condition to
'(insn-&gt;off != 0 &amp;&amp; insn-&gt;off != 1)'. This ensures that any value
other than the explicitly permitted 0 and 1 is rejected, hardening the
verifier against malformed BPF programs.

Co-developed-by: Shenghao Yuan &lt;shenghaoyuan0928@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yuan &lt;shenghaoyuan0928@163.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tianci Cao &lt;ziye@zju.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tianci Cao &lt;ziye@zju.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yazhou Tang &lt;tangyazhou518@outlook.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Fixes: ec0e2da95f72 ("bpf: Support new signed div/mod instructions.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_70D024BAE70A0A309A4781694C7B764B0608@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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When verifying BPF programs, the check_alu_op() function validates
instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in these
instructions is a signed 16-bit integer.

The existing check 'insn-&gt;off &gt; 1' was intended to ensure the offset is
either 0, or 1 for BPF_MOD/BPF_DIV. However, because 'insn-&gt;off' is
signed, this check incorrectly accepts all negative values (e.g., -1).

This commit tightens the validation by changing the condition to
'(insn-&gt;off != 0 &amp;&amp; insn-&gt;off != 1)'. This ensures that any value
other than the explicitly permitted 0 and 1 is rejected, hardening the
verifier against malformed BPF programs.

Co-developed-by: Shenghao Yuan &lt;shenghaoyuan0928@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yuan &lt;shenghaoyuan0928@163.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tianci Cao &lt;ziye@zju.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tianci Cao &lt;ziye@zju.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yazhou Tang &lt;tangyazhou518@outlook.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Fixes: ec0e2da95f72 ("bpf: Support new signed div/mod instructions.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_70D024BAE70A0A309A4781694C7B764B0608@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Skip scalar adjustment for BPF_NEG if dst is a pointer</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T20:53:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brahmajit Das</name>
<email>listout@listout.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-01T19:17:38+00:00</published>
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In check_alu_op(), the verifier currently calls check_reg_arg() and
adjust_scalar_min_max_vals() unconditionally for BPF_NEG operations.
However, if the destination register holds a pointer, these scalar
adjustments are unnecessary and potentially incorrect.

This patch adds a check to skip the adjustment logic when the destination
register contains a pointer.

Reported-by: syzbot+d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58
Fixes: aced132599b3 ("bpf: Add range tracking for BPF_NEG")
Suggested-by: KaFai Wan &lt;kafai.wan@linux.dev&gt;
Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brahmajit Das &lt;listout@listout.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001191739.2323644-2-listout@listout.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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In check_alu_op(), the verifier currently calls check_reg_arg() and
adjust_scalar_min_max_vals() unconditionally for BPF_NEG operations.
However, if the destination register holds a pointer, these scalar
adjustments are unnecessary and potentially incorrect.

This patch adds a check to skip the adjustment logic when the destination
register contains a pointer.

Reported-by: syzbot+d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d36d5ae81e1b0a53ef58
Fixes: aced132599b3 ("bpf: Add range tracking for BPF_NEG")
Suggested-by: KaFai Wan &lt;kafai.wan@linux.dev&gt;
Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brahmajit Das &lt;listout@listout.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001191739.2323644-2-listout@listout.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T00:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-01T00:58:11+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc
   (Amery Hung)

   Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki)

   Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in
   the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details,
   motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit.

 - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh)

   This is another major feature that took years to materialize.

   Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao)

 - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa)

 - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and
   Puranjay Mohan)

 - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang)

 - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's
   used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong)

 - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred
   execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the
   kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya
   Dwivedi)

 - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation
   (Nandakumar Edamana)

 - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon)

 - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui)

 - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin
   Monnet)

 - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao)

 - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao
   Chen)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits)
  libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256
  selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
  selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type
  bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility
  bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header
  bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header
  libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc
  selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case
  selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton
  bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE
  selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc
  bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF
  selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes
  MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP
  bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test
  ...
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc
   (Amery Hung)

   Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki)

   Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in
   the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details,
   motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit.

 - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh)

   This is another major feature that took years to materialize.

   Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao)

 - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa)

 - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and
   Puranjay Mohan)

 - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang)

 - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's
   used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong)

 - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred
   execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the
   kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya
   Dwivedi)

 - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation
   (Nandakumar Edamana)

 - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon)

 - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui)

 - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin
   Monnet)

 - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao)

 - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao
   Chen)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits)
  libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256
  selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
  selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type
  bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility
  bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header
  bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header
  libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc
  selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case
  selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton
  bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE
  selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc
  bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF
  selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes
  MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP
  bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<title>sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:57:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-17T06:09:15+00:00</published>
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For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them
become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling
to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce
significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's
benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry):

  54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k]
                 bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry
  10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable
  10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037
  8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur
  4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall
  2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
  1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv
  1.32% [kernel] [k] fput
  1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user
  0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp

So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain
better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in
kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in
migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline.

Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1],
so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in
include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()-&gt;nr_pinned" with
"(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned".

The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h
by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c.

Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and
migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The
calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable().

The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't
access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail
in this_cpu_ptr() -&gt; raw_cpu_ptr() -&gt; __verify_pcpu_ptr():
  typeof((ptr) + 0)

So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with
arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly.

The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export
it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and
export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use
them for the modules.

Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is:

  fentry         :  113.030 ± 0.149M/s
  fentry         :  112.501 ± 0.187M/s
  fentry         :  112.828 ± 0.267M/s
  fentry         :  115.287 ± 0.241M/s

After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to:

  fentry         :  143.644 ± 0.670M/s
  fentry         :  149.764 ± 0.362M/s
  fentry         :  149.642 ± 0.156M/s
  fentry         :  145.263 ± 0.221M/s

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
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For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them
become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling
to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce
significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's
benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry):

  54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k]
                 bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry
  10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable
  10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037
  8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur
  4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall
  2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
  1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv
  1.32% [kernel] [k] fput
  1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user
  0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp

So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain
better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in
kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in
migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline.

Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1],
so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in
include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()-&gt;nr_pinned" with
"(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned".

The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h
by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c.

Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and
migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The
calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable().

The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't
access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail
in this_cpu_ptr() -&gt; raw_cpu_ptr() -&gt; __verify_pcpu_ptr():
  typeof((ptr) + 0)

So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with
arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly.

The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export
it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and
export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use
them for the modules.

Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is:

  fentry         :  113.030 ± 0.149M/s
  fentry         :  112.501 ± 0.187M/s
  fentry         :  112.828 ± 0.267M/s
  fentry         :  115.287 ± 0.241M/s

After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to:

  fentry         :  143.644 ± 0.670M/s
  fentry         :  149.764 ± 0.362M/s
  fentry         :  149.642 ± 0.156M/s
  fentry         :  145.263 ± 0.221M/s

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
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