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<title>bpf: Do not include stack ptr register in precision backtracking bookkeeping</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yonghong.song@linux.dev</email>
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<published>2025-05-24T04:13:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e2d2115e56c4a02377189bfc3a9a7933552a7b0f ]

Yi Lai reported an issue ([1]) where the following warning appears
in kernel dmesg:
  [   60.643604] verifier backtracking bug
  [   60.643635] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2315 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:4302 __mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
  [   60.648428] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE)
  [   60.650471] CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 2315 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G           OE       6.15.0-rc4-gef11287f8289-dirty #327 PREEMPT(full)
  [   60.654385] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
  [   60.656682] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  [   60.660475] RIP: 0010:__mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
  [   60.662814] Code: 5a 30 84 89 ea e8 c4 d9 01 00 80 3d 3e 7d d8 04 00 0f 85 60 fa ff ff c6 05 31 7d d8 04
                       01 48 c7 c7 00 58 30 84 e8 c4 06 a5 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 46 fa ff ff 48 ...
  [   60.668720] RSP: 0018:ffff888116cc7298 EFLAGS: 00010246
  [   60.671075] RAX: 54d70e82dfd31900 RBX: ffff888115b65e20 RCX: 0000000000000000
  [   60.673659] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
  [   60.676241] RBP: 0000000000000400 R08: ffff8881f6f23bd3 R09: 1ffff1103ede477a
  [   60.678787] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103ede477b R12: ffff888115b60ae8
  [   60.681420] R13: 1ffff11022b6cbc4 R14: 00000000fffffff2 R15: 0000000000000001
  [   60.684030] FS:  00007fc2aedd80c0(0000) GS:ffff88826fa8a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [   60.686837] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [   60.689027] CR2: 000056325369e000 CR3: 000000011088b002 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
  [   60.691623] Call Trace:
  [   60.692821]  &lt;TASK&gt;
  [   60.693960]  ? __pfx_verbose+0x10/0x10
  [   60.695656]  ? __pfx_disasm_kfunc_name+0x10/0x10
  [   60.697495]  check_cond_jmp_op+0x16f7/0x39b0
  [   60.699237]  do_check+0x58fa/0xab10
  ...

Further analysis shows the warning is at line 4302 as below:

  4294                 /* static subprog call instruction, which
  4295                  * means that we are exiting current subprog,
  4296                  * so only r1-r5 could be still requested as
  4297                  * precise, r0 and r6-r10 or any stack slot in
  4298                  * the current frame should be zero by now
  4299                  */
  4300                 if (bt_reg_mask(bt) &amp; ~BPF_REGMASK_ARGS) {
  4301                         verbose(env, "BUG regs %x\n", bt_reg_mask(bt));
  4302                         WARN_ONCE(1, "verifier backtracking bug");
  4303                         return -EFAULT;
  4304                 }

With the below test (also in the next patch):
  __used __naked static void __bpf_jmp_r10(void)
  {
	asm volatile (
	"r2 = 2314885393468386424 ll;"
	"goto +0;"
	"if r2 &lt;= r10 goto +3;"
	"if r1 &gt;= -1835016 goto +0;"
	"if r2 &lt;= 8 goto +0;"
	"if r3 &lt;= 0 goto +0;"
	"exit;"
	::: __clobber_all);
  }

  SEC("?raw_tp")
  __naked void bpf_jmp_r10(void)
  {
	asm volatile (
	"r3 = 0 ll;"
	"call __bpf_jmp_r10;"
	"r0 = 0;"
	"exit;"
	::: __clobber_all);
  }

The following is the verifier failure log:
  0: (18) r3 = 0x0                      ; R3_w=0
  2: (85) call pc+2
  caller:
   R10=fp0
  callee:
   frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
  5: frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
  ; asm volatile ("                                 \ @ verifier_precision.c:184
  5: (18) r2 = 0x20202000256c6c78       ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78
  7: (05) goto pc+0
  8: (bd) if r2 &lt;= r10 goto pc+3        ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78 R10=fp0
  9: (35) if r1 &gt;= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0         ; frame1: R1=ctx()
  10: (b5) if r2 &lt;= 0x8 goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: last_idx 10 first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 9: (35) if r1 &gt;= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 8: (bd) if r2 &lt;= r10 goto pc+3
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2,r10 stack= before 7: (05) goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2,r10 stack= before 5: (18) r2 = 0x20202000256c6c78
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r10 stack= before 2: (85) call pc+2
  BUG regs 400

The main failure reason is due to r10 in precision backtracking bookkeeping.
Actually r10 is always precise and there is no need to add it for the precision
backtracking bookkeeping.

One way to fix the issue is to prevent bt_set_reg() if any src/dst reg is
r10. Andrii suggested to go with push_insn_history() approach to avoid
explicitly checking r10 in backtrack_insn().

This patch added push_insn_history() support for cond_jmp like 'rX &lt;op&gt; rY'
operations. In check_cond_jmp_op(), if any of rX or rY is a stack pointer,
push_insn_history() will record such information, and later backtrack_insn()
will do bt_set_reg() properly for those register(s).

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Z%2F8q3xzpU59CIYQE@ly-workstation/

Reported by: Yi Lai &lt;yi1.lai@linux.intel.com&gt;

Fixes: 407958a0e980 ("bpf: encapsulate precision backtracking bookkeeping")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250524041335.4046126-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e2d2115e56c4a02377189bfc3a9a7933552a7b0f ]

Yi Lai reported an issue ([1]) where the following warning appears
in kernel dmesg:
  [   60.643604] verifier backtracking bug
  [   60.643635] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2315 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:4302 __mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
  [   60.648428] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE)
  [   60.650471] CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 2315 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G           OE       6.15.0-rc4-gef11287f8289-dirty #327 PREEMPT(full)
  [   60.654385] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
  [   60.656682] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  [   60.660475] RIP: 0010:__mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
  [   60.662814] Code: 5a 30 84 89 ea e8 c4 d9 01 00 80 3d 3e 7d d8 04 00 0f 85 60 fa ff ff c6 05 31 7d d8 04
                       01 48 c7 c7 00 58 30 84 e8 c4 06 a5 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 46 fa ff ff 48 ...
  [   60.668720] RSP: 0018:ffff888116cc7298 EFLAGS: 00010246
  [   60.671075] RAX: 54d70e82dfd31900 RBX: ffff888115b65e20 RCX: 0000000000000000
  [   60.673659] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
  [   60.676241] RBP: 0000000000000400 R08: ffff8881f6f23bd3 R09: 1ffff1103ede477a
  [   60.678787] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103ede477b R12: ffff888115b60ae8
  [   60.681420] R13: 1ffff11022b6cbc4 R14: 00000000fffffff2 R15: 0000000000000001
  [   60.684030] FS:  00007fc2aedd80c0(0000) GS:ffff88826fa8a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [   60.686837] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [   60.689027] CR2: 000056325369e000 CR3: 000000011088b002 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
  [   60.691623] Call Trace:
  [   60.692821]  &lt;TASK&gt;
  [   60.693960]  ? __pfx_verbose+0x10/0x10
  [   60.695656]  ? __pfx_disasm_kfunc_name+0x10/0x10
  [   60.697495]  check_cond_jmp_op+0x16f7/0x39b0
  [   60.699237]  do_check+0x58fa/0xab10
  ...

Further analysis shows the warning is at line 4302 as below:

  4294                 /* static subprog call instruction, which
  4295                  * means that we are exiting current subprog,
  4296                  * so only r1-r5 could be still requested as
  4297                  * precise, r0 and r6-r10 or any stack slot in
  4298                  * the current frame should be zero by now
  4299                  */
  4300                 if (bt_reg_mask(bt) &amp; ~BPF_REGMASK_ARGS) {
  4301                         verbose(env, "BUG regs %x\n", bt_reg_mask(bt));
  4302                         WARN_ONCE(1, "verifier backtracking bug");
  4303                         return -EFAULT;
  4304                 }

With the below test (also in the next patch):
  __used __naked static void __bpf_jmp_r10(void)
  {
	asm volatile (
	"r2 = 2314885393468386424 ll;"
	"goto +0;"
	"if r2 &lt;= r10 goto +3;"
	"if r1 &gt;= -1835016 goto +0;"
	"if r2 &lt;= 8 goto +0;"
	"if r3 &lt;= 0 goto +0;"
	"exit;"
	::: __clobber_all);
  }

  SEC("?raw_tp")
  __naked void bpf_jmp_r10(void)
  {
	asm volatile (
	"r3 = 0 ll;"
	"call __bpf_jmp_r10;"
	"r0 = 0;"
	"exit;"
	::: __clobber_all);
  }

The following is the verifier failure log:
  0: (18) r3 = 0x0                      ; R3_w=0
  2: (85) call pc+2
  caller:
   R10=fp0
  callee:
   frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
  5: frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
  ; asm volatile ("                                 \ @ verifier_precision.c:184
  5: (18) r2 = 0x20202000256c6c78       ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78
  7: (05) goto pc+0
  8: (bd) if r2 &lt;= r10 goto pc+3        ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78 R10=fp0
  9: (35) if r1 &gt;= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0         ; frame1: R1=ctx()
  10: (b5) if r2 &lt;= 0x8 goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: last_idx 10 first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 9: (35) if r1 &gt;= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 8: (bd) if r2 &lt;= r10 goto pc+3
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2,r10 stack= before 7: (05) goto pc+0
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2,r10 stack= before 5: (18) r2 = 0x20202000256c6c78
  mark_precise: frame1: regs=r10 stack= before 2: (85) call pc+2
  BUG regs 400

The main failure reason is due to r10 in precision backtracking bookkeeping.
Actually r10 is always precise and there is no need to add it for the precision
backtracking bookkeeping.

One way to fix the issue is to prevent bt_set_reg() if any src/dst reg is
r10. Andrii suggested to go with push_insn_history() approach to avoid
explicitly checking r10 in backtrack_insn().

This patch added push_insn_history() support for cond_jmp like 'rX &lt;op&gt; rY'
operations. In check_cond_jmp_op(), if any of rX or rY is a stack pointer,
push_insn_history() will record such information, and later backtrack_insn()
will do bt_set_reg() properly for those register(s).

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Z%2F8q3xzpU59CIYQE@ly-workstation/

Reported by: Yi Lai &lt;yi1.lai@linux.intel.com&gt;

Fixes: 407958a0e980 ("bpf: encapsulate precision backtracking bookkeeping")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250524041335.4046126-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Avoid __bpf_prog_ret0_warn when jit fails</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KaFai Wan</name>
<email>mannkafai@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T13:33:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86bc9c742426a16b52a10ef61f5b721aecca2344 ]

syzkaller reported an issue:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 217 at kernel/bpf/core.c:2357 __bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 217 Comm: kworker/u32:6 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00040-g8bac8898fe39
RIP: 0010:__bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1316 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:718 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]
 cls_bpf_classify+0x74a/0x1110 net/sched/cls_bpf.c:105
 ...

When creating bpf program, 'fp-&gt;jit_requested' depends on bpf_jit_enable.
This issue is triggered because of CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is not set
and bpf_jit_enable is set to 1, causing the arch to attempt JIT the prog,
but jit failed due to FAULT_INJECTION. As a result, incorrectly
treats the program as valid, when the program runs it calls
`__bpf_prog_ret0_warn` and triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(1).

Reported-by: syzbot+0903f6d7f285e41cdf10@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/6816e34e.a70a0220.254cdc.002c.GAE@google.com
Fixes: fa9dd599b4da ("bpf: get rid of pure_initcall dependency to enable jits")
Signed-off-by: KaFai Wan &lt;mannkafai@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250526133358.2594176-1-mannkafai@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 86bc9c742426a16b52a10ef61f5b721aecca2344 ]

syzkaller reported an issue:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 217 at kernel/bpf/core.c:2357 __bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 217 Comm: kworker/u32:6 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00040-g8bac8898fe39
RIP: 0010:__bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1316 [inline]
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:718 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]
 cls_bpf_classify+0x74a/0x1110 net/sched/cls_bpf.c:105
 ...

When creating bpf program, 'fp-&gt;jit_requested' depends on bpf_jit_enable.
This issue is triggered because of CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is not set
and bpf_jit_enable is set to 1, causing the arch to attempt JIT the prog,
but jit failed due to FAULT_INJECTION. As a result, incorrectly
treats the program as valid, when the program runs it calls
`__bpf_prog_ret0_warn` and triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(1).

Reported-by: syzbot+0903f6d7f285e41cdf10@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/6816e34e.a70a0220.254cdc.002c.GAE@google.com
Fixes: fa9dd599b4da ("bpf: get rid of pure_initcall dependency to enable jits")
Signed-off-by: KaFai Wan &lt;mannkafai@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250526133358.2594176-1-mannkafai@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: Allow XDP dev-bound programs to perform XDP_REDIRECT into maps</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Bianconi</name>
<email>lorenzo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-28T15:44:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 714070c4cb7a10ff57450a618a936775f3036245 ]

In the current implementation if the program is dev-bound to a specific
device, it will not be possible to perform XDP_REDIRECT into a DEVMAP
or CPUMAP even if the program is running in the driver NAPI context and
it is not attached to any map entry. This seems in contrast with the
explanation available in bpf_prog_map_compatible routine.
Fix the issue introducing __bpf_prog_map_compatible utility routine in
order to avoid bpf_prog_is_dev_bound() check running bpf_check_tail_call()
at program load time (bpf_prog_select_runtime()).
Continue forbidding to attach a dev-bound program to XDP maps
(BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY, BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP and BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP).

Fixes: 3d76a4d3d4e59 ("bpf: XDP metadata RX kfuncs")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 714070c4cb7a10ff57450a618a936775f3036245 ]

In the current implementation if the program is dev-bound to a specific
device, it will not be possible to perform XDP_REDIRECT into a DEVMAP
or CPUMAP even if the program is running in the driver NAPI context and
it is not attached to any map entry. This seems in contrast with the
explanation available in bpf_prog_map_compatible routine.
Fix the issue introducing __bpf_prog_map_compatible utility routine in
order to avoid bpf_prog_is_dev_bound() check running bpf_check_tail_call()
at program load time (bpf_prog_select_runtime()).
Continue forbidding to attach a dev-bound program to XDP maps
(BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY, BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP and BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP).

Fixes: 3d76a4d3d4e59 ("bpf: XDP metadata RX kfuncs")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add namespace to BPF internal symbols</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T16:21:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-25T01:45:42+00:00</published>
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Add namespace to BPF internal symbols used by light skeleton
to prevent abuse and document with the code their allowed usage.

Fixes: b1d18a7574d0 ("bpf: Extend sys_bpf commands for bpf_syscall programs.")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250425014542.62385-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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Add namespace to BPF internal symbols used by light skeleton
to prevent abuse and document with the code their allowed usage.

Fixes: b1d18a7574d0 ("bpf: Extend sys_bpf commands for bpf_syscall programs.")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250425014542.62385-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: fix possible endless loop in BPF map iteration</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T15:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brandon Kammerdiener</name>
<email>brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-24T15:32:51+00:00</published>
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The _safe variant used here gets the next element before running the callback,
avoiding the endless loop condition.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Kammerdiener &lt;brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424153246.141677-2-brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
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The _safe variant used here gets the next element before running the callback,
avoiding the endless loop condition.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Kammerdiener &lt;brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424153246.141677-2-brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Convert ringbuf map to rqspinlock</title>
<updated>2025-04-11T17:28:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-11T10:17:59+00:00</published>
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Convert the raw spinlock used by BPF ringbuf to rqspinlock. Currently,
we have an open syzbot report of a potential deadlock. In addition, the
ringbuf can fail to reserve spuriously under contention from NMI
context.

It is potentially attractive to enable unconstrained usage (incl. NMIs)
while ensuring no deadlocks manifest at runtime, perform the conversion
to rqspinlock to achieve this.

This change was benchmarked for BPF ringbuf's multi-producer contention
case on an Intel Sapphire Rapids server, with hyperthreading disabled
and performance governor turned on. 5 warm up runs were done for each
case before obtaining the results.

Before (raw_spinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.440 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.706 ± 0.010M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.130 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.472 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.352 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.813 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 1.988 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.245 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.148 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.190 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.490 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.180 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.201 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.226 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.164 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.874 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)

After (rqspinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.078 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.16%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.801 ± 0.014M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.51%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.454 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.35%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.567 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.84%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.468 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.93%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.510 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-10.77%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 2.075 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.38%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.640 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (17.59%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.092 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-2.61%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.426 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.331 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.39%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.306 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (5.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.178 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-1.04%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.293 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.01%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.022 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.56%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.809 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.47%)

There's a fair amount of noise in the benchmark, with numbers on reruns
going up and down by 10%, so all changes are in the range of this
disturbance, and we see no major regressions.

Reported-by: syzbot+850aaf14624dc0c6d366@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004aa700061379547e@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411101759.4061366-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert the raw spinlock used by BPF ringbuf to rqspinlock. Currently,
we have an open syzbot report of a potential deadlock. In addition, the
ringbuf can fail to reserve spuriously under contention from NMI
context.

It is potentially attractive to enable unconstrained usage (incl. NMIs)
while ensuring no deadlocks manifest at runtime, perform the conversion
to rqspinlock to achieve this.

This change was benchmarked for BPF ringbuf's multi-producer contention
case on an Intel Sapphire Rapids server, with hyperthreading disabled
and performance governor turned on. 5 warm up runs were done for each
case before obtaining the results.

Before (raw_spinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.440 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.706 ± 0.010M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.130 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.472 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.352 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.813 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 1.988 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.245 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.148 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.190 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.490 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.180 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.201 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.226 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.164 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.874 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)

After (rqspinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.078 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.16%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.801 ± 0.014M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.51%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.454 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.35%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.567 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.84%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.468 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.93%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.510 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-10.77%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 2.075 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.38%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.640 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (17.59%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.092 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-2.61%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.426 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.331 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.39%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.306 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (5.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.178 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-1.04%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.293 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.01%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.022 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.56%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.809 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.47%)

There's a fair amount of noise in the benchmark, with numbers on reruns
going up and down by 10%, so all changes are in the range of this
disturbance, and we see no major regressions.

Reported-by: syzbot+850aaf14624dc0c6d366@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004aa700061379547e@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411101759.4061366-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Convert queue_stack map to rqspinlock</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T19:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-10T15:31:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2f41503d647629cfafea42cf6f827e4139536703'/>
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Replace all usage of raw_spinlock_t in queue_stack_maps.c with
rqspinlock. This is a map type with a set of open syzbot reports
reproducing possible deadlocks. Prior attempt to fix the issues
was at [0], but was dropped in favor of this approach.

Make sure we return the -EBUSY error in case of possible deadlocks or
timeouts, just to make sure user space or BPF programs relying on the
error code to detect problems do not break.

With these changes, the map should be safe to access in any context,
including NMIs.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240429165658.1305969-1-sidchintamaneni@gmail.com

Reported-by: syzbot+8bdfc2c53fb2b63e1871@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004c3fc90615f37756@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+252bc5c744d0bba917e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000c80abd0616517df9@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410153142.2064340-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace all usage of raw_spinlock_t in queue_stack_maps.c with
rqspinlock. This is a map type with a set of open syzbot reports
reproducing possible deadlocks. Prior attempt to fix the issues
was at [0], but was dropped in favor of this approach.

Make sure we return the -EBUSY error in case of possible deadlocks or
timeouts, just to make sure user space or BPF programs relying on the
error code to detect problems do not break.

With these changes, the map should be safe to access in any context,
including NMIs.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240429165658.1305969-1-sidchintamaneni@gmail.com

Reported-by: syzbot+8bdfc2c53fb2b63e1871@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004c3fc90615f37756@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+252bc5c744d0bba917e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000c80abd0616517df9@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410153142.2064340-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Use architecture provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T19:47:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-10T14:55:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=92b90f780d056a28f3c751c2dfbcd9540c7ae28a'/>
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In v2 of rqspinlock [0], we fixed potential problems with WFE usage in
arm64 to fallback to a version copied from Ankur's series [1]. This
logic was moved into arch-specific headers in v3 [2].

However, we missed using the arch-provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire
in commit ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
due to a rebasing mistake between v2 and v3 of the rqspinlock series.
Fix the typo to fallback to the arm64 definition as we did in v2.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250206105435.2159977-18-memxor@gmail.com
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250203214911.898276-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
  [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250303152305.3195648-9-memxor@gmail.com

Fixes: ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410145512.1876745-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<pre>
In v2 of rqspinlock [0], we fixed potential problems with WFE usage in
arm64 to fallback to a version copied from Ankur's series [1]. This
logic was moved into arch-specific headers in v3 [2].

However, we missed using the arch-provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire
in commit ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
due to a rebasing mistake between v2 and v3 of the rqspinlock series.
Fix the typo to fallback to the arm64 definition as we did in v2.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250206105435.2159977-18-memxor@gmail.com
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250203214911.898276-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
  [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250303152305.3195648-9-memxor@gmail.com

Fixes: ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410145512.1876745-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T20:45:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=aa918db707fba507e85217961643281ee8dfb2ed'/>
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Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
  of help from Michal and Shakeel.

  This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
  slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
  make page allocator safe from any context.

  Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/

  and we continued at LSFMM 2025:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/

  Why:

  SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
  unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
  consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
  1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
  map preallocation won't be necessary.

  How:

  Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
  fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -&gt; slab_alloc -&gt; new_slab -&gt; alloc_pages -&gt;
  rmqueue_pcplist -&gt; __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
  relying on trylock.

  This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
  return ENOMEM if alloc_flags &amp; ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
  functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
  logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.

  End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
  from any context.

  try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
  follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
  Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
  this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
  small objects (up to one page in size) is high.

  Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
  BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
  BPF"

* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
  bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
  mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
  memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
  mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
  mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
  locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
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<pre>
Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
  of help from Michal and Shakeel.

  This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
  slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
  make page allocator safe from any context.

  Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/

  and we continued at LSFMM 2025:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/

  Why:

  SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
  unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
  consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
  1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
  map preallocation won't be necessary.

  How:

  Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
  fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -&gt; slab_alloc -&gt; new_slab -&gt; alloc_pages -&gt;
  rmqueue_pcplist -&gt; __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
  relying on trylock.

  This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
  return ENOMEM if alloc_flags &amp; ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
  functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
  logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.

  End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
  from any context.

  try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
  follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
  Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
  this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
  small objects (up to one page in size) is high.

  Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
  BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
  BPF"

* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
  bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
  mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
  memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
  mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
  mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
  locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
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</content>
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<title>Merge tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:06:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-03-30T20:06:27+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock
  with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs).

  This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled
  state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress.
  This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock
  situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the
  lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress.
  Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant
  recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of
  defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting
  loop of a lock slow path.

  Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel
  can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the
  likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy.
  There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in
  internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can
  be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF
  subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are
  mitigated at runtime.

  This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and
  remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when
  nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across
  different contexts.

  We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform
  comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case,
  we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all
  spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such,
  benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock.

  More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e932 ("Merge branch
  'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")"

* tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock
  bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock
  bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock
  bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs
  bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock
  rqspinlock: Add locktorture support
  rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS
  rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage
  rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT
  rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback
  rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls
  rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64
  rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts
  rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support
  rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header
  ...
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Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock
  with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs).

  This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled
  state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress.
  This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock
  situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the
  lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress.
  Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant
  recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of
  defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting
  loop of a lock slow path.

  Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel
  can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the
  likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy.
  There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in
  internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can
  be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF
  subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are
  mitigated at runtime.

  This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and
  remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when
  nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across
  different contexts.

  We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform
  comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case,
  we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all
  spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such,
  benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock.

  More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e932 ("Merge branch
  'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")"

* tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock
  bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock
  bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock
  bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs
  bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock
  rqspinlock: Add locktorture support
  rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS
  rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage
  rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT
  rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback
  rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls
  rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64
  rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts
  rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support
  rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header
  ...
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