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<title>io_uring/zcrx: implement device-less mode for zcrx</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T16:21:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-23T12:43:54+00:00</published>
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Allow creating a zcrx instance without attaching it to a net device.
All data will be copied through the fallback path. The user is also
expected to use ZCRX_CTRL_FLUSH_RQ to handle overflows as it normally
should even with a netdev, but it becomes even more relevant as there
will likely be no one to automatically pick up buffers.

Apart from that, it follows the zcrx uapi for the I/O path, and is
useful for testing, experimentation, and potentially for the copy
receive path in the future if improved.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/674f8ad679c5a0bc79d538352b3042cf0999596e.1774261953.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
[axboe: fix spelling error in uapi header and commit message]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Allow creating a zcrx instance without attaching it to a net device.
All data will be copied through the fallback path. The user is also
expected to use ZCRX_CTRL_FLUSH_RQ to handle overflows as it normally
should even with a netdev, but it becomes even more relevant as there
will likely be no one to automatically pick up buffers.

Apart from that, it follows the zcrx uapi for the I/O path, and is
useful for testing, experimentation, and potentially for the copy
receive path in the future if improved.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/674f8ad679c5a0bc79d538352b3042cf0999596e.1774261953.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
[axboe: fix spelling error in uapi header and commit message]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>io_uring/zcrx: move zcrx uapi into separate header</title>
<updated>2026-03-09T13:21:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-15T23:31:20+00:00</published>
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Split out zcrx uapi into a separate file. It'll be easier to manage it
this way, and that reduces the size of a not so small io_uring.h. Since
there are users that expect that zcrx definitions come with io_uring.h,
it includes the new file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Split out zcrx uapi into a separate file. It'll be easier to manage it
this way, and that reduces the size of a not so small io_uring.h. Since
there are users that expect that zcrx definitions come with io_uring.h,
it includes the new file.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/bpf_filter: pass in expected filter payload size</title>
<updated>2026-02-16T22:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T17:00:44+00:00</published>
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It's quite possible that opcodes that have payloads attached to them,
like IORING_OP_OPENAT/OPENAT2 or IORING_OP_SOCKET, that these paylods
can change over time. For example, on the openat/openat2 side, the
struct open_how argument is extensible, and could be extended in the
future to allow further arguments to be passed in.

Allow registration of a cBPF filter to give the size of the filter as
seen by userspace. If that filter is for an opcode that takes extra
payload data, allow it if the application payload expectation is the
same size than the kernels. If that is the case, the kernel supports
filtering on the payload that the application expects. If the size
differs, the behavior depends on the IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT flag:

1) If IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT is set and the size expectation
   differs, fail the attempt to load the filter.

2) If IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT isn't set, allow the filter if
   the userspace pdu size is smaller than what the kernel offers.

3) Regardless if IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT, fail loading the filter
   if the userspace pdu size is bigger than what the kernel supports.

An attempt to load a filter due to sizing will error with -EMSGSIZE.
For that error, the registration struct will have filter-&gt;pdu_size
populated with the pdu size that the kernel uses.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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It's quite possible that opcodes that have payloads attached to them,
like IORING_OP_OPENAT/OPENAT2 or IORING_OP_SOCKET, that these paylods
can change over time. For example, on the openat/openat2 side, the
struct open_how argument is extensible, and could be extended in the
future to allow further arguments to be passed in.

Allow registration of a cBPF filter to give the size of the filter as
seen by userspace. If that filter is for an opcode that takes extra
payload data, allow it if the application payload expectation is the
same size than the kernels. If that is the case, the kernel supports
filtering on the payload that the application expects. If the size
differs, the behavior depends on the IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT flag:

1) If IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT is set and the size expectation
   differs, fail the attempt to load the filter.

2) If IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT isn't set, allow the filter if
   the userspace pdu size is smaller than what the kernel offers.

3) Regardless if IO_URING_BPF_FILTER_SZ_STRICT, fail loading the filter
   if the userspace pdu size is bigger than what the kernel supports.

An attempt to load a filter due to sizing will error with -EMSGSIZE.
For that error, the registration struct will have filter-&gt;pdu_size
populated with the pdu size that the kernel uses.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/query: add query.h copyright notice</title>
<updated>2026-02-15T21:55:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-15T21:38:09+00:00</published>
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Add a copyright notice to io_uring's query uapi header.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add a copyright notice to io_uring's query uapi header.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring/query: return support for custom rx page size</title>
<updated>2026-02-15T21:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-15T21:34:28+00:00</published>
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Add an ability to query if the zcrx rx page size setting is available.

Note, even when the API is supported by io_uring, the registration can
still get rejected for various reasons, e.g. when the NIC or the driver
doesn't support it, when the particular specified size is unsupported,
when the memory area doesn't satisfy all requirements, etc.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add an ability to query if the zcrx rx page size setting is available.

Note, even when the API is supported by io_uring, the registration can
still get rejected for various reasons, e.g. when the NIC or the driver
doesn't support it, when the particular specified size is unsupported,
when the memory area doesn't satisfy all requirements, etc.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring/bpf_filter: allow filtering on contents of struct open_how</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T18:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-19T22:59:54+00:00</published>
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This adds custom filtering for IORING_OP_OPENAT and IORING_OP_OPENAT2,
where the open_how flags, mode, and resolve can be checked by filters.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This adds custom filtering for IORING_OP_OPENAT and IORING_OP_OPENAT2,
where the open_how flags, mode, and resolve can be checked by filters.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring/net: allow filtering on IORING_OP_SOCKET data</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T18:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-16T21:50:05+00:00</published>
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Example population method for the BPF based opcode filtering. This
exposes the socket family, type, and protocol to a registered BPF
filter. This in turn enables the filter to make decisions based on
what was passed in to the IORING_OP_SOCKET request type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Example population method for the BPF based opcode filtering. This
exposes the socket family, type, and protocol to a registered BPF
filter. This in turn enables the filter to make decisions based on
what was passed in to the IORING_OP_SOCKET request type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring: add support for BPF filtering for opcode restrictions</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T18:09:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-15T15:24:02+00:00</published>
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Add support for loading classic BPF programs with io_uring to provide
fine-grained filtering of SQE operations. Unlike
IORING_REGISTER_RESTRICTIONS which only allows bitmap-based allow/deny
of opcodes, BPF filters can inspect request attributes and make dynamic
decisions.

The filter is registered via IORING_REGISTER_BPF_FILTER with a struct
io_uring_bpf:

struct io_uring_bpf_filter {
	__u32	opcode;		/* io_uring opcode to filter */
	__u32	flags;
	__u32	filter_len;	/* number of BPF instructions */
	__u32	resv;
	__u64	filter_ptr;	/* pointer to BPF filter */
	__u64	resv2[5];
};

enum {
	IO_URING_BPF_CMD_FILTER	= 1,
};

struct io_uring_bpf {
	__u16	cmd_type;	/* IO_URING_BPF_* values */
	__u16	cmd_flags;	/* none so far */
	__u32	resv;
	union {
		struct io_uring_bpf_filter	filter;
	};
};

and the filters get supplied a struct io_uring_bpf_ctx:

struct io_uring_bpf_ctx {
	__u64	user_data;
	__u8	opcode;
	__u8	sqe_flags;
	__u8	pdu_size;
	__u8	pad[5];
};

where it's possible to filter on opcode and sqe_flags, with pdu_size
indicating how much extra data is being passed in beyond the pad field.
This will used for specific finer grained filtering inside an opcode.
An example of that for sockets is in one of the following patches.
Anything the opcode supports can end up in this struct, populated by
the opcode itself, and hence can be filtered for.

Filters have the following semantics:
  - Return 1 to allow the request
  - Return 0 to deny the request with -EACCES
  - Multiple filters can be stacked per opcode. All filters must
    return 1 for the opcode to be allowed.
  - Filters are evaluated in registration order (most recent first)

The implementation uses classic BPF (cBPF) rather than eBPF for as
that's required for containers, and since they can be used by any
user in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add support for loading classic BPF programs with io_uring to provide
fine-grained filtering of SQE operations. Unlike
IORING_REGISTER_RESTRICTIONS which only allows bitmap-based allow/deny
of opcodes, BPF filters can inspect request attributes and make dynamic
decisions.

The filter is registered via IORING_REGISTER_BPF_FILTER with a struct
io_uring_bpf:

struct io_uring_bpf_filter {
	__u32	opcode;		/* io_uring opcode to filter */
	__u32	flags;
	__u32	filter_len;	/* number of BPF instructions */
	__u32	resv;
	__u64	filter_ptr;	/* pointer to BPF filter */
	__u64	resv2[5];
};

enum {
	IO_URING_BPF_CMD_FILTER	= 1,
};

struct io_uring_bpf {
	__u16	cmd_type;	/* IO_URING_BPF_* values */
	__u16	cmd_flags;	/* none so far */
	__u32	resv;
	union {
		struct io_uring_bpf_filter	filter;
	};
};

and the filters get supplied a struct io_uring_bpf_ctx:

struct io_uring_bpf_ctx {
	__u64	user_data;
	__u8	opcode;
	__u8	sqe_flags;
	__u8	pdu_size;
	__u8	pad[5];
};

where it's possible to filter on opcode and sqe_flags, with pdu_size
indicating how much extra data is being passed in beyond the pad field.
This will used for specific finer grained filtering inside an opcode.
An example of that for sockets is in one of the following patches.
Anything the opcode supports can end up in this struct, populated by
the opcode itself, and hence can be filtered for.

Filters have the following semantics:
  - Return 1 to allow the request
  - Return 0 to deny the request with -EACCES
  - Multiple filters can be stacked per opcode. All filters must
    return 1 for the opcode to be allowed.
  - Filters are evaluated in registration order (most recent first)

The implementation uses classic BPF (cBPF) rather than eBPF for as
that's required for containers, and since they can be used by any
user in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring/query: introduce rings info query</title>
<updated>2025-11-13T18:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-13T10:48:58+00:00</published>
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Same problem as with zcrx in the previous patch, the user needs to know
SQ/CQ header sizes to allocated memory before setup to use it for user
provided rings, i.e. IORING_SETUP_NO_MMAP, however that information is
only returned after registration, hence the user is guessing kernel
implementation details.

Return the header size and alignment, which is split with the same
motivation, to allow the user to know the real structure size without
alignment in case there will be more flexible placement schemes in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Same problem as with zcrx in the previous patch, the user needs to know
SQ/CQ header sizes to allocated memory before setup to use it for user
provided rings, i.e. IORING_SETUP_NO_MMAP, however that information is
only returned after registration, hence the user is guessing kernel
implementation details.

Return the header size and alignment, which is split with the same
motivation, to allow the user to know the real structure size without
alignment in case there will be more flexible placement schemes in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring/query: introduce zcrx query</title>
<updated>2025-11-13T18:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-13T10:48:57+00:00</published>
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Add a new query type IO_URING_QUERY_ZCRX returning the user some basic
information about the interface, which includes allowed flags for areas
and registration and supported IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL subcodes.

There is also a chicken-egg problem with user provided refill queue
memory, where offsets and size information is returned after
registration, but to properly allocate memory you need to know it
beforehand, which is why the userspace currently has to guess the RQ
headers size and severely overestimates it. Return the size information.
It's split into "size" and "alignment" fields because for default
placement modes the user is interested in the aligned size, however if
it gets support for more flexible placement, it'll need to only know the
actual header size.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add a new query type IO_URING_QUERY_ZCRX returning the user some basic
information about the interface, which includes allowed flags for areas
and registration and supported IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_CTRL subcodes.

There is also a chicken-egg problem with user provided refill queue
memory, where offsets and size information is returned after
registration, but to properly allocate memory you need to know it
beforehand, which is why the userspace currently has to guess the RQ
headers size and severely overestimates it. Return the size information.
It's split into "size" and "alignment" fields because for default
placement modes the user is interested in the aligned size, however if
it gets support for more flexible placement, it'll need to only know the
actual header size.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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