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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add support for program extensions</title>
<updated>2020-01-22T22:04:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-21T00:53:47+00:00</published>
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Add minimal support for program extensions. bpf_object_open_opts() needs to be
called with attach_prog_fd = target_prog_fd and BPF program extension needs to
have in .c file section definition like SEC("freplace/func_to_be_replaced").
libbpf will search for "func_to_be_replaced" in the target_prog_fd's BTF and
will pass it in attach_btf_id to the kernel. This approach works for tests, but
more compex use case may need to request function name (and attach_btf_id that
kernel sees) to be more dynamic. Such API will be added in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200121005348.2769920-3-ast@kernel.org
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Add minimal support for program extensions. bpf_object_open_opts() needs to be
called with attach_prog_fd = target_prog_fd and BPF program extension needs to
have in .c file section definition like SEC("freplace/func_to_be_replaced").
libbpf will search for "func_to_be_replaced" in the target_prog_fd's BTF and
will pass it in attach_btf_id to the kernel. This approach works for tests, but
more compex use case may need to request function name (and attach_btf_id that
kernel sees) to be more dynamic. Such API will be added in future patches.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200121005348.2769920-3-ast@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Fix unneeded extra initialization in bpf_map_batch_common</title>
<updated>2020-01-16T14:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Vazquez</name>
<email>brianvv@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T04:59:18+00:00</published>
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bpf_attr doesn't required to be declared with '= {}' as memset is used
in the code.

Fixes: 2ab3d86ea1859 ("libbpf: Add libbpf support to batch ops")
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200116045918.75597-1-brianvv@google.com
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bpf_attr doesn't required to be declared with '= {}' as memset is used
in the code.

Fixes: 2ab3d86ea1859 ("libbpf: Add libbpf support to batch ops")
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez &lt;brianvv@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200116045918.75597-1-brianvv@google.com
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add libbpf support to batch ops</title>
<updated>2020-01-15T22:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-15T18:43:06+00:00</published>
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Added four libbpf API functions to support map batch operations:
  . int bpf_map_delete_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_lookup_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_update_batch( ... )

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200115184308.162644-8-brianvv@google.com
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Added four libbpf API functions to support map batch operations:
  . int bpf_map_delete_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_lookup_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_batch( ... )
  . int bpf_map_update_batch( ... )

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200115184308.162644-8-brianvv@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Poison kernel-only integer types</title>
<updated>2020-01-10T18:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-10T18:19:16+00:00</published>
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It's been a recurring issue with types like u32 slipping into libbpf source
code accidentally. This is not detected during builds inside kernel source
tree, but becomes a compilation error in libbpf's Github repo. Libbpf is
supposed to use only __{s,u}{8,16,32,64} typedefs, so poison {s,u}{8,16,32,64}
explicitly in every .c file. Doing that in a bit more centralized way, e.g.,
inside libbpf_internal.h breaks selftests, which are both using kernel u32 and
libbpf_internal.h.

This patch also fixes a new u32 occurence in libbpf.c, added recently.

Fixes: 590a00888250 ("bpf: libbpf: Add STRUCT_OPS support")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200110181916.271446-1-andriin@fb.com
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It's been a recurring issue with types like u32 slipping into libbpf source
code accidentally. This is not detected during builds inside kernel source
tree, but becomes a compilation error in libbpf's Github repo. Libbpf is
supposed to use only __{s,u}{8,16,32,64} typedefs, so poison {s,u}{8,16,32,64}
explicitly in every .c file. Doing that in a bit more centralized way, e.g.,
inside libbpf_internal.h breaks selftests, which are both using kernel u32 and
libbpf_internal.h.

This patch also fixes a new u32 occurence in libbpf.c, added recently.

Fixes: 590a00888250 ("bpf: libbpf: Add STRUCT_OPS support")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200110181916.271446-1-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: libbpf: Add STRUCT_OPS support</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T16:46:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>kafai@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-09T00:35:14+00:00</published>
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This patch adds BPF STRUCT_OPS support to libbpf.

The only sec_name convention is SEC(".struct_ops") to identify the
struct_ops implemented in BPF,
e.g. To implement a tcp_congestion_ops:

SEC(".struct_ops")
struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp = {
	.init           = (void *)dctcp_init,  /* &lt;-- a bpf_prog */
	/* ... some more func prts ... */
	.name           = "bpf_dctcp",
};

Each struct_ops is defined as a global variable under SEC(".struct_ops")
as above.  libbpf creates a map for each variable and the variable name
is the map's name.  Multiple struct_ops is supported under
SEC(".struct_ops").

In the bpf_object__open phase, libbpf will look for the SEC(".struct_ops")
section and find out what is the btf-type the struct_ops is
implementing.  Note that the btf-type here is referring to
a type in the bpf_prog.o's btf.  A "struct bpf_map" is added
by bpf_object__add_map() as other maps do.  It will then
collect (through SHT_REL) where are the bpf progs that the
func ptrs are referring to.  No btf_vmlinux is needed in
the open phase.

In the bpf_object__load phase, the map-fields, which depend
on the btf_vmlinux, are initialized (in bpf_map__init_kern_struct_ops()).
It will also set the prog-&gt;type, prog-&gt;attach_btf_id, and
prog-&gt;expected_attach_type.  Thus, the prog's properties do
not rely on its section name.
[ Currently, the bpf_prog's btf-type ==&gt; btf_vmlinux's btf-type matching
  process is as simple as: member-name match + btf-kind match + size match.
  If these matching conditions fail, libbpf will reject.
  The current targeting support is "struct tcp_congestion_ops" which
  most of its members are function pointers.
  The member ordering of the bpf_prog's btf-type can be different from
  the btf_vmlinux's btf-type. ]

Then, all obj-&gt;maps are created as usual (in bpf_object__create_maps()).

Once the maps are created and prog's properties are all set,
the libbpf will proceed to load all the progs.

bpf_map__attach_struct_ops() is added to register a struct_ops
map to a kernel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200109003514.3856730-1-kafai@fb.com
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This patch adds BPF STRUCT_OPS support to libbpf.

The only sec_name convention is SEC(".struct_ops") to identify the
struct_ops implemented in BPF,
e.g. To implement a tcp_congestion_ops:

SEC(".struct_ops")
struct tcp_congestion_ops dctcp = {
	.init           = (void *)dctcp_init,  /* &lt;-- a bpf_prog */
	/* ... some more func prts ... */
	.name           = "bpf_dctcp",
};

Each struct_ops is defined as a global variable under SEC(".struct_ops")
as above.  libbpf creates a map for each variable and the variable name
is the map's name.  Multiple struct_ops is supported under
SEC(".struct_ops").

In the bpf_object__open phase, libbpf will look for the SEC(".struct_ops")
section and find out what is the btf-type the struct_ops is
implementing.  Note that the btf-type here is referring to
a type in the bpf_prog.o's btf.  A "struct bpf_map" is added
by bpf_object__add_map() as other maps do.  It will then
collect (through SHT_REL) where are the bpf progs that the
func ptrs are referring to.  No btf_vmlinux is needed in
the open phase.

In the bpf_object__load phase, the map-fields, which depend
on the btf_vmlinux, are initialized (in bpf_map__init_kern_struct_ops()).
It will also set the prog-&gt;type, prog-&gt;attach_btf_id, and
prog-&gt;expected_attach_type.  Thus, the prog's properties do
not rely on its section name.
[ Currently, the bpf_prog's btf-type ==&gt; btf_vmlinux's btf-type matching
  process is as simple as: member-name match + btf-kind match + size match.
  If these matching conditions fail, libbpf will reject.
  The current targeting support is "struct tcp_congestion_ops" which
  most of its members are function pointers.
  The member ordering of the bpf_prog's btf-type can be different from
  the btf_vmlinux's btf-type. ]

Then, all obj-&gt;maps are created as usual (in bpf_object__create_maps()).

Once the maps are created and prog's properties are all set,
the libbpf will proceed to load all the progs.

bpf_map__attach_struct_ops() is added to register a struct_ops
map to a kernel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200109003514.3856730-1-kafai@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Introduce bpf_prog_attach_xattr</title>
<updated>2019-12-20T05:22:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ignatov</name>
<email>rdna@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-19T07:44:36+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new bpf_prog_attach_xattr function that, in addition to
program fd, target fd and attach type, accepts an extendable struct
bpf_prog_attach_opts.

bpf_prog_attach_opts relies on DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro to maintain
backward and forward compatibility and has the following "optional"
attach attributes:

* existing attach_flags, since it's not required when attaching in NONE
  mode. Even though it's quite often used in MULTI and OVERRIDE mode it
  seems to be a good idea to reduce number of arguments to
  bpf_prog_attach_xattr;

* newly introduced attribute of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command: replace_prog_fd
  that is fd of previously attached cgroup-bpf program to replace if
  BPF_F_REPLACE flag is used.

The new function is named to be consistent with other xattr-functions
(bpf_prog_test_run_xattr, bpf_create_map_xattr, bpf_load_program_xattr).

The struct bpf_prog_attach_opts is supposed to be used with
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov &lt;rdna@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/bd6e0732303eb14e4b79cb128268d9e9ad6db208.1576741281.git.rdna@fb.com
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Introduce a new bpf_prog_attach_xattr function that, in addition to
program fd, target fd and attach type, accepts an extendable struct
bpf_prog_attach_opts.

bpf_prog_attach_opts relies on DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro to maintain
backward and forward compatibility and has the following "optional"
attach attributes:

* existing attach_flags, since it's not required when attaching in NONE
  mode. Even though it's quite often used in MULTI and OVERRIDE mode it
  seems to be a good idea to reduce number of arguments to
  bpf_prog_attach_xattr;

* newly introduced attribute of BPF_PROG_ATTACH command: replace_prog_fd
  that is fd of previously attached cgroup-bpf program to replace if
  BPF_F_REPLACE flag is used.

The new function is named to be consistent with other xattr-functions
(bpf_prog_test_run_xattr, bpf_create_map_xattr, bpf_load_program_xattr).

The struct bpf_prog_attach_opts is supposed to be used with
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov &lt;rdna@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/bd6e0732303eb14e4b79cb128268d9e9ad6db208.1576741281.git.rdna@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add support for attaching BPF programs to other BPF programs</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T22:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T18:57:18+00:00</published>
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Extend libbpf api to pass attach_prog_fd into bpf_object__open.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191114185720.1641606-19-ast@kernel.org
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Extend libbpf api to pass attach_prog_fd into bpf_object__open.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191114185720.1641606-19-ast@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Fix potential overflow issue</title>
<updated>2019-11-07T15:20:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-07T02:08:52+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix a potential overflow issue found by LGTM analysis, based on Github libbpf
source code.

Fixes: 3d65014146c6 ("bpf: libbpf: Add btf_line_info support to libbpf")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191107020855.3834758-3-andriin@fb.com
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Fix a potential overflow issue found by LGTM analysis, based on Github libbpf
source code.

Fixes: 3d65014146c6 ("bpf: libbpf: Add btf_line_info support to libbpf")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191107020855.3834758-3-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add support for prog_tracing</title>
<updated>2019-10-31T14:16:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-30T22:32:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=12a8654b2e5aab37b22c9608d008f9f0565862c0'/>
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Cleanup libbpf from expected_attach_type == attach_btf_id hack
and introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191030223212.953010-3-ast@kernel.org
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Cleanup libbpf from expected_attach_type == attach_btf_id hack
and introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191030223212.953010-3-ast@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Auto-detect btf_id of BTF-based raw_tracepoints</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T14:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-16T03:24:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f75a697e091375c96c35f733a664e3557171f28b'/>
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It's a responsiblity of bpf program author to annotate the program
with SEC("tp_btf/name") where "name" is a valid raw tracepoint.
The libbpf will try to find "name" in vmlinux BTF and error out
in case vmlinux BTF is not available or "name" is not found.
If "name" is indeed a valid raw tracepoint then in-kernel BTF
will have "btf_trace_##name" typedef that points to function
prototype of that raw tracepoint. BTF description captures
exact argument the kernel C code is passing into raw tracepoint.
The kernel verifier will check the types while loading bpf program.

libbpf keeps BTF type id in expected_attach_type, but since
kernel ignores this attribute for tracing programs copy it
into attach_btf_id attribute before loading.

Later the kernel will use prog-&gt;attach_btf_id to select raw tracepoint
during bpf_raw_tracepoint_open syscall command.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191016032505.2089704-6-ast@kernel.org
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It's a responsiblity of bpf program author to annotate the program
with SEC("tp_btf/name") where "name" is a valid raw tracepoint.
The libbpf will try to find "name" in vmlinux BTF and error out
in case vmlinux BTF is not available or "name" is not found.
If "name" is indeed a valid raw tracepoint then in-kernel BTF
will have "btf_trace_##name" typedef that points to function
prototype of that raw tracepoint. BTF description captures
exact argument the kernel C code is passing into raw tracepoint.
The kernel verifier will check the types while loading bpf program.

libbpf keeps BTF type id in expected_attach_type, but since
kernel ignores this attribute for tracing programs copy it
into attach_btf_id attribute before loading.

Later the kernel will use prog-&gt;attach_btf_id to select raw tracepoint
during bpf_raw_tracepoint_open syscall command.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191016032505.2089704-6-ast@kernel.org
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