History log of /linux-master/scripts/bpf_doc.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 5384cc0d 14-Mar-2024 Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>

scripts/bpf_doc: Use silent mode when exec make cmd

When getting kernel version via make, the result may be polluted by other
output, like directory change info. e.g.

$ export MAKEFLAGS="-w"
$ make kernelversion
make: Entering directory '/home/net'
6.8.0
make: Leaving directory '/home/net'

This will distort the reStructuredText output and make latter rst2man
failed like:

[...]
bpf-helpers.rst:20: (WARNING/2) Field list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
[...]

Using silent mode would help. e.g.

$ make -s --no-print-directory kernelversion
6.8.0

Fixes: fd0a38f9c37d ("scripts/bpf: Set version attribute for bpf-helpers(7) man page")
Signed-off-by: Michael Hofmann <mhofmann@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240315023443.2364442-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com


# ff2071a7 27-Jan-2024 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>

bpf: Generate const static pointers for kernel helpers

The generated bpf_helper_defs.h file currently contains definitions
like this for the kernel helpers, which are static objects:

static void *(*bpf_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, const void *key) = (void *) 1;

These work well in both clang and GCC because both compilers do
constant propagation with -O1 and higher optimization, resulting in
`call 1' BPF instructions being generated, which are calls to kernel
helpers.

However, there is a discrepancy on how the -Wunused-variable
warning (activated by -Wall) is handled in these compilers:

- clang will not emit -Wunused-variable warnings for static variables
defined in C header files, be them constant or not constant.

- GCC will not emit -Wunused-variable warnings for _constant_ static
variables defined in header files, but it will emit warnings for
non-constant static variables defined in header files.

There is no reason for these bpf_helpers_def.h pointers to not be
declared constant, and it is actually desirable to do so, since their
values are not to be changed. So this patch modifies bpf_doc.py to
generate prototypes like:

static void *(* const bpf_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, const void *key) = (void *) 1;

This allows GCC to not error while compiling BPF programs with `-Wall
-Werror', while still being able to detect and error on legitimate
unused variables in the program themselves.

This change doesn't impact the desired constant propagation in neither
Clang nor GCC with -O1 and higher. On the contrary, being declared as
constant may increase the odds they get constant folded when
used/referred to in certain circumstances.

Tested in bpf-next master.
No regressions.

Signed-off-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240127185031.29854-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com


# e37243b6 13-Feb-2024 Gianmarco Lusvardi <glusvardi@posteo.net>

bpf, scripts: Correct GPL license name

The bpf_doc script refers to the GPL as the "GNU Privacy License".
I strongly suspect that the author wanted to refer to the GNU General
Public License, under which the Linux kernel is released, as, to the
best of my knowledge, there is no license named "GNU Privacy License".
This patch corrects the license name in the script accordingly.

Fixes: 56a092c89505 ("bpf: add script and prepare bpf.h for new helpers documentation")
Signed-off-by: Gianmarco Lusvardi <glusvardi@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240213230544.930018-3-glusvardi@posteo.net


# 121fd33b 29-Aug-2023 Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com>

bpf, docs: Fix invalid escape sequence warnings in bpf_doc.py

The script bpf_doc.py generates multiple SyntaxWarnings related to invalid
escape sequences when executed with Python 3.12. These warnings do not appear
in Python 3.10 and 3.11 and do not affect the kernel build, which completes
successfully.

This patch resolves these SyntaxWarnings by converting the relevant string
literals to raw strings or by escaping backslashes. This ensures that
backslashes are interpreted as literal characters, eliminating the warnings.

Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Tested-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230829074931.2511204-1-vishalc@linux.ibm.com


# eafa9215 11-Apr-2023 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

bpf: Remove extra whitespace in SPDX tag for syscall/helpers man pages

There is an extra whitespace in the SPDX tag, before the license name,
in the script for generating man pages for the bpf() syscall and the
helpers. It has caused problems in Debian packaging, in the tool that
autodetects licenses. Let's clean it up.

Fixes: 5cb62b7598f2 ("bpf, docs: Use SPDX license identifier in bpf_doc.py")
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230411144747.66734-1-quentin@isovalent.com


# 5fbea423 08-Jan-2023 Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>

bpf_doc: Fix build error with older python versions

The ability to subscript match result as an array is only available
since python 3.6. Existing code in bpf_doc uses the older group()
interface but commit 8a76145a2ec2 adds code using the new interface.

Use the old interface consistently to avoid build error on older
distributions like the below:

+ make -j48 -s -C /dev/shm/kbuild/linux.33946/current ARCH=powerpc HOSTCC=gcc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64-suse-linux- clean
TypeError: '_sre.SRE_Match' object is not subscriptable

Fixes: 8a76145a2ec2 ("bpf: explicitly define BPF_FUNC_xxx integer values")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230109113442.20946-1-msuchanek@suse.de


# 27060531 07-Dec-2022 Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

bpf: Rework process_dynptr_func

Recently, user ringbuf support introduced a PTR_TO_DYNPTR register type
for use in callback state, because in case of user ringbuf helpers,
there is no dynptr on the stack that is passed into the callback. To
reflect such a state, a special register type was created.

However, some checks have been bypassed incorrectly during the addition
of this feature. First, for arg_type with MEM_UNINIT flag which
initialize a dynptr, they must be rejected for such register type.
Secondly, in the future, there are plans to add dynptr helpers that
operate on the dynptr itself and may change its offset and other
properties.

In all of these cases, PTR_TO_DYNPTR shouldn't be allowed to be passed
to such helpers, however the current code simply returns 0.

The rejection for helpers that release the dynptr is already handled.

For fixing this, we take a step back and rework existing code in a way
that will allow fitting in all classes of helpers and have a coherent
model for dealing with the variety of use cases in which dynptr is used.

First, for ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR, it can either be set alone or together
with a DYNPTR_TYPE_* constant that denotes the only type it accepts.

Next, helpers which initialize a dynptr use MEM_UNINIT to indicate this
fact. To make the distinction clear, use MEM_RDONLY flag to indicate
that the helper only operates on the memory pointed to by the dynptr,
not the dynptr itself. In C parlance, it would be equivalent to taking
the dynptr as a point to const argument.

When either of these flags are not present, the helper is allowed to
mutate both the dynptr itself and also the memory it points to.
Currently, the read only status of the memory is not tracked in the
dynptr, but it would be trivial to add this support inside dynptr state
of the register.

With these changes and renaming PTR_TO_DYNPTR to CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to
better reflect its usage, it can no longer be passed to helpers that
initialize a dynptr, i.e. bpf_dynptr_from_mem, bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr.

A note to reviewers is that in code that does mark_stack_slots_dynptr,
and unmark_stack_slots_dynptr, we implicitly rely on the fact that
PTR_TO_STACK reg is the only case that can reach that code path, as one
cannot pass CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to helpers that don't set MEM_RDONLY. In
both cases such helpers won't be setting that flag.

The next patch will add a couple of selftest cases to make sure this
doesn't break.

Fixes: 205715673844 ("bpf: Add bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() helper")
Acked-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204141.308952-4-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# c4bcfb38 25-Oct-2022 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

bpf: Implement cgroup storage available to non-cgroup-attached bpf progs

Similar to sk/inode/task storage, implement similar cgroup local storage.

There already exists a local storage implementation for cgroup-attached
bpf programs. See map type BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE and helper
bpf_get_local_storage(). But there are use cases such that non-cgroup
attached bpf progs wants to access cgroup local storage data. For example,
tc egress prog has access to sk and cgroup. It is possible to use
sk local storage to emulate cgroup local storage by storing data in socket.
But this is a waste as it could be lots of sockets belonging to a particular
cgroup. Alternatively, a separate map can be created with cgroup id as the key.
But this will introduce additional overhead to manipulate the new map.
A cgroup local storage, similar to existing sk/inode/task storage,
should help for this use case.

The life-cycle of storage is managed with the life-cycle of the
cgroup struct. i.e. the storage is destroyed along with the owning cgroup
with a call to bpf_cgrp_storage_free() when cgroup itself
is deleted.

The userspace map operations can be done by using a cgroup fd as a key
passed to the lookup, update and delete operations.

Typically, the following code is used to get the current cgroup:
struct task_struct *task = bpf_get_current_task_btf();
... task->cgroups->dfl_cgrp ...
and in structure task_struct definition:
struct task_struct {
....
struct css_set __rcu *cgroups;
....
}
With sleepable program, accessing task->cgroups is not protected by rcu_read_lock.
So the current implementation only supports non-sleepable program and supporting
sleepable program will be the next step together with adding rcu_read_lock
protection for rcu tagged structures.

Since map name BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE has been used for old cgroup local
storage support, the new map name BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGRP_STORAGE is used
for cgroup storage available to non-cgroup-attached bpf programs. The old
cgroup storage supports bpf_get_local_storage() helper to get the cgroup data.
The new cgroup storage helper bpf_cgrp_storage_get() can provide similar
functionality. While old cgroup storage pre-allocates storage memory, the new
mechanism can also pre-allocate with a user space bpf_map_update_elem() call
to avoid potential run-time memory allocation failure.
Therefore, the new cgroup storage can provide all functionality w.r.t.
the old one. So in uapi bpf.h, the old BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE is alias to
BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE_DEPRECATED to indicate the old cgroup storage can
be deprecated since the new one can provide the same functionality.

Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221026042850.673791-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# ce3e44a0 05-Oct-2022 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

scripts/bpf_doc.py: update logic to not assume sequential enum values

Relax bpf_doc.py's expectation of all BPF_FUNC_xxx enumerators having
sequential values increasing by one. Instead, only make sure that
relative order of BPF helper descriptions in comments matches
enumerators definitions order.

Also additionally make sure that helper IDs are not duplicated.

And also make sure that for cases when we have multiple descriptions for
the same BPF helper (e.g., for bpf_get_socket_cookie()), all such
descriptions are grouped together.

Such checks should capture all the same (and more) issues in upstream
UAPI headers, but also handle backported kernels correctly.

Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006042452.2089843-2-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 8a76145a 05-Oct-2022 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

bpf: explicitly define BPF_FUNC_xxx integer values

Historically enum bpf_func_id's BPF_FUNC_xxx enumerators relied on
implicit sequential values being assigned by compiler. This is
convenient, as new BPF helpers are always added at the very end, but it
also has its downsides, some of them being:

- with over 200 helpers now it's very hard to know what's each helper's ID,
which is often important to know when working with BPF assembly (e.g.,
by dumping raw bpf assembly instructions with llvm-objdump -d
command). it's possible to work around this by looking into vmlinux.h,
dumping /sys/btf/kernel/vmlinux, looking at libbpf-provided
bpf_helper_defs.h, etc. But it always feels like an unnecessary step
and one should be able to quickly figure this out from UAPI header.

- when backporting and cherry-picking only some BPF helpers onto older
kernels it's important to be able to skip some enum values for helpers
that weren't backported, but preserve absolute integer IDs to keep BPF
helper IDs stable so that BPF programs stay portable across upstream
and backported kernels.

While neither problem is insurmountable, they come up frequently enough
and are annoying enough to warrant improving the situation. And for the
backporting the problem can easily go unnoticed for a while, especially
if backport is done with people not very familiar with BPF subsystem overall.

Anyways, it's easy to fix this by making sure that __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER
macro provides explicit helper IDs. Unfortunately that would potentially
break existing users that use UAPI-exposed __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER and are
expected to pass macro that accepts only symbolic helper identifier
(e.g., map_lookup_elem for bpf_map_lookup_elem() helper).

As such, we need to introduce a new macro (___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER) which
would specify both identifier and integer ID, but in such a way as to
allow existing __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER be expressed in terms of new
___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER macro. And that's what this patch is doing. To avoid
duplication and allow __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER stay *exactly* the same,
___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER accepts arbitrary "context" arguments, which can be
used to pass any extra macros, arguments, and whatnot. In our case we
use this to pass original user-provided macro that expects single
argument and __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER is using it's own three-argument
__BPF_FUNC_MAPPER_APPLY intermediate macro to impedance-match new and
old "callback" macros.

Once we resolve this, we use new ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER to define enum
bpf_func_id with explicit values. The other users of __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER
in kernel (namely in kernel/bpf/disasm.c) are kept exactly the same both
as demonstration that backwards compat works, but also to avoid
unnecessary code churn.

Note that new ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER() doesn't forcefully insert comma
between values, as that might not be appropriate in all possible cases
where ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER might be used by users. This doesn't reduce
usability, as it's trivial to insert that comma inside "callback" macro.

To validate all the manually specified IDs are exactly right, we used
BTF to compare before and after values:

$ bpftool btf dump file ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux | rg bpf_func_id -A 211 > after.txt
$ git stash # stach UAPI changes
$ make -j90
... re-building kernel without UAPI changes ...
$ bpftool btf dump file ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux | rg bpf_func_id -A 211 > before.txt
$ diff -u before.txt after.txt
--- before.txt 2022-10-05 10:48:18.119195916 -0700
+++ after.txt 2022-10-05 10:46:49.446615025 -0700
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[14576] ENUM 'bpf_func_id' encoding=UNSIGNED size=4 vlen=211
+[9560] ENUM 'bpf_func_id' encoding=UNSIGNED size=4 vlen=211
'BPF_FUNC_unspec' val=0
'BPF_FUNC_map_lookup_elem' val=1
'BPF_FUNC_map_update_elem' val=2

As can be seen from diff above, the only thing that changed was resulting BTF
type ID of ENUM bpf_func_id, not any of the enumerators, their names or integer
values.

The only other place that needed fixing was scripts/bpf_doc.py used to generate
man pages and bpf_helper_defs.h header for libbpf and selftests. That script is
tightly-coupled to exact shape of ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER macro definition, so had
to be trivially adapted.

Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Terzolo <andrea.terzolo@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006042452.2089843-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 0a0d55ef 24-Aug-2022 Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>

bpf/scripts: Assert helper enum value is aligned with comment order

The helper value is ABI as defined by enum bpf_func_id.
As bpf_helper_defs.h is used for the userpace part, it must be consistent
with this enum.

Before this change the comments order was used by the bpf_doc script in
order to set the helper values defined in the helpers file.

When adding new helpers it is very puzzling when the userspace application
breaks in weird places if the comment is inserted instead of appended -
because the generated helper ABI is incorrect and shifted.

This commit sets the helper value to the enum value.

In addition it is currently the practice to have the comments appended
and kept in the same order as the enum. As such, add an assertion
validating the comment order is consistent with enum value.

In case a different comments ordering is desired, this assertion can
be lifted.

Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220824181043.1601429-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com


# 92ec1cc3 23-Aug-2022 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

scripts/bpf: Set date attribute for bpf-helpers(7) man page

The bpf-helpers(7) manual page shipped in the man-pages project is
generated from the documentation contained in the BPF UAPI header, in
the Linux repository, parsed by script/bpf_doc.py and then fed to
rst2man.

The man page should contain the date of last modification of the
documentation. This commit adds the relevant date when generating the
page.

Before:

$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "" "Linux v5.19-14022-g30d2a4d74e11" ""

After:

$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "2022-08-15" "Linux v5.19-14022-g30d2a4d74e11" ""

We get the version by using "git log" to look for the commit date of the
latest change to the section of the BPF header containing the
documentation. If the command fails, we just skip the date field. and
keep generating the page.

Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220823155327.98888-2-quentin@isovalent.com


# fd0a38f9 23-Aug-2022 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

scripts/bpf: Set version attribute for bpf-helpers(7) man page

The bpf-helpers(7) manual page shipped in the man-pages project is
generated from the documentation contained in the BPF UAPI header, in
the Linux repository, parsed by script/bpf_doc.py and then fed to
rst2man.

After a recent update of that page [0], Alejandro reported that the
linter used to validate the man pages complains about the generated
document [1]. The header for the page is supposed to contain some
attributes that we do not set correctly with the script. This commit
updates the "project and version" field. We discussed the format of
those fields in [1] and [2].

Before:

$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "" "" ""

After:

$ ./scripts/bpf_doc.py helpers | rst2man | grep '\.TH'
.TH BPF-HELPERS 7 "" "Linux v5.19-14022-g30d2a4d74e11" ""

We get the version from "git describe", but if unavailable, we fall back
on "make kernelversion". If none works, for example because neither git
nore make are installed, we just set the field to "Linux" and keep
generating the page.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man7/bpf-helpers.7?id=19c7f78393f2b038e76099f87335ddf43a87f039
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823084719.13613-1-quentin@isovalent.com/t/#m58a418a318642c6428e14ce9bb84eba5183b06e8
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220721110821.8240-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com/t/#m8e689a822e03f6e2530a0d6de9d128401916c5de

Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220823155327.98888-1-quentin@isovalent.com


# 5cb62b75 21-Jul-2022 Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

bpf, docs: Use SPDX license identifier in bpf_doc.py

The Linux man-pages project now uses SPDX tags, instead of the full
license text.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html
Link: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-man-pages-copyleft.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220721110821.8240-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com


# 33bf9885 15-Jun-2022 Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@nvidia.com>

bpf: Add helpers to issue and check SYN cookies in XDP

The new helpers bpf_tcp_raw_{gen,check}_syncookie_ipv{4,6} allow an XDP
program to generate SYN cookies in response to TCP SYN packets and to
check those cookies upon receiving the first ACK packet (the final
packet of the TCP handshake).

Unlike bpf_tcp_{gen,check}_syncookie these new helpers don't need a
listening socket on the local machine, which allows to use them together
with synproxy to accelerate SYN cookie generation.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615134847.3753567-4-maximmi@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 97e03f52 23-May-2022 Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>

bpf: Add verifier support for dynptrs

This patch adds the bulk of the verifier work for supporting dynamic
pointers (dynptrs) in bpf.

A bpf_dynptr is opaque to the bpf program. It is a 16-byte structure
defined internally as:

struct bpf_dynptr_kern {
void *data;
u32 size;
u32 offset;
} __aligned(8);

The upper 8 bits of *size* is reserved (it contains extra metadata about
read-only status and dynptr type). Consequently, a dynptr only supports
memory less than 16 MB.

There are different types of dynptrs (eg malloc, ringbuf, ...). In this
patchset, the most basic one, dynptrs to a bpf program's local memory,
is added. For now only local memory that is of reg type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE
is supported.

In the verifier, dynptr state information will be tracked in stack
slots. When the program passes in an uninitialized dynptr
(ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR | MEM_UNINIT), the stack slots corresponding
to the frame pointer where the dynptr resides at are marked
STACK_DYNPTR. For helper functions that take in initialized dynptrs (eg
bpf_dynptr_read + bpf_dynptr_write which are added later in this
patchset), the verifier enforces that the dynptr has been initialized
properly by checking that their corresponding stack slots have been
marked as STACK_DYNPTR.

The 6th patch in this patchset adds test cases that the verifier should
successfully reject, such as for example attempting to use a dynptr
after doing a direct write into it inside the bpf program.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523210712.3641569-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com


# 3bc253c2 19-May-2022 Geliang Tang <geliang.tang@suse.com>

bpf: Add bpf_skc_to_mptcp_sock_proto

This patch implements a new struct bpf_func_proto, named
bpf_skc_to_mptcp_sock_proto. Define a new bpf_id BTF_SOCK_TYPE_MPTCP,
and a new helper bpf_skc_to_mptcp_sock(), which invokes another new
helper bpf_mptcp_sock_from_subflow() in net/mptcp/bpf.c to get struct
mptcp_sock from a given subflow socket.

v2: Emit BTF type, add func_id checks in verifier.c and bpf_trace.c,
remove build check for CONFIG_BPF_JIT
v5: Drop EXPORT_SYMBOL (Martin)

Co-developed-by: Nicolas Rybowski <nicolas.rybowski@tessares.net>
Co-developed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Rybowski <nicolas.rybowski@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliang.tang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220519233016.105670-2-mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com


# 0ba3929e 19-Jan-2022 Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>

bpf/scripts: Raise an exception if the correct number of sycalls are not generated

Currently the syscalls rst and subsequently man page are auto-generated
using function documentation present in bpf.h. If the documentation for the
syscall is missing or doesn't follow a specific format, then that syscall
is not dumped in the auto-generated rst.

This patch checks the number of syscalls documented within the header file
with those present as part of the enum bpf_cmd and raises an Exception if
they don't match. It is not needed with the currently documented upstream
syscalls, but can help in debugging when developing new syscalls when
there might be missing or misformatted documentation.

The function helper_number_check is moved to the Printer parent
class and renamed to elem_number_check as all the most derived children
classes are using this function now.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220119114442.1452088-3-usama.arif@bytedance.com


# f1f3f67f 19-Jan-2022 Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>

bpf/scripts: Make description and returns section for helpers/syscalls mandatory

This enforce a minimal formatting consistency for the documentation. The
description and returns missing for a few helpers have also been added.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220119114442.1452088-2-usama.arif@bytedance.com


# 71a3cdf8 12-Jan-2022 Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>

bpf/scripts: Raise an exception if the correct number of helpers are not generated

Currently bpf_helper_defs.h and the bpf helpers man page are auto-generated
using function documentation present in bpf.h. If the documentation for the
helper is missing or doesn't follow a specific format for e.g. if a function
is documented as:
* long bpf_kallsyms_lookup_name( const char *name, int name_sz, int flags, u64 *res )
instead of
* long bpf_kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name, int name_sz, int flags, u64 *res)
(notice the extra space at the start and end of function arguments)
then that helper is not dumped in the auto-generated header and results in
an invalid call during eBPF runtime, even if all the code specific to the
helper is correct.

This patch checks the number of functions documented within the header file
with those present as part of #define __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER and raises an
Exception if they don't match. It is not needed with the currently documented
upstream functions, but can help in debugging when developing new helpers
when there might be missing or misformatted documentation.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220112114953.722380-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com


# 9eeb3aa3 21-Oct-2021 Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>

bpf: Add bpf_skc_to_unix_sock() helper

The helper is used in tracing programs to cast a socket
pointer to a unix_sock pointer.
The return value could be NULL if the casting is illegal.

Suggested-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021134752.1223426-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com


# b00628b1 14-Jul-2021 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

bpf: Introduce bpf timers.

Introduce 'struct bpf_timer { __u64 :64; __u64 :64; };' that can be embedded
in hash/array/lru maps as a regular field and helpers to operate on it:

// Initialize the timer.
// First 4 bits of 'flags' specify clockid.
// Only CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_BOOTTIME are allowed.
long bpf_timer_init(struct bpf_timer *timer, struct bpf_map *map, int flags);

// Configure the timer to call 'callback_fn' static function.
long bpf_timer_set_callback(struct bpf_timer *timer, void *callback_fn);

// Arm the timer to expire 'nsec' nanoseconds from the current time.
long bpf_timer_start(struct bpf_timer *timer, u64 nsec, u64 flags);

// Cancel the timer and wait for callback_fn to finish if it was running.
long bpf_timer_cancel(struct bpf_timer *timer);

Here is how BPF program might look like:
struct map_elem {
int counter;
struct bpf_timer timer;
};

struct {
__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH);
__uint(max_entries, 1000);
__type(key, int);
__type(value, struct map_elem);
} hmap SEC(".maps");

static int timer_cb(void *map, int *key, struct map_elem *val);
/* val points to particular map element that contains bpf_timer. */

SEC("fentry/bpf_fentry_test1")
int BPF_PROG(test1, int a)
{
struct map_elem *val;
int key = 0;

val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hmap, &key);
if (val) {
bpf_timer_init(&val->timer, &hmap, CLOCK_REALTIME);
bpf_timer_set_callback(&val->timer, timer_cb);
bpf_timer_start(&val->timer, 1000 /* call timer_cb2 in 1 usec */, 0);
}
}

This patch adds helper implementations that rely on hrtimers
to call bpf functions as timers expire.
The following patches add necessary safety checks.

Only programs with CAP_BPF are allowed to use bpf_timer.

The amount of timers used by the program is constrained by
the memcg recorded at map creation time.

The bpf_timer_init() helper needs explicit 'map' argument because inner maps
are dynamic and not known at load time. While the bpf_timer_set_callback() is
receiving hidden 'aux->prog' argument supplied by the verifier.

The prog pointer is needed to do refcnting of bpf program to make sure that
program doesn't get freed while the timer is armed. This approach relies on
"user refcnt" scheme used in prog_array that stores bpf programs for
bpf_tail_call. The bpf_timer_set_callback() will increment the prog refcnt which is
paired with bpf_timer_cancel() that will drop the prog refcnt. The
ops->map_release_uref is responsible for cancelling the timers and dropping
prog refcnt when user space reference to a map reaches zero.
This uref approach is done to make sure that Ctrl-C of user space process will
not leave timers running forever unless the user space explicitly pinned a map
that contained timers in bpffs.

bpf_timer_init() and bpf_timer_set_callback() will return -EPERM if map doesn't
have user references (is not held by open file descriptor from user space and
not pinned in bpffs).

The bpf_map_delete_elem() and bpf_map_update_elem() operations cancel
and free the timer if given map element had it allocated.
"bpftool map update" command can be used to cancel timers.

The 'struct bpf_timer' is explicitly __attribute__((aligned(8))) because
'__u64 :64' has 1 byte alignment of 8 byte padding.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210715005417.78572-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com


# a67882a2 02-Mar-2021 Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io>

scripts/bpf: Add syscall commands printer

Add a new target to bpf_doc.py to support generating the list of syscall
commands directly from the UAPI headers. Assuming that developer
submissions keep the main header up to date, this should allow the man
pages to be automatically generated based on the latest API changes
rather than requiring someone to separately go back through the API and
describe each command.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210302171947.2268128-11-joe@cilium.io


# 923a932c 02-Mar-2021 Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io>

scripts/bpf: Abstract eBPF API target parameter

Abstract out the target parameter so that upcoming commits, more than
just the existing "helpers" target can be called to generate specific
portions of docs from the eBPF UAPI headers.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210302171947.2268128-10-joe@cilium.io