Align bpf_program__clone() with bpf_object_load_prog() by gating
BTF func/line info on FEAT_BTF_FUNC kernel support, and resolve
caller-provided prog_btf_fd before checking obj->btf so that callers
with their own BTF can use clone() even when the object has no BTF
loaded.
While at it, treat func_info and line_info fields as atomic groups
to prevent mismatches between pointer and count from different sources.
Move bpf_program__clone() to libbpf 1.8.
Fixes: 970bd2dced35 ("libbpf: Introduce bpf_program__clone()")
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260401151640.356419-1-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Add a FEAT_BTF_LAYOUT feature check which checks if the
kernel supports BTF layout information. Also sanitize
BTF if it contains layout data but the kernel does not
support it. The sanitization requires rewriting raw
BTF data to update the header and eliminate the layout
section (since it lies between the types and strings),
so refactor sanitization to do the raw BTF retrieval
and creation of updated BTF, returning that new BTF
on success.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-7-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Support encoding of BTF layout data via btf__new_empty_opts().
Current supported opts are base_btf and add_layout.
Layout information is maintained in btf.c in the layouts[] array;
when BTF is created with the add_layout option it represents the
current view of supported BTF kinds.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-5-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Support reading in layout fixing endian issues on reading;
also support writing layout section to raw BTF object.
There is not yet an API to populate the layout with meaningful
information.
As part of this, we need to consider multiple valid BTF header
sizes; the original or the layout-extended headers.
So to support this, the "struct btf" representation is modified
to contain a "struct btf_header" and we copy the valid
portion from the raw data to it; this means we can always safely
check fields like btf->hdr.layout_len .
Note if parsed-in BTF has extra header information beyond
sizeof(struct btf_header) - if so we make that BTF ineligible
for modification by setting btf->has_hdr_extra .
Ensure that we handle endianness issues for BTF layout section,
though currently only field that needs this (flags) is unused.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-3-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Add bpf_program__clone() API that loads a single BPF program from a
prepared BPF object into the kernel, returning a file descriptor owned
by the caller.
After bpf_object__prepare(), callers can use bpf_program__clone() to
load individual programs with custom bpf_prog_load_opts, instead of
loading all programs at once via bpf_object__load(). Non-zero fields in
opts override the defaults derived from the program and object
internals; passing NULL opts populates everything automatically.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317-veristat_prepare-v4-1-74193d4cc9d9@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Detect exact function names (no wildcards) in
bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts() and bypass kallsyms parsing,
passing the symbol directly to the kernel via syms[] array. This
benefits all callers, not just kprobe.session.
When the pattern contains no '*' or '?' characters, set syms to point
directly at the pattern string and cnt to 1, skipping the expensive
/proc/kallsyms or available_filter_functions parsing (~150ms per
function).
Error code normalization: the fast path returns ESRCH from kernel's
ftrace_lookup_symbols(), while the slow path returns ENOENT from
userspace kallsyms parsing. Convert ESRCH to ENOENT in the
bpf_link_create error path to maintain API consistency - both paths
now return identical error codes for "symbol not found".
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260302200837.317907-2-andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com
btf__add_btf() currently rejects split BTF sources with -ENOTSUP.
This prevents merging types from multiple kernel module BTFs that
are all split against the same vmlinux base.
Extend btf__add_btf() to handle split BTF sources by:
- Replacing the blanket -ENOTSUP with a validation that src and dst
share the same base BTF pointer when both are split, returning
-EOPNOTSUPP on mismatch.
- Computing src_start_id from the source's base to distinguish base
type ID references (which must remain unchanged) from split type
IDs (which must be remapped to new positions in the destination).
- Using src_btf->nr_types instead of btf__type_cnt()-1 for the type
count, which is correct for both split and non-split sources.
- Skipping base string offsets (< start_str_off) during the string
rewrite loop, mirroring the type ID skip pattern. Since src and
dst share the same base BTF, base string offsets are already valid
and need no remapping.
For non-split sources the behavior is identical: src_start_id is 1,
the type_id < 1 guard is never true (VOID is already skipped), and
the remapping formula reduces to the original. start_str_off is 0
so no string offsets are skipped.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/c00216ed48cf7897078d9645679059d5ebf42738.1772657690.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Adding support to detect nop,nop5 instructions combo for usdt probe
by checking on probe's following nop5 instruction.
When the nop,nop5 combo is detected together with uprobe syscall,
we can place the probe on top of nop5 and get it optimized.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260224103915.1369690-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Netlink requires that the recv buffer used during dumps is at least
min(PAGE_SIZE, 8k) (see the man page). Otherwise the messages will
get truncated. Make sure bpftool follows this requirement, avoid
missing information on systems with large pages.
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7084566a236f ("tools/bpftool: Remove libbpf_internal.h usage in bpftool")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217194150.734701-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Commit 728ff167910e ("libbpf: Add gating for arena globals relocation feature")
adds a feature gate check that loads a map and BPF program to
test the running kernel supports large direct offsets for LDIMM64
instructions. This check is currently used to calculate arena symbol
offsets during bpf_object__collect_relos, itself called by
bpf_object_open.
However, the program calling bpf_object_open may not have the permissions to
load maps and programs. This is the case with the BPF selftests, where
bpftool is invoked at compilation time during skeleton generation. This
causes errors as the feature gate unexpectedly fails with -EPERM.
Avoid this by moving all the use of the FEAT_LDIMM64_FULL_RANGE_OFF feature gate
to BPF object preparation time instead.
Fixes: 728ff167910e ("libbpf: Add gating for arena globals relocation feature")
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260217204345.548648-3-emil@etsalapatis.com
Commit 728ff167910e uses a PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT BPF test program to
check whether the running kernel supports large LDIMM64 offsets. The
feature gate incorrectly assumes that the program will fail at
verification time with one of two messages, depending on whether the
feature is supported by the running kernel. However,
PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT programs may fail to load before verification even
starts, e.g., if the shell does not have the appropriate capabilities.
Use a BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER program for the feature gate instead.
Also fix two minor issues. First, ensure the log buffer for the test is
initialized: Failing program load before verification led to libbpf dumping
uninitialized data to stdout. Also, ensure that close() is only called
for program_fd in the probe if the program load actually succeeded. The
call was currently failing silently with -EBADF most of the time.
Fixes: 728ff167910e ("libbpf: Add gating for arena globals relocation feature")
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260217204345.548648-2-emil@etsalapatis.com
Add feature gating for the arena globals relocation introduced in
commit c1f61171d44b. The commit depends on a previous commit in the
same patchset that is absent from older kernels
(12a1fe6e12db "bpf/verifier: Do not limit maximum direct offset into arena map").
Without this commit, arena globals relocation with arenas >= 512MiB
fails to load and breaks libbpf's backwards compatibility.
Introduce a libbpf feature to check whether the running kernel allows for
full range ldimm64 offset, and only relocate arena globals if it does.
Fixes: c1f61171d44b ("libbpf: Move arena globals to the end of the arena")
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260210184532.255475-1-emil@etsalapatis.com
Implement bpf_stream_vprintk with an implicit bpf_prog_aux argument,
and remote bpf_stream_vprintk_impl from the kernel.
Update the selftests to use the new API with implicit argument.
bpf_stream_vprintk macro is changed to use the new bpf_stream_vprintk
kfunc, and the extern definition of bpf_stream_vprintk_impl is
replaced accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260120222638.3976562-11-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch introduces binary search optimization for BTF type lookups
when the BTF instance contains sorted types.
The optimization significantly improves performance when searching for
types in large BTF instances with sorted types. For unsorted BTF, the
implementation falls back to the original linear search.
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260109130003.3313716-5-dolinux.peng@gmail.com
When dumping bitfield data, btf_dump_get_bitfield_value() reads data
based on the underlying type's size (t->size). However, it does not
verify that the provided data buffer (data_sz) is large enough to
contain these bytes.
If btf_dump__dump_type_data() is called with a buffer smaller than
the type's size, this leads to an out-of-bounds read. This was
confirmed by AddressSanitizer in the linked issue.
Fix this by ensuring we do not read past the provided data_sz limit.
Fixes: a1d3cc3c5eca ("libbpf: Avoid use of __int128 in typed dump display")
Reported-by: Harrison Green <harrisonmichaelgreen@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Varun R Mallya <varunrmallya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260106233527.163487-1-varunrmallya@gmail.com
Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/928
Add libbpf support for the BPF_F_CPU flag for percpu maps by embedding the
cpu info into the high 32 bits of:
1. **flags**: bpf_map_lookup_elem_flags(), bpf_map__lookup_elem(),
bpf_map_update_elem() and bpf_map__update_elem()
2. **opts->elem_flags**: bpf_map_lookup_batch() and
bpf_map_update_batch()
And the flag can be BPF_F_ALL_CPUS, but cannot be
'BPF_F_CPU | BPF_F_ALL_CPUS'.
Behavior:
* If the flag is BPF_F_ALL_CPUS, the update is applied across all CPUs.
* If the flag is BPF_F_CPU, it updates value only to the specified CPU.
* If the flag is BPF_F_CPU, lookup value only from the specified CPU.
* lookup does not support BPF_F_ALL_CPUS.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260107022022.12843-7-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Arena globals are currently placed at the beginning of the arena
by libbpf. This is convenient, but prevents users from reserving
guard pages in the beginning of the arena to identify NULL pointer
dereferences. Adjust the load logic to place the globals at the
end of the arena instead.
Also modify bpftool to set the arena pointer in the program's BPF
skeleton to point to the globals. Users now call bpf_map__initial_value()
to find the beginning of the arena mapping and use the arena pointer
in the skeleton to determine which part of the mapping holds the
arena globals and which part is free.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251216173325.98465-5-emil@etsalapatis.com
The symbols' relocation offsets in BPF are stored in an int field,
but cannot actually be negative. When in the next patch libbpf relocates
globals to the end of the arena, it is also possible to have valid
offsets > 2GiB that are used to calculate the final relo offsets.
Avoid accidentally interpreting large offsets as negative by turning
the sym_off field unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251216173325.98465-4-emil@etsalapatis.com
We have seen a number of issues like [1]; failures to deduplicate
key kernel data structures like task_struct. These are often hard
to debug from pahole even with verbose output, especially when
identity/equivalence checks fail deep in a nested struct comparison.
Here we add debug messages of the form
libbpf: STRUCT 'task_struct' size=2560 vlen=194 cand_id[54222] canon_id[102820] shallow-equal but not equiv for field#23 'sched_class': 0
These will be emitted during dedup from pahole when --verbose/-V
is specified. This greatly helps identify exactly where dedup
failures are experienced.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b8e8b560-bce5-414b-846d-0da6d22a9983@oracle.com/
Changes since v1:
- updated debug messages to refer to shallow-equal, added ids (Andrii)
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251203191507.55565-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Remove s390 compat support from everything within tools, since s390 compat
support will be removed from the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # tools/nolibc selftests/nolibc
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # selftests/vDSO
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> # bpf bits
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Rename bpf_stream_vprintk() to bpf_stream_vprintk_impl().
This makes bpf_stream_vprintk() follow the already established "_impl"
suffix-based naming convention for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux
argument provided by the verifier implicitly. This convention will be
taken advantage of with the upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to
preserve backwards compatibility to BPF programs.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-2-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
For v4 instruction set LLVM is allowed to generate indirect jumps for
switch statements and for 'goto *rX' assembly. Every such a jump will
be accompanied by necessary metadata, e.g. (`llvm-objdump -Sr ...`):
0: r2 = 0x0 ll
0000000000000030: R_BPF_64_64 BPF.JT.0.0
Here BPF.JT.1.0 is a symbol residing in the .jumptables section:
Symbol table:
4: 0000000000000000 240 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 4 BPF.JT.0.0
The -bpf-min-jump-table-entries llvm option may be used to control the
minimal size of a switch which will be converted to an indirect jumps.
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251105090410.1250500-11-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When creating multi-split BTF we correctly set the start string offset
to be the size of the base string section plus the base BTF start
string offset; the latter is needed for multi-split BTF since the
offset is non-zero there.
Unfortunately the BTF parsing case needed that logic and it was
missed.
Fixes: 4e29128a9ace ("libbpf/btf: Fix string handling to support multi-split BTF")
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251104203309.318429-2-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Commit be2f2d1680df ("libbpf: Deprecate bpf_program__load() API") marked
bpf_program__load() as deprecated starting with libbpf v0.6. And later
in commit 146bf811f5ac ("libbpf: remove most other deprecated high-level
APIs") actually removed the bpf_program__load() implementation and
related old high-level APIs.
This patch update the comment in bpf_program__set_attach_target() to
remove the reference to the deprecated interface bpf_program__load().
Signed-off-by: Jianyun Gao <jianyungao89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251103120727.145965-1-jianyungao89@gmail.com
In the elf_sec_data() function, the input parameter 'scn' will be
evaluated. If it is NULL, then it will directly return NULL. Therefore,
the return value of the elf_sec_data() function already takes into
account the case where the input parameter scn is NULL. Therefore,
subsequently, the code only needs to check whether the return value of
the elf_sec_data() function is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jianyun Gao <jianyungao89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251024080802.642189-1-jianyungao89@gmail.com
Drop removed str_error.o from the list of object to build. Rename
libbpf_errno.o into libbpf_utils.o.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
The recent sha256 patch uses a GCC pragma to suppress compile errors for
a packed struct, but omits a needed pragma (see related link) and thus
still raises errors: (e.g. on GCC 12.3 armhf)
libbpf_utils.c:153:29: error: packed attribute causes inefficient alignment for ‘__val’ [-Werror=attributes]
153 | struct __packed_u32 { __u32 __val; } __attribute__((packed));
| ^~~~~
Resolve by adding the GCC diagnostic pragma to ignore "-Wattributes".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAP-5=fXURWoZu2j6Y8xQy23i7=DfgThq3WC1RkGFBx-4moQKYQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 4a1c9e544b8d ("libbpf: remove linux/unaligned.h dependency for libbpf_sha256()")
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Hoyeon Lee
Mykyta Yatsenko
Alan Maguire
Ihor Solodrai
Andrey Grodzovsky
Josef Bacik
Jiri Olsa
Jakub Kicinski
Emil Tsalapatis
Amery Hung
Menglong Dong
Donglin Peng
Varun R Mallya
Leon Hwang
Mikhail Gavrilov
Jianyun Gao
Paul Houssel
Heiko Carstens
Andrii Nakryiko
Anton Protopopov
Eric Biggers
Tony Ambardar