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This adds functions that wrap the netlink API used for adding, manipulating,
and removing traffic control filters.
The API summary:
A bpf_tc_hook represents a location where a TC-BPF filter can be attached.
This means that creating a hook leads to creation of the backing qdisc,
while destruction either removes all filters attached to a hook, or destroys
qdisc if requested explicitly (as discussed below).
The TC-BPF API functions operate on this bpf_tc_hook to attach, replace,
query, and detach tc filters. All functions return 0 on success, and a
negative error code on failure.
bpf_tc_hook_create - Create a hook
Parameters:
@hook - Cannot be NULL, ifindex > 0, attach_point must be set to
proper enum constant. Note that parent must be unset when
attach_point is one of BPF_TC_INGRESS or BPF_TC_EGRESS. Note
that as an exception BPF_TC_INGRESS|BPF_TC_EGRESS is also a
valid value for attach_point.
Returns -EOPNOTSUPP when hook has attach_point as BPF_TC_CUSTOM.
bpf_tc_hook_destroy - Destroy a hook
Parameters:
@hook - Cannot be NULL. The behaviour depends on value of
attach_point. If BPF_TC_INGRESS, all filters attached to
the ingress hook will be detached. If BPF_TC_EGRESS, all
filters attached to the egress hook will be detached. If
BPF_TC_INGRESS|BPF_TC_EGRESS, the clsact qdisc will be
deleted, also detaching all filters. As before, parent must
be unset for these attach_points, and set for BPF_TC_CUSTOM.
It is advised that if the qdisc is operated on by many programs,
then the program at least check that there are no other existing
filters before deleting the clsact qdisc. An example is shown
below:
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_tc_hook, .ifindex = if_nametoindex("lo"),
.attach_point = BPF_TC_INGRESS);
/* set opts as NULL, as we're not really interested in
* getting any info for a particular filter, but just
* detecting its presence.
*/
r = bpf_tc_query(&hook, NULL);
if (r == -ENOENT) {
/* no filters */
hook.attach_point = BPF_TC_INGRESS|BPF_TC_EGREESS;
return bpf_tc_hook_destroy(&hook);
} else {
/* failed or r == 0, the latter means filters do exist */
return r;
}
Note that there is a small race between checking for no
filters and deleting the qdisc. This is currently unavoidable.
Returns -EOPNOTSUPP when hook has attach_point as BPF_TC_CUSTOM.
bpf_tc_attach - Attach a filter to a hook
Parameters:
@hook - Cannot be NULL. Represents the hook the filter will be
attached to. Requirements for ifindex and attach_point are
same as described in bpf_tc_hook_create, but BPF_TC_CUSTOM
is also supported. In that case, parent must be set to the
handle where the filter will be attached (using BPF_TC_PARENT).
E.g. to set parent to 1:16 like in tc command line, the
equivalent would be BPF_TC_PARENT(1, 16).
@opts - Cannot be NULL. The following opts are optional:
* handle - The handle of the filter
* priority - The priority of the filter
Must be >= 0 and <= UINT16_MAX
Note that when left unset, they will be auto-allocated by
the kernel. The following opts must be set:
* prog_fd - The fd of the loaded SCHED_CLS prog
The following opts must be unset:
* prog_id - The ID of the BPF prog
The following opts are optional:
* flags - Currently only BPF_TC_F_REPLACE is allowed. It
allows replacing an existing filter instead of
failing with -EEXIST.
The following opts will be filled by bpf_tc_attach on a
successful attach operation if they are unset:
* handle - The handle of the attached filter
* priority - The priority of the attached filter
* prog_id - The ID of the attached SCHED_CLS prog
This way, the user can know what the auto allocated values
for optional opts like handle and priority are for the newly
attached filter, if they were unset.
Note that some other attributes are set to fixed default
values listed below (this holds for all bpf_tc_* APIs):
protocol as ETH_P_ALL, direct action mode, chain index of 0,
and class ID of 0 (this can be set by writing to the
skb->tc_classid field from the BPF program).
bpf_tc_detach
Parameters:
@hook - Cannot be NULL. Represents the hook the filter will be
detached from. Requirements are same as described above
in bpf_tc_attach.
@opts - Cannot be NULL. The following opts must be set:
* handle, priority
The following opts must be unset:
* prog_fd, prog_id, flags
bpf_tc_query
Parameters:
@hook - Cannot be NULL. Represents the hook where the filter lookup will
be performed. Requirements are same as described above in
bpf_tc_attach().
@opts - Cannot be NULL. The following opts must be set:
* handle, priority
The following opts must be unset:
* prog_fd, prog_id, flags
The following fields will be filled by bpf_tc_query upon a
successful lookup:
* prog_id
Some usage examples (using BPF skeleton infrastructure):
BPF program (test_tc_bpf.c):
#include <linux/bpf.h>
#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>
SEC("classifier")
int cls(struct __sk_buff *skb)
{
return 0;
}
Userspace loader:
struct test_tc_bpf *skel = NULL;
int fd, r;
skel = test_tc_bpf__open_and_load();
if (!skel)
return -ENOMEM;
fd = bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.cls);
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_tc_hook, hook, .ifindex =
if_nametoindex("lo"), .attach_point =
BPF_TC_INGRESS);
/* Create clsact qdisc */
r = bpf_tc_hook_create(&hook);
if (r < 0)
goto end;
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_tc_opts, opts, .prog_fd = fd);
r = bpf_tc_attach(&hook, &opts);
if (r < 0)
goto end;
/* Print the auto allocated handle and priority */
printf("Handle=%u", opts.handle);
printf("Priority=%u", opts.priority);
opts.prog_fd = opts.prog_id = 0;
bpf_tc_detach(&hook, &opts);
end:
test_tc_bpf__destroy(skel);
This is equivalent to doing the following using tc command line:
# tc qdisc add dev lo clsact
# tc filter add dev lo ingress bpf obj foo.o sec classifier da
# tc filter del dev lo ingress handle <h> prio <p> bpf
... where the handle and priority can be found using:
# tc filter show dev lo ingress
Another example replacing a filter (extending prior example):
/* We can also choose both (or one), let's try replacing an
* existing filter.
*/
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_tc_opts, replace_opts, .handle =
opts.handle, .priority = opts.priority,
.prog_fd = fd);
r = bpf_tc_attach(&hook, &replace_opts);
if (r == -EEXIST) {
/* Expected, now use BPF_TC_F_REPLACE to replace it */
replace_opts.flags = BPF_TC_F_REPLACE;
return bpf_tc_attach(&hook, &replace_opts);
} else if (r < 0) {
return r;
}
/* There must be no existing filter with these
* attributes, so cleanup and return an error.
*/
replace_opts.prog_fd = replace_opts.prog_id = 0;
bpf_tc_detach(&hook, &replace_opts);
return -1;
To obtain info of a particular filter:
/* Find info for filter with handle 1 and priority 50 */
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_tc_opts, info_opts, .handle = 1,
.priority = 50);
r = bpf_tc_query(&hook, &info_opts);
if (r == -ENOENT)
printf("Filter not found");
else if (r < 0)
return r;
printf("Prog ID: %u", info_opts.prog_id);
return 0;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> # libbpf API design
[ Daniel: also did major patch cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210512103451.989420-3-memxor@gmail.com
BPF/libbpf usage and questions
Please check out libbpf-bootstrap and the companion blog post for the examples of building BPF applications with libbpf. libbpf-tools are also a good source of the real-world libbpf-based tracing tools.
All general BPF questions, including kernel functionality, libbpf APIs and their application, should be sent to bpf@vger.kernel.org mailing list. You can subscribe to it here and search its archive here. Please search the archive before asking new questions. It very well might be that this was already addressed or answered before.
bpf@vger.kernel.org is monitored by many more people and they will happily try to help you with whatever issue you have. This repository's PRs and issues should be opened only for dealing with issues pertaining to specific way this libbpf mirror repo is set up and organized.
Build
libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link
against and must be installed on the system for applications to work.
pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be
overridden with PKG_CONFIG.
If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by
setting NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
Distributions
Distributions packaging libbpf from this mirror:
Benefits of packaging from the mirror over packaging from kernel sources:
- Consistent versioning across distributions.
- No ties to any specific kernel, transparent handling of older kernels. Libbpf is designed to be kernel-agnostic and work across multitude of kernel versions. It has built-in mechanisms to gracefully handle older kernels, that are missing some of the features, by working around or gracefully degrading functionality. Thus libbpf is not tied to a specific kernel version and can/should be packaged and versioned independently.
- Continuous integration testing via TravisCI.
- Static code analysis via LGTM and Coverity.
Package dependencies of libbpf, package names may vary across distros:
- zlib
- libelf
BPF CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere)
Libbpf supports building BPF CO-RE-enabled applications, which, in contrast to BCC, do not require Clang/LLVM runtime being deployed to target servers and doesn't rely on kernel-devel headers being available.
It does rely on kernel to be built with BTF type information, though. Some major Linux distributions come with kernel BTF already built in:
- Fedora 31+
- RHEL 8.2+
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (in the next release, as of 2020-06-04)
- Arch Linux (from kernel 5.7.1.arch1-1)
- Ubuntu 20.10
- Debian 11 (amd64/arm64)
If your kernel doesn't come with BTF built-in, you'll need to build custom kernel. You'll need:
pahole1.16+ tool (part ofdwarvespackage), which performs DWARF to BTF conversion;- kernel built with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=yoption; - you can check if your kernel has BTF built-in by looking for
/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinuxfile:
$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 3541561 Jun 2 18:16 /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
To develop and build BPF programs, you'll need Clang/LLVM 10+. The following distributions have Clang/LLVM 10+ packaged by default:
- Fedora 32+
- Ubuntu 20.04+
- Arch Linux
- Ubuntu 20.10 (LLVM 11)
- Debian 11 (LLVM 11)
- Alpine 3.13+
Otherwise, please make sure to update it on your system.
The following resources are useful to understand what BPF CO-RE is and how to use it:
- BPF Portability and CO-RE
- HOWTO: BCC to libbpf conversion
- libbpf-tools in BCC repo contain lots of real-world tools converted from BCC to BPF CO-RE. Consider converting some more to both contribute to the BPF community and gain some more experience with it.
Details
This is a mirror of bpf-next Linux source
tree's
tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.
All the gory details of syncing can be found in scripts/sync-kernel.sh
script.
Some header files in this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at
bpf-next's
tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation successful.
License
This work is dual-licensed under BSD 2-clause license and GNU LGPL v2.1 license. You can choose between one of them if you use this work.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR LGPL-2.1