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From: Florian Lehner <dev@der-flo.net>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	andrii@kernel.org, martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com,
	song@kernel.org, yonghong.song@linux.dev, kpsingh@kernel.org,
	sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
	shuah@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	hawk@kernel.org, Florian Lehner <dev@der-flo.net>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] bpf: Add LINK_DETACH support for perf link
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2026 22:02:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260304210212.235096-2-dev@der-flo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260304210212.235096-1-dev@der-flo.net>

Add bpf_perf_link_detach() to allow detaching a BPF program from its
perf event via BPF_LINK_DETACH while keeping the link file descriptor
alive.  This mirrors the existing behavior for xdp and cgroup links
and enables temporarily disabling uprobes or other perf event-based
programs that are attached via bpf_perf_links without closing the link.

bpf_perf_link_release() is made idempotent using xchg() so that closing
the link fd after an explicit LINK_DETACH does not call
perf_event_free_bpf_prog() a second time.  bpf_perf_link_fill_link_info()
and bpf_perf_link_show_fdinfo() gain NULL guards so that querying an
already-detached link returns an empty result rather than dereferencing
a stale pointer.

Signed-off-by: Florian Lehner <dev@der-flo.net>
---
 kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 274039e36465..7d567cd20a3f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -3863,10 +3863,23 @@ struct bpf_perf_link {
 static void bpf_perf_link_release(struct bpf_link *link)
 {
 	struct bpf_perf_link *perf_link = container_of(link, struct bpf_perf_link, link);
-	struct perf_event *event = perf_link->perf_file->private_data;
+	struct perf_event *event;
+	struct file *perf_file;
+
+	/* bpf_perf_link_detach() may have already released perf_file */
+	perf_file = xchg(&perf_link->perf_file, NULL);
+	if (!perf_file)
+		return;
 
+	event = perf_file->private_data;
 	perf_event_free_bpf_prog(event);
-	fput(perf_link->perf_file);
+	fput(perf_file);
+}
+
+static int bpf_perf_link_detach(struct bpf_link *link)
+{
+	bpf_perf_link_release(link);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void bpf_perf_link_dealloc(struct bpf_link *link)
@@ -4075,9 +4088,13 @@ static int bpf_perf_link_fill_link_info(const struct bpf_link *link,
 {
 	struct bpf_perf_link *perf_link;
 	const struct perf_event *event;
+	struct file *perf_file;
 
 	perf_link = container_of(link, struct bpf_perf_link, link);
-	event = perf_get_event(perf_link->perf_file);
+	perf_file = READ_ONCE(perf_link->perf_file);
+	if (!perf_file)
+		return 0;
+	event = perf_get_event(perf_file);
 	if (IS_ERR(event))
 		return PTR_ERR(event);
 
@@ -4143,9 +4160,13 @@ static void bpf_perf_link_show_fdinfo(const struct bpf_link *link,
 {
 	struct bpf_perf_link *perf_link;
 	const struct perf_event *event;
+	struct file *perf_file;
 
 	perf_link = container_of(link, struct bpf_perf_link, link);
-	event = perf_get_event(perf_link->perf_file);
+	perf_file = READ_ONCE(perf_link->perf_file);
+	if (!perf_file)
+		return;
+	event = perf_get_event(perf_file);
 	if (IS_ERR(event))
 		return;
 
@@ -4163,6 +4184,7 @@ static void bpf_perf_link_show_fdinfo(const struct bpf_link *link,
 
 static const struct bpf_link_ops bpf_perf_link_lops = {
 	.release = bpf_perf_link_release,
+	.detach = bpf_perf_link_detach,
 	.dealloc = bpf_perf_link_dealloc,
 	.fill_link_info = bpf_perf_link_fill_link_info,
 	.show_fdinfo = bpf_perf_link_show_fdinfo,
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-04 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-04 21:02 [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/2] bpf: Add LINK_DETACH for perf links Florian Lehner
2026-03-04 21:02 ` Florian Lehner [this message]
2026-03-04 22:01   ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] bpf: Add LINK_DETACH support for perf link bot+bpf-ci
2026-03-06  3:38     ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-03-06  3:59       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-03-11 16:48         ` Yonghong Song
2026-03-04 21:02 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/2] selftests/bpf: Test LINK_DETACH " Florian Lehner

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