From: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v10 09/24] bpf: Refuse a landing pad that does not resume
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 21:15:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009041534.27944-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009041447.17092-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev>
A cleanup pad runs drop glue and calls bpf_unwind_resume(), so its frame
returns and the unwind goes on. A catch pad carries on in its frame
instead. Only the first is supported: bpf_unwind() rewrites every frame's
return address in one pass, so a catch pad's caller would still resume
at a pad.
Nothing in the record says which kind a pad is, but the code does: a
cleanup pad reaches _Unwind_Resume, a catch pad a return. So the unwind
marks the frame whose pad it enters, and refuses in the marked code:
refused where
--------------------------------------- ----------------------------
an exit: how a catch pad ends the pad's own frame
a tail call, a BPF_LD_[ABS|IND]: it the pad's own frame
leaves through an exit on a failed
load
an indirect jump: nothing a compiler the pad's own frame
frontend emits in a pad needs one
a bpf_unwind(), a call to a global the pad and its callees
subprog that might_unwind
a bpf_unwind_resume() outside a pad any program
The first three are refused only in the pad's own frame: a subprog the
pad calls may do them and still come back.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/exception.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/bpf/exception.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/states.c | 3 ++
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 20 +++++++++++-
5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
index d3740ad20235..6449e4babc60 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ struct bpf_func_state {
bool in_async_callback_fn;
bool in_exception_callback_fn;
bool no_stack_arg_load;
+ bool in_pad;
/* For callback calling functions that limit number of possible
* callback executions (e.g. bpf_loop) keeps track of current
* simulated iteration number.
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/exception.c b/kernel/bpf/exception.c
index a0f088e225ac..2b9640099269 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/exception.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/exception.c
@@ -232,6 +232,65 @@ bool bpf_is_unwind_resume_kfunc(const struct bpf_insn *insn)
insn->imm == bpf_unwind_resume_id[0];
}
+static bool unwinding(const struct bpf_verifier_state *state)
+{
+ u32 i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i <= state->curframe; i++)
+ if (state->frame[i]->in_pad)
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
+int bpf_exc_check_insn(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn)
+{
+ bool in_pad = cur_func(env)->in_pad;
+ u32 i = env->insn_idx;
+ const char *why = NULL;
+
+ if (unwinding(env->cur_state)) {
+ if (bpf_is_unwind_kfunc(insn)) {
+ verbose(env, "insn %u starts a second unwind while one is in flight\n", i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (bpf_pseudo_call(insn)) {
+ int subprog = bpf_find_subprog(env, i + insn->imm + 1);
+
+ if (subprog >= 0 && bpf_subprog_is_global(env, subprog) &&
+ env->subprog_info[subprog].might_unwind) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "insn %u calls global subprog %d, which can unwind while an unwind is in flight\n",
+ i, subprog);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!in_pad)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (insn->code == (BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT)) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "exit at insn %u ends a landing pad: a catch pad is not supported yet, only cleanup pads that resume\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (bpf_helper_call(insn) && insn->imm == BPF_FUNC_tail_call)
+ why = "is a tail call, which replaces the frame";
+ else if (BPF_CLASS(insn->code) == BPF_LD &&
+ (BPF_MODE(insn->code) == BPF_ABS || BPF_MODE(insn->code) == BPF_IND))
+ why = "is a BPF_LD_[ABS|IND], which can leave through the epilogue";
+ else if (insn->code == (BPF_JMP | BPF_JA | BPF_X) ||
+ insn->code == (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA | BPF_X))
+ why = "is an indirect jump, which nothing a compiler frontend emits in a pad needs";
+
+ if (!why)
+ return 0;
+
+ verbose(env, "insn %u %s, and is in a landing pad\n", i, why);
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
int bpf_exc_pad_of_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 idx)
{
u32 pad = env->insn_aux_data[idx].cleanup_pad;
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/exception.h b/kernel/bpf/exception.h
index 983b9af16a19..1d7fc795619f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/exception.h
+++ b/kernel/bpf/exception.h
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ int bpf_exc_pad_of_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 idx);
bool bpf_is_unwind_kfunc(const struct bpf_insn *insn);
bool bpf_is_unwind_resume_kfunc(const struct bpf_insn *insn);
int bpf_exc_check_callback(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog);
+int bpf_exc_check_insn(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn);
#endif /* __BPF_EXCEPTION_H */
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/states.c b/kernel/bpf/states.c
index 4ffa5b7ebf0f..eaf95d6e81bc 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/states.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/states.c
@@ -956,6 +956,9 @@ static bool func_states_equal(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_func_stat
if (!old->no_stack_arg_load && cur->no_stack_arg_load)
return false;
+ if (old->in_pad != cur->in_pad)
+ return false;
+
for (i = 0; i < MAX_BPF_REG; i++)
if (((1 << i) & live_regs) &&
!regsafe(env, &old->regs[i], &cur->regs[i],
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 4ab838ba21eb..59b275bfc949 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -15243,8 +15243,13 @@ static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
if (bpf_is_unwind_kfunc(insn))
return process_bpf_unwind(env, insn_idx_p, NULL);
- if (bpf_is_unwind_resume_kfunc(insn))
+ if (bpf_is_unwind_resume_kfunc(insn)) {
+ if (!cur_func(env)->in_pad) {
+ verbose(env, "resume at insn %d is not in a landing pad\n", insn_idx);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
return unwind_frames(env, NULL);
+ }
return 0;
}
@@ -19251,6 +19256,7 @@ static int unwind_frames(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, bool *do_print_state)
return err;
clear_caller_saved_regs(env, caller->regs);
mark_reg_unknown(env, caller->regs, BPF_REG_0);
+ caller->in_pad = true;
env->insn_idx = pad;
if (do_print_state)
*do_print_state = true;
@@ -19326,6 +19332,7 @@ static int process_global_call_unwind(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
frame = cur_func(env);
clear_caller_saved_regs(env, frame->regs);
mark_reg_unknown(env, frame->regs, BPF_REG_0);
+ frame->in_pad = true;
env->insn_idx = pad;
*do_print_state = true;
return INSN_IDX_UPDATED;
@@ -19341,6 +19348,7 @@ static int process_bpf_unwind(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int *insn_idx,
return unwind_frames(env, do_print_state);
clear_caller_saved_regs(env, frame->regs);
mark_reg_unknown(env, frame->regs, BPF_REG_0);
+ frame->in_pad = true;
*insn_idx = pad;
return INSN_IDX_UPDATED;
}
@@ -19712,6 +19720,16 @@ static int do_check(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
}
}
+ if (unlikely(env->cleanup_info_cnt)) {
+ err = bpf_exc_check_insn(env, insn);
+ if (error_recoverable_with_nospec(err) && state->speculative) {
+ insn_aux->nospec = true;
+ goto process_bpf_exit;
+ }
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
if (bpf_is_prune_point(env, env->insn_idx)) {
err = bpf_is_state_visited(env, env->insn_idx);
if (err < 0)
--
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2026-10-09 4:14 [PATCH bpf-next v10 00/24] bpf: Run exception cleanup landing pads when bpf_unwind() unwinds Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:14 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 01/24] bpf: Pack bpf_insn_aux_data flags into bit fields Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:14 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 02/24] bpf: Accept the compiler's exception cleanup table at program load Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 03/24] bpf: Add the bpf_unwind() and bpf_unwind_resume() kfuncs Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 04/24] bpf: Keep a call site's landing pad in insn_aux_data, add lookups Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:28 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 15:10 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 05/24] bpf: Mark covered call sites and check a program can take a table Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:34 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 15:13 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 06/24] bpf: Make exception landing pads reachable in the CFG Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 07/24] bpf: Verify an unwind through landing pads and epilogues Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 15:24 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 5:13 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-09 15:25 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 08/24] bpf: Refuse a callback that can unwind Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-10-10 15:08 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 09/24] bpf: Refuse a landing pad that does not resume Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-11 18:26 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 10/24] bpf: Do not use a private stack for a program that can unwind Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 15:38 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 11/24] bpf: Prepare JITed programs for dispatching cleanup pads Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:35 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 16:12 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 5:13 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-09 16:39 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 12/24] bpf: Dispatch cleanup pads by rewriting return addresses Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 13/24] bpf: Refuse a trampoline that calls a subprog that can unwind Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 14/24] bpf, x86: Dispatch exception cleanup pads at run time Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:32 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 16:51 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 15/24] bpf, arm64: " Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:30 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 16:55 ` Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 16/24] libbpf: Resolve the compiler's _Unwind_Resume to the kernel's kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 17/24] libbpf: Add cleanup_info to bpf_prog_load_opts Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:26 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 18/24] libbpf: Collect .bpf_cleanup records and pass them to the kernel Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 19/24] libbpf: Carry the exception cleanup table through the light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 20/24] libbpf: Let the static linker carry .bpf_cleanup relocations Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 21/24] selftests/bpf: Add end-to-end and negative .bpf_cleanup exception tests Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 22/24] selftests/bpf: Add __set_global() and __ret_global() test tags Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 23/24] selftests/bpf: Cover more accepted .bpf_cleanup exception shapes Yonghong Song
2026-10-09 4:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 24/24] selftests/bpf: Load an exception cleanup program from a light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-10-10 15:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v10 00/24] bpf: Run exception cleanup landing pads when bpf_unwind() unwinds Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-11 17:30 ` Yonghong Song
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