From: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
kkd@meta.com, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/6] bpf: Add support for verifier warning messages
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 04:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260408021359.3786905-2-memxor@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408021359.3786905-1-memxor@gmail.com>
Relax conditions such that we allow log_level = 0 to have an associated
log buffer. Add a warn() macro that emits messages to log buffer without
any restrictions, aggregate the warnings emitted, and then use it to
decide whether we reset the log or not.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/log.c | 6 ++----
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
index 36bfd96d4563..c7b34236a4b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ struct bpf_verifier_env {
bool bypass_spec_v4;
bool seen_direct_write;
bool seen_exception;
+ bool warnings;
struct bpf_insn_aux_data *insn_aux_data; /* array of per-insn state */
const struct bpf_line_info *prev_linfo;
struct bpf_verifier_log log;
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/log.c b/kernel/bpf/log.c
index 37d72b052192..c67fbbbd5768 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/log.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/log.c
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@ static bool bpf_verifier_log_attr_valid(const struct bpf_verifier_log *log)
/* ubuf and len_total should both be specified (or not) together */
if (!!log->ubuf != !!log->len_total)
return false;
- /* log buf without log_level is meaningless */
- if (log->ubuf && log->level == 0)
- return false;
if (log->level & ~BPF_LOG_MASK)
return false;
if (log->len_total > UINT_MAX >> 2)
return false;
+ /* log->ubuf may be set for log->level = 0 to get warning messages. */
return true;
}
@@ -229,7 +227,7 @@ int bpf_vlog_finalize(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, u32 *log_size_actual)
int err;
*log_size_actual = 0;
- if (!log || log->level == 0 || log->level == BPF_LOG_KERNEL)
+ if (!log || (!log->ubuf && log->level == 0) || log->level == BPF_LOG_KERNEL)
return 0;
if (!log->ubuf)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 594260c1f382..86d77d5f7f83 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static const struct bpf_verifier_ops * const bpf_verifier_ops[] = {
enum bpf_features {
BPF_FEAT_RDONLY_CAST_TO_VOID = 0,
BPF_FEAT_STREAMS = 1,
+ BPF_FEAT_VERIFIER_WARNINGS = 2,
__MAX_BPF_FEAT,
};
@@ -368,6 +369,17 @@ __printf(2, 3) static void verbose(void *private_data, const char *fmt, ...)
va_end(args);
}
+__printf(2, 3) static void warn(void *private_data, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ struct bpf_verifier_env *env = private_data;
+ va_list args;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ bpf_verifier_vlog(&env->log, fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+ env->warnings = true;
+}
+
static void verbose_invalid_scalar(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
struct bpf_retval_range range, const char *ctx,
@@ -2128,7 +2140,8 @@ static int pop_stack(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int *prev_insn_idx,
if (err)
return err;
}
- if (pop_log)
+ /* Preserve warning-only output across branch explorations. */
+ if (pop_log && !(env->warnings && env->log.level == 0))
bpf_vlog_reset(&env->log, head->log_pos);
if (insn_idx)
*insn_idx = head->insn_idx;
@@ -25211,7 +25224,7 @@ static int do_check_common(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog)
ret = do_check(env);
out:
- if (!ret && pop_log)
+ if (!ret && pop_log && !env->warnings)
bpf_vlog_reset(&env->log, 0);
free_states(env);
return ret;
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 2:13 [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/6] Add support to emit verifier warnings Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 2:13 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi [this message]
2026-04-08 8:46 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/6] bpf: Add support for verifier warning messages sun jian
2026-04-08 2:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/6] bpf: Extract bpf_get_linfo_file_line Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 2:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/6] bpf: Make find_linfo widely available Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 15:46 ` Mykyta Yatsenko
2026-04-08 2:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 4/6] bpf: Use KF_DEPRECATED to emit verifier warnings Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 2:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 5/6] bpf: Add __bpf_kfunc_replacement() annotation Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 2:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 6/6] libbpf: Flush verifier warning messages by default Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 2:21 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-04-08 14:55 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/6] Add support to emit verifier warnings Leon Hwang
2026-04-08 15:30 ` Leon Hwang
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