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>,
"Jose E . Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>,
kernel-team@fb.com, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v6 12/17] bpf: Support stack arguments for kfunc calls
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:34:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260419163417.736887-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260419163316.731019-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Extend the stack argument mechanism to kfunc calls, allowing kfuncs
with more than 5 parameters to receive additional arguments via the
r11-based stack arg area.
For kfuncs, the caller is a BPF program and the callee is a kernel
function. The BPF program writes outgoing args at negative r11
offsets, following the same convention as BPF-to-BPF calls:
Outgoing: r11 - 8 (arg6), ..., r11 - N*8 (last arg)
The following is an example:
int foo(int a1, int a2, int a3, int a4, int a5, int a6, int a7) {
...
kfunc1(a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8);
...
kfunc2(a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8, a9);
...
}
Caller (foo), generated by llvm
===============================
Incoming (positive offsets):
r11+8: [incoming arg 6]
r11+16: [incoming arg 7]
Outgoing for kfunc1 (negative offsets):
r11-8: [outgoing arg 6]
r11-16: [outgoing arg 7]
r11-24: [outgoing arg 8]
Outgoing for kfunc2 (negative offsets):
r11-8: [outgoing arg 6]
r11-16: [outgoing arg 7]
r11-24: [outgoing arg 8]
r11-32: [outgoing arg 9]
Later JIT will marshal outgoing arguments to the native calling
convention for kfunc1() and kfunc2().
There are two places where meta->release_regno needs to keep
regno for later releasing the reference. Also, 'cur_aux(env)->arg_prog = regno'
is also keeping regno for later fixup. Since stack arguments don't have a valid
register number (regno is set to -1), these three cases are rejected for now
if the argument is on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 2a346e4f28e1..13f1fd788092 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -4502,6 +4502,14 @@ static int check_stack_arg_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
return 0;
}
+/* Check whether a stack arg slot has been properly initialized. */
+static bool is_stack_arg_slot_initialized(struct bpf_func_state *state, int spi)
+{
+ if (spi >= (int)(state->stack_arg_depth / BPF_REG_SIZE))
+ return false;
+ return state->stack_arg_regs[spi].type != NOT_INIT;
+}
+
static int out_arg_idx_from_off(int off)
{
return -off / BPF_REG_SIZE - 1;
@@ -7314,8 +7322,12 @@ static int check_mem_size_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
}
err = check_helper_mem_access(env, mem_reg, mem_argno, size_reg->umax_value,
access_type, zero_size_allowed, meta);
- if (!err && !is_stack_argno(size_argno))
- err = mark_chain_precision(env, size_argno);
+ if (!err) {
+ if (is_stack_argno(size_argno))
+ size_reg->precise = true;
+ else
+ err = mark_chain_precision(env, size_argno);
+ }
return err;
}
@@ -7358,8 +7370,6 @@ static int check_kfunc_mem_size_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_reg
u32 argno = make_argno(mem_argno);
int err;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(mem_argno > BPF_REG_3);
-
memset(&meta, 0, sizeof(meta));
if (may_be_null) {
@@ -11667,6 +11677,21 @@ bool bpf_is_kfunc_pkt_changing(struct bpf_kfunc_call_arg_meta *meta)
return meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_xdp_pull_data];
}
+static struct bpf_reg_state *get_kfunc_arg_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int argno)
+{
+ struct bpf_func_state *caller;
+ int spi;
+
+ if (argno < MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS)
+ return &cur_regs(env)[argno + 1];
+
+ caller = cur_func(env);
+ spi = out_arg_spi(caller, argno - MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS);
+ if (spi >= caller->stack_arg_depth / BPF_REG_SIZE)
+ return NULL;
+ return &caller->stack_arg_regs[spi];
+}
+
static enum kfunc_ptr_arg_type
get_kfunc_ptr_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
struct bpf_kfunc_call_arg_meta *meta,
@@ -11674,8 +11699,6 @@ get_kfunc_ptr_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
const char *ref_tname, const struct btf_param *args,
int argno, int nargs, struct bpf_reg_state *reg)
{
- u32 regno = argno + 1;
- struct bpf_reg_state *regs = cur_regs(env);
bool arg_mem_size = false;
if (meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx] ||
@@ -11683,10 +11706,14 @@ get_kfunc_ptr_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_cookie])
return KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX;
- if (argno + 1 < nargs &&
- (is_kfunc_arg_mem_size(meta->btf, &args[argno + 1], ®s[regno + 1]) ||
- is_kfunc_arg_const_mem_size(meta->btf, &args[argno + 1], ®s[regno + 1])))
- arg_mem_size = true;
+ if (argno + 1 < nargs) {
+ struct bpf_reg_state *next_reg = get_kfunc_arg_reg(env, argno + 1);
+
+ if (next_reg &&
+ (is_kfunc_arg_mem_size(meta->btf, &args[argno + 1], next_reg) ||
+ is_kfunc_arg_const_mem_size(meta->btf, &args[argno + 1], next_reg)))
+ arg_mem_size = true;
+ }
/* In this function, we verify the kfunc's BTF as per the argument type,
* leaving the rest of the verification with respect to the register
@@ -12358,9 +12385,9 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
args = (const struct btf_param *)(meta->func_proto + 1);
nargs = btf_type_vlen(meta->func_proto);
- if (nargs > MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS) {
+ if (nargs > MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS) {
verbose(env, "Function %s has %d > %d args\n", func_name, nargs,
- MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS);
+ MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (nargs > MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS && !bpf_jit_supports_stack_args()) {
@@ -12373,20 +12400,44 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
* verifier sees.
*/
for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++) {
- struct bpf_reg_state *regs = cur_regs(env), *reg = ®s[i + 1];
+ struct bpf_reg_state *regs = cur_regs(env), *reg;
const struct btf_type *t, *ref_t, *resolve_ret;
enum bpf_arg_type arg_type = ARG_DONTCARE;
u32 argno = make_argno(i);
- u32 regno = i + 1, ref_id, type_size;
+ struct bpf_reg_state tmp_reg;
+ int regno = i + 1;
+ u32 ref_id, type_size;
bool is_ret_buf_sz = false;
int kf_arg_type;
+ if (i < MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS) {
+ reg = ®s[i + 1];
+ } else {
+ /* Retrieve the reg state from the outgoing stack arg slot. */
+ struct bpf_func_state *caller = cur_func(env);
+ int spi = out_arg_spi(caller, i - MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS);
+
+ if (!is_stack_arg_slot_initialized(caller, spi)) {
+ verbose(env, "stack %s not properly initialized\n",
+ reg_arg_name(env, argno));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ tmp_reg = caller->stack_arg_regs[spi];
+ reg = &tmp_reg;
+ regno = -1;
+ }
+
if (is_kfunc_arg_prog_aux(btf, &args[i])) {
/* Reject repeated use bpf_prog_aux */
if (meta->arg_prog) {
verifier_bug(env, "Only 1 prog->aux argument supported per-kfunc");
return -EFAULT;
}
+ if (regno < 0) {
+ verbose(env, "%s prog->aux cannot be a stack argument\n", reg_arg_name(env, argno));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
meta->arg_prog = true;
cur_aux(env)->arg_prog = regno;
continue;
@@ -12413,9 +12464,13 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
reg_arg_name(env, argno));
return -EINVAL;
}
- ret = mark_chain_precision(env, regno);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
+ if (regno < 0) {
+ reg->precise = true;
+ } else {
+ ret = mark_chain_precision(env, regno);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ }
meta->arg_constant.found = true;
meta->arg_constant.value = reg->var_off.value;
} else if (is_kfunc_arg_scalar_with_name(btf, &args[i], "rdonly_buf_size")) {
@@ -12438,9 +12493,13 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
}
meta->r0_size = reg->var_off.value;
- ret = mark_chain_precision(env, regno);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
+ if (regno < 0) {
+ reg->precise = true;
+ } else {
+ ret = mark_chain_precision(env, regno);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
}
continue;
}
@@ -12466,8 +12525,13 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
return -EFAULT;
}
meta->ref_obj_id = reg->ref_obj_id;
- if (is_kfunc_release(meta))
+ if (is_kfunc_release(meta)) {
+ if (regno < 0) {
+ verbose(env, "%s release arg cannot be a stack argument\n", reg_arg_name(env, argno));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
meta->release_regno = regno;
+ }
}
ref_t = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, t->type, &ref_id);
@@ -12626,6 +12690,10 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
dynptr_arg_type |= DYNPTR_TYPE_FILE;
} else if (meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_dynptr_file_discard]) {
dynptr_arg_type |= DYNPTR_TYPE_FILE;
+ if (regno < 0) {
+ verbose(env, "%s release arg cannot be a stack argument\n", reg_arg_name(env, argno));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
meta->release_regno = regno;
} else if (meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_dynptr_clone] &&
(dynptr_arg_type & MEM_UNINIT)) {
@@ -12780,9 +12848,9 @@ static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_kfunc_call_
break;
case KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_SIZE:
{
- struct bpf_reg_state *buff_reg = ®s[regno];
+ struct bpf_reg_state *buff_reg = reg;
const struct btf_param *buff_arg = &args[i];
- struct bpf_reg_state *size_reg = ®s[regno + 1];
+ struct bpf_reg_state *size_reg = get_kfunc_arg_reg(env, i + 1);
const struct btf_param *size_arg = &args[i + 1];
if (!bpf_register_is_null(buff_reg) || !is_kfunc_arg_nullable(meta->btf, buff_arg)) {
@@ -13686,7 +13754,7 @@ static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
nargs = btf_type_vlen(meta.func_proto);
args = (const struct btf_param *)(meta.func_proto + 1);
- for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < min_t(int, nargs, MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS); i++) {
u32 regno = i + 1;
t = btf_type_skip_modifiers(desc_btf, args[i].type, NULL);
@@ -13697,6 +13765,17 @@ static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
mark_btf_func_reg_size(env, regno, t->size);
}
+ /* Track outgoing stack arg depth for kfuncs with >5 args */
+ if (nargs > MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS) {
+ struct bpf_func_state *caller = cur_func(env);
+ struct bpf_subprog_info *caller_info = &env->subprog_info[caller->subprogno];
+ u16 kfunc_stack_arg_depth = (nargs - MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS) * BPF_REG_SIZE;
+
+ if (kfunc_stack_arg_depth > caller_info->outgoing_stack_arg_depth)
+ caller_info->outgoing_stack_arg_depth = kfunc_stack_arg_depth;
+ invalidate_outgoing_stack_args(caller);
+ }
+
if (bpf_is_iter_next_kfunc(&meta)) {
err = process_iter_next_call(env, insn_idx, &meta);
if (err)
--
2.52.0
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-19 16:33 [PATCH bpf-next v6 00/17] bpf: Support stack arguments for BPF functions and kfuncs Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 01/17] bpf: Remove unused parameter from check_map_kptr_access() Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 02/17] bpf: Refactor to avoid redundant calculation of bpf_reg_state Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 03/17] bpf: Refactor to handle memory and size together Yonghong Song
2026-04-20 23:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-21 4:04 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 04/17] bpf: Prepare verifier logs for upcoming kfunc stack arguments Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 0:03 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-21 4:06 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 6:07 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 13:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-21 15:41 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 15:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-21 16:37 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 17:24 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 05/17] bpf: Introduce bpf register BPF_REG_PARAMS Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 17:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-19 18:14 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 06/17] bpf: Reuse MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS for maximum number of arguments Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 07/17] bpf: Support stack arguments for bpf functions Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 19:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-20 4:35 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-21 0:37 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-21 4:15 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:33 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 08/17] bpf: Reject stack arguments in non-JITed programs Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 18:21 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-20 4:23 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 09/17] bpf: Track r11 registers in const_fold and liveness Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 10/17] bpf: Prepare architecture JIT support for stack arguments Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 11/17] bpf: Enable r11 based insns Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 12/17] bpf: Support stack arguments for kfunc calls sashiko-bot
2026-04-19 18:18 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 13/17] bpf: Reject stack arguments if tail call reachable Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 17:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-19 18:20 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 14/17] bpf,x86: Implement JIT support for stack arguments Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 17:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-19 18:55 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 15/17] selftests/bpf: Add tests for BPF function " Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 17:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-20 5:52 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 16/17] selftests/bpf: Add tests for stack argument validation Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 16:34 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 17/17] selftests/bpf: Add verifier " Yonghong Song
2026-04-19 17:21 ` sashiko-bot
2026-04-20 6:14 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-20 15:41 ` [PATCH bpf-next v6 00/17] bpf: Support stack arguments for BPF functions and kfuncs Puranjay Mohan
2026-04-20 20:22 ` Yonghong Song
2026-04-20 20:25 ` Puranjay Mohan
2026-04-20 21:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-04-20 23:44 ` Yonghong Song
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