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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 06/20] bpf: Explore the landing pads no call site reaches
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:57:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917055716.3929570-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917055645.3926444-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev>

A cleanup record need not cover a call an exception can unwind out of: a
frontend is free to emit a region around a helper or an ordinary kfunc,
both nounwind here. Nothing marks a call site then, and that record's
landing pad is reached by nothing at all -- leaving bpf_check_cfg() to
refuse the program over code its own frontend had no way not to emit:

   0: call bpf_preempt_disable
   1: call bpf_preempt_enable      record = { begin = 1, end = 2, pad = 4 }
   2: r0 = 0
   3: exit
   4: r1 = pads_ran ll             landing pad
   6: r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0)
   7: r2 |= RAN_NOUNWIND_REC
   8: *(u64 *)(r1 + 0) = r2
   9: call bpf_unwind_resume
  10: exit

The range [1,2) holds one call, and it is a kfunc, so an exception cannot
come out of it. cleanup_mark_call_sites() marks nothing, nothing pushes an
edge to 4, and 4 through 10 are reachable from nothing: "unreachable insn
4". The pad is dead, which is correct -- no exception can ever arrive at it
-- but the program is fine and has to load.

Walk every pad the table names that the edges did not reach, the way the
walk is already re-seeded at an exception callback. From there the pad is
code like any other: do_check() never enters it, because no call site
dispatches to it, so the dead code sweep removes it along with everything
else that was not reached.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
 kernel/bpf/cfg.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/cfg.c b/kernel/bpf/cfg.c
index 9f8b8b54d5ea..5a2b48b6a9e1 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/cfg.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/cfg.c
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ int bpf_check_cfg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
 	int insn_cnt = env->prog->len;
 	int *insn_stack, *insn_state;
 	int ex_insn_beg, i, ret = 0;
+	u32 pad_idx = 0;
 
 	insn_state = env->cfg.insn_state = kvzalloc_objs(int, insn_cnt,
 							 GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
@@ -688,6 +689,22 @@ int bpf_check_cfg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
 		goto walk_cfg;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * A landing pad no call site was marked with -- a record whose range
+	 * holds no call an exception can unwind out of -- is reached by
+	 * nothing. Walk it from here, and let the dead code sweep remove it.
+	 */
+	while (pad_idx < env->cleanup_info_cnt) {
+		u32 pad = env->cleanup_info[pad_idx++].landing_pad_off;
+
+		if (insn_state[pad] != EXPLORED) {
+			insn_state[pad] = DISCOVERED;
+			insn_stack[0] = pad;
+			env->cfg.cur_stack = 1;
+			goto walk_cfg;
+		}
+	}
+
 	for (i = 0; i < insn_cnt; i++) {
 		struct bpf_insn *insn = &env->prog->insnsi[i];
 
-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-17  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-17  5:56 [PATCH bpf-next 00/20] bpf: Run exception cleanup landing pads when bpf_throw() unwinds Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 01/20] bpf: Accept the compiler's exception cleanup table at program load Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 02/20] bpf: Add the bpf_unwind_resume() kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 03/20] bpf: Add lookups for exception cleanup resumes and landing pads Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 04/20] bpf: Mark the call sites an exception cleanup table covers Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 05/20] bpf: Make exception landing pads reachable in the CFG Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:22   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-18  3:36     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 07/20] bpf: Refuse exception cleanup shapes bpf_throw() cannot dispatch Yonghong Song
2026-09-19  4:57   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-19 17:32     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 08/20] bpf: Walk the exception unwind in the verifier Yonghong Song
2026-09-19  4:57   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-19 17:36     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 09/20] bpf: Refuse a private stack for a program with an exception cleanup table Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 10/20] bpf: Dispatch exception cleanup pads from bpf_throw() Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 11/20] bpf, x86: Dispatch exception cleanup pads at run time Yonghong Song
2026-09-19  5:02   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-19 19:13     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 12/20] bpf, arm64: " Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 13/20] libbpf: Resolve the compiler's _Unwind_Resume to the kernel's kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:08   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-17  7:00   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-18  3:40     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 14/20] libbpf: Add cleanup_info to bpf_prog_load_opts Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 15/20] libbpf: Collect .bpf_cleanup records and pass them to the kernel Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:12   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-18  3:44     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 16/20] libbpf: Carry the exception cleanup table through the light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:18   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-18  3:52     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 17/20] libbpf: Let the static linker carry .bpf_cleanup relocations Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:16   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-18  3:58     ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 18/20] selftests/bpf: Add an end-to-end .bpf_cleanup exception test Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:12   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 19/20] selftests/bpf: Cover the exception cleanup shapes the chain does not reach Yonghong Song
2026-09-17  6:16   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-17  5:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next 20/20] selftests/bpf: Load an exception cleanup program from a light skeleton Yonghong Song

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