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 v3 06/20] bpf: Explore the landing pads no call site reaches
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:42:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260920054256.867417-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260920054225.864535-1-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 ef02906fd5a8..3fd98dcadce8 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/cfg.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/cfg.c
@@ -640,6 +640,7 @@ 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);
@@ -695,6 +696,22 @@ 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];
--
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-20 5:42 [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/20] bpf: Run exception cleanup landing pads when bpf_throw() unwinds Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 01/20] bpf: Accept the compiler's exception cleanup table at program load Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 15:43 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:32 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 15:28 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 02/20] bpf: Add the bpf_unwind_resume() kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 03/20] bpf: Add lookups for exception cleanup resumes and landing pads Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:31 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 14:06 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 04/20] bpf: Prepare for an exception cleanup table before the CFG walk Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 05/20] bpf: Make exception landing pads reachable in the CFG Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:42 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 07/20] bpf: Refuse exception cleanup shapes bpf_throw() cannot dispatch Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:32 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 14:08 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 08/20] bpf: Walk the exception unwind in the verifier Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 09/20] bpf: Refuse a private stack for a program with an exception cleanup table Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 10/20] bpf: Dispatch exception cleanup pads from bpf_throw() Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:32 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 15:55 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 11/20] bpf, x86: Dispatch exception cleanup pads at run time Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 12/20] bpf, arm64: " Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 13/20] libbpf: Resolve the compiler's _Unwind_Resume to the kernel's kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 14/20] libbpf: Add cleanup_info to bpf_prog_load_opts Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:31 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 15:00 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 15/20] libbpf: Collect .bpf_cleanup records and pass them to the kernel Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 16/20] libbpf: Carry the exception cleanup table through the light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:01 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 14:14 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 17/20] libbpf: Let the static linker carry .bpf_cleanup relocations Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:00 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-21 14:20 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:31 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 14:21 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 18/20] selftests/bpf: Add an end-to-end .bpf_cleanup exception test Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:59 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-20 5:44 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 19/20] selftests/bpf: Cover the exception cleanup shapes the chain does not reach Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:01 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-20 6:46 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 14:27 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 5:44 ` [PATCH bpf-next v3 20/20] selftests/bpf: Load an exception cleanup program from a light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-09-20 6:31 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 14:30 ` Yonghong Song
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