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 v5 09/21] bpf: Refuse exception cleanup shapes bpf_throw() cannot dispatch
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:59:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260923045932.2419398-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260923045846.2414643-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev>
The verifier now walks the unwind, so at every instruction it knows whether
an exception is in flight and, if it is, which frame's landing pad it
entered. do_check() asks bpf_exc_check_insn() about each instruction of
a program that carries a table, and it refuses:
- bpf_throw() in any frame while unwinding: a second unwind over frames
the first is still discarding. A static callee is walked from the pad,
so its own throw trips this too; a global one is not walked, which is
what subprog_info.might_throw is for
- in the frame whose landing pad the unwind entered, where the code runs
on the walker's stack: a plain exit, which is what a catch pad ends in,
a tail call, an indirect jump, an outgoing on-stack call argument, and
a BPF_LD_[ABS|IND], whose failure path leaves the frame through the
epilogue
- an instruction reached both inside and outside a pad: the arm64 JIT
addresses the frame through a register only a pad entry computes. This
also turns away a jump into the middle of a pad
bpf_exc_check_callback() refuses a subprogram that may unwind as a
helper callback, whose helper frame would end the walk before it found a
boundary.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
---
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 2 +
kernel/bpf/exception.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/bpf/exception.h | 3 ++
kernel/bpf/fixups.c | 1 +
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 10 ++++
5 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
index 3146f707e030..736304d912af 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
@@ -698,6 +698,8 @@ struct bpf_insn_aux_data {
u64 arg_prog:4;
u64 throw_call:1; /* call to bpf_throw() */
u64 resume_call:1; /* call to bpf_unwind_resume() */
+ u64 in_cleanup_pad:1; /* runs with an exception in flight, in the pad's frame */
+ u64 outside_cleanup_pad:1; /* ... and the other way round */
/* below flags are initialized once */
u64 jmp_point:1;
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/exception.c b/kernel/bpf/exception.c
index 3270e7ae2e7c..3aafbb612e7f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/exception.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/exception.c
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ static void mark_kfunc_sites(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
}
}
+int bpf_exc_check_callback(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog)
+{
+ if (!env->cleanup_info_cnt || !env->subprog_info[subprog].might_throw)
+ return 0;
+
+ verbose(env, "subprog %d may unwind and is used as a callback\n", subprog);
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
static void mark_call_sites(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
{
u32 i, j;
@@ -72,6 +81,98 @@ int bpf_prepare_cleanup_exceptions(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
return 0;
}
+int bpf_exc_check_insn(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn)
+{
+ struct bpf_verifier_state *state = env->cur_state;
+ struct bpf_insn_aux_data *aux;
+ u32 i = env->insn_idx;
+ bool in_pad;
+
+ aux = &env->insn_aux_data[i];
+ in_pad = state->unwinding && state->curframe == state->unwind_frameno;
+
+ if (in_pad ? aux->outside_cleanup_pad : aux->in_cleanup_pad) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "insn %u runs both inside and outside an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (in_pad)
+ aux->in_cleanup_pad = true;
+ else
+ aux->outside_cleanup_pad = true;
+
+ if (!state->unwinding)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (bpf_is_throw_kfunc(insn)) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "bpf_throw() at insn %u throws while an exception 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_throw) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "insn %u calls global subprog %d, which can throw while an exception 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 an exception cleanup landing pad: a catch pad is not supported yet, only cleanup pads that resume\n",
+ i);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ if (bpf_helper_call(insn) && insn->imm == BPF_FUNC_tail_call) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "bpf_tail_call() at insn %u is in an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (insn->code == (BPF_JMP | BPF_JA | BPF_X) ||
+ insn->code == (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA | BPF_X)) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "indirect jump at insn %u is in an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ /* A BPF_LD_[ABS|IND] can leave the frame through its epilogue. */
+ if (BPF_CLASS(insn->code) == BPF_LD &&
+ (BPF_MODE(insn->code) == BPF_ABS || BPF_MODE(insn->code) == BPF_IND)) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "BPF_LD_[ABS|IND] at insn %u is in an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (is_stack_arg_st(insn) || is_stack_arg_stx(insn)) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "insn %u stages an on-stack call argument in an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (bpf_pseudo_kfunc_call(insn)) {
+ struct bpf_call_summary cs;
+
+ if (bpf_get_call_summary(env, insn, &cs) &&
+ cs.arg_slot_cnt > MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS) {
+ verbose(env,
+ "insn %u calls a kfunc with an on-stack argument in an exception cleanup landing pad\n",
+ i);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
bool bpf_is_unwind_resume_kfunc(const struct bpf_insn *insn)
{
return bpf_pseudo_kfunc_call(insn) && insn->off == 0 &&
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/exception.h b/kernel/bpf/exception.h
index b96b2c429e22..0872a3f70583 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/exception.h
+++ b/kernel/bpf/exception.h
@@ -5,9 +5,12 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
+struct bpf_insn;
struct bpf_verifier_env;
int bpf_prepare_cleanup_exceptions(struct bpf_verifier_env *env);
+int bpf_exc_check_insn(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn);
+int bpf_exc_check_callback(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog);
int bpf_exc_pad_of_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 idx);
#endif /* _LINUX_BPF_EXCEPTION_H */
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/fixups.c b/kernel/bpf/fixups.c
index fed5b66ed3b7..53a737c88dcc 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/fixups.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/fixups.c
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ static void adjust_insn_aux_data(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
/* Expand insni[off]'s seen count to the patched range. */
data[i].seen = old_seen;
data[i].zext_dst = bpf_insn_def32(new_prog, insn + i) >= 0;
+ data[i].in_cleanup_pad = data[off + cnt - 1].in_cleanup_pad;
if (!memcmp(insn + i, original_insn, sizeof(struct bpf_insn))) {
data[i].non_stack_access =
data[off + cnt - 1].non_stack_access;
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 53edce3d64ea..7b74dd9b9f48 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -10549,6 +10549,10 @@ static int push_callback_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *ins
* callbacks
*/
env->subprog_info[subprog].is_cb = true;
+ err = bpf_exc_check_callback(env, subprog);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
if (bpf_pseudo_kfunc_call(insn) &&
!is_callback_calling_kfunc(insn->imm)) {
verifier_bug(env, "kfunc %s#%d not marked as callback-calling",
@@ -19041,6 +19045,12 @@ static int do_check(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
return err;
}
+ if (unlikely(env->cleanup_info_cnt)) {
+ err = bpf_exc_check_insn(env, insn);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
sanitize_mark_insn_seen(env);
prev_insn_idx = env->insn_idx;
--
2.53.0-Meta
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-23 4:58 [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/21] bpf: Run exception cleanup landing pads when bpf_throw() unwinds Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 01/21] bpf: Pack bpf_insn_aux_data flags into bit fields Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:40 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 19:16 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 4:58 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 02/21] bpf: Accept the compiler's exception cleanup table at program load Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 03/21] bpf: Add the bpf_unwind_resume() kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 6:13 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 04/21] bpf: Add lookups for exception cleanup resumes and landing pads Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 05/21] bpf: Prepare for an exception cleanup table before the CFG walk Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:40 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 06/21] bpf: Make exception landing pads reachable in the CFG Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:51 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 19:25 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 07/21] bpf: Explore the landing pads no call site reaches Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 16:26 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 17:27 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 18:06 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 18:09 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 21:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-23 22:19 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 23:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-24 0:13 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-24 1:53 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-24 6:12 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-23 23:09 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 08/21] bpf: Walk the exception unwind in the verifier Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 16:34 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 18:01 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 10/21] bpf: Refuse a private stack for a program with an exception cleanup table Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 11/21] bpf: Dispatch exception cleanup pads from bpf_throw() Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 12/21] bpf, x86: Dispatch exception cleanup pads at run time Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 6:45 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 20:45 ` Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 13/21] bpf, arm64: " Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 4:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 14/21] libbpf: Resolve the compiler's _Unwind_Resume to the kernel's kfunc Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 8:36 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 15/21] libbpf: Add cleanup_info to bpf_prog_load_opts Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 16/21] libbpf: Collect .bpf_cleanup records and pass them to the kernel Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:52 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 17/21] libbpf: Carry the exception cleanup table through the light skeleton Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 18/21] libbpf: Let the static linker carry .bpf_cleanup relocations Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:40 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 19/21] selftests/bpf: Add an end-to-end .bpf_cleanup exception test Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:51 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 20/21] selftests/bpf: Cover the exception cleanup shapes the chain does not reach Yonghong Song
2026-09-23 5:51 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-23 7:50 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-23 5:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v5 21/21] selftests/bpf: Load an exception cleanup program from a light skeleton Yonghong Song
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