From: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com>,
David Faust <david.faust@oracle.com>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
"Jose E . Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>,
Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@linux.dev>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/8] bpftool: Emit __bpf_core_pso on verifier-rewritten context types
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016000012.2232059-6-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016000012.2232059-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
The verifier translates accesses to some UAPI context and socket types
into accesses to kernel structures. These accesses require an
unmodified base and an immediate field offset.
Leaving preserve_access_index off does not stop the compiler from
merging loads at different field offsets into one load through an
adjusted pointer. The verifier rejects the resulting program.
preserve_static_offset, available since Clang 18, preserves static
field offsets in load and store instruction immediates. Apply it to
the 13 types that need static offsets through __bpf_core_pso.
Eduard introduced PSO in Clang and proposed annotating BPF context
types in 2023 [1]. His v3 RFC [2] left pt_regs annotations in
architecture headers unresolved. However since commit de6c7d99f898
("bpf: Relax fixed offset check for PTR_TO_CTX"), program types without
convert_ctx_access() accept fixed offsets from modified context
pointers. pt_regs can now keep PAI, while PSO on bpf_perf_event_data
covers its regs member.
PSO creates no CO-RE relocations, so BPF_NO_PRESERVE_ACCESS_INDEX does
not disable it.
Clang 18 through 23 crash on __builtin_preserve_field_info over a PSO
record, including bpf_core_field_*() and the CO-RE bitfield helpers.
-D__bpf_core_pso= can disable PSO for affected programs.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231208000531.19179-1-eddyz87@gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231220133411.22978-1-eddyz87@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
.../bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_sorted.expected | 8 ++++++++
.../bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_unsorted.expected | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
index 30f30314ec29..fff2ea0a5c7e 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
@@ -1203,12 +1203,17 @@ static int btf_c_annotate_records(struct btf *btf)
for (i = 1; i < cnt; i++) {
const struct btf_type *t = btf__type_by_id(btf, i);
+ const char *attr;
if (!btf_is_composite(t))
continue;
- if (test_bit(i, no_pai))
+ if (!test_bit(i, no_pai))
+ attr = "__bpf_core_pai";
+ else if (btf_c_needs_static_offset(btf, t))
+ attr = "__bpf_core_pso";
+ else
continue;
- err = btf__add_decl_attr(btf, "__bpf_core_pai", i, -1);
+ err = btf__add_decl_attr(btf, attr, i, -1);
if (err < 0)
goto out;
}
@@ -1251,6 +1256,13 @@ static int dump_btf_c(const struct btf *btf,
printf("#define __bpf_core_pai\n");
printf("#endif\n");
printf("#endif\n\n");
+ printf("#ifndef __bpf_core_pso\n");
+ printf("#if __has_attribute(preserve_static_offset)\n");
+ printf("#define __bpf_core_pso preserve_static_offset\n");
+ printf("#else\n");
+ printf("#define __bpf_core_pso\n");
+ printf("#endif\n");
+ printf("#endif\n\n");
printf("#ifndef __ksym\n");
printf("#define __ksym __attribute__((section(\".ksyms\")))\n");
printf("#endif\n\n");
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_sorted.expected b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_sorted.expected
index 02c8fe8b4859..7da4df1da207 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_sorted.expected
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_sorted.expected
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@
#endif
#endif
+#ifndef __bpf_core_pso
+#if __has_attribute(preserve_static_offset)
+#define __bpf_core_pso preserve_static_offset
+#else
+#define __bpf_core_pso
+#endif
+#endif
+
#ifndef __ksym
#define __ksym __attribute__((section(".ksyms")))
#endif
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_unsorted.expected b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_unsorted.expected
index 9b6589d2bda3..f082da51d630 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_unsorted.expected
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_btf_dump_unsorted.expected
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@
#endif
#endif
+#ifndef __bpf_core_pso
+#if __has_attribute(preserve_static_offset)
+#define __bpf_core_pso preserve_static_offset
+#else
+#define __bpf_core_pso
+#endif
+#endif
+
#ifndef __ksym
#define __ksym __attribute__((section(".ksyms")))
#endif
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 0:00 [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/8] bpftool: Per-record CO-RE attributes in the C dump Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/8] bpftool: Dump C from a detached BTF copy Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 1:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-16 9:44 ` Alan Maguire
2026-10-16 9:25 ` Alan Maguire
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/8] selftests/bpf: Cover unknown BTF header-extension bytes in btf dump Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/8] bpftool: Apply __bpf_core_pai per record on BTF dump Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:39 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-16 1:17 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 4/8] bpftool: Skip __bpf_core_pai on verifier-rewritten context types Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` Ihor Solodrai [this message]
2026-10-16 1:27 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/8] bpftool: Emit __bpf_core_pso " Alexei Starovoitov
2026-10-16 5:49 ` Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 6/8] selftests/bpf: Cover record attributes in bpftool BTF dumps Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 7/8] selftests/bpf: Cover context and socket accesses through vmlinux.h Ihor Solodrai
2026-10-16 0:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 8/8] bpftool: Document __bpf_core_pai and __bpf_core_pso Ihor Solodrai
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