kernel/tools/lib/bpf/skel_internal.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

libbpf: Update light skeleton for signing

2025-09-23T02:17:25Z

* The metadata map is created with as an exclusive map (with an excl_prog_hash) This restricts map access exclusively to the signed loader program, preventing tampering by other processes. * The map is then frozen, making it read-only from userspace. * BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_ID instructs the kernel to compute the hash of the metadata map (H') and store it in bpf_map->sha. * The loader is then loaded with the signature which is then verified by the kernel. loading signed programs prebuilt into the kernel are not currently supported. These can supported by enabling BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_ID to be called from the kernel. Signed-off-by: KP Singh Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-3-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

libbpf: Support creating light skeleton of either endianness

2024-10-04T00:47:36Z

Track target endianness in 'struct bpf_gen' and process in-memory data in native byte-order, but on finalization convert the embedded loader BPF insns to target endianness. The light skeleton also includes a target-accessed data blob which is heterogeneous and thus difficult to convert to target byte-order on finalization. Add support functions to convert data to target endianness as it is added to the blob. Also add additional debug logging for data blob structure details and skeleton loading. Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/569562e1d5bf1cce80a1f1a3882461ee2da1ffd5.1726475448.git.tony.ambardar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

libbpf: Fix some typos in comments

2024-09-09T23:05:40Z

Fix some spelling errors in the code comments of libbpf: betwen -> between paremeters -> parameters knowning -> knowing definiton -> definition compatiblity -> compatibility overriden -> overridden occured -> occurred proccess -> process managment -> management nessary -> necessary Signed-off-by: Yusheng Zheng Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240909225952.30324-1-yunwei356@gmail.com

libbpf: add map_get_fd_by_id and map_delete_elem in light skeleton

2022-08-26T01:52:29Z

This allows to have a better control over maps from the kernel when preloading eBPF programs. Acked-by: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220824134055.1328882-8-benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2022-08-18T03:29:36Z

Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== bpf-next 2022-08-17 We've added 45 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain a total of 61 files changed, 986 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-). The main changes are: 1) New bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns() BPF helper to access CLOCK_TAI, from Kurt Kanzenbach and Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 2) Few clean ups and improvements for libbpf 1.0, from Andrii Nakryiko. 3) Expose crash_kexec() as kfunc for BPF programs, from Artem Savkov. 4) Add ability to define sleepable-only kfuncs, from Benjamin Tissoires. 5) Teach libbpf's bpf_prog_load() and bpf_map_create() to gracefully handle unsupported names on old kernels, from Hangbin Liu. 6) Allow opting out from auto-attaching BPF programs by libbpf's BPF skeleton, from Hao Luo. 7) Relax libbpf's requirement for shared libs to be marked executable, from Henqgi Chen. 8) Improve bpf_iter internals handling of error returns, from Hao Luo. 9) Few accommodations in libbpf to support GCC-BPF quirks, from James Hilliard. 10) Fix BPF verifier logic around tracking dynptr ref_obj_id, from Joanne Koong. 11) bpftool improvements to handle full BPF program names better, from Manu Bretelle. 12) bpftool fixes around libcap use, from Quentin Monnet. 13) BPF map internals clean ups and improvements around memory allocations, from Yafang Shao. 14) Allow to use cgroup_get_from_file() on cgroupv1, allowing BPF cgroup iterator to work on cgroupv1, from Yosry Ahmed. 15) BPF verifier internal clean ups, from Dave Marchevsky and Joanne Koong. 16) Various fixes and clean ups for selftests/bpf and vmtest.sh, from Daniel Xu, Artem Savkov, Joanne Koong, Andrii Nakryiko, Shibin Koikkara Reeny. * https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (45 commits) selftests/bpf: Few fixes for selftests/bpf built in release mode libbpf: Clean up deprecated and legacy aliases libbpf: Streamline bpf_attr and perf_event_attr initialization libbpf: Fix potential NULL dereference when parsing ELF selftests/bpf: Tests libbpf autoattach APIs libbpf: Allows disabling auto attach selftests/bpf: Fix attach point for non-x86 arches in test_progs/lsm libbpf: Making bpf_prog_load() ignore name if kernel doesn't support selftests/bpf: Update CI kconfig selftests/bpf: Add connmark read test selftests/bpf: Add existing connection bpf_*_ct_lookup() test bpftool: Clear errno after libcap's checks bpf: Clear up confusion in bpf_skb_adjust_room()'s documentation bpftool: Fix a typo in a comment libbpf: Add names for auxiliary maps bpf: Use bpf_map_area_alloc consistently on bpf map creation bpf: Make __GFP_NOWARN consistent in bpf map creation bpf: Use bpf_map_area_free instread of kvfree bpf: Remove unneeded memset in queue_stack_map creation libbpf: preserve errno across pr_warn/pr_info/pr_debug ... ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817215656.1180215-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

libbpf: Streamline bpf_attr and perf_event_attr initialization

2022-08-17T20:42:10Z

Make sure that entire libbpf code base is initializing bpf_attr and perf_event_attr with memset(0). Also for bpf_attr make sure we clear and pass to kernel only relevant parts of bpf_attr. bpf_attr is a huge union of independent sub-command attributes, so there is no need to clear and pass entire union bpf_attr, which over time grows quite a lot and for most commands this growth is completely irrelevant. Few cases where we were relying on compiler initialization of BPF UAPI structs (like bpf_prog_info, bpf_map_info, etc) with `= {};` were switched to memset(0) pattern for future-proofing. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Hao Luo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220816001929.369487-3-andrii@kernel.org

bpf: Disallow bpf programs call prog_run command.

2022-08-10T16:43:07Z

The verifier cannot perform sufficient validation of bpf_attr->test.ctx_in pointer, therefore bpf programs should not be allowed to call BPF_PROG_RUN command from within the program. To fix this issue split bpf_sys_bpf() bpf helper into normal kern_sys_bpf() kernel function that can only be used by the kernel light skeleton directly. Reported-by: YiFei Zhu Fixes: b1d18a7574d0 ("bpf: Extend sys_bpf commands for bpf_syscall programs.") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

libbpf: Prepare light skeleton for the kernel.

2022-02-10T22:31:51Z

Prepare light skeleton to be used in the kernel module and in the user space. The look and feel of lskel.h is mostly the same with the difference that for user space the skel->rodata is the same pointer before and after skel_load operation, while in the kernel the skel->rodata after skel_open and the skel->rodata after skel_load are different pointers. Typical usage of skeleton remains the same for kernel and user space: skel = my_bpf__open(); skel->rodata->my_global_var = init_val; err = my_bpf__load(skel); err = my_bpf__attach(skel); // access skel->rodata->my_global_var; // access skel->bss->another_var; Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Yonghong Song Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220209232001.27490-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com

libbpf: Open code raw_tp_open and link_create commands.

2022-02-01T22:56:18Z

Open code raw_tracepoint_open and link_create used by light skeleton to be able to avoid full libbpf eventually. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131220528.98088-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com

libbpf: Open code low level bpf commands.

2022-02-01T22:56:18Z

Open code low level bpf commands used by light skeleton to be able to avoid full libbpf eventually. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131220528.98088-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com