The "|| echo -lzstd" default makes zstd an unconditional link
dependency of resolve_btfids. On systems where libzstd-dev is not
installed and pkg-config fails, the linker fails:
ld: cannot find -lzstd: No such file or directory
libzstd is a transitive dependency of libelf, so the -lzstd flag is
strictly necessary only for static builds [1].
Remove ZSTD_LIBS variable, and instead set LIBELF_LIBS depending on
whether the build is static or not. Use $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) as primary
source of the flags list.
Also add a default value for HOSTPKG_CONFIG in case it's not built via
the toplevel Makefile. Pass it from selftests/bpf too.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/4ff82800-2daa-4b9f-95a9-6f512859ee70@linux.dev/
Reported-by: BPF CI Bot (Claude Opus 4.6) <bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/aaWqMcK-2AQw5dx8@altlinux.org/
Fixes: 4021848a90 ("selftests/bpf: Pass through build flags to bpftool and resolve_btfids")
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260305014730.3123382-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Running resolve_btfids with ASAN reveals memory leaks in btf_id
handling.
- Change get_id() to use a local buffer
- Make btf_id__add() strdup the name internally
- Add btf_id__free_all() that frees all nodese of a tree
- Call the cleanup function on exit for every tree
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260223190736.649171-8-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
EXTRA_* and SAN_* build flags were not correctly propagated to bpftool
and resolve_btids when building selftests/bpf. This led to various
build errors on attempt to build with SAN_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address",
for example.
Fix the makefiles to address this:
- Pass SAN_CFLAGS/SAN_LDFLAGS to bpftool and resolve_btfids build
- Propagate EXTRA_LDFLAGS to resolve_btfids link command
- Use pkg-config to detect zlib and zstd for resolve_btfids, similar
libelf handling
Also check for ASAN flag in selftests/bpf/Makefile for convenience.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260223190736.649171-7-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Netlink requires that the recv buffer used during dumps is at least
min(PAGE_SIZE, 8k) (see the man page). Otherwise the messages will
get truncated. Make sure bpftool follows this requirement, avoid
missing information on systems with large pages.
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7084566a23 ("tools/bpftool: Remove libbpf_internal.h usage in bpftool")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217194150.734701-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Preserve original relative order of anonymous or same-named
types to improve the consistency.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260202120114.3707141-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com
When building selftests/bpf with EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-static the follwoing
error happens:
LINK /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-dso_dlfcn.o): in function `dlfcn_globallookup':
[...]
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_expand_block':
(.text+0xc64): undefined reference to `uncompress'
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_compress_block':
(.text+0xce4): undefined reference to `compress'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:252: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:327: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/sbin/bpftool] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
This is caused by wrong order of dependencies in the Makefile. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260128211255.376933-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Implement BTF modifications in resolve_btfids to support BPF kernel
functions with implicit arguments.
For a kfunc marked with KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS flag, a new function
prototype is added to BTF that does not have implicit arguments. The
kfunc's prototype is then updated to a new one in BTF. This prototype
is the intended interface for the BPF programs.
A <func_name>_impl function is added to BTF to make the original kfunc
prototype searchable for the BPF verifier. If a <func_name>_impl
function already exists in BTF, its interpreted as a legacy case, and
this step is skipped.
Whether an argument is implicit is determined by its type:
currently only `struct bpf_prog_aux *` is supported.
As a result, the BTF associated with kfunc is changed from
__bpf_kfunc bpf_foo(int arg1, struct bpf_prog_aux *aux);
into
bpf_foo_impl(int arg1, struct bpf_prog_aux *aux);
__bpf_kfunc bpf_foo(int arg1);
For more context see previous discussions and patches [1][2].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/dwarves/ba1650aa-fafd-49a8-bea4-bdddee7c38c9@linux.dev/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251029190113.3323406-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260120222638.3976562-6-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Since recently [1][2] resolve_btfids executes final adjustments to the
kernel/module BTF before it's embedded into the target binary.
To keep the implementation simple, a clear and stable "pipeline" of
how BTF data flows through resolve_btfids would be helpful. Some BTF
modifications may change the ids of the types, so it is important to
maintain correct order of operations with respect to .BTF_ids
resolution too.
This patch refactors the BTF handling to establish the following
sequence:
- load target ELF sections
- load .BTF_ids symbols
- this will be a dependency of btf2btf transformations in
subsequent patches
- load BTF and its base as is
- (*) btf2btf transformations will happen here
- finalize_btf(), introduced in this patch
- does distill base and sort BTF
- resolve and patch .BTF_ids
This approach helps to avoid fixups in .BTF_ids data in case the ids
change at any point of BTF processing, because symbol resolution
happens on the finalized, ready to dump, BTF data.
This also gives flexibility in BTF transformations, because they will
happen on BTF that is not distilled and/or sorted yet, allowing to
freely add, remove and modify BTF types.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260109130003.3313716-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com/
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260120222638.3976562-5-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add support for the 'prepend' option when attaching tcx_ingress and
tcx_egress programs. This option allows inserting a BPF program at
the beginning of the TCX chain instead of appending it at the end.
The implementation uses BPF_F_BEFORE flag which automatically inserts
the program at the beginning of the chain when no relative reference
is specified.
This change includes:
- Modify do_attach_tcx() to support prepend insertion using BPF_F_BEFORE
- Update documentation to describe the new 'prepend' option
- Add bash completion support for the 'prepend' option on tcx attach types
- Add example usage in the documentation
- Add validation to reject 'overwrite' for non-XDP attach types
The 'prepend' option is only valid for tcx_ingress and tcx_egress attach
types. For XDP attach types, the existing 'overwrite' option remains
available.
Example usage:
# bpftool net attach tcx_ingress name tc_prog dev lo prepend
This feature is useful when the order of program execution in the TCX
chain matters and users need to ensure certain programs run first.
Co-developed-by: Siwan Kim <siwan.kim@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Siwan Kim <siwan.kim@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Gyutae Bae <gyutae.bae@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260112034516.22723-1-gyutae.opensource@navercorp.com
This introduces a new BTF sorting phase that specifically sorts
BTF types by name in ascending order, so that the binary search
can be used to look up types.
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260109130003.3313716-4-dolinux.peng@gmail.com
Recent changes in BTF generation [1] rely on ${OBJCOPY} command to
update .BTF_ids section data in target ELF files.
This exposed a bug in llvm-objcopy --update-section code path, that
may lead to corruption of a target ELF file. Specifically, because of
the bug st_shndx of some symbols may be (incorrectly) set to 0xffff
(SHN_XINDEX) [2][3].
While there is a pending fix for LLVM, it'll take some time before it
lands (likely in 22.x). And the kernel build must keep working with
older LLVM toolchains in the foreseeable future.
Using GNU objcopy for .BTF_ids update would work, but it would require
changes to LLVM-based build process, likely breaking existing build
environments as discussed in [2].
To work around llvm-objcopy bug, implement --patch_btfids code path in
resolve_btfids as a drop-in replacement for:
${OBJCOPY} --update-section .BTF_ids=${btf_ids} ${elf}
Which works specifically for .BTF_ids section:
${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} --patch_btfids ${btf_ids} ${elf}
This feature in resolve_btfids can be removed at some point in the
future, when llvm-objcopy with a relevant bugfix becomes common.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251224005752.201911-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
[3] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/168060#issuecomment-3533552952
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251231012558.1699758-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently resolve_btfids updates .BTF_ids section of an ELF file
in-place, based on the contents of provided BTF, usually within the
same input file, and optionally a BTF base.
Change resolve_btfids behavior to enable BTF transformations as part
of its main operation. To achieve this, in-place ELF write in
resolve_btfids is replaced with generation of the following binaries:
* ${1}.BTF with .BTF section data
* ${1}.BTF_ids with .BTF_ids section data if it existed in ${1}
* ${1}.BTF.base with .BTF.base section data for out-of-tree modules
The execution of resolve_btfids and consumption of its output is
orchestrated by scripts/gen-btf.sh introduced in this patch.
The motivation for emitting binary data is that it allows simplifying
resolve_btfids implementation by delegating ELF update to the $OBJCOPY
tool [1], which is already widely used across the codebase.
There are two distinct paths for BTF generation and resolve_btfids
application in the kernel build: for vmlinux and for kernel modules.
For the vmlinux binary a .BTF section is added in a roundabout way to
ensure correct linking. The patch doesn't change this approach, only
the implementation is a little different.
Before this patch it worked as follows:
* pahole consumed .tmp_vmlinux1 [2] and added .BTF section with
llvm-objcopy [3] to it
* then everything except the .BTF section was stripped from .tmp_vmlinux1
into a .tmp_vmlinux1.bpf.o object [2], later linked into vmlinux
* resolve_btfids was executed later on vmlinux.unstripped [4],
updating it in-place
After this patch gen-btf.sh implements the following:
* pahole consumes .tmp_vmlinux1 and produces a *detached* file with
raw BTF data
* resolve_btfids consumes .tmp_vmlinux1 and detached BTF to produce
(potentially modified) .BTF, and .BTF_ids sections data
* a .tmp_vmlinux1.bpf.o object is then produced with objcopy copying
BTF output of resolve_btfids
* .BTF_ids data gets embedded into vmlinux.unstripped in
link-vmlinux.sh by objcopy --update-section
For kernel modules, creating a special .bpf.o file is not necessary,
and so embedding of sections data produced by resolve_btfids is
straightforward with objcopy.
With this patch an ELF file becomes effectively read-only within
resolve_btfids, which allows deleting elf_update() call and satellite
code (like compressed_section_fix [5]).
Endianness handling of .BTF_ids data is also changed. Previously the
"flags" part of the section was bswapped in sets_patch() [6], and then
Elf_Type was modified before elf_update() to signal to libelf that
bswap may be necessary. With this patch we explicitly bswap entire
data buffer on load and on dump.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/131b4190-9c49-4f79-a99d-c00fac97fa44@linux.dev/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh?h=v6.18#n110
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/tree/btf_encoder.c?h=v1.31#n1803
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh?h=v6.18#n284
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819092342.259004-1-jolsa@kernel.org/
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1707223196.git.vmalik@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181825.1289460-3-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Instead of using multiple flags, make struct btf_id tagged with an
enum value indicating its kind in the context of resolve_btfids.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-4-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Increase the lifetime of parsed BTF in resolve_btfids by factoring
load_btf() routine out of symbols_resolve() and storing the base_btf
and btf pointers in the struct object.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-3-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Rename the member of `struct object` holding the path to BTF data if
provided via --btf arg. `btf_path` is less ambiguous.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181321.1283664-2-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
The kernel is now built with -fms-extensions. Anonymous structs or
unions permitted by these extensions have been used in several places,
and can end up in the generated vmlinux.h file, for example:
struct ns_tree {
[...]
};
[...]
struct ns_common {
[...]
union {
struct ns_tree;
struct callback_head ns_rcu;
};
};
Trying to include this header for compiling a tool may result in build
warnings, if the compiler does not expect these extensions. This is the
case, for example, with bpftool:
In file included from skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c:3:
.../tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/vmlinux.h:64057:3:
warning: declaration does not declare anything
[-Wmissing-declarations]
64057 | struct ns_tree;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fix these build warnings in bpftool by turning on Microsoft extensions
when compiling the two BPF programs that rely on vmlinux.h.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQK9ZkPC7+R5VXKHVdtj8tumpMXm7BTp0u9CoiFLz_aPTg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251208130748.68371-1-qmo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
runqslower was added in commit 9c01546d26 "tools/bpf: Add runqslower
tool to tools/bpf" as a BCC port to showcase early BPF CO-RE + libbpf
workflows. runqslower continues to live in BCC (libbpf-tools), so there
is no need to keep building and maintaining it.
Drop tools/bpf/runqslower and remove all build hooks in tools/bpf and
selftests accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Hoyeon Lee <hoyeon.lee@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251126093821.373291-1-hoyeon.lee@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
ERR_get_error_all()[1] is a openssl v3 API, so to make code
compatible with openssl v1 utilize ERR_get_err_line_data
instead. Since openssl is already a build requirement for
the kernel (minimum requirement openssl 1.0.0), this will
allow bpftool to compile where opensslv3 is not available.
Signing-related BPF selftests pass with openssl v1.
[1] https://docs.openssl.org/3.4/man3/ERR_get_error/
Fixes: 40863f4d6e ("bpftool: Add support for signing BPF programs")
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251120084754.640405-2-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Rename bpf_stream_vprintk() to bpf_stream_vprintk_impl().
This makes bpf_stream_vprintk() follow the already established "_impl"
suffix-based naming convention for kfuncs with the bpf_prog_aux
argument provided by the verifier implicitly. This convention will be
taken advantage of with the upcoming KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS feature to
preserve backwards compatibility to BPF programs.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104-implv2-v3-2-4772b9ae0e06@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
In the btf_dumper_do_type function, the debug print statement for
BTF_KIND_UNKN was missing a closing parenthesis in the output format.
This patch adds the missing ')' to ensure proper formatting of the
dump output.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Chujun <zhangchujun@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251028063345.1911-1-zhangchujun@cmss.chinamobile.com
Commit 40863f4d6e ("bpftool: Add support for signing BPF programs")
added new options for "bpftool prog load" and "bpftool gen skeleton".
This commit brings the relevant update to the bash completion file.
We rework slightly the processing of options to make completion more
resilient for options that take an argument.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923103802.57695-1-qmo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Two modes of operation being added:
Add two modes of operation:
* For prog load, allow signing a program immediately before loading. This
is essential for command-line testing and administration.
bpftool prog load -S -k <private_key> -i <identity_cert> fentry_test.bpf.o
* For gen skeleton, embed a pre-generated signature into the C skeleton
file. This supports the use of signed programs in compiled applications.
bpftool gen skeleton -S -k <private_key> -i <identity_cert> fentry_test.bpf.o
Generation of the loader program and its metadata map is implemented in
libbpf (bpf_obj__gen_loader). bpftool generates a skeleton that loads
the program and automates the required steps: freezing the map, creating
an exclusive map, loading, and running. Users can use standard libbpf
APIs directly or integrate loader program generation into their own
toolchains.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-5-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This fixes the build with -Werror -Wall.
btf_dumper.c:71:31: error: variable 'finfo' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer]
71 | info.func_info = ptr_to_u64(&finfo);
| ^~~~~
prog.c:2294:31: error: variable 'func_info' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer]
2294 | info.func_info = ptr_to_u64(&func_info);
|
v2:
- Initialize instead of using memset.
Signed-off-by: Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250917183847.318163-1-tstellar@redhat.com
The return value ret pointer is pointing opts_copy, but opts_copy
gets freed in get_delegate_value before return, fix this by free
the mntent->mnt_opts strdup memory after show delegate value.
Fixes: 2d812311c2 ("bpftool: Add bpf_token show")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250919034816.1287280-2-chen.dylane@linux.dev
With "bpftool prog tracelog", bpftool prints messages from the trace
pipe. To do so, it first needs to find the tracefs mount point to open
the pipe. Bpftool looks at a few "default" locations, including
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing and /sys/kernel/tracing.
Some of these locations, namely /tracing and /trace, are not standard.
They are in the list because some users used to hardcode the tracing
directory to short names; but we have no compelling reason to look at
these locations. If we fail to find the tracefs at the default
locations, we have an additional step to find it by parsing /proc/mounts
anyway, so it's safe to remove these entries from the list of default
locations to check.
Additionally, Alexei reports that looking for the tracefs at
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing may automatically mount the file system under
that location, and generate a kernel log message telling that
auto-mounting there is deprecated. To avoid this message, let's swap the
order for checking the potential mount points: try /sys/kernel/tracing
first, which should be the standard location nowadays. The kernel log
message may still appear if the tracefs is not mounted on
/sys/kernel/tracing when we run bpftool.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAADnVQLcMi5YQhZKsU4z3S2uVUAGu_62C33G2Zx_ruG3uXa-Ug@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915134209.36568-1-qmo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Adjust symbol matching logic to account for Control-flow Enforcement
Technology (CET) on x86_64 systems. CET prefixes functions with
a 4-byte 'endbr' instruction, shifting the actual hook entry point to
symbol + 4.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250829061107.23905-3-chenyuan_fl@163.com
Extract the kernel configuration file parsing logic from feature.c into
a new read_kernel_config() function in common.c. This includes:
1. Moving the config file handling and option parsing code
2. Adding required headers and struct definition
3. Keeping all existing functionality
The refactoring enables sharing this logic with other components while
maintaining current behavior. This will be used by subsequent patches
that need to check kernel config options.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250829061107.23905-2-chenyuan_fl@163.com
From bpftool's github repository issue [0]: When a Linux distribution
has the kernel.kptr_restrict set to 2, bpftool prog dump jited returns
"no instructions returned". This message can be puzzling to bpftool
users who are not familiar with kernel BPF internals, so add a small
hint for bpftool users to check the kernel.kptr_restrict setting
similar to the DUMP_XLATED case. Outside of kernel.kptr_restrict, no
instructions could also be returned in case the JIT was disabled.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool/issues/184 [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250818165113.15982-1-vincent.mc.li@gmail.com
This commit updates the bash completion script with the
new token argument.
$ bpftool token
help list show
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250723144442.1427943-3-chen.dylane@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add support for printing the BPF stream contents of a program in
bpftool. The new bpftool prog tracelog command is extended to take
stdout and stderr arguments, and then the prog specification.
The bpf_prog_stream_read() API added in previous patch is simply reused
to grab data and then it is dumped to the respective file. The stdout
data is sent to stdout, and stderr is printed to stderr.
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-12-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cross-merge BPF, perf and other fixes after downstream PRs.
It restores BPF CI to green after critical fix
commit bc4394e5e7 ("perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events")
No conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
In function dump_xx_nlmsg(), when realloc() fails to allocate memory,
the original pointer to the buffer is overwritten with NULL. This causes
a memory leak because the previously allocated buffer becomes unreachable
without being freed.
Fixes: 7900efc192 ("tools/bpf: bpftool: improve output format for bpftool net")
Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620012133.14819-1-chenyuan_fl@163.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Modify several functions in tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c to allow
specification of requested access for file descriptors, such as
read-only access.
Update bpftool to request only read access for maps when write
access is not required. This fixes errors when reading from maps
that are protected from modification via security_bpf_map.
Signed-off-by: Slava Imameev <slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620151812.13952-1-slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When using `bpftool --version -j/-p`, the JSON writer object
created in do_version() was not properly destroyed after use.
This caused a memory leak each time the version command was
executed with JSON output.
Fix: 004b45c0e5 (tools: bpftool: provide JSON output for all possible commands)
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250617132442.9998-1-chenyuan_fl@163.com
If readlink() fails, len will be -1, which can cause negative indexing
and undefined behavior. This patch ensures that len is set to 0 on
readlink failure, preventing such issues.
Signed-off-by: Ruslan Semchenko <uncleruc2075@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612131816.1870-1-uncleruc2075@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When cross compiling the kernel with clang, we need to override
CLANG_CROSS_FLAGS when preparing the step libraries.
Prior to commit d1d0963121 ("tools: fix annoying "mkdir -p ..." logs
when building tools in parallel"), MAKEFLAGS would have been set to a
value that wouldn't set a value for CLANG_CROSS_FLAGS, hiding the
fact that we weren't properly overriding it.
Fixes: 56a2df7615 ("tools/resolve_btfids: Compile resolve_btfids as host program")
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250606074538.1608546-1-suleiman@google.com
This patch exposes the btf_custom_path feature to bpftool, allowing users
to specify a custom BTF file when loading BPF programs using prog load or
prog loadall commands.
The argument 'btf_custom_path' in libbpf is used for those kernels that
don't have CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled but still want to perform CO-RE
relocations.
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516144708.298652-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The netkit program is not a cgroup bpf program and should not be shown
in the output of the "bpftool cgroup show" command.
However, if the netkit device happens to have ifindex 3,
the "bpftool cgroup show" command will output the netkit
bpf program as well:
> ip -d link show dev nk1
3: nk1@if2: ...
link/ether ...
netkit mode ...
> bpftool net show
tc:
nk1(3) netkit/peer tw_ns_nk2phy prog_id 469447
> bpftool cgroup show /sys/fs/cgroup/...
ID AttachType AttachFlags Name
... ... ...
469447 netkit_peer tw_ns_nk2phy
The reason is that the target_fd (which is the cgroup_fd here) and
the target_ifindex are in a union in the uapi/linux/bpf.h. The bpftool
iterates all values in "enum bpf_attach_type" which includes
non cgroup attach types like netkit. The cgroup_fd is usually 3 here,
so the bug is triggered when the netkit ifindex just happens
to be 3 as well.
The bpftool's cgroup.c already has a list of cgroup-only attach type
defined in "cgroup_attach_types[]". This patch fixes it by iterating
over "cgroup_attach_types[]" instead of "__MAX_BPF_ATTACH_TYPE".
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Takshak Chahande <ctakshak@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507203232.1420762-1-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
