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Alexei Starovoitov 5b92a28aae bpf: Support attaching tracing BPF program to other BPF programs
Allow FENTRY/FEXIT BPF programs to attach to other BPF programs of any type
including their subprograms. This feature allows snooping on input and output
packets in XDP, TC programs including their return values. In order to do that
the verifier needs to track types not only of vmlinux, but types of other BPF
programs as well. The verifier also needs to translate uapi/linux/bpf.h types
used by networking programs into kernel internal BTF types used by FENTRY/FEXIT
BPF programs. In some cases LLVM optimizations can remove arguments from BPF
subprograms without adjusting BTF info that LLVM backend knows. When BTF info
disagrees with actual types that the verifiers sees the BPF trampoline has to
fallback to conservative and treat all arguments as u64. The FENTRY/FEXIT
program can still attach to such subprograms, but it won't be able to recognize
pointer types like 'struct sk_buff *' and it won't be able to pass them to
bpf_skb_output() for dumping packets to user space. The FENTRY/FEXIT program
would need to use bpf_probe_read_kernel() instead.

The BPF_PROG_LOAD command is extended with attach_prog_fd field. When it's set
to zero the attach_btf_id is one vmlinux BTF type ids. When attach_prog_fd
points to previously loaded BPF program the attach_btf_id is BTF type id of
main function or one of its subprograms.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191114185720.1641606-18-ast@kernel.org
2019-11-15 23:45:24 +01:00
Documentation bpf, doc: Change right arguments for JIT example code 2019-11-15 22:36:35 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch bpf: Support attaching tracing BPF program to other BPF programs 2019-11-15 23:45:24 +01:00
block iocost: don't nest spin_lock_irq in ioc_weight_write() 2019-10-31 11:40:57 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
drivers mlx5-updates-2019-11-01 2019-11-03 19:23:49 -08:00
fs NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 5.4-rc6 2019-11-01 17:37:44 -07:00
include bpf: Support attaching tracing BPF program to other BPF programs 2019-11-15 23:45:24 +01:00
init init: Support mounting root file systems over SMB 2019-10-02 12:15:15 -04:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel bpf: Support attaching tracing BPF program to other BPF programs 2019-11-15 23:45:24 +01:00
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mm uaccess: Add strict non-pagefault kernel-space read function 2019-11-02 12:39:12 -07:00
net bpf: Annotate context types 2019-11-15 23:44:48 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Add missing option to xdpsock usage 2019-11-15 22:32:10 +01:00
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sound ALSA: timer: Fix mutex deadlock at releasing card 2019-10-30 22:54:56 +01:00
tools selftests/bpf: Add stress test for maximum number of progs 2019-11-15 23:43:53 +01:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt kvm: call kvm_arch_destroy_vm if vm creation fails 2019-10-31 12:13:16 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-02 13:54:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc5 2019-10-27 13:19:19 -04:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.