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0/0	2026/08/12 18:24	flow	patch-triage	5m Args: null Results: { "EnableConfigs": [ "BPF_SYSCALL", "INET" ], "FocusSymbols": [ "bpf_ksock_create", "bpf_ksock_connect", "bpf_ksock_acquire", "bpf_ksock_release", "bpf_ksock_send" ], "KMSANReasoning": "The patch introduces a new BPF kfunc API for creating and using kernel sockets (`bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_send`, etc.). \n\n1. Kernel Allocations: The only kernel structure allocated by this patch is `struct bpf_ksock`, which is fully zero-initialized using `kzalloc_obj`.\n2. BPF to Kernel Data: Data structures passed from BPF programs (`opts`, `addr`, `data`) are strictly checked by the BPF verifier to ensure they are initialized before being passed to the kfuncs.\n3. Stack Variables: In `bpf_ksock_connect`, `sizeof(addr)` (28 bytes) is copied into a local `struct sockaddr_storage` (128 bytes). While this leaves the remaining 100 bytes uninitialized on the stack, `connect_socket` is called with `addrlen` set to either 16 (for IPv4) or 28 (for IPv6). The underlying socket connect operations and LSM hooks only read up to `addrlen` bytes, ensuring the uninitialized portion is never accessed.\n4. Message Headers: In `bpf_ksock_send`, the `struct msghdr` is initialized with `.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT`, which causes the compiler to safely zero-initialize all remaining fields (like `msg_name`, `msg_control`, etc.).\n5. Refactoring*: The extracted `connect_socket` function in `net/socket.c` maintains the existing semantics of `__sys_connect_file` and does not introduce any new uninitialized memory reads.\n\nAny potential memory safety issues (such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-free, or refcounting bugs) in the socket handling or BPF kfunc lifecycle would be effectively caught by standard KASAN and LOCKDEP. There are no kernel-to-user info-leaks or uses of uninitialized memory in conditional branches that would require KMSAN.", "NeedsKMSAN": false, "Reasoning": "The patch introduces a new set of BPF kfuncs (bpf_ksock_create, bpf_ksock_connect, bpf_ksock_send, etc.) that allow BPF programs to create and interact with kernel sockets. This is a new functional feature exposed to BPF syscall and LSM programs, which should be fuzzed to ensure memory safety and correct behavior.", "WorthFuzzing": true }
1/1	2026/08/12 18:24	action	read-patch-diff	0m Args: null Results: { "PatchDiff": "commit 9d75614513f3349abba9c29c315660eaf6d083af\nAuthor: syz-cluster \u003ctriage@syzkaller.com\u003e\nDate: Wed Aug 12 18:24:30 2026 +0000\n\n syz-cluster: applied patch under review\n\ndiff --git a/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..cb387fb75e43b\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h\n@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@\n+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only /\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#ifndef _BPF_KSOCK_H\n+#define _BPF_KSOCK_H\n+\n+#include \u003clinux/types.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/in.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/in6.h\u003e\n+\n+/\n+ struct bpf_ksock_create_opts - BPF kernel socket creation parameters\n+ * @family:\tAddress family: AF_INET or AF_INET6.\n+ * @type:\tSocket type: only SOCK_DGRAM supported for now.\n+ * @protocol:\tProtocol number (e.g. IPPROTO_UDP), or 0 for the default protocol\n+ \t\tof the given type.\n+ @reserved:\tMust be zero. Reserved for future use.\n+ /\n+struct bpf_ksock_create_opts {\n+\t__u8 family;\n+\t__u8 type;\n+\t__u8 protocol;\n+\t__u8 reserved;\n+};\n+\n+/\n+ union bpf_ksock_addr - IPv4 or IPv6 socket address\n+ * @sin: IPv4 socket address.\n+ * @sin6: IPv6 socket address.\n+ /\n+union bpf_ksock_addr {\n+\tstruct sockaddr_in sin;\n+\tstruct sockaddr_in6 sin6;\n+};\n+\n+#endif / _BPF_KSOCK_H /\ndiff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h\nindex 2a8d7b14f1d11..5a5eb12501032 100644\n--- a/include/linux/socket.h\n+++ b/include/linux/socket.h\n@@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ extern struct file __sys_socket_file(int family, int type, int protocol);\n extern int __sys_bind(int fd, struct sockaddr __user umyaddr, int addrlen);\n extern int __sys_bind_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address,\n \t\t\t int addrlen);\n+int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage addr,\n+\t\t int addrlen, int flags);\n extern int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage addr,\n \t\t\t int addrlen, int file_flags);\n extern int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr,\ndiff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c\nindex add3affc57035..bec7d5af2d180 100644\n--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c\n+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c\n@@ -4369,6 +4369,9 @@ BTF_ID(struct, task_struct)\n #ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO\n BTF_ID(struct, bpf_crypto_ctx)\n #endif\n+#ifdef CONFIG_INET\n+BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock)\n+#endif\n BTF_SET_END(rcu_protected_types)\n \n static bool rcu_protected_object(const struct btf btf, u32 btf_id)\ndiff --git a/net/core/Makefile b/net/core/Makefile\nindex b3fdcb4e355fa..a9295b7859010 100644\n--- a/net/core/Makefile\n+++ b/net/core/Makefile\n@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FAILOVER) += failover.o\n obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SOCK_MSG) += skmsg.o\n obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += sock_map.o\n obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_sk_storage.o\n+ifneq ($(CONFIG_INET),)\n+obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_ksock.o\n+endif\n obj-$(CONFIG_OF)\t+= of_net.o\n obj-$(CONFIG_NET_TEST) += net_test.o\n obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVMEM) += devmem.o\ndiff --git a/net/core/bpf_ksock.c b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..d65200679b65d\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \u003clinux/bpf.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/bpf_ksock.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/btf.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/btf_ids.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/in.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/in6.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/net.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/refcount.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/sched.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/slab.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/socket.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/unaligned.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/workqueue.h\u003e\n+#include \u003clinux/ip.h\u003e\n+#include \u003cnet/sock.h\u003e\n+\n+/\n+ struct bpf_ksock - refcounted BPF kernel socket context\n+ * @sock:\tThe underlying kernel socket.\n+ * @usage:\tReference counter.\n+ * @rwork:\tRCU work for deferred cleanup (sock_release may sleep).\n+ /\n+struct bpf_ksock {\n+\tstruct socket sock;\n+\trefcount_t usage;\n+\tstruct rcu_work rwork;\n+};\n+\n+static void ksock_release_work_fn(struct work_struct work)\n+{\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\n+\tks = container_of(to_rcu_work(work), struct bpf_ksock, rwork);\n+\tsock_release(ks-\u003esock);\n+\tkfree(ks);\n+}\n+\n+static bool bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context(void)\n+{\n+\t/\n+\t Task work can run from do_exit() after exit_nsproxy_namespaces()\n+\t * cleared current-\u003ensproxy, while current is still not a kthread.\n+\t /\n+\treturn !(current-\u003eflags \u0026 PF_KTHREAD) \u0026\u0026 current-\u003ensproxy;\n+}\n+\n+__bpf_kfunc_start_defs();\n+\n+/\n+ bpf_ksock_create() - Create a BPF kernel socket.\n+ \n+ Allocates and creates a kernel socket.\n+ \n+ The returned context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or\n+ * freed with bpf_ksock_release().\n+ \n+ This function may sleep (sock_create), so it can only be used\n+ * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL).\n+ * It cannot be called from a BPF workqueue callback because that callback\n+ * does not retain the invoking task's namespace or security context.\n+ \n+ @opts:\tPointer to struct bpf_ksock_create_opts with socket parameters.\n+ * @opts__sz:\tSize of the opts struct.\n+ * @err__uninit:\tInteger to store error code when NULL is returned.\n+ /\n+__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock \n+bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts, u32 opts__sz,\n+\t\t int err__uninit)\n+{\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts_copy;\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\t/\n+\t * sock_create() derives the network namespace, credentials, and cgroup\n+\t * from current. Kernel threads, including BPF workqueue callbacks, do\n+\t * not carry the context of the task that invoked the BPF program.\n+\t /\n+\tif (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) {\n+\t\terr = -EOPNOTSUPP;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tif (!opts \|\| opts__sz != sizeof(struct bpf_ksock_create_opts)) {\n+\t\terr = -EINVAL;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\topts_copy = (struct bpf_ksock_create_opts){\n+\t\t.family = READ_ONCE(opts-\u003efamily),\n+\t\t.type = READ_ONCE(opts-\u003etype),\n+\t\t.protocol = READ_ONCE(opts-\u003eprotocol),\n+\t\t.reserved = READ_ONCE(opts-\u003ereserved),\n+\t};\n+\n+\tif (opts_copy.reserved) {\n+\t\terr = -EINVAL;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tif (opts_copy.family != AF_INET \u0026\u0026 opts_copy.family != AF_INET6) {\n+\t\terr = -EAFNOSUPPORT;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tif (opts_copy.type != SOCK_DGRAM) {\n+\t\terr = -EPROTONOSUPPORT;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tif (opts_copy.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP \u0026\u0026 opts_copy.protocol != 0) {\n+\t\terr = -EPROTONOSUPPORT;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tks = kzalloc_obj(ks);\n+\tif (!ks) {\n+\t\terr = -ENOMEM;\n+\t\tgoto err_out;\n+\t}\n+\n+\t/\n+\t Use the normal current-task socket path so LSM/cgroup policy,\n+\t * socket labels, and the active netns reference match a socket(2)\n+\t * created by the BPF program's caller.\n+\t /\n+\terr = sock_create(opts_copy.family, opts_copy.type, opts_copy.protocol,\n+\t\t\t \u0026ks-\u003esock);\n+\tif (err)\n+\t\tgoto err_free;\n+\n+\tks-\u003esock-\u003esk-\u003esk_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF;\n+\tks-\u003esock-\u003esk-\u003esk_userlocks \|= SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK;\n+\n+\trefcount_set(\u0026ks-\u003eusage, 1);\n+\tput_unaligned(0, err__uninit);\n+\treturn ks;\n+\n+err_free:\n+\tkfree(ks);\n+err_out:\n+\tput_unaligned(err, err__uninit);\n+\treturn NULL;\n+}\n+\n+/\n+ bpf_ksock_connect() - Connect a BPF kernel socket to a remote address.\n+ * @ks:\t\tThe BPF kernel socket context.\n+ * @addr:\tPointer to an IPv4 or IPv6 socket address.\n+ * @addr__sz:\tSize of the address union.\n+ \n+ Connects the socket to the specified remote address and port.\n+ \n+ This function may sleep while connecting the socket, so it can only be used\n+ * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL).\n+ \n+ Return: 0 on success, negative errno on error.\n+ /\n+__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks,\n+\t\t\t\t const union bpf_ksock_addr addr,\n+\t\t\t\t u32 addr__sz)\n+{\n+\tstruct sockaddr_storage sa;\n+\tint addrlen;\n+\n+\tif (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context())\n+\t\treturn -EOPNOTSUPP;\n+\n+\tif (!addr \|\| addr__sz != sizeof(addr))\n+\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n+\n+\t/* Kfunc memory arguments may be unaligned. /\n+\tmemcpy(\u0026sa, addr, sizeof(addr));\n+\n+\tswitch (sa.ss_family) {\n+\tcase AF_INET:\n+\t\taddrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);\n+\t\tbreak;\n+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)\n+\tcase AF_INET6:\n+\t\taddrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6);\n+\t\tbreak;\n+#endif\n+\tdefault:\n+\t\treturn -EAFNOSUPPORT;\n+\t}\n+\n+\treturn connect_socket(ks-\u003esock, \u0026sa, addrlen, 0);\n+}\n+\n+/*\n+ bpf_ksock_acquire() - Acquire a reference to a BPF kernel socket.\n+ * @ks:\tThe BPF kernel socket context to acquire. Must be a\n+ \ttrusted pointer (e.g. RCU-protected kptr from a map).\n+ \n+ * The acquired context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or\n+ * freed with bpf_ksock_release().\n+ /\n+__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks)\n+{\n+\tif (!refcount_inc_not_zero(\u0026ks-\u003eusage))\n+\t\treturn NULL;\n+\treturn ks;\n+}\n+\n+/\n+ bpf_ksock_release() - Release a BPF kernel socket.\n+ * @ks:\tThe BPF kernel socket context to release.\n+ \n+ When the final reference is released, the socket is cleaned up via\n+ * queue_rcu_work() (since sock_release may sleep).\n+ /\n+__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks)\n+{\n+\tif (refcount_dec_and_test(\u0026ks-\u003eusage)) {\n+\t\tINIT_RCU_WORK(\u0026ks-\u003erwork, ksock_release_work_fn);\n+\t\tqueue_rcu_work(system_dfl_wq, \u0026ks-\u003erwork);\n+\t}\n+}\n+\n+__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release_dtor(void ks)\n+{\n+\tbpf_ksock_release(ks);\n+}\n+CFI_NOSEAL(bpf_ksock_release_dtor);\n+\n+/\n+ bpf_ksock_send() - Send data through a BPF kernel socket.\n+ * @ks:\t\tThe BPF kernel socket context. Must be an acquired reference.\n+ * @data:\tPointer to the data to send.\n+ * @data__sz:\tSize of the data to send (max 65535 bytes).\n+ \n+ Sends data on a connected socket, best-effort and nonblocking. This may sleep\n+ * (kernel_sendmsg), so it can only be called from sleepable BPF programs.\n+ \n+ Return: Number of bytes sent on success, negative errno on error.\n+ /\n+__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data,\n+\t\t\t u32 data__sz)\n+{\n+\tstruct msghdr msg = {\n+\t\t.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT,\n+\t};\n+\tstruct kvec iov = {\n+\t\t.iov_base = (void )data,\n+\t\t.iov_len = data__sz,\n+\t};\n+\tint ret;\n+\n+\tif (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context())\n+\t\treturn -EOPNOTSUPP;\n+\n+\t/* Early check for UDP. Exact limits enforced by kernel_sendmsg(). /\n+\tif (data__sz \u003e IP_MAX_MTU)\n+\t\treturn -EMSGSIZE;\n+\n+\tret = kernel_sendmsg(ks-\u003esock, \u0026msg, \u0026iov, 1, data__sz);\n+\n+\treturn ret;\n+}\n+\n+__bpf_kfunc_end_defs();\n+\n+BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids)\n+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_create, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL \| KF_SLEEPABLE)\n+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_connect, KF_SLEEPABLE)\n+BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids)\n+\n+static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_init_kfunc_set = {\n+\t.owner = THIS_MODULE,\n+\t.set = \u0026ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids,\n+};\n+\n+BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids)\n+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_release, KF_RELEASE)\n+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_acquire, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RCU \| KF_RET_NULL)\n+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_send, KF_SLEEPABLE)\n+BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids)\n+\n+#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM\n+BTF_ID_LIST_SINGLE(bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id, func, bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg)\n+#endif\n+\n+static int bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter(const struct bpf_prog prog, u32 kfunc_id)\n+{\n+\tif (!btf_id_set8_contains(\u0026ksock_kfunc_btf_ids, kfunc_id))\n+\t\treturn 0;\n+\n+\tif (prog-\u003etype == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL)\n+\t\treturn 0;\n+\n+#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM\n+\tif (prog-\u003etype == BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM \u0026\u0026\n+\t prog-\u003eaux-\u003eattach_btf_id != bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id[0])\n+\t\treturn 0;\n+#endif\n+\n+\treturn -EACCES;\n+}\n+\n+static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_kfunc_set = {\n+\t.owner = THIS_MODULE,\n+\t.set = \u0026ksock_kfunc_btf_ids,\n+\t.filter = bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter,\n+};\n+\n+BTF_ID_LIST(bpf_ksock_dtor_ids)\n+BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock)\n+BTF_ID(func, bpf_ksock_release_dtor)\n+\n+static int __init bpf_ksock_kfunc_init(void)\n+{\n+\tint ret;\n+\tconst struct btf_id_dtor_kfunc bpf_ksock_dtors[] = {\n+\t\t{\n+\t\t\t.btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[0],\n+\t\t\t.kfunc_btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[1],\n+\t\t},\n+\t};\n+\n+\tret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL,\n+\t\t\t\t\t\u0026ksock_init_kfunc_set);\n+\tret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL,\n+\t\t\t\t\t \u0026ksock_kfunc_set);\n+\tret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM,\n+\t\t\t\t\t \u0026ksock_kfunc_set);\n+\treturn ret ?: register_btf_id_dtor_kfuncs(bpf_ksock_dtors,\n+\t\t\t\t\t\t ARRAY_SIZE(bpf_ksock_dtors),\n+\t\t\t\t\t\t THIS_MODULE);\n+}\n+\n+late_initcall(bpf_ksock_kfunc_init);\ndiff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c\nindex 63c69a0fa74e1..5b02e6217c680 100644\n--- a/net/socket.c\n+++ b/net/socket.c\n@@ -2103,6 +2103,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(accept, int, fd, struct sockaddr __user , upeer_sockaddr,\n \treturn __sys_accept4(fd, upeer_sockaddr, upeer_addrlen, 0);\n }\n \n+int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address,\n+\t\t int addrlen, int flags)\n+{\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\terr = security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address,\n+\t\t\t\t addrlen);\n+\tif (err)\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\n+\treturn READ_ONCE(sock-\u003eops)-\u003econnect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address,\n+\t\t\t\t\t addrlen, flags);\n+}\n+\n /\n \tAttempt to connect to a socket with the server address. The address\n \tis in user space so we verify it is OK and move it to kernel space.\n@@ -2119,23 +2133,13 @@ int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage address,\n \t\t int addrlen, int file_flags)\n {\n \tstruct socket sock;\n-\tint err;\n \n \tsock = sock_from_file(file);\n-\tif (!sock) {\n-\t\terr = -ENOTSOCK;\n-\t\tgoto out;\n-\t}\n-\n-\terr =\n-\t security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address, addrlen);\n-\tif (err)\n-\t\tgoto out;\n+\tif (!sock)\n+\t\treturn -ENOTSOCK;\n \n-\terr = READ_ONCE(sock-\u003eops)-\u003econnect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address,\n-\t\t\t\t\t addrlen, sock-\u003efile-\u003ef_flags \| file_flags);\n-out:\n-\treturn err;\n+\treturn connect_socket(sock, address, addrlen,\n+\t\t\t sock-\u003efile-\u003ef_flags \| file_flags);\n }\n \n int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, int addrlen)\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..fb1a332eb3da1\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n+/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \u003carpa/inet.h\u003e\n+\n+#include \"test_progs.h\"\n+#include \"network_helpers.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_lsm.skel.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_lsm_verifier.skel.h\"\n+\n+#define NS_TEST \"ksock_lsm_ns\"\n+#define RECV_PORT 7777\n+#define RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC 5\n+\n+struct ksock_test_env {\n+\tbool netns_created;\n+\tstruct nstoken nstoken;\n+\tint rfd;\n+};\n+\n+static bool ksock_test_env_setup(struct ksock_test_env env)\n+{\n+\tstruct sockaddr_in addr = {\n+\t\t.sin_family = AF_INET,\n+\t\t.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK),\n+\t\t.sin_port = htons(RECV_PORT),\n+\t};\n+\tstruct timeval tv = { .tv_sec = RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC };\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\tmemset(env, 0, sizeof(env));\n+\tenv-\u003erfd = -1;\n+\n+\tSYS(fail, \"ip netns add %s\", NS_TEST);\n+\tenv-\u003enetns_created = true;\n+\tSYS(fail, \"ip -net %s link set lo up\", NS_TEST);\n+\n+\tenv-\u003enstoken = open_netns(NS_TEST);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(env-\u003enstoken, \"open_netns\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\tenv-\u003erfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_FD(env-\u003erfd, \"receiver socket\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\terr = bind(env-\u003erfd, (struct sockaddr )\u0026addr, sizeof(addr));\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(err, \"bind receiver\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\terr = setsockopt(env-\u003erfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, \u0026tv, sizeof(tv));\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(err, \"set rcvtimeo\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\treturn true;\n+\n+fail:\n+\treturn false;\n+}\n+\n+void test_ksock_lsm(void)\n+{\n+\tLIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts);\n+\tstruct ksock_test_env env;\n+\tstruct sockaddr_in trigger_addr = {\n+\t\t.sin_family = AF_INET,\n+\t\t.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK),\n+\t};\n+\tstruct ksock_lsm skel;\n+\tchar recv_data[sizeof(skel-\u003edata-\u003esend_data)] = {};\n+\tssize_t n;\n+\tint tfd = -1;\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\tskel = ksock_lsm__open_and_load();\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, \"skel open_and_load\"))\n+\t\treturn;\n+\n+\tif (!ksock_test_env_setup(\u0026env))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\t/* Step 1: Run the setup SYSCALL prog to create the ksock /\n+\tskel-\u003ebss-\u003eipv4_remote = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);\n+\tskel-\u003ebss-\u003eremote_port = RECV_PORT;\n+\terr = bpf_prog_test_run_opts(bpf_program__fd(skel-\u003eprogs.ksock_setup),\n+\t\t\t\t \u0026opts);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(err, \"ksock_setup run\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, \"ksock_setup retval\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\t/ Step 2: Attach LSM prog and trigger socket_bind from userspace /\n+\tskel-\u003elinks.ksock_socket_bind =\n+\t\tbpf_program__attach_lsm(skel-\u003eprogs.ksock_socket_bind);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel-\u003elinks.ksock_socket_bind,\n+\t\t\t \"attach socket_bind lsm\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\ttfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_FD(tfd, \"trigger socket\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\tskel-\u003ebss-\u003etarget_pid = getpid();\n+\terr = bind(tfd, (struct sockaddr )\u0026trigger_addr, sizeof(trigger_addr));\n+\tskel-\u003ebss-\u003etarget_pid = 0;\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(err, \"trigger bind\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\t/* Step 3: Verify the LSM hook sent the notification /\n+\tif (!ASSERT_EQ(skel-\u003edata-\u003esend_ret, sizeof(skel-\u003edata-\u003esend_data),\n+\t\t \"LSM send bytes\"))\n+\t\tgoto fail;\n+\n+\tn = recvfrom(env.rfd, recv_data, sizeof(recv_data), 0, NULL, NULL);\n+\tif (ASSERT_EQ(n, sizeof(recv_data), \"recvfrom len\"))\n+\t\tASSERT_MEMEQ(recv_data, skel-\u003edata-\u003esend_data, sizeof(recv_data),\n+\t\t\t \"payload match\");\n+\n+fail:\n+\tif (tfd \u003e= 0)\n+\t\tclose(tfd);\n+\tif (env.rfd \u003e= 0)\n+\t\tclose(env.rfd);\n+\tif (env.nstoken)\n+\t\tclose_netns(env.nstoken);\n+\tif (env.netns_created)\n+\t\tSYS_NOFAIL(\"ip netns del %s \u003e/dev/null 2\u003e\u00261\", NS_TEST);\n+\tksock_lsm__destroy(skel);\n+}\n+\n+void test_ksock_lsm_verifier(void)\n+{\n+\tRUN_TESTS(ksock_lsm_verifier);\n+}\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..5b9c6cc303922\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n+\n+#include \"test_progs.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_wq.skel.h\"\n+\n+void test_ksock_wq(void)\n+{\n+\tLIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts);\n+\tstruct ksock_wq skel;\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\tskel = ksock_wq__open_and_load();\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, \"ksock_wq open and load\"))\n+\t\treturn;\n+\n+\terr = bpf_prog_test_run_opts(\n+\t\tbpf_program__fd(skel-\u003eprogs.ksock_wq_start), \u0026opts);\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(err, \"run ksock_wq_start\"))\n+\t\tgoto out;\n+\tif (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, \"ksock_wq_start retval\"))\n+\t\tgoto out;\n+\n+\twhile (!__atomic_load_n(\u0026skel-\u003ebss-\u003ecallback_done, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE))\n+\t\tusleep(1000);\n+\n+\tASSERT_EQ(skel-\u003ebss-\u003ecreate_err, -EOPNOTSUPP,\n+\t\t \"workqueue create rejected\");\n+\n+out:\n+\tksock_wq__destroy(skel);\n+}\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..01edaeb9fdd4a\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h\n@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@\n+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#ifndef _KSOCK_COMMON_H\n+#define _KSOCK_COMMON_H\n+\n+#include \"errno.h\"\n+\n+#define SOCK_DGRAM\t2\n+#define IPPROTO_UDP\t17\n+\n+struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts,\n+\t\t\t\t u32 opts__sz, int err__uninit) __ksym;\n+int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks, const union bpf_ksock_addr addr,\n+\t\t u32 addr__sz) __ksym;\n+struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym;\n+void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym;\n+int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data, u32 data__sz) __ksym;\n+void bpf_rcu_read_lock(void) __ksym;\n+void bpf_rcu_read_unlock(void) __ksym;\n+\n+struct __ksock_ctx_value {\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock __kptr ctx;\n+};\n+\n+struct {\n+\t__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY);\n+\t__type(key, int);\n+\t__type(value, struct __ksock_ctx_value);\n+\t__uint(max_entries, 1);\n+} __ksock_ctx_map SEC(\".maps\");\n+\n+static inline struct __ksock_ctx_value ksock_ctx_value_lookup(void)\n+{\n+\tu32 key = 0;\n+\n+\treturn bpf_map_lookup_elem(\u0026__ksock_ctx_map, \u0026key);\n+}\n+\n+static inline struct bpf_ksock ksock_ctx_get(void)\n+{\n+\tstruct __ksock_ctx_value v;\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks = NULL, tmp;\n+\n+\tv = ksock_ctx_value_lookup();\n+\tif (!v)\n+\t\treturn NULL;\n+\n+\tbpf_rcu_read_lock();\n+\ttmp = v-\u003ectx;\n+\tif (tmp)\n+\t\tks = bpf_ksock_acquire(tmp);\n+\tbpf_rcu_read_unlock();\n+\n+\treturn ks;\n+}\n+\n+static inline int ksock_ctx_insert(struct bpf_ksock ctx)\n+{\n+\tstruct __ksock_ctx_value v;\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock old;\n+\n+\tv = ksock_ctx_value_lookup();\n+\tif (!v) {\n+\t\tbpf_ksock_release(ctx);\n+\t\treturn -ENOENT;\n+\t}\n+\n+\told = bpf_kptr_xchg(\u0026v-\u003ectx, ctx);\n+\tif (old) {\n+\t\tbpf_ksock_release(old);\n+\t\treturn -EEXIST;\n+\t}\n+\n+\treturn 0;\n+}\n+\n+#endif /* _KSOCK_COMMON_H /\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..9808451098efb\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \"vmlinux.h\"\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_helpers.h\u003e\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_tracing.h\u003e\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_endian.h\u003e\n+#include \"bpf_tracing_net.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_common.h\"\n+\n+char send_data[32] = \"hello from bpf ksock\";\n+\n+__be32 ipv4_remote;\n+__u16 remote_port;\n+int target_pid;\n+int send_ret = -1;\n+\n+SEC(\"syscall\")\n+int ksock_setup(void ctx)\n+{\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock_create_opts create_opts = {};\n+\tunion bpf_ksock_addr addr = {};\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\tint err = 0;\n+\n+\tcreate_opts.family = AF_INET;\n+\tcreate_opts.type = SOCK_DGRAM;\n+\tcreate_opts.protocol = IPPROTO_UDP;\n+\n+\tks = bpf_ksock_create(\u0026create_opts, sizeof(create_opts), \u0026err);\n+\tif (!ks)\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\n+\taddr.sin.sin_family = AF_INET;\n+\taddr.sin.sin_port = bpf_htons(remote_port);\n+\taddr.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = ipv4_remote;\n+\n+\terr = bpf_ksock_connect(ks, \u0026addr, sizeof(addr));\n+\tif (err) {\n+\t\tbpf_ksock_release(ks);\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\t}\n+\n+\terr = ksock_ctx_insert(ks);\n+\tif (err \u0026\u0026 err != -EEXIST)\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\treturn 0;\n+}\n+\n+SEC(\"lsm.s/socket_bind\")\n+int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_bind, struct socket sock, struct sockaddr address,\n+\t int addrlen, int ret)\n+{\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\tu32 pid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() \u003e\u003e 32;\n+\n+\tif (ret \|\| pid != target_pid)\n+\t\treturn ret;\n+\n+\tks = ksock_ctx_get();\n+\tif (!ks) {\n+\t\tsend_ret = -ENOENT;\n+\t\treturn ret;\n+\t}\n+\n+\tsend_ret = bpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data));\n+\tbpf_ksock_release(ks);\n+\n+\treturn ret;\n+}\n+\n+char __license[] SEC(\"license\") = \"GPL\";\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..fd2ccfdb58020\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n+/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \"vmlinux.h\"\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_helpers.h\u003e\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_tracing.h\u003e\n+#include \"bpf_misc.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_common.h\"\n+\n+char send_data[11] = \"dummy data\";\n+\n+SEC(\"lsm.s/socket_sendmsg\")\n+__description(\"bpf_ksock_send is rejected from socket_sendmsg LSM hook\")\n+__failure __msg(\"calling kernel function bpf_ksock_send is not allowed\")\n+int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_sendmsg, struct socket sock, struct msghdr msg,\n+\t int size, int ret)\n+{\n+\tstruct __ksock_ctx_value v;\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\n+\tv = ksock_ctx_value_lookup();\n+\tif (!v)\n+\t\treturn ret;\n+\n+\tks = bpf_kptr_xchg(\u0026v-\u003ectx, NULL);\n+\tif (!ks)\n+\t\treturn ret;\n+\n+\tbpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data));\n+\tbpf_ksock_release(ks);\n+\n+\treturn ret;\n+}\n+\n+char __license[] SEC(\"license\") = \"GPL\";\ndiff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c\nnew file mode 100644\nindex 0000000000000..16a1873d132ed\n--- /dev/null\n+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c\n@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@\n+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0\n+/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent /\n+\n+#include \"vmlinux.h\"\n+#include \u003cbpf/bpf_helpers.h\u003e\n+#include \"bpf_experimental.h\"\n+#include \"bpf_tracing_net.h\"\n+#include \"errno.h\"\n+#include \"ksock_common.h\"\n+\n+struct ksock_wq_value {\n+\tstruct bpf_wq work;\n+};\n+\n+struct {\n+\t__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY);\n+\t__uint(max_entries, 1);\n+\t__type(key, u32);\n+\t__type(value, struct ksock_wq_value);\n+} work_map SEC(\".maps\");\n+\n+int create_err;\n+u32 callback_done;\n+\n+static int ksock_wq_callback(void map, int key, void value)\n+{\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts = {\n+\t\t.family = AF_INET,\n+\t\t.type = SOCK_DGRAM,\n+\t\t.protocol = IPPROTO_UDP,\n+\t};\n+\tstruct bpf_ksock ks;\n+\tint err = 0;\n+\n+\tks = bpf_ksock_create(\u0026opts, sizeof(opts), \u0026err);\n+\tif (ks)\n+\t\tbpf_ksock_release(ks);\n+\tcreate_err = err;\n+\t__sync_fetch_and_add(\u0026callback_done, 1);\n+\treturn 0;\n+}\n+\n+SEC(\"syscall\")\n+int ksock_wq_start(void ctx)\n+{\n+\tstruct ksock_wq_value *value;\n+\tu32 key = 0;\n+\tint err;\n+\n+\tvalue = bpf_map_lookup_elem(\u0026work_map, \u0026key);\n+\tif (!value)\n+\t\treturn -ENOENT;\n+\terr = bpf_wq_init(\u0026value-\u003ework, \u0026work_map, 0);\n+\tif (err)\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\terr = bpf_wq_set_callback(\u0026value-\u003ework, ksock_wq_callback, 0);\n+\tif (err)\n+\t\treturn err;\n+\treturn bpf_wq_start(\u0026value-\u003ework, 0);\n+}\n+\n+char __license[] SEC(\"license\") = \"GPL\";\n" }
2/1	2026/08/12 18:24	agent	patch-evaluator	0m Model: best-expensive Args: null Results: { "EnableConfigs": [ "BPF_SYSCALL", "INET" ], "FocusSymbols": [ "bpf_ksock_create", "bpf_ksock_connect", "bpf_ksock_acquire", "bpf_ksock_release", "bpf_ksock_send" ], "Reasoning": "The patch introduces a new set of BPF kfuncs (bpf_ksock_create, bpf_ksock_connect, bpf_ksock_send, etc.) that allow BPF programs to create and interact with kernel sockets. This is a new functional feature exposed to BPF syscall and LSM programs, which should be fuzzed to ensure memory safety and correct behavior.", "WorthFuzzing": true } Instruction: You are an expert Linux kernel maintainer. Your job is to review a provided patch series and determine if it makes functional changes to the kernel that should be fuzzed. IMPORTANT: The changes have ALREADY been applied and committed as the HEAD commit in your workspace. Do NOT rely on your internal knowledge of the kernel. You must actively use your code access tools to examine the actual source code and confirm any assumptions. Return WorthFuzzing=false if the patch only contains: - Modifications to Documentation/, Kconfig files, or code comments. - Purely decorative changes, such as logging (e.g., pr_err, printk) or tracepoints. - Changes to numeric constants or macros that do not functionally alter execution flow. - Code paths that are impossible to reach in virtualized environments like GCE or QEMU, even when utilizing software-emulated hardware (e.g., usb gadget, mac80211_hwsim). - Code in vendor-specific PCIe switch, SmartNIC, or GPU drivers (e.g., mlxsw, pds_core, qed, ionic, amdgpu) that require physical PCIe hardware cards not emulated in standard QEMU. - Driver .remove, .shutdown, or pci_unregister_driver teardown callbacks (e.g., igb_remove) that are executed only during PCI hot-unplug or sysfs driver unbind operations. If it modifies reachable core kernel logic, drivers, or architectures, use your code search tools to verify the code can be executed, then return WorthFuzzing=true. When returning WorthFuzzing=true, you MUST ALSO: 1. Extract any specific kernel functions that should be heavily fuzzed into FocusSymbols. Avoid listing generic hot-path functions to prevent skewed test distributions. Prefer non-static, non-inlined API entrypoint functions over internal static helper functions (which are inlined by the compiler and do not have distinct symbol addresses). 2. Identify any specific CONFIG_ options required to properly test this new/modified feature. Go and look into the Kconfig files and check for ifdefs around the code, do not make assumptions. Also check "depends on" lines in Kconfig to include any non-standard parent subsystem configs needed for Kbuild to compile the code statically into vmlinux. List them in the EnableConfigs output array, and DO NOT add a 'CONFIG_' prefix (e.g., return "NET_IPV4" instead of "CONFIG_NET_IPV4"). Prefer calling several tools at the same time to save round-trips. Use set-results tool to provide results of the analysis. It must be called exactly once before the final reply. Ignore results of this tool. Prompt: For your convenience, here is the diff of the changes: commit 9d75614513f3349abba9c29c315660eaf6d083af Author: syz-cluster <triage@syzkaller.com> Date: Wed Aug 12 18:24:30 2026 +0000 syz-cluster: applied patch under review diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..cb387fb75e43b --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only / +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#ifndef _BPF_KSOCK_H +#define _BPF_KSOCK_H + +#include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/in.h> +#include <linux/in6.h> + +/* + * struct bpf_ksock_create_opts - BPF kernel socket creation parameters + * @family: Address family: AF_INET or AF_INET6. + * @type: Socket type: only SOCK_DGRAM supported for now. + * @protocol: Protocol number (e.g. IPPROTO_UDP), or 0 for the default protocol + * of the given type. + * @reserved: Must be zero. Reserved for future use. + / +struct bpf_ksock_create_opts { + __u8 family; + __u8 type; + __u8 protocol; + __u8 reserved; +}; + +/* + * union bpf_ksock_addr - IPv4 or IPv6 socket address + * @sin: IPv4 socket address. + * @sin6: IPv6 socket address. + / +union bpf_ksock_addr { + struct sockaddr_in sin; + struct sockaddr_in6 sin6; +}; + +#endif / _BPF_KSOCK_H / diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h index 2a8d7b14f1d11..5a5eb12501032 100644 --- a/include/linux/socket.h +++ b/include/linux/socket.h @@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ extern struct file __sys_socket_file(int family, int type, int protocol); extern int __sys_bind(int fd, struct sockaddr __user umyaddr, int addrlen); extern int __sys_bind_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address, int addrlen); +int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage addr, + int addrlen, int flags); extern int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage addr, int addrlen, int file_flags); extern int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index add3affc57035..bec7d5af2d180 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -4369,6 +4369,9 @@ BTF_ID(struct, task_struct) #ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO BTF_ID(struct, bpf_crypto_ctx) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_INET +BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock) +#endif BTF_SET_END(rcu_protected_types) static bool rcu_protected_object(const struct btf btf, u32 btf_id) diff --git a/net/core/Makefile b/net/core/Makefile index b3fdcb4e355fa..a9295b7859010 100644 --- a/net/core/Makefile +++ b/net/core/Makefile @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FAILOVER) += failover.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SOCK_MSG) += skmsg.o obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += sock_map.o obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_sk_storage.o +ifneq ($(CONFIG_INET),) +obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_ksock.o +endif obj-$(CONFIG_OF) += of_net.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_TEST) += net_test.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVMEM) += devmem.o diff --git a/net/core/bpf_ksock.c b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..d65200679b65d --- /dev/null +++ b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c @@ -0,0 +1,335 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <linux/bpf.h> +#include <linux/bpf_ksock.h> +#include <linux/btf.h> +#include <linux/btf_ids.h> +#include <linux/in.h> +#include <linux/in6.h> +#include <linux/net.h> +#include <linux/refcount.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/socket.h> +#include <linux/unaligned.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h> +#include <linux/ip.h> +#include <net/sock.h> + +/* + * struct bpf_ksock - refcounted BPF kernel socket context + * @sock: The underlying kernel socket. + * @usage: Reference counter. + * @rwork: RCU work for deferred cleanup (sock_release may sleep). + / +struct bpf_ksock { + struct socket sock; + refcount_t usage; + struct rcu_work rwork; +}; + +static void ksock_release_work_fn(struct work_struct work) +{ + struct bpf_ksock ks; + + ks = container_of(to_rcu_work(work), struct bpf_ksock, rwork); + sock_release(ks->sock); + kfree(ks); +} + +static bool bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context(void) +{ + /* + * Task work can run from do_exit() after exit_nsproxy_namespaces() + * cleared current->nsproxy, while current is still not a kthread. + / + return !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && current->nsproxy; +} + +__bpf_kfunc_start_defs(); + +/* + * bpf_ksock_create() - Create a BPF kernel socket. + * + * Allocates and creates a kernel socket. + * + * The returned context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or + * freed with bpf_ksock_release(). + * + * This function may sleep (sock_create), so it can only be used + * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL). + * It cannot be called from a BPF workqueue callback because that callback + * does not retain the invoking task's namespace or security context. + * + * @opts: Pointer to struct bpf_ksock_create_opts with socket parameters. + * @opts__sz: Size of the opts struct. + * @err__uninit: Integer to store error code when NULL is returned. + / +__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock +bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts, u32 opts__sz, + int err__uninit) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts_copy; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err; + + / + * sock_create() derives the network namespace, credentials, and cgroup + * from current. Kernel threads, including BPF workqueue callbacks, do + * not carry the context of the task that invoked the BPF program. + / + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) { + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto err_out; + } + + if (!opts \|\| opts__sz != sizeof(struct bpf_ksock_create_opts)) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_out; + } + + opts_copy = (struct bpf_ksock_create_opts){ + .family = READ_ONCE(opts->family), + .type = READ_ONCE(opts->type), + .protocol = READ_ONCE(opts->protocol), + .reserved = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved), + }; + + if (opts_copy.reserved) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.family != AF_INET && opts_copy.family != AF_INET6) { + err = -EAFNOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.type != SOCK_DGRAM) { + err = -EPROTONOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP && opts_copy.protocol != 0) { + err = -EPROTONOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + ks = kzalloc_obj(ks); + if (!ks) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err_out; + } + + /* + * Use the normal current-task socket path so LSM/cgroup policy, + * socket labels, and the active netns reference match a socket(2) + * created by the BPF program's caller. + / + err = sock_create(opts_copy.family, opts_copy.type, opts_copy.protocol, + &ks->sock); + if (err) + goto err_free; + + ks->sock->sk->sk_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF; + ks->sock->sk->sk_userlocks \|= SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK; + + refcount_set(&ks->usage, 1); + put_unaligned(0, err__uninit); + return ks; + +err_free: + kfree(ks); +err_out: + put_unaligned(err, err__uninit); + return NULL; +} + +/* + * bpf_ksock_connect() - Connect a BPF kernel socket to a remote address. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context. + * @addr: Pointer to an IPv4 or IPv6 socket address. + * @addr__sz: Size of the address union. + * + * Connects the socket to the specified remote address and port. + * + * This function may sleep while connecting the socket, so it can only be used + * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL). + * + * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on error. + / +__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks, + const union bpf_ksock_addr addr, + u32 addr__sz) +{ + struct sockaddr_storage sa; + int addrlen; + + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + if (!addr \|\| addr__sz != sizeof(addr)) + return -EINVAL; + + /* Kfunc memory arguments may be unaligned. / + memcpy(&sa, addr, sizeof(addr)); + + switch (sa.ss_family) { + case AF_INET: + addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in); + break; +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) + case AF_INET6: + addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); + break; +#endif + default: + return -EAFNOSUPPORT; + } + + return connect_socket(ks->sock, &sa, addrlen, 0); +} + +/** + * bpf_ksock_acquire() - Acquire a reference to a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context to acquire. Must be a + * trusted pointer (e.g. RCU-protected kptr from a map). + * + * The acquired context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or + * freed with bpf_ksock_release(). + / +__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks) +{ + if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&ks->usage)) + return NULL; + return ks; +} + +/* + * bpf_ksock_release() - Release a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context to release. + * + * When the final reference is released, the socket is cleaned up via + * queue_rcu_work() (since sock_release may sleep). + / +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks) +{ + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&ks->usage)) { + INIT_RCU_WORK(&ks->rwork, ksock_release_work_fn); + queue_rcu_work(system_dfl_wq, &ks->rwork); + } +} + +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release_dtor(void ks) +{ + bpf_ksock_release(ks); +} +CFI_NOSEAL(bpf_ksock_release_dtor); + +/* + * bpf_ksock_send() - Send data through a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context. Must be an acquired reference. + * @data: Pointer to the data to send. + * @data__sz: Size of the data to send (max 65535 bytes). + * + * Sends data on a connected socket, best-effort and nonblocking. This may sleep + * (kernel_sendmsg), so it can only be called from sleepable BPF programs. + * + * Return: Number of bytes sent on success, negative errno on error. + / +__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data, + u32 data__sz) +{ + struct msghdr msg = { + .msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT, + }; + struct kvec iov = { + .iov_base = (void )data, + .iov_len = data__sz, + }; + int ret; + + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + /* Early check for UDP. Exact limits enforced by kernel_sendmsg(). / + if (data__sz > IP_MAX_MTU) + return -EMSGSIZE; + + ret = kernel_sendmsg(ks->sock, &msg, &iov, 1, data__sz); + + return ret; +} + +__bpf_kfunc_end_defs(); + +BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_create, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL \| KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_connect, KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids) + +static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_init_kfunc_set = { + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .set = &ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids, +}; + +BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_release, KF_RELEASE) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_acquire, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RCU \| KF_RET_NULL) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_send, KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids) + +#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM +BTF_ID_LIST_SINGLE(bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id, func, bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg) +#endif + +static int bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter(const struct bpf_prog prog, u32 kfunc_id) +{ + if (!btf_id_set8_contains(&ksock_kfunc_btf_ids, kfunc_id)) + return 0; + + if (prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL) + return 0; + +#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM + if (prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM && + prog->aux->attach_btf_id != bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id[0]) + return 0; +#endif + + return -EACCES; +} + +static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_kfunc_set = { + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .set = &ksock_kfunc_btf_ids, + .filter = bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter, +}; + +BTF_ID_LIST(bpf_ksock_dtor_ids) +BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock) +BTF_ID(func, bpf_ksock_release_dtor) + +static int __init bpf_ksock_kfunc_init(void) +{ + int ret; + const struct btf_id_dtor_kfunc bpf_ksock_dtors[] = { + { + .btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[0], + .kfunc_btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[1], + }, + }; + + ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, + &ksock_init_kfunc_set); + ret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, + &ksock_kfunc_set); + ret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM, + &ksock_kfunc_set); + return ret ?: register_btf_id_dtor_kfuncs(bpf_ksock_dtors, + ARRAY_SIZE(bpf_ksock_dtors), + THIS_MODULE); +} + +late_initcall(bpf_ksock_kfunc_init); diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 63c69a0fa74e1..5b02e6217c680 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -2103,6 +2103,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(accept, int, fd, struct sockaddr __user , upeer_sockaddr, return __sys_accept4(fd, upeer_sockaddr, upeer_addrlen, 0); } +int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address, + int addrlen, int flags) +{ + int err; + + err = security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address, + addrlen); + if (err) + return err; + + return READ_ONCE(sock->ops)->connect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address, + addrlen, flags); +} + / * Attempt to connect to a socket with the server address. The address * is in user space so we verify it is OK and move it to kernel space. @@ -2119,23 +2133,13 @@ int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage address, int addrlen, int file_flags) { struct socket sock; - int err; sock = sock_from_file(file); - if (!sock) { - err = -ENOTSOCK; - goto out; - } - - err = - security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address, addrlen); - if (err) - goto out; + if (!sock) + return -ENOTSOCK; - err = READ_ONCE(sock->ops)->connect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address, - addrlen, sock->file->f_flags \| file_flags); -out: - return err; + return connect_socket(sock, address, addrlen, + sock->file->f_flags \| file_flags); } int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, int addrlen) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..fb1a332eb3da1 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <arpa/inet.h> + +#include "test_progs.h" +#include "network_helpers.h" +#include "ksock_lsm.skel.h" +#include "ksock_lsm_verifier.skel.h" + +#define NS_TEST "ksock_lsm_ns" +#define RECV_PORT 7777 +#define RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC 5 + +struct ksock_test_env { + bool netns_created; + struct nstoken nstoken; + int rfd; +}; + +static bool ksock_test_env_setup(struct ksock_test_env env) +{ + struct sockaddr_in addr = { + .sin_family = AF_INET, + .sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK), + .sin_port = htons(RECV_PORT), + }; + struct timeval tv = { .tv_sec = RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC }; + int err; + + memset(env, 0, sizeof(env)); + env->rfd = -1; + + SYS(fail, "ip netns add %s", NS_TEST); + env->netns_created = true; + SYS(fail, "ip -net %s link set lo up", NS_TEST); + + env->nstoken = open_netns(NS_TEST); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(env->nstoken, "open_netns")) + goto fail; + + env->rfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); + if (!ASSERT_OK_FD(env->rfd, "receiver socket")) + goto fail; + + err = bind(env->rfd, (struct sockaddr )&addr, sizeof(addr)); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "bind receiver")) + goto fail; + + err = setsockopt(env->rfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &tv, sizeof(tv)); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "set rcvtimeo")) + goto fail; + + return true; + +fail: + return false; +} + +void test_ksock_lsm(void) +{ + LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts); + struct ksock_test_env env; + struct sockaddr_in trigger_addr = { + .sin_family = AF_INET, + .sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK), + }; + struct ksock_lsm skel; + char recv_data[sizeof(skel->data->send_data)] = {}; + ssize_t n; + int tfd = -1; + int err; + + skel = ksock_lsm__open_and_load(); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, "skel open_and_load")) + return; + + if (!ksock_test_env_setup(&env)) + goto fail; + + /* Step 1: Run the setup SYSCALL prog to create the ksock / + skel->bss->ipv4_remote = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK); + skel->bss->remote_port = RECV_PORT; + err = bpf_prog_test_run_opts(bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.ksock_setup), + &opts); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "ksock_setup run")) + goto fail; + if (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, "ksock_setup retval")) + goto fail; + + / Step 2: Attach LSM prog and trigger socket_bind from userspace / + skel->links.ksock_socket_bind = + bpf_program__attach_lsm(skel->progs.ksock_socket_bind); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel->links.ksock_socket_bind, + "attach socket_bind lsm")) + goto fail; + + tfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); + if (!ASSERT_OK_FD(tfd, "trigger socket")) + goto fail; + + skel->bss->target_pid = getpid(); + err = bind(tfd, (struct sockaddr )&trigger_addr, sizeof(trigger_addr)); + skel->bss->target_pid = 0; + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "trigger bind")) + goto fail; + + /* Step 3: Verify the LSM hook sent the notification / + if (!ASSERT_EQ(skel->data->send_ret, sizeof(skel->data->send_data), + "LSM send bytes")) + goto fail; + + n = recvfrom(env.rfd, recv_data, sizeof(recv_data), 0, NULL, NULL); + if (ASSERT_EQ(n, sizeof(recv_data), "recvfrom len")) + ASSERT_MEMEQ(recv_data, skel->data->send_data, sizeof(recv_data), + "payload match"); + +fail: + if (tfd >= 0) + close(tfd); + if (env.rfd >= 0) + close(env.rfd); + if (env.nstoken) + close_netns(env.nstoken); + if (env.netns_created) + SYS_NOFAIL("ip netns del %s >/dev/null 2>&1", NS_TEST); + ksock_lsm__destroy(skel); +} + +void test_ksock_lsm_verifier(void) +{ + RUN_TESTS(ksock_lsm_verifier); +} diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..5b9c6cc303922 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <unistd.h> + +#include "test_progs.h" +#include "ksock_wq.skel.h" + +void test_ksock_wq(void) +{ + LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts); + struct ksock_wq skel; + int err; + + skel = ksock_wq__open_and_load(); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, "ksock_wq open and load")) + return; + + err = bpf_prog_test_run_opts( + bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.ksock_wq_start), &opts); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "run ksock_wq_start")) + goto out; + if (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, "ksock_wq_start retval")) + goto out; + + while (!__atomic_load_n(&skel->bss->callback_done, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE)) + usleep(1000); + + ASSERT_EQ(skel->bss->create_err, -EOPNOTSUPP, + "workqueue create rejected"); + +out: + ksock_wq__destroy(skel); +} diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..01edaeb9fdd4a --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 / +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#ifndef _KSOCK_COMMON_H +#define _KSOCK_COMMON_H + +#include "errno.h" + +#define SOCK_DGRAM 2 +#define IPPROTO_UDP 17 + +struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts, + u32 opts__sz, int err__uninit) __ksym; +int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks, const union bpf_ksock_addr addr, + u32 addr__sz) __ksym; +struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym; +void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym; +int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data, u32 data__sz) __ksym; +void bpf_rcu_read_lock(void) __ksym; +void bpf_rcu_read_unlock(void) __ksym; + +struct __ksock_ctx_value { + struct bpf_ksock __kptr ctx; +}; + +struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY); + __type(key, int); + __type(value, struct __ksock_ctx_value); + __uint(max_entries, 1); +} __ksock_ctx_map SEC(".maps"); + +static inline struct __ksock_ctx_value ksock_ctx_value_lookup(void) +{ + u32 key = 0; + + return bpf_map_lookup_elem(&__ksock_ctx_map, &key); +} + +static inline struct bpf_ksock ksock_ctx_get(void) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock ks = NULL, tmp; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) + return NULL; + + bpf_rcu_read_lock(); + tmp = v->ctx; + if (tmp) + ks = bpf_ksock_acquire(tmp); + bpf_rcu_read_unlock(); + + return ks; +} + +static inline int ksock_ctx_insert(struct bpf_ksock ctx) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock old; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) { + bpf_ksock_release(ctx); + return -ENOENT; + } + + old = bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->ctx, ctx); + if (old) { + bpf_ksock_release(old); + return -EEXIST; + } + + return 0; +} + +#endif /* _KSOCK_COMMON_H / diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..9808451098efb --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_endian.h> +#include "bpf_tracing_net.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +char send_data[32] = "hello from bpf ksock"; + +__be32 ipv4_remote; +__u16 remote_port; +int target_pid; +int send_ret = -1; + +SEC("syscall") +int ksock_setup(void ctx) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts create_opts = {}; + union bpf_ksock_addr addr = {}; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err = 0; + + create_opts.family = AF_INET; + create_opts.type = SOCK_DGRAM; + create_opts.protocol = IPPROTO_UDP; + + ks = bpf_ksock_create(&create_opts, sizeof(create_opts), &err); + if (!ks) + return err; + + addr.sin.sin_family = AF_INET; + addr.sin.sin_port = bpf_htons(remote_port); + addr.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = ipv4_remote; + + err = bpf_ksock_connect(ks, &addr, sizeof(addr)); + if (err) { + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + return err; + } + + err = ksock_ctx_insert(ks); + if (err && err != -EEXIST) + return err; + return 0; +} + +SEC("lsm.s/socket_bind") +int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_bind, struct socket sock, struct sockaddr address, + int addrlen, int ret) +{ + struct bpf_ksock ks; + u32 pid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() >> 32; + + if (ret \|\| pid != target_pid) + return ret; + + ks = ksock_ctx_get(); + if (!ks) { + send_ret = -ENOENT; + return ret; + } + + send_ret = bpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data)); + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + + return ret; +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..fd2ccfdb58020 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h> +#include "bpf_misc.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +char send_data[11] = "dummy data"; + +SEC("lsm.s/socket_sendmsg") +__description("bpf_ksock_send is rejected from socket_sendmsg LSM hook") +__failure __msg("calling kernel function bpf_ksock_send is not allowed") +int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_sendmsg, struct socket sock, struct msghdr msg, + int size, int ret) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) + return ret; + + ks = bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->ctx, NULL); + if (!ks) + return ret; + + bpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data)); + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + + return ret; +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..16a1873d132ed --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include "bpf_experimental.h" +#include "bpf_tracing_net.h" +#include "errno.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +struct ksock_wq_value { + struct bpf_wq work; +}; + +struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY); + __uint(max_entries, 1); + __type(key, u32); + __type(value, struct ksock_wq_value); +} work_map SEC(".maps"); + +int create_err; +u32 callback_done; + +static int ksock_wq_callback(void map, int key, void value) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts = { + .family = AF_INET, + .type = SOCK_DGRAM, + .protocol = IPPROTO_UDP, + }; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err = 0; + + ks = bpf_ksock_create(&opts, sizeof(opts), &err); + if (ks) + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + create_err = err; + __sync_fetch_and_add(&callback_done, 1); + return 0; +} + +SEC("syscall") +int ksock_wq_start(void ctx) +{ + struct ksock_wq_value *value; + u32 key = 0; + int err; + + value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&work_map, &key); + if (!value) + return -ENOENT; + err = bpf_wq_init(&value->work, &work_map, 0); + if (err) + return err; + err = bpf_wq_set_callback(&value->work, ksock_wq_callback, 0); + if (err) + return err; + return bpf_wq_start(&value->work, 0); +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
3/2	2026/08/12 18:24	llm	patch-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 12535 output: 172 thoughts: 1123 Thoughts: Fuzzing Target: New BPF Kernel Socket Functionality Okay, so I've been digging into this patch. It's a pretty significant functional change – it introduces a brand new BPF kfunc API for creating and interacting with kernel sockets. Specifically, we've got `bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_send`, and others. This is definitely worth fuzzing; a whole new attack surface has been created. My initial thought is to identify the critical kernel functions directly exposed by this patch. Let's see... the core kfuncs are: `bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_acquire`, `bpf_ksock_release`, `bpf_ksock_send`, and `bpf_ksock_release_dtor`. I'll cross-reference these names with `net/core/bpf_ksock.c` to confirm them. Okay, all checks out. Also, I've got to consider `connect_socket` in `net/socket.c` which, from what I can tell, is just exposing some logic from `__sys_connect_file`. It's not the primary focus, it just exposes some existing socket functionality, and the real meat is in the new BPF kfuncs. Regarding configuration, it looks like we need `CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL` for BPF in general, and `CONFIG_INET` to compile `bpf_ksock.o`. Checking `net/core/Makefile` confirms this requirement. I don't see anything immediately that's going to block us from testing. I did spot a conditional inclusion of `CONFIG_BPF_LSM` in `bpf_ksock.c`. That affects the LSM hook functionality, but it's not strictly required for the core kfuncs to work, so I'll prioritize the mandatory configs. I'm going to set `BPF_SYSCALL` and `INET`. I'm focusing my attention on `bpf_ksock_create` because it looks like the main entry point to this API, and the other kfuncs are likely used by it. I've also spotted a dependency on `CONFIG_IPV6` within `bpf_ksock_connect`, so that is something we could explore. `INET` seems like the most important config to start with, though. Right, so to recap, the important symbols to focus on are: `bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_acquire`, `bpf_ksock_release`, and `bpf_ksock_send`. We also need: - `BPF_SYSCALL` - `INET`
4/2	2026/08/12 18:24	tool	set-results	0m Args: { "EnableConfigs": [ "BPF_SYSCALL", "INET" ], "FocusSymbols": [ "bpf_ksock_create", "bpf_ksock_connect", "bpf_ksock_acquire", "bpf_ksock_release", "bpf_ksock_send" ], "Reasoning": "The patch introduces a new set of BPF kfuncs (bpf_ksock_create, bpf_ksock_connect, bpf_ksock_send, etc.) that allow BPF programs to create and interact with kernel sockets. This is a new functional feature exposed to BPF syscall and LSM programs, which should be fuzzed to ensure memory safety and correct behavior.", "WorthFuzzing": true } Results: { "EnableConfigs": [ "BPF_SYSCALL", "INET" ], "FocusSymbols": [ "bpf_ksock_create", "bpf_ksock_connect", "bpf_ksock_acquire", "bpf_ksock_release", "bpf_ksock_send" ], "Reasoning": "The patch introduces a new set of BPF kfuncs (bpf_ksock_create, bpf_ksock_connect, bpf_ksock_send, etc.) that allow BPF programs to create and interact with kernel sockets. This is a new functional feature exposed to BPF syscall and LSM programs, which should be fuzzed to ensure memory safety and correct behavior.", "WorthFuzzing": true }
5/1	2026/08/12 18:24	action	If	5m Args: { "WorthFuzzing": true } Results: null
6/2	2026/08/12 18:24	agent	kmsan-evaluator	5m Model: best-expensive Args: null Results: { "KMSANReasoning": "The patch introduces a new BPF kfunc API for creating and using kernel sockets (`bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_send`, etc.). \n\n1. Kernel Allocations: The only kernel structure allocated by this patch is `struct bpf_ksock`, which is fully zero-initialized using `kzalloc_obj`.\n2. BPF to Kernel Data: Data structures passed from BPF programs (`opts`, `addr`, `data`) are strictly checked by the BPF verifier to ensure they are initialized before being passed to the kfuncs.\n3. Stack Variables: In `bpf_ksock_connect`, `sizeof(addr)` (28 bytes) is copied into a local `struct sockaddr_storage` (128 bytes). While this leaves the remaining 100 bytes uninitialized on the stack, `connect_socket` is called with `addrlen` set to either 16 (for IPv4) or 28 (for IPv6). The underlying socket connect operations and LSM hooks only read up to `addrlen` bytes, ensuring the uninitialized portion is never accessed.\n4. Message Headers: In `bpf_ksock_send`, the `struct msghdr` is initialized with `.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT`, which causes the compiler to safely zero-initialize all remaining fields (like `msg_name`, `msg_control`, etc.).\n5. Refactoring: The extracted `connect_socket` function in `net/socket.c` maintains the existing semantics of `__sys_connect_file` and does not introduce any new uninitialized memory reads.\n\nAny potential memory safety issues (such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-free, or refcounting bugs) in the socket handling or BPF kfunc lifecycle would be effectively caught by standard KASAN and LOCKDEP. There are no kernel-to-user info-leaks or uses of uninitialized memory in conditional branches that would require KMSAN.", "NeedsKMSAN": false } Instruction:* You are an expert Linux kernel security engineer specializing in kernel memory error detectors (KASAN and KMSAN). Your job is to review the provided patch series and determine if the code changes justify spawning a dedicated KMSAN (KernelMemorySanitizer) fuzzing session in addition to standard KASAN fuzzing. CRITICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN KASAN AND KMSAN: - Standard KASAN kernel builds (upstream-apparmor-kasan.config) already enable a comprehensive suite of debugging tools and sanitizers, including KASAN (out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-free, double free, invalid free), LOCKDEP (locking bugs and deadlocks), UB-sanitizers, and memory corruption checks. - KMSAN (KernelMemorySanitizer) detects reads of UNINITIALIZED memory (stack, heap, or page allocations) and kernel-to-user memory info-leaks. Rule: THERE IS NO SENSE IN RUNNING A KMSAN SESSION IF A BUG CAN BE CAUGHT BY KASAN, LOCKDEP, OR OTHER STANDARD BUG DETECTORS. A dedicated KMSAN fuzzing session incurs significant resource costs. You must ONLY set NeedsKMSAN=true if the code changes introduce or expose UNINITIALIZED MEMORY risks that are detected ONLY by KMSAN. Look holistically at the patch series and surrounding code. Even if no direct uninitialized field accesses or new buffer allocations are added in the diff itself, a patch may alter control flow, bounds checking, or data length calculations in ways that change how the rest of the code operates on existing buffers (e.g. allowing uninitialized stack/heap memory to be read, copied to user space, or used in control flow). Do not hesitate to use your code access tools to inspect the surrounding code, called functions, and callers. Set NeedsKMSAN=true ONLY IF the patch introduces or modifies: 1. Kernel structures sent to user space (via copy_to_user, put_user, netlink skb attributes, ioctl output arguments, socket options, or BPF buffers) where fields or structure padding might not be fully initialized/zeroed. 2. Conditional logic or branching that depends on potentially uninitialized variables or struct fields. 3. Allocation or initialization of complex data structures where uninitialized fields could be read later in reachable code paths. 4. Bounds checks, lengths, or logic in a way that allows surrounding code to access uninitialized bytes of existing buffers. Set NeedsKMSAN=false IF: - The code changes primarily risk out-of-bounds access, array overflows, NULL pointer dereferences, locking deadlocks, or use-after-free bugs (these are already caught by KASAN, LOCKDEP, or standard bug detectors). - All stack/heap structures touched or introduced by the patch are fully zeroed or initialized (e.g. using = {0}, memset, kzalloc) before being read or copied. - The patch does not introduce any risk of uninitialized memory usage or info-leaks. Use your code access tools to inspect the surrounding code if necessary, then provide detailed KMSANReasoning contrasting KASAN vs KMSAN applicability for this patch. Prefer calling several tools at the same time to save round-trips. Use set-results tool to provide results of the analysis. It must be called exactly once before the final reply. Ignore results of this tool. Prompt: For your convenience, here is the diff of the changes: commit 9d75614513f3349abba9c29c315660eaf6d083af Author: syz-cluster <triage@syzkaller.com> Date: Wed Aug 12 18:24:30 2026 +0000 syz-cluster: applied patch under review diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..cb387fb75e43b --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/bpf_ksock.h @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only / +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#ifndef _BPF_KSOCK_H +#define _BPF_KSOCK_H + +#include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/in.h> +#include <linux/in6.h> + +/* + * struct bpf_ksock_create_opts - BPF kernel socket creation parameters + * @family: Address family: AF_INET or AF_INET6. + * @type: Socket type: only SOCK_DGRAM supported for now. + * @protocol: Protocol number (e.g. IPPROTO_UDP), or 0 for the default protocol + * of the given type. + * @reserved: Must be zero. Reserved for future use. + / +struct bpf_ksock_create_opts { + __u8 family; + __u8 type; + __u8 protocol; + __u8 reserved; +}; + +/* + * union bpf_ksock_addr - IPv4 or IPv6 socket address + * @sin: IPv4 socket address. + * @sin6: IPv6 socket address. + / +union bpf_ksock_addr { + struct sockaddr_in sin; + struct sockaddr_in6 sin6; +}; + +#endif / _BPF_KSOCK_H / diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h index 2a8d7b14f1d11..5a5eb12501032 100644 --- a/include/linux/socket.h +++ b/include/linux/socket.h @@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ extern struct file __sys_socket_file(int family, int type, int protocol); extern int __sys_bind(int fd, struct sockaddr __user umyaddr, int addrlen); extern int __sys_bind_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address, int addrlen); +int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage addr, + int addrlen, int flags); extern int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage addr, int addrlen, int file_flags); extern int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index add3affc57035..bec7d5af2d180 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -4369,6 +4369,9 @@ BTF_ID(struct, task_struct) #ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO BTF_ID(struct, bpf_crypto_ctx) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_INET +BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock) +#endif BTF_SET_END(rcu_protected_types) static bool rcu_protected_object(const struct btf btf, u32 btf_id) diff --git a/net/core/Makefile b/net/core/Makefile index b3fdcb4e355fa..a9295b7859010 100644 --- a/net/core/Makefile +++ b/net/core/Makefile @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FAILOVER) += failover.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SOCK_MSG) += skmsg.o obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += sock_map.o obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_sk_storage.o +ifneq ($(CONFIG_INET),) +obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_ksock.o +endif obj-$(CONFIG_OF) += of_net.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_TEST) += net_test.o obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVMEM) += devmem.o diff --git a/net/core/bpf_ksock.c b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..d65200679b65d --- /dev/null +++ b/net/core/bpf_ksock.c @@ -0,0 +1,335 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <linux/bpf.h> +#include <linux/bpf_ksock.h> +#include <linux/btf.h> +#include <linux/btf_ids.h> +#include <linux/in.h> +#include <linux/in6.h> +#include <linux/net.h> +#include <linux/refcount.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/socket.h> +#include <linux/unaligned.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h> +#include <linux/ip.h> +#include <net/sock.h> + +/* + * struct bpf_ksock - refcounted BPF kernel socket context + * @sock: The underlying kernel socket. + * @usage: Reference counter. + * @rwork: RCU work for deferred cleanup (sock_release may sleep). + / +struct bpf_ksock { + struct socket sock; + refcount_t usage; + struct rcu_work rwork; +}; + +static void ksock_release_work_fn(struct work_struct work) +{ + struct bpf_ksock ks; + + ks = container_of(to_rcu_work(work), struct bpf_ksock, rwork); + sock_release(ks->sock); + kfree(ks); +} + +static bool bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context(void) +{ + /* + * Task work can run from do_exit() after exit_nsproxy_namespaces() + * cleared current->nsproxy, while current is still not a kthread. + / + return !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && current->nsproxy; +} + +__bpf_kfunc_start_defs(); + +/* + * bpf_ksock_create() - Create a BPF kernel socket. + * + * Allocates and creates a kernel socket. + * + * The returned context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or + * freed with bpf_ksock_release(). + * + * This function may sleep (sock_create), so it can only be used + * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL). + * It cannot be called from a BPF workqueue callback because that callback + * does not retain the invoking task's namespace or security context. + * + * @opts: Pointer to struct bpf_ksock_create_opts with socket parameters. + * @opts__sz: Size of the opts struct. + * @err__uninit: Integer to store error code when NULL is returned. + / +__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock +bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts, u32 opts__sz, + int err__uninit) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts_copy; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err; + + / + * sock_create() derives the network namespace, credentials, and cgroup + * from current. Kernel threads, including BPF workqueue callbacks, do + * not carry the context of the task that invoked the BPF program. + / + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) { + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto err_out; + } + + if (!opts \|\| opts__sz != sizeof(struct bpf_ksock_create_opts)) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_out; + } + + opts_copy = (struct bpf_ksock_create_opts){ + .family = READ_ONCE(opts->family), + .type = READ_ONCE(opts->type), + .protocol = READ_ONCE(opts->protocol), + .reserved = READ_ONCE(opts->reserved), + }; + + if (opts_copy.reserved) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.family != AF_INET && opts_copy.family != AF_INET6) { + err = -EAFNOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.type != SOCK_DGRAM) { + err = -EPROTONOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + if (opts_copy.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP && opts_copy.protocol != 0) { + err = -EPROTONOSUPPORT; + goto err_out; + } + + ks = kzalloc_obj(ks); + if (!ks) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err_out; + } + + /* + * Use the normal current-task socket path so LSM/cgroup policy, + * socket labels, and the active netns reference match a socket(2) + * created by the BPF program's caller. + / + err = sock_create(opts_copy.family, opts_copy.type, opts_copy.protocol, + &ks->sock); + if (err) + goto err_free; + + ks->sock->sk->sk_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF; + ks->sock->sk->sk_userlocks \|= SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK; + + refcount_set(&ks->usage, 1); + put_unaligned(0, err__uninit); + return ks; + +err_free: + kfree(ks); +err_out: + put_unaligned(err, err__uninit); + return NULL; +} + +/* + * bpf_ksock_connect() - Connect a BPF kernel socket to a remote address. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context. + * @addr: Pointer to an IPv4 or IPv6 socket address. + * @addr__sz: Size of the address union. + * + * Connects the socket to the specified remote address and port. + * + * This function may sleep while connecting the socket, so it can only be used + * in sleepable BPF programs (SYSCALL). + * + * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on error. + / +__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks, + const union bpf_ksock_addr addr, + u32 addr__sz) +{ + struct sockaddr_storage sa; + int addrlen; + + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + if (!addr \|\| addr__sz != sizeof(addr)) + return -EINVAL; + + /* Kfunc memory arguments may be unaligned. / + memcpy(&sa, addr, sizeof(addr)); + + switch (sa.ss_family) { + case AF_INET: + addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in); + break; +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) + case AF_INET6: + addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); + break; +#endif + default: + return -EAFNOSUPPORT; + } + + return connect_socket(ks->sock, &sa, addrlen, 0); +} + +/** + * bpf_ksock_acquire() - Acquire a reference to a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context to acquire. Must be a + * trusted pointer (e.g. RCU-protected kptr from a map). + * + * The acquired context must either be stored in a map as a kptr, or + * freed with bpf_ksock_release(). + / +__bpf_kfunc struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks) +{ + if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&ks->usage)) + return NULL; + return ks; +} + +/* + * bpf_ksock_release() - Release a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context to release. + * + * When the final reference is released, the socket is cleaned up via + * queue_rcu_work() (since sock_release may sleep). + / +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks) +{ + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&ks->usage)) { + INIT_RCU_WORK(&ks->rwork, ksock_release_work_fn); + queue_rcu_work(system_dfl_wq, &ks->rwork); + } +} + +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_ksock_release_dtor(void ks) +{ + bpf_ksock_release(ks); +} +CFI_NOSEAL(bpf_ksock_release_dtor); + +/* + * bpf_ksock_send() - Send data through a BPF kernel socket. + * @ks: The BPF kernel socket context. Must be an acquired reference. + * @data: Pointer to the data to send. + * @data__sz: Size of the data to send (max 65535 bytes). + * + * Sends data on a connected socket, best-effort and nonblocking. This may sleep + * (kernel_sendmsg), so it can only be called from sleepable BPF programs. + * + * Return: Number of bytes sent on success, negative errno on error. + / +__bpf_kfunc int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data, + u32 data__sz) +{ + struct msghdr msg = { + .msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT, + }; + struct kvec iov = { + .iov_base = (void )data, + .iov_len = data__sz, + }; + int ret; + + if (!bpf_ksock_has_user_task_context()) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + /* Early check for UDP. Exact limits enforced by kernel_sendmsg(). / + if (data__sz > IP_MAX_MTU) + return -EMSGSIZE; + + ret = kernel_sendmsg(ks->sock, &msg, &iov, 1, data__sz); + + return ret; +} + +__bpf_kfunc_end_defs(); + +BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_create, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL \| KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_connect, KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids) + +static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_init_kfunc_set = { + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .set = &ksock_init_kfunc_btf_ids, +}; + +BTF_KFUNCS_START(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_release, KF_RELEASE) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_acquire, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RCU \| KF_RET_NULL) +BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_ksock_send, KF_SLEEPABLE) +BTF_KFUNCS_END(ksock_kfunc_btf_ids) + +#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM +BTF_ID_LIST_SINGLE(bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id, func, bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg) +#endif + +static int bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter(const struct bpf_prog prog, u32 kfunc_id) +{ + if (!btf_id_set8_contains(&ksock_kfunc_btf_ids, kfunc_id)) + return 0; + + if (prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL) + return 0; + +#ifdef CONFIG_BPF_LSM + if (prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM && + prog->aux->attach_btf_id != bpf_lsm_socket_sendmsg_id[0]) + return 0; +#endif + + return -EACCES; +} + +static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set ksock_kfunc_set = { + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .set = &ksock_kfunc_btf_ids, + .filter = bpf_ksock_kfunc_filter, +}; + +BTF_ID_LIST(bpf_ksock_dtor_ids) +BTF_ID(struct, bpf_ksock) +BTF_ID(func, bpf_ksock_release_dtor) + +static int __init bpf_ksock_kfunc_init(void) +{ + int ret; + const struct btf_id_dtor_kfunc bpf_ksock_dtors[] = { + { + .btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[0], + .kfunc_btf_id = bpf_ksock_dtor_ids[1], + }, + }; + + ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, + &ksock_init_kfunc_set); + ret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, + &ksock_kfunc_set); + ret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM, + &ksock_kfunc_set); + return ret ?: register_btf_id_dtor_kfuncs(bpf_ksock_dtors, + ARRAY_SIZE(bpf_ksock_dtors), + THIS_MODULE); +} + +late_initcall(bpf_ksock_kfunc_init); diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 63c69a0fa74e1..5b02e6217c680 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -2103,6 +2103,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(accept, int, fd, struct sockaddr __user , upeer_sockaddr, return __sys_accept4(fd, upeer_sockaddr, upeer_addrlen, 0); } +int connect_socket(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr_storage address, + int addrlen, int flags) +{ + int err; + + err = security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address, + addrlen); + if (err) + return err; + + return READ_ONCE(sock->ops)->connect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address, + addrlen, flags); +} + / * Attempt to connect to a socket with the server address. The address * is in user space so we verify it is OK and move it to kernel space. @@ -2119,23 +2133,13 @@ int __sys_connect_file(struct file file, struct sockaddr_storage address, int addrlen, int file_flags) { struct socket sock; - int err; sock = sock_from_file(file); - if (!sock) { - err = -ENOTSOCK; - goto out; - } - - err = - security_socket_connect(sock, (struct sockaddr )address, addrlen); - if (err) - goto out; + if (!sock) + return -ENOTSOCK; - err = READ_ONCE(sock->ops)->connect(sock, (struct sockaddr_unsized )address, - addrlen, sock->file->f_flags \| file_flags); -out: - return err; + return connect_socket(sock, address, addrlen, + sock->file->f_flags \| file_flags); } int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, int addrlen) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..fb1a332eb3da1 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock.c @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <arpa/inet.h> + +#include "test_progs.h" +#include "network_helpers.h" +#include "ksock_lsm.skel.h" +#include "ksock_lsm_verifier.skel.h" + +#define NS_TEST "ksock_lsm_ns" +#define RECV_PORT 7777 +#define RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC 5 + +struct ksock_test_env { + bool netns_created; + struct nstoken nstoken; + int rfd; +}; + +static bool ksock_test_env_setup(struct ksock_test_env env) +{ + struct sockaddr_in addr = { + .sin_family = AF_INET, + .sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK), + .sin_port = htons(RECV_PORT), + }; + struct timeval tv = { .tv_sec = RECV_TIMEOUT_SEC }; + int err; + + memset(env, 0, sizeof(env)); + env->rfd = -1; + + SYS(fail, "ip netns add %s", NS_TEST); + env->netns_created = true; + SYS(fail, "ip -net %s link set lo up", NS_TEST); + + env->nstoken = open_netns(NS_TEST); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(env->nstoken, "open_netns")) + goto fail; + + env->rfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); + if (!ASSERT_OK_FD(env->rfd, "receiver socket")) + goto fail; + + err = bind(env->rfd, (struct sockaddr )&addr, sizeof(addr)); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "bind receiver")) + goto fail; + + err = setsockopt(env->rfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &tv, sizeof(tv)); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "set rcvtimeo")) + goto fail; + + return true; + +fail: + return false; +} + +void test_ksock_lsm(void) +{ + LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts); + struct ksock_test_env env; + struct sockaddr_in trigger_addr = { + .sin_family = AF_INET, + .sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK), + }; + struct ksock_lsm skel; + char recv_data[sizeof(skel->data->send_data)] = {}; + ssize_t n; + int tfd = -1; + int err; + + skel = ksock_lsm__open_and_load(); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, "skel open_and_load")) + return; + + if (!ksock_test_env_setup(&env)) + goto fail; + + /* Step 1: Run the setup SYSCALL prog to create the ksock / + skel->bss->ipv4_remote = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK); + skel->bss->remote_port = RECV_PORT; + err = bpf_prog_test_run_opts(bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.ksock_setup), + &opts); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "ksock_setup run")) + goto fail; + if (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, "ksock_setup retval")) + goto fail; + + / Step 2: Attach LSM prog and trigger socket_bind from userspace / + skel->links.ksock_socket_bind = + bpf_program__attach_lsm(skel->progs.ksock_socket_bind); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel->links.ksock_socket_bind, + "attach socket_bind lsm")) + goto fail; + + tfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP); + if (!ASSERT_OK_FD(tfd, "trigger socket")) + goto fail; + + skel->bss->target_pid = getpid(); + err = bind(tfd, (struct sockaddr )&trigger_addr, sizeof(trigger_addr)); + skel->bss->target_pid = 0; + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "trigger bind")) + goto fail; + + /* Step 3: Verify the LSM hook sent the notification / + if (!ASSERT_EQ(skel->data->send_ret, sizeof(skel->data->send_data), + "LSM send bytes")) + goto fail; + + n = recvfrom(env.rfd, recv_data, sizeof(recv_data), 0, NULL, NULL); + if (ASSERT_EQ(n, sizeof(recv_data), "recvfrom len")) + ASSERT_MEMEQ(recv_data, skel->data->send_data, sizeof(recv_data), + "payload match"); + +fail: + if (tfd >= 0) + close(tfd); + if (env.rfd >= 0) + close(env.rfd); + if (env.nstoken) + close_netns(env.nstoken); + if (env.netns_created) + SYS_NOFAIL("ip netns del %s >/dev/null 2>&1", NS_TEST); + ksock_lsm__destroy(skel); +} + +void test_ksock_lsm_verifier(void) +{ + RUN_TESTS(ksock_lsm_verifier); +} diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..5b9c6cc303922 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ksock_wq.c @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include <unistd.h> + +#include "test_progs.h" +#include "ksock_wq.skel.h" + +void test_ksock_wq(void) +{ + LIBBPF_OPTS(bpf_test_run_opts, opts); + struct ksock_wq skel; + int err; + + skel = ksock_wq__open_and_load(); + if (!ASSERT_OK_PTR(skel, "ksock_wq open and load")) + return; + + err = bpf_prog_test_run_opts( + bpf_program__fd(skel->progs.ksock_wq_start), &opts); + if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "run ksock_wq_start")) + goto out; + if (!ASSERT_OK(opts.retval, "ksock_wq_start retval")) + goto out; + + while (!__atomic_load_n(&skel->bss->callback_done, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE)) + usleep(1000); + + ASSERT_EQ(skel->bss->create_err, -EOPNOTSUPP, + "workqueue create rejected"); + +out: + ksock_wq__destroy(skel); +} diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..01edaeb9fdd4a --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_common.h @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 / +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#ifndef _KSOCK_COMMON_H +#define _KSOCK_COMMON_H + +#include "errno.h" + +#define SOCK_DGRAM 2 +#define IPPROTO_UDP 17 + +struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_create(const struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts, + u32 opts__sz, int err__uninit) __ksym; +int bpf_ksock_connect(struct bpf_ksock ks, const union bpf_ksock_addr addr, + u32 addr__sz) __ksym; +struct bpf_ksock bpf_ksock_acquire(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym; +void bpf_ksock_release(struct bpf_ksock ks) __ksym; +int bpf_ksock_send(struct bpf_ksock ks, const void data, u32 data__sz) __ksym; +void bpf_rcu_read_lock(void) __ksym; +void bpf_rcu_read_unlock(void) __ksym; + +struct __ksock_ctx_value { + struct bpf_ksock __kptr ctx; +}; + +struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY); + __type(key, int); + __type(value, struct __ksock_ctx_value); + __uint(max_entries, 1); +} __ksock_ctx_map SEC(".maps"); + +static inline struct __ksock_ctx_value ksock_ctx_value_lookup(void) +{ + u32 key = 0; + + return bpf_map_lookup_elem(&__ksock_ctx_map, &key); +} + +static inline struct bpf_ksock ksock_ctx_get(void) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock ks = NULL, tmp; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) + return NULL; + + bpf_rcu_read_lock(); + tmp = v->ctx; + if (tmp) + ks = bpf_ksock_acquire(tmp); + bpf_rcu_read_unlock(); + + return ks; +} + +static inline int ksock_ctx_insert(struct bpf_ksock ctx) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock old; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) { + bpf_ksock_release(ctx); + return -ENOENT; + } + + old = bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->ctx, ctx); + if (old) { + bpf_ksock_release(old); + return -EEXIST; + } + + return 0; +} + +#endif /* _KSOCK_COMMON_H / diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..9808451098efb --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm.c @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_endian.h> +#include "bpf_tracing_net.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +char send_data[32] = "hello from bpf ksock"; + +__be32 ipv4_remote; +__u16 remote_port; +int target_pid; +int send_ret = -1; + +SEC("syscall") +int ksock_setup(void ctx) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts create_opts = {}; + union bpf_ksock_addr addr = {}; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err = 0; + + create_opts.family = AF_INET; + create_opts.type = SOCK_DGRAM; + create_opts.protocol = IPPROTO_UDP; + + ks = bpf_ksock_create(&create_opts, sizeof(create_opts), &err); + if (!ks) + return err; + + addr.sin.sin_family = AF_INET; + addr.sin.sin_port = bpf_htons(remote_port); + addr.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = ipv4_remote; + + err = bpf_ksock_connect(ks, &addr, sizeof(addr)); + if (err) { + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + return err; + } + + err = ksock_ctx_insert(ks); + if (err && err != -EEXIST) + return err; + return 0; +} + +SEC("lsm.s/socket_bind") +int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_bind, struct socket sock, struct sockaddr address, + int addrlen, int ret) +{ + struct bpf_ksock ks; + u32 pid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() >> 32; + + if (ret \|\| pid != target_pid) + return ret; + + ks = ksock_ctx_get(); + if (!ks) { + send_ret = -ENOENT; + return ret; + } + + send_ret = bpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data)); + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + + return ret; +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..fd2ccfdb58020 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_lsm_verifier.c @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h> +#include "bpf_misc.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +char send_data[11] = "dummy data"; + +SEC("lsm.s/socket_sendmsg") +__description("bpf_ksock_send is rejected from socket_sendmsg LSM hook") +__failure __msg("calling kernel function bpf_ksock_send is not allowed") +int BPF_PROG(ksock_socket_sendmsg, struct socket sock, struct msghdr msg, + int size, int ret) +{ + struct __ksock_ctx_value v; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + + v = ksock_ctx_value_lookup(); + if (!v) + return ret; + + ks = bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->ctx, NULL); + if (!ks) + return ret; + + bpf_ksock_send(ks, send_data, sizeof(send_data)); + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + + return ret; +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL"; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..16a1873d132ed --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ksock_wq.c @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/ Copyright (c) 2026 Isovalent / + +#include "vmlinux.h" +#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> +#include "bpf_experimental.h" +#include "bpf_tracing_net.h" +#include "errno.h" +#include "ksock_common.h" + +struct ksock_wq_value { + struct bpf_wq work; +}; + +struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY); + __uint(max_entries, 1); + __type(key, u32); + __type(value, struct ksock_wq_value); +} work_map SEC(".maps"); + +int create_err; +u32 callback_done; + +static int ksock_wq_callback(void map, int key, void value) +{ + struct bpf_ksock_create_opts opts = { + .family = AF_INET, + .type = SOCK_DGRAM, + .protocol = IPPROTO_UDP, + }; + struct bpf_ksock ks; + int err = 0; + + ks = bpf_ksock_create(&opts, sizeof(opts), &err); + if (ks) + bpf_ksock_release(ks); + create_err = err; + __sync_fetch_and_add(&callback_done, 1); + return 0; +} + +SEC("syscall") +int ksock_wq_start(void ctx) +{ + struct ksock_wq_value *value; + u32 key = 0; + int err; + + value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&work_map, &key); + if (!value) + return -ENOENT; + err = bpf_wq_init(&value->work, &work_map, 0); + if (err) + return err; + err = bpf_wq_set_callback(&value->work, ksock_wq_callback, 0); + if (err) + return err; + return bpf_wq_start(&value->work, 0); +} + +char __license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
7/3	2026/08/12 18:24	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 12532 output: 21 thoughts: 2031 Thoughts: Uninitialized Memory Risk Assessment in New BPF Kernel Socket API Okay, so we have this new BPF kfunc API for kernel sockets and I need to ensure there are no uninitialized memory risks. Let's break it down function by function. In `bpf_ksock_create`, the input `opts` (a `struct bpf_ksock_create_opts`) comes from the BPF program. Crucially, the BPF verifier already ensures that any memory passed from a BPF program to a kfunc is initialized. We initialize `opts_copy`, but that's not the critical point. The verifier is our first line of defense here. The `err__uninit` out-parameter is intentionally uninitialized, and the kfunc is obligated to initialize it, which it correctly does. So, no concerns there. Now, `bpf_ksock_connect` is where things get a bit more interesting. We copy the `union bpf_ksock_addr` pointed to by `addr` (which could be either `sockaddr_in` or `sockaddr_in6`) into a `struct sockaddr_storage sa`. The size of the `union` is 28 bytes (maximum size of `sockaddr_in6`), but `sockaddr_storage` is 128 bytes. This means only the first 28 bytes of `sa` get initialized by `memcpy`. The key question is whether the `connect_socket` function, and subsequent socket operations, are safe with the remaining 100 bytes of `sa` uninitialized. `connect_socket` is called with a pointer to `&sa` and `addrlen` which is either 16 or 28, representing the actual size of the address. The critical path is through `security_socket_connect` and `sock->ops->connect`. These functions should only read up to `addrlen` bytes from `sa`. Usually they only read the relevant portion, based on the address family and `addrlen`. If they read beyond `addrlen`, then that would be a serious bug, potentially exposing uninitialized stack memory. However, as this pattern is so common, the potential for KMSAN to detect errors is lower, though the verifier and the limited `addrlen` are the primary protections. It is crucial to verify this behavior thoroughly in the called functions. The code extracts from `__sys_connect_file` shows that it is the standard behavior. In `bpf_ksock_send`, the `data` buffer is also provided by the BPF program, and the verifier will guarantee its initialization up to `data__sz`. The `msghdr` struct is partially initialized, and the rest is zeroed (which is safe), and `iov` is fully initialized, so no concerns there either. The fundamental concern here boils down to: Are we correctly managing memory within the kernel when passing socket addresses from BPF programs? `bpf_ksock_create_opts` is small, `bpf_ksock_addr` is larger (28 bytes), but the primary risk is the uninitialized tail of `sa` in `bpf_ksock_connect`. We need to ensure that the code that subsequently interacts with `sa` only reads up to the initialized bytes determined by `addrlen`. While this pattern appears in other parts of the kernel, it is worth a close review.
8/3	2026/08/12 18:25	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "move_addr_to_kernel" } Results: { "Output": "include/linux/socket.h=197=struct ucred {\n--\ninclude/linux/socket.h-406-\ninclude/linux/socket.h:407:extern int move_addr_to_kernel(void __user uaddr, int ulen, struct sockaddr_storage kaddr);\ninclude/linux/socket.h-408-extern int put_cmsg(struct msghdr, int level, int type, int len, void data);\n--\nio_uring/net.c=350=static int io_send_setup(struct io_kiocb req, const struct io_uring_sqe sqe)\n--\nio_uring/net.c-371-\tif (addr) {\nio_uring/net.c:372:\t\tret = move_addr_to_kernel(addr, addr_len, \u0026kmsg-\u003eaddr);\nio_uring/net.c-373-\t\tif (unlikely(ret \u003c 0))\n--\nio_uring/net.c=1721=void io_connect_bpf_populate(struct io_uring_bpf_ctx bctx, struct io_kiocb req)\n--\nio_uring/net.c-1726-\t/\nio_uring/net.c:1727:\t move_addr_to_kernel() skips the copy for addr_len == 0, so\nio_uring/net.c-1728-\t * iomsg-\u003eaddr may hold stale data from a prior CONNECT. Bail\n--\nio_uring/net.c=1815=int io_connect_prep(struct io_kiocb req, const struct io_uring_sqe sqe)\n--\nio_uring/net.c-1830-\nio_uring/net.c:1831:\treturn move_addr_to_kernel(conn-\u003eaddr, conn-\u003eaddr_len, addr);\nio_uring/net.c-1832-}\n--\nio_uring/net.c=1901=int io_bind_prep(struct io_kiocb req, const struct io_uring_sqe sqe)\n--\nio_uring/net.c-1916-\t\treturn -ENOMEM;\nio_uring/net.c:1917:\tret = move_addr_to_kernel(uaddr, bind-\u003eaddr_len, addr);\nio_uring/net.c-1918-\tif (unlikely(ret))\n--\nnet/compat.c=36=int __get_compat_msghdr(struct msghdr kmsg,\n--\nnet/compat.c-63-\t\tif (!save_addr) {\nnet/compat.c:64:\t\t\terr = move_addr_to_kernel(compat_ptr(msg-\u003emsg_name),\nnet/compat.c-65-\t\t\t\t\t\t kmsg-\u003emsg_namelen,\n--\nnet/socket.c=230=static const struct net_proto_family __rcu net_families[NPROTO] __read_mostly;\n--\nnet/socket.c-238-/*\nnet/socket.c:239: \tmove_addr_to_kernel\t-\tcopy a socket address into kernel space\nnet/socket.c-240- \t@uaddr: Address in user space\n--\nnet/socket.c-248-\nnet/socket.c:249:int move_addr_to_kernel(void __user uaddr, int ulen, struct sockaddr_storage kaddr)\nnet/socket.c-250-{\n--\nnet/socket.c=1934=int __sys_bind(int fd, struct sockaddr __user umyaddr, int addrlen)\n--\nnet/socket.c-1946-\nnet/socket.c:1947:\terr = move_addr_to_kernel(umyaddr, addrlen, \u0026address);\nnet/socket.c-1948-\tif (unlikely(err))\n--\nnet/socket.c=2145=int __sys_connect(int fd, struct sockaddr __user uservaddr, int addrlen)\n--\nnet/socket.c-2153-\nnet/socket.c:2154:\tret = move_addr_to_kernel(uservaddr, addrlen, \u0026address);\nnet/socket.c-2155-\tif (ret)\n--\nnet/socket.c=2221=int __sys_sendto(int fd, void __user buff, size_t len, unsigned int flags,\n--\nnet/socket.c-2245-\tif (addr) {\nnet/socket.c:2246:\t\terr = move_addr_to_kernel(addr, addr_len, \u0026address);\nnet/socket.c-2247-\t\tif (err \u003c 0)\n--\nnet/socket.c=2565=int __copy_msghdr(struct msghdr kmsg,\n--\nnet/socket.c-2591-\t\tif (!save_addr) {\nnet/socket.c:2592:\t\t\terr = move_addr_to_kernel(msg-\u003emsg_name,\nnet/socket.c-2593-\t\t\t\t\t\t kmsg-\u003emsg_namelen,\n--\ntools/perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h=197=struct ucred {\n--\ntools/perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h-406-\ntools/perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h:407:extern int move_addr_to_kernel(void __user uaddr, int ulen, struct sockaddr_storage kaddr);\ntools/perf/trace/beauty/include/linux/socket.h-408-extern int put_cmsg(struct msghdr, int level, int type, int len, void *data);\n" }
9/3	2026/08/12 18:25	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 16756 output: 33 thoughts: 22 Thoughts: Here's a summary of my thought process: Diving into `move_addr_to_kernel` Okay, so I'm digging into `net/socket.c` to understand the intricacies of how addresses are handled. Specifically, I'm focusing on the `move_addr_to_kernel` function. I'm already pretty familiar with the networking stack, so I expect this function plays a critical role in securely transferring address information from user space into the kernel's protected memory space. I'm keen to see the specific mechanisms used for this, especially any checks performed to ensure data integrity and prevent potential vulnerabilities like buffer overflows or address space layout manipulation. I'm anticipating this involves things like validation of the input address, memory copy operations using safe functions, and possibly checks for privileged access rights. I'm going to be looking for how it handles different address families and whether there is any specific hardware support it leverages. My goal is to get a handle on the security implications of this function and whether any potential exploitable edge cases stand out.
10/3	2026/08/12 18:25	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "net/socket.c", "FirstLine": 249, "LineCount": 20 } Results: { "Contents": " 249:\tint move_addr_to_kernel(void __user uaddr, int ulen, struct sockaddr_storage kaddr)\n 250:\t{\n 251:\t\tif (ulen \u003c 0 \|\| ulen \u003e sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage))\n 252:\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n 253:\t\tif (ulen == 0)\n 254:\t\t\treturn 0;\n 255:\t\tif (copy_from_user(kaddr, uaddr, ulen))\n 256:\t\t\treturn -EFAULT;\n 257:\t\treturn audit_sockaddr(ulen, kaddr);\n 258:\t}\n 259:\t\n 260:\t/*\n 261:\t \tmove_addr_to_user\t-\tcopy an address to user space\n 262:\t \t@kaddr: kernel space address\n 263:\t \t@klen: length of address in kernel\n 264:\t \t@uaddr: user space address\n 265:\t \t@ulen: pointer to user length field\n 266:\t \n 267:\t \tThe value pointed to by ulen on entry is the buffer length available.\n 268:\t *\tThis is overwritten with the buffer space used. -EINVAL is returned\n" }
11/3	2026/08/12 18:25	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 17373 output: 18 thoughts: 2490 Thoughts: Uninitialized Memory Analysis in BPF Kfuncs Okay, so I've been digging into potential uninitialized memory issues within these BPF kfuncs, focusing on `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_create`, and `bpf_ksock_send`. My primary concern is the leakage of potentially uninitialized kernel memory to userspace, or even worse, remotely. Initially, I looked at `move_addr_to_kernel`, but that seems fine given how the `struct sockaddr_storage` and related functions are used. `bpf_ksock_connect` doesn't introduce any new risks there. My next thought was regarding `bpf_ksock_create`. I checked the structure of `struct bpf_ksock_create_opts`, confirming no padding, and its initialization. The `err__uninit` parameter is explicitly initialized. Then I moved to `bpf_ksock_send`. I focused on the risk of sending uninitialized memory to the network. The data comes from the BPF program, which is verified, but what if a kptr is used? While the verifier tracks initialization, the `const void data` and `u32 data__sz` parameter is used and usually passed as a pointer to a map value, stack, or ringbuf. The verifier ensures memory passed this way is initialized. My concern was with potential padding in map values, which could lead to leaking uninitialized memory. I realized that a new kfunc like `bpf_ksock_send` might enable this, and KMSAN would catch it. The initial thought was that this could be a KMSAN-specific issue, but map values are zero-initialized, and padding, when it exists, also remains zeroed after initialization. Next, I looked at the more complex scenario of `bpf_ksock_connect`. My initial worry was that partially initialized `union bpf_ksock_addr` values could lead to the exposure of uninitialized data in `struct sockaddr_storage`. I realized the BPF program does `bpf_ksock_connect(ks, &addr, sizeof(addr))`. The BPF program might initialize only the IPv4 part, leaving the IPv6 part uninitialized. However, the verifier requires `addr__sz` to be exactly `sizeof(addr)` which is 28 bytes! If only 16 bytes are initialized, the program won't pass the verifier. The uninitialized bytes will be rejected! If the BPF program fails to zero-initialize the memory, the verifier will reject it, as the entire memory region must be initialized. That means the memory should be fully initialized, as confirmed by inspecting the selftest code. Finally, I checked `bpf_ksock_create_opts`, and `kzalloc_obj`, and confirmed that that struct is initialized. I reexamined `bpf_ksock_send`, confirming the `msghdr` and `kvec` structs are properly initialized. I also glanced at `ksock_release_work_fn`, but there were no risks there. So it seems, the careful design and the verifier should prevent any leakage of uninitialized kernel memory to userspace via these kfuncs.
12/3	2026/08/12 18:25	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "kzalloc_obj" } Results: { "Output": "\nFull output is too long, showing 500 out of 79150 lines.\nUse more precise expression if possible.\n\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst=103=list:\n--\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst-114-\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst:115: grock = kzalloc_obj(grock);\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst-116- if (!grock)\n--\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst-125-\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst:126: dimitri = kzalloc_obj(dimitri);\nDocumentation/core-api/list.rst-127- if (!dimitri)\n--\nDocumentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst=45=a message and a callback function to the API and return immediately).\n--\nDocumentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst-89-\nDocumentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst:90:\t\tdc_sync = kzalloc_obj(dc_sync);\nDocumentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst:91:\t\tdc_async = kzalloc_obj(dc_async);\nDocumentation/driver-api/mailbox.rst-92-\n--\nDocumentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.rst=26=Example:\n--\nDocumentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.rst-44-\nDocumentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.rst:45:\t\tmy_fh = kzalloc_obj(my_fh);\nDocumentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.rst-46-\n--\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst=938=The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst:939:kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_objs(), kzalloc_objs(), vmalloc(), and\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst-940-vzalloc(). Please refer to the API documentation for further information\n--\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst=964=The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:\n--\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst-967-\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst:968:\tp = kzalloc_objs(p, n, ...);\nDocumentation/process/coding-style.rst-969-\n--\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst=398=become, respectively::\n--\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst-400-\tptr = kmalloc_obj(ptr [, gfp] );\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst:401:\tptr = kzalloc_obj(ptr [, gfp] );\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst-402-\tptr = kmalloc_objs(ptr, count [, gfp] );\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst:403:\tptr = kzalloc_objs(ptr, count [, gfp] );\nDocumentation/process/deprecated.rst-404-\tptr = kmalloc_flex(ptr, flex_member, count [, gfp] );\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst=208=to details explained in the following section.\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-268- / allocate a chip-specific data with zero filled /\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst:269: chip = kzalloc_obj(chip);\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-270- if (chip == NULL)\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst=623=After allocating a card instance via :c:func:`snd_card_new()`\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-630- .....\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst:631: chip = kzalloc_obj(chip);\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-632-\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst=698=destructor and PCI entries. Example code is shown first, below::\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-749-\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst:750: chip = kzalloc_obj(chip);\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-751- if (chip == NULL) {\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst=3823=chip data individually::\n--\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-3835- ....\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst:3836: chip = kzalloc_obj(chip);\nDocumentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst-3837- ....\n--\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt=794=int my_open(struct file file)\n--\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt-801-\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt:802:\tmy_fh = kzalloc_obj(my_fh);\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt-803-\n--\narch/alpha/kernel/module.c=64=module_frob_arch_sections(Elf64_Ehdr hdr, Elf64_Shdr sechdrs,\n--\narch/alpha/kernel/module.c-95-\tnsyms = symtab-\u003esh_size / sizeof(Elf64_Sym);\narch/alpha/kernel/module.c:96:\tchains = kzalloc_objs(struct got_entry, nsyms);\narch/alpha/kernel/module.c-97-\tif (!chains) {\n--\narch/alpha/kernel/setup.c=390=register_cpus(void)\n--\narch/alpha/kernel/setup.c-394-\tfor_each_possible_cpu(i) {\narch/alpha/kernel/setup.c:395:\t\tstruct cpu p = kzalloc_obj(p);\narch/alpha/kernel/setup.c-396-\t\tif (!p)\n--\narch/arc/net/bpf_jit_core.c=1120=static int jit_prepare_final_mem_alloc(struct jit_context ctx)\n--\narch/arc/net/bpf_jit_core.c-1131-\tif (ctx-\u003eneed_extra_pass) {\narch/arc/net/bpf_jit_core.c:1132:\t\tctx-\u003ejit_data = kzalloc_obj(ctx-\u003ejit_data);\narch/arc/net/bpf_jit_core.c-1133-\t\tif (!ctx-\u003ejit_data)\n--\narch/arm/common/locomo.c=220=locomo_init_one_child(struct locomo lchip, struct locomo_dev_info info)\n--\narch/arm/common/locomo.c-224-\narch/arm/common/locomo.c:225:\tdev = kzalloc_obj(struct locomo_dev);\narch/arm/common/locomo.c-226-\tif (!dev) {\n--\narch/arm/common/locomo.c=356=__locomo_probe(struct device me, struct resource mem, int irq)\n--\narch/arm/common/locomo.c-362-\narch/arm/common/locomo.c:363:\tlchip = kzalloc_obj(struct locomo);\narch/arm/common/locomo.c-364-\tif (!lchip)\n--\narch/arm/common/sa1111.c=733=sa1111_init_one_child(struct sa1111 sachip, struct resource parent,\n--\narch/arm/common/sa1111.c-739-\narch/arm/common/sa1111.c:740:\tdev = kzalloc_obj(struct sa1111_dev);\narch/arm/common/sa1111.c-741-\tif (!dev) {\n--\narch/arm/common/scoop.c=178=static int scoop_probe(struct platform_device pdev)\n--\narch/arm/common/scoop.c-187-\narch/arm/common/scoop.c:188:\tdevptr = kzalloc_obj(struct scoop_dev);\narch/arm/common/scoop.c-189-\tif (!devptr)\n--\narch/arm/kernel/smp.c=108=static int secondary_biglittle_prepare(unsigned int cpu)\n--\narch/arm/kernel/smp.c-110-\tif (!cpu_vtable[cpu])\narch/arm/kernel/smp.c:111:\t\tcpu_vtable[cpu] = kzalloc_obj(cpu_vtable[cpu]);\narch/arm/kernel/smp.c-112-\n--\narch/arm/kernel/vdso.c=169=static int __init vdso_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/kernel/vdso.c-181-\t/ Allocate the VDSO text pagelist /\narch/arm/kernel/vdso.c:182:\tvdso_text_pagelist = kzalloc_objs(struct page , text_pages);\narch/arm/kernel/vdso.c-183-\tif (vdso_text_pagelist == NULL)\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c=261=int __init dc21285_setup(int nr, struct pci_sys_data sys)\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c-264-\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c:265:\tres = kzalloc_objs(struct resource, 2);\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c-266-\tif (!res) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/ebsa285.c=69=static int __init ebsa285_leds_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/ebsa285.c-86-\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/ebsa285.c:87:\t\tled = kzalloc_obj(led);\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/ebsa285.c-88-\t\tif (!led)\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/netwinder-hw.c=720=static int __init netwinder_leds_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/netwinder-hw.c-729-\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/netwinder-hw.c:730:\t\tled = kzalloc_obj(led);\narch/arm/mach-footbridge/netwinder-hw.c-731-\t\tif (!led)\n--\narch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c=473=static int imx_mmdc_perf_init(struct platform_device pdev, void __iomem mmdc_base,\n--\narch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c-479-\narch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c:480:\tpmu_mmdc = kzalloc_obj(pmu_mmdc);\narch/arm/mach-imx/mmdc.c-481-\tif (!pmu_mmdc) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c=114=static void __init i2c_quirk(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c-129-\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c:130:\t\tnew_compat = kzalloc_obj(new_compat);\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/board-v7.c-131-\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c=163=static void __init armada_375_380_coherency_init(struct device_node np)\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c-187-\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c:188:\t\tp = kzalloc_obj(p);\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c-189-\t\tp-\u003ename = kstrdup(\"arm,io-coherent\", GFP_KERNEL);\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/mvebu-soc-id.c=148=static int __init mvebu_soc_device(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/mvebu-soc-id.c-156-\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/mvebu-soc-id.c:157:\tsoc_dev_attr = kzalloc_obj(soc_dev_attr);\narch/arm/mach-mvebu/mvebu-soc-id.c-158-\tif (!soc_dev_attr)\n--\narch/arm/mach-mxs/mach-mxs.c=380=static void __init mxs_machine_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-mxs/mach-mxs.c-389-\narch/arm/mach-mxs/mach-mxs.c:390:\tsoc_dev_attr = kzalloc_obj(soc_dev_attr);\narch/arm/mach-mxs/mach-mxs.c-391-\tif (!soc_dev_attr)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c=294=static int __init omap1_system_dma_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c-321-\narch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c:322:\td = kzalloc_obj(d);\narch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c-323-\tif (!d) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/mcbsp.c=292=static void omap_mcbsp_register_board_cfg(struct resource res, int res_count,\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/mcbsp.c-296-\narch/arm/mach-omap1/mcbsp.c:297:\tomap_mcbsp_devices = kzalloc_objs(struct platform_device , size);\narch/arm/mach-omap1/mcbsp.c-298-\tif (!omap_mcbsp_devices) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c=51=static int __init omap1_dm_timer_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c-127-\narch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c:128:\t\tpdata = kzalloc_obj(pdata);\narch/arm/mach-omap1/timer.c-129-\t\tif (!pdata) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/clkt2xxx_virt_prcm_set.c=230=void omap2xxx_clkt_vps_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/clkt2xxx_virt_prcm_set.c-239-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/clkt2xxx_virt_prcm_set.c:240:\thw = kzalloc_obj(hw);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/clkt2xxx_virt_prcm_set.c-241-\tif (!hw)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c=786=void __init omap_soc_device_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c-790-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c:791:\tsoc_dev_attr = kzalloc_obj(soc_dev_attr);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c-792-\tif (!soc_dev_attr)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c=131=static int omap_device_build_from_dt(struct platform_device pdev)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c-158-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c:159:\thwmods = kzalloc_objs(struct omap_hwmod , oh_cnt);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c-160-\tif (!hwmods) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c=3381=static int omap_hwmod_allocate_module(struct device dev, struct omap_hwmod oh,\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3394-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c:3395:\tsysc = kzalloc_obj(sysc);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3396-\tif (!sysc)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3424-\tif (list_empty(\u0026oh-\u003eslave_ports)) {\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c:3425:\t\toi = kzalloc_obj(oi);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3426-\t\tif (!oi)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c=3513=int omap_hwmod_init_module(struct device dev,\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3527-\tif (!oh) {\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c:3528:\t\toh = kzalloc_obj(oh);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3529-\t\tif (!oh)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3538-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c:3539:\t\toh-\u003eclass = kzalloc_obj(oh-\u003eclass);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c-3540-\t\tif (!oh-\u003eclass) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c=379=static int __init amx3_idle_init(struct device_node cpu_node, int cpu)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c-412-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c:413:\tidle_states = kzalloc_objs(idle_states, state_count);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c-414-\tif (!idle_states)\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/sr_device.c=30=static void __init sr_set_nvalues(struct omap_volt_data volt_data,\n--\narch/arm/mach-omap2/sr_device.c-41-\narch/arm/mach-omap2/sr_device.c:42:\tnvalue_table = kzalloc_objs(nvalue_table, count);\narch/arm/mach-omap2/sr_device.c-43-\tif (!nvalue_table)\n--\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c=139=static int __init pcie_setup(struct pci_sys_data sys)\n--\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c-171-\t /\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c:172:\tres = kzalloc_obj(struct resource);\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c-173-\tif (!res)\n--\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c=466=static int __init pci_setup(struct pci_sys_data sys)\n--\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c-492-\t /\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c:493:\tres = kzalloc_obj(struct resource);\narch/arm/mach-orion5x/pci.c-494-\tif (!res)\n--\narch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c=689=static struct expansion_card __init ecard_alloc_card(int type, int slot)\n--\narch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c-694-\narch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c:695:\tec = kzalloc_obj(ecard_t);\narch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c-696-\tif (!ec) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c=93=int __init sa11xx_clk_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c-109-\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c:110:\thw = kzalloc_obj(hw);\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c-111-\tif (!hw)\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c-131-\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c:132:\thw = kzalloc_obj(hw);\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/clock.c-133-\tif (!hw)\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c=317=int __init sa11x0_register_fixed_regulator(int n,\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c-323-\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c:324:\tcfg-\u003einit_data = id = kzalloc_obj(cfg-\u003einit_data);\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c-325-\tif (!cfg-\u003einit_data)\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/neponset.c=225=static int neponset_probe(struct platform_device dev)\n--\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/neponset.c-278-\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/neponset.c:279:\td = kzalloc_obj(d);\narch/arm/mach-sa1100/neponset.c-280-\tif (!d) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-shmobile/regulator-quirk-rcar-gen2.c=141=static int __init rcar_gen2_regulator_quirk(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-shmobile/regulator-quirk-rcar-gen2.c-166-\narch/arm/mach-shmobile/regulator-quirk-rcar-gen2.c:167:\t\tquirk = kzalloc_obj(quirk);\narch/arm/mach-shmobile/regulator-quirk-rcar-gen2.c-168-\t\tif (!quirk) {\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c=393=static int ve_spc_populate_opps(uint32_t cluster)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-397-\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c:398:\topps = kzalloc_objs(opps, MAX_OPPS);\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-399-\tif (!opps)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c=442=int __init ve_spc_init(void __iomem baseaddr, u32 a15_clusid, int irq)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-444-\tint ret;\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c:445:\tinfo = kzalloc_obj(info);\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-446-\tif (!info)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c=523=static struct clk ve_spc_clk_register(struct device cpu_dev)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-527-\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c:528:\tspc = kzalloc_obj(spc);\narch/arm/mach-versatile/spc.c-529-\tif (!spc)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile.c=123=static void __init versatile_dt_pci_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile.c-144-\narch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile.c:145:\tnewprop = kzalloc_obj(newprop);\narch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile.c-146-\tif (!newprop)\n--\narch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c=105=static void __init zynq_init_machine(void)\n--\narch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c-110-\narch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c:111:\tsoc_dev_attr = kzalloc_obj(soc_dev_attr);\narch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c-112-\tif (!soc_dev_attr)\n--\narch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c=503=static __init int l2x0_pmu_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c-509-\narch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c:510:\tl2x0_pmu = kzalloc_obj(l2x0_pmu);\narch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0-pmu.c-511-\tif (!l2x0_pmu) {\n--\narch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c=315=static int __init __uniphier_cache_init(struct device_node np,\n--\narch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c-344-\narch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c:345:\tdata = kzalloc_obj(data);\narch/arm/mm/cache-uniphier.c-346-\tif (!data)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=533=static void __dma_alloc(struct device dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t handle,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-560-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:561:\tbuf = kzalloc_obj(buf,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-562-\t\t\t gfp \u0026 ~(__GFP_DMA \| __GFP_DMA32 \| __GFP_HIGHMEM));\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=1487=arm_iommu_create_mapping(struct device dev, dma_addr_t base, u64 size)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1506-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1507:\tmapping = kzalloc_obj(struct dma_iommu_mapping);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1508-\tif (!mapping)\n--\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c=316=int __init arch_xen_unpopulated_init(struct resource res)\n--\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-343-\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c:344:\tregs = kzalloc_objs(regs, nr_reg);\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-345-\tif (!regs) {\n--\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-387-\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c:388:\t\ttmp_res = kzalloc_obj(tmp_res);\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-389-\t\tif (!tmp_res) {\n--\narch/arm/xen/p2m.c=150=bool __set_phys_to_machine_multi(unsigned long pfn,\n--\narch/arm/xen/p2m.c-178-\narch/arm/xen/p2m.c:179:\tp2m_entry = kzalloc_obj(p2m_entry, GFP_NOWAIT);\narch/arm/xen/p2m.c-180-\tif (!p2m_entry)\n--\narch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c=68=static int __init __vdso_init(enum vdso_abi abi)\n--\narch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c-83-\narch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c:84:\tvdso_pagelist = kzalloc_objs(struct page , vdso_info[abi].vdso_pages);\narch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c-85-\tif (vdso_pagelist == NULL)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c=480=static int share_pfn_hyp(u64 pfn)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-492-\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c:493:\tthis = kzalloc_obj(this);\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-494-\tif (!this) {\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c=981=int kvm_init_stage2_mmu(struct kvm kvm, struct kvm_s2_mmu mmu, unsigned long type)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-1007-\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c:1008:\tpgt = kzalloc_obj(pgt, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-1009-\tif (!pgt)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c=1180=int topup_hyp_memcache(struct kvm_hyp_memcache mc, unsigned long min_pages)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-1185-\tif (!mc-\u003emapping) {\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c:1186:\t\tmc-\u003emapping = kzalloc_obj(struct pkvm_mapping,\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-1187-\t\t\t\t\t GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c=2510=int __init kvm_mmu_init(u32 hyp_va_bits)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-2543-\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c:2544:\thyp_pgtable = kzalloc_obj(hyp_pgtable);\narch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c-2545-\tif (!hyp_pgtable) {\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c=1328=int kvm_vcpu_allocate_vncr_tlb(struct kvm_vcpu vcpu)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c-1333-\tif (!vcpu-\u003earch.vncr_tlb) {\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c:1334:\t\tstruct vncr_tlb vt = kzalloc_obj(vcpu-\u003earch.vncr_tlb,\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c-1335-\t\t\t\t\t\t GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c=1793=int kvm_init_nv_sysregs(struct kvm_vcpu vcpu)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c-1802-\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c:1803:\tkvm-\u003earch.sysreg_masks = kzalloc_obj((kvm-\u003earch.sysreg_masks),\narch/arm64/kvm/nested.c-1804-\t\t\t\t\t GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c=116=static struct kvm_ptdump_guest_state kvm_ptdump_parser_create(struct kvm_s2_mmu mmu)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c-121-\narch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c:122:\tst = kzalloc_obj(struct kvm_ptdump_guest_state, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c-123-\tif (!st)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c=207=static int kvm_vgic_dist_init(struct kvm kvm, unsigned int nr_spis)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c-213-\tdist-\u003eactive_spis = (atomic_t)ATOMIC_INIT(0);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c:214:\tdist-\u003espis = kzalloc_objs(struct vgic_irq, nr_spis, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c-215-\tif (!dist-\u003espis)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c=316=static int vgic_allocate_private_irqs_locked(struct kvm_vcpu vcpu, u32 type)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c-331-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c:332:\tvgic_cpu-\u003eprivate_irqs = kzalloc_objs(struct vgic_irq,\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c-333-\t\t\t\t\t num_private_irqs,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c=142=int kvm_vgic_setup_default_irq_routing(struct kvm kvm)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c-148-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c:149:\tentries = kzalloc_objs(entries, nr, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c-150-\tif (!entries)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c=76=static struct vgic_irq vgic_add_lpi(struct kvm kvm, u32 intid,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-87-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c:88:\tirq = kzalloc_obj(struct vgic_irq, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-89-\tif (!irq)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c=971=static int vgic_its_alloc_collection(struct vgic_its its,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-976-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c:977:\tcollection = kzalloc_obj(collection, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-978-\tif (!collection)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c=1015=static struct its_ite vgic_its_alloc_ite(struct its_device device,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1020-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c:1021:\tite = kzalloc_obj(ite, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1022-\tif (!ite)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c=1142=static struct its_device vgic_its_alloc_device(struct vgic_its its,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1147-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c:1148:\tdevice = kzalloc_obj(device, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1149-\tif (!device)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c=1855=static int vgic_its_create(struct kvm_device dev, u32 type)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1862-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c:1863:\tits = kzalloc_obj(struct vgic_its, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c-1864-\tif (!its)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c=886=static int vgic_v3_alloc_redist_region(struct kvm kvm, uint32_t index,\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c-931-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c:932:\trdreg = kzalloc_obj(rdreg, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c-933-\tif (!rdreg)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c=242=int vgic_v4_init(struct kvm kvm)\n--\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c-258-\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c:259:\tdist-\u003eits_vm.vpes = kzalloc_objs(dist-\u003eits_vm.vpes, nr_vcpus,\narch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c-260-\t\t\t\t\t GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);\n--\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c=2098=struct bpf_prog bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_prog prog)\n--\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-2119-\tif (!jit_data) {\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:2120:\t\tjit_data = kzalloc_obj(jit_data);\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-2121-\t\tif (!jit_data)\n--\narch/csky/kernel/vdso.c=17=static int __init vdso_init(void)\n--\narch/csky/kernel/vdso.c-22-\tvdso_pagelist =\narch/csky/kernel/vdso.c:23:\t\tkzalloc_objs(struct page , vdso_pages);\narch/csky/kernel/vdso.c-24-\tif (unlikely(vdso_pagelist == NULL)) {\n--\narch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c=466=static int __init add_legacy_isa_io(struct fwnode_handle fwnode,\n--\narch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c-472-\narch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c:473:\trange = kzalloc_obj(range, GFP_ATOMIC);\narch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c-474-\tif (!range)\n--\narch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c=45=static int __init init_vdso(void)\n--\narch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c-55-\tvdso_info.code_mapping.pages =\narch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c:56:\t\tkzalloc_objs(struct page , vdso_info.size / PAGE_SIZE);\narch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c-57-\n--\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/eiointc.c=614=static int kvm_eiointc_create(struct kvm_device dev, u32 type)\n--\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/eiointc.c-624-\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/eiointc.c:625:\ts = kzalloc_obj(struct loongarch_eiointc);\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/eiointc.c-626-\tif (!s)\n--\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/ipi.c=394=static int kvm_ipi_create(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type)\n--\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/ipi.c-411-\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/ipi.c:412:\ts = kzalloc_obj(struct loongarch_ipi);\narch/loongarch/kvm/intc/ipi.c-413-\tif (!s)\n\n" }
13/3	2026/08/12 18:25	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 31484 output: 21 thoughts: 1285 Thoughts: Uninitialized Memory in BPF Context Okay, let's break this down. First, `kzalloc_obj` is a handy macro. It's essentially a zero-allocating `kzalloc` for a specific object, like our `struct bpf_ksock`. So, `ks = kzalloc_obj(ks);` means `ks` is fully zeroed at the start. Good. Now, let's re-examine this code block: ```c + ks = kzalloc_obj(ks); + if (!ks) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err_out; + } ``` Yup, confirms my initial thought – `kzalloc_obj` is explicitly zero-allocating. So, here's the established context: 1. `bpf_ksock_create` sets up a zero-allocated `ks` struct. 2. `opts_copy` is initialized from `opts`, and the BPF verifier enforces that `opts` has been initialized by the BPF verifier. 3. `err__uninit` gets initialized either with zero or with an error value. 4. `bpf_ksock_connect` copies 28 bytes (`sizeof(addr)`) from `addr` to `sa`. `addr`'s initialization is verified by the BPF verifier. `sa` is 128 bytes, meaning 100 bytes are potentially* uninitialized. However, `connect_socket` only reads up to `addrlen` bytes (either 16 or 28), ensuring that it reads only initialized data. 5. `bpf_ksock_send` initializes `msg` with `.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT`, zero-initializing the rest. `iov` is fully initialized, and `data` is initialized per verifier checks. 6. `connect_socket` is just a wrapper around the socket connect security and operations calls, so there's nothing suspect in its implementation. The key question: Is there a risk of uninitialized memory being read? Here's the critical scenario: What if `bpf_ksock_connect` is called with `addr__sz` = 28, but the BPF program only initializes the first 16 bytes (like an IPv4 address)? The BPF verifier is my friend here. I recall the fundamental principle: *the verifier demands the entire* memory region passed to a kfunc to be initialized.** If the BPF program passes a 28-byte stack variable, the verifier validates all 28 bytes are initialized. If it only touches the first 16 bytes, the verifier will reject the program. Let's confirm with an example: ```c union bpf_ksock_addr addr; addr.sin.sin_family = AF_INET; addr.sin.sin_port = bpf_htons(80); addr.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = 0; bpf_ksock_connect(ks, &addr, sizeof(addr)); ``` The verifier tracks stack initialization on a byte-by-byte level. When `bpf_ksock_connect` is invoked, the verifier must ensure that `addr` up to `addr__sz` (28 bytes) is initialized. Since bytes 16-27 are uninitialized in this example, the verifier will correctly block the program with an "invalid indirect read from stack" error. Therefore, the BPF program must initialize all 28 bytes in the `addr` structure. This ensures `memcpy(&sa, addr, sizeof(addr))` copies 28 initialized bytes. Thus, whether `addrlen` is 16 or 28, `connect_socket` reads only initialized memory. No uninitialized memory reads are possible in this situation.* What about other sources for `addr`? If `addr` is a pointer to a map value, the scenario is straightforward. Map values are zero-initialized on allocation (if the BPF program allocates 28 bytes for a map value). If the program modifies the map from userspace, userspace must provide 28 bytes which get copied into the map value. From BPF, it has full write access. In either case, the map value is guaranteed to be fully initialized. If `addr` points to packet data, the verifier does its job. It ensures the packet data is initialized up to `data_end`. If the packet is shorter than 28 bytes, the program will be rejected. If it's 28 bytes or more,
14/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "check_helper_mem_access" } Results: { "Output": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c=6616=static int check_stack_range_initialized(\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6736-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6737:static int check_helper_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6738-\t\t\t\t int access_size, enum bpf_access_type access_type,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=6827=static int check_mem_size_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env env,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6872-\tif (access_type \u0026 BPF_READ)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6873:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, mem_reg, mem_argno, reg_umax(size_reg),\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6874-\t\t\t\t\t BPF_READ, zero_size_allowed, meta);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6875-\tif (!err \u0026\u0026 access_type \u0026 BPF_WRITE)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6876:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, mem_reg, mem_argno, reg_umax(size_reg),\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6877-\t\t\t\t\t BPF_WRITE, zero_size_allowed, meta);\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=6891=static int check_mem_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6912-\tif (access_type \u0026 BPF_READ)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6913:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, reg, argno, size, BPF_READ, true, meta);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6914-\tif (!err \u0026\u0026 (access_type \u0026 BPF_WRITE))\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6915:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, reg, argno, size, BPF_WRITE, true, meta);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6916-\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=8275=static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env env, u32 arg,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-8368-\t\tkey_size = meta-\u003emap.ptr-\u003ekey_size;\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:8369:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, reg, argno, key_size, BPF_READ, false, NULL);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-8370-\t\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-8403-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:8404:\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, reg, argno, meta-\u003emap.ptr-\u003evalue_size,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-8405-\t\t\t\t\t arg_type \u0026 MEM_WRITE ? BPF_WRITE : BPF_READ,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11285=get_kfunc_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11400-\t\t * Otherwise this is a fixed-size memory buffer supported by\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11401:\t\t * check_helper_mem_access(): a pointer to a scalar or a struct of\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11402-\t\t * scalars. The access size is derived from the pointed-to BTF type.\n" }
15/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 34790 output: 37 thoughts: 24 Thoughts: Here's my summary, as if I were thinking these thoughts: Analyzing `check_helper_mem_access` in `kernel/bpf/verifier.c` Okay, time to dive into `check_helper_mem_access`. I need to refresh my understanding of how the BPF verifier handles memory access within helper functions. This is crucial for security, and I'm particularly interested in how they're preventing out-of-bounds reads and writes, and ensuring memory safety in general. Let's see what the code does line by line... I'll be looking for how it handles pointer arithmetic, size checks, bounds checking, and any potential vulnerabilities related to user-space interactions. I'll need to keep in mind possible exploit vectors. I'm especially interested in how they integrate with the BPF type system. This is where the magic happens, so let's see how they do it.
16/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 6737, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "6737:\tstatic int check_helper_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n6738:\t\t\t\t\t int access_size, enum bpf_access_type access_type,\n6739:\t\t\t\t\t bool zero_size_allowed,\n6740:\t\t\t\t\t struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta)\n6741:\t{\n6742:\t\tstruct bpf_reg_state regs = cur_regs(env);\n6743:\t\tu32 *max_access;\n6744:\t\n6745:\t\tswitch (base_type(reg-\u003etype)) {\n6746:\t\tcase PTR_TO_PACKET:\n6747:\t\tcase PTR_TO_PACKET_META:\n6748:\t\t\treturn check_packet_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size,\n6749:\t\t\t\t\t\t zero_size_allowed);\n6750:\t\tcase PTR_TO_MAP_KEY:\n6751:\t\t\tif (access_type == BPF_WRITE) {\n6752:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s cannot write into %s\\n\",\n6753:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), reg_type_str(env, reg-\u003etype));\n6754:\t\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6755:\t\t\t}\n6756:\t\t\treturn check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size,\n6757:\t\t\t\t\t\t reg-\u003emap_ptr-\u003ekey_size, false);\n6758:\t\tcase PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE:\n6759:\t\t\tif (check_map_access_type(env, reg, 0, access_size, access_type))\n6760:\t\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6761:\t\t\treturn check_map_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size,\n6762:\t\t\t\t\t\tzero_size_allowed, ACCESS_HELPER);\n6763:\t\tcase PTR_TO_MEM:\n6764:\t\t\tif (type_is_rdonly_mem(reg-\u003etype)) {\n6765:\t\t\t\tif (access_type == BPF_WRITE) {\n6766:\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s cannot write into %s\\n\",\n6767:\t\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), reg_type_str(env, reg-\u003etype));\n6768:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6769:\t\t\t\t}\n6770:\t\t\t}\n6771:\t\t\treturn check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0,\n6772:\t\t\t\t\t\t access_size, reg-\u003emem_size,\n6773:\t\t\t\t\t\t zero_size_allowed);\n6774:\t\tcase PTR_TO_BUF:\n6775:\t\t\tif (type_is_rdonly_mem(reg-\u003etype)) {\n6776:\t\t\t\tif (access_type == BPF_WRITE) {\n6777:\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s cannot write into %s\\n\",\n6778:\t\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), reg_type_str(env, reg-\u003etype));\n6779:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6780:\t\t\t\t}\n6781:\t\n6782:\t\t\t\tmax_access = \u0026env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_rdonly_access;\n6783:\t\t\t} else {\n6784:\t\t\t\tmax_access = \u0026env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_rdwr_access;\n6785:\t\t\t}\n6786:\t\t\treturn check_buffer_access(env, reg, argno, 0,\n" }
17/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 35992 output: 21 thoughts: 30 Thoughts: Okay, here's my take on those thoughts, tailored for an expert audience, presented in the first person: Memory Region Access and Initialization Check Right, so `check_mem_region_access` is being leveraged for `PTR_TO_MEM` – that's the key. My immediate thought is, "does this function actually validate the memory region's initialization status along with the access permissions?" It's not enough to know that we can access a memory region; we need to be sure it's initialized before we proceed. The potential for reading uninitialized memory is a huge class of bugs, a classic vulnerability. I need to dig deeper into the implementation of `check_mem_region_access`. I need to understand whether we're getting a true initialization check, or just an access check. The implementation details are going to be key, and this is where I'll focus my attention. It’s the difference between a secure system, and one that is just… well, partially functional.
18/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "check_mem_region_access" } Results: { "Output": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c=4132=static int __check_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4169-/* check read/write into a memory region with possible variable offset /\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:4170:static int check_mem_region_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4171-\t\t\t\t int off, int size, u32 mem_size,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=4521=static int check_map_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4529-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:4530:\terr = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, off, size, mem_size, zero_size_allowed);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4531-\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=4626=static int check_packet_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno, int off,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4635-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:4636:\terr = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, off, size, reg-\u003erange, zero_size_allowed);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4637-\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=4691=static int check_ctx_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4703-\tif (var_off_ok)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:4704:\t\terr = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, off, access_size, U16_MAX, false);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-4705-\telse\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=6093=static int check_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6114-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6115:\t\terr = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, off, size,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6116-\t\t\t\t\t reg-\u003emap_ptr-\u003ekey_size, false);\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6200-\t\tif (!rdonly_untrusted)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6201:\t\t\terr = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, off, size,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6202-\t\t\t\t\t\t reg-\u003emem_size, false);\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=6737=static int check_helper_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state *reg, argno_t argno,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6755-\t\t}\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6756:\t\treturn check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6757-\t\t\t\t\t reg-\u003emap_ptr-\u003ekey_size, false);\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6770-\t\t}\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6771:\t\treturn check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6772-\t\t\t\t\t access_size, reg-\u003emem_size,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6799-\t\tif (is_var_ctx_off_allowed(env-\u003eprog)) {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6800:\t\t\tint err = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size, U16_MAX,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6801-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t zero_size_allowed);\n" }
19/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 37419 output: 37 thoughts: 13 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, tailored for an expert audience, and written in the first person: Analyzing `check_mem_region_access` Alright, the directive is clear: let's dig into `check_mem_region_access`. I need to understand this function. It's likely a critical component for memory management, access control, or perhaps even security in this system. My first thought is to quickly assess its purpose in the bigger picture. Is this part of the kernel, a user-space library, or something else entirely? Knowing the context will help me immediately grasp its likely level of sophistication and the potential implications of any vulnerabilities it might contain. Then, I'll start with a methodical dissection. I'll mentally map out the key parameters. What memory region is being checked? What are the access permissions being scrutinized? The types involved in the parameters will tell me a lot. Are we talking about virtual addresses, physical addresses, page tables, or some custom memory descriptor? The type definitions are going to be crucial here. Next, I'll pay close attention to any error handling. Are there robust checks for invalid addresses, permission violations, or other potential anomalies? That's always a red flag. I'll need to identify any potential race conditions. Are the access checks atomic? Are there any opportunities for time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTTOU) vulnerabilities? I'll be looking for common patterns that could reveal information about how memory access is validated. Are there any assumptions being made about the underlying hardware or operating system? Are there any potential vulnerabilities, like integer overflows or buffer overflows? It could be useful to compare its implementation against secure coding best practices and known attack vectors. Ultimately, my goal is to build a complete mental model of what this function does and, more importantly, how it does it. And, I'll be keeping a running tally of any observations that might be useful for further analysis or auditing.
20/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 4170, "LineCount": 40 } Results: { "Contents": "4170:\tstatic int check_mem_region_access(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_reg_state reg, argno_t argno,\n4171:\t\t\t\t\t int off, int size, u32 mem_size,\n4172:\t\t\t\t\t bool zero_size_allowed)\n4173:\t{\n4174:\t\tint err;\n4175:\t\n4176:\t\t/* We may have adjusted the register pointing to memory region, so we\n4177:\t\t * need to try adding each of min_value and max_value to off\n4178:\t\t * to make sure our theoretical access will be safe.\n4179:\t\t \n4180:\t\t The minimum value is only important with signed\n4181:\t\t * comparisons where we can't assume the floor of a\n4182:\t\t * value is 0. If we are using signed variables for our\n4183:\t\t * index'es we need to make sure that whatever we use\n4184:\t\t * will have a set floor within our range.\n4185:\t\t /\n4186:\t\tif (reg_smin(reg) \u003c 0 \u0026\u0026\n4187:\t\t (reg_smin(reg) == S64_MIN \|\|\n4188:\t\t (off + reg_smin(reg) != (s64)(s32)(off + reg_smin(reg))) \|\|\n4189:\t\t reg_smin(reg) + off \u003c 0)) {\n4190:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s min value is negative, either use unsigned index or do a if (index \u003e=0) check.\\n\",\n4191:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n4192:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n4193:\t\t}\n4194:\t\terr = __check_mem_access(env, reg, argno, reg_smin(reg) + off, size,\n4195:\t\t\t\t\t mem_size, zero_size_allowed);\n4196:\t\tif (err) {\n4197:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s min value is outside of the allowed memory range\\n\",\n4198:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n4199:\t\t\treturn err;\n4200:\t\t}\n4201:\t\n4202:\t\t/ If we haven't set a max value then we need to bail since we can't be\n4203:\t\t * sure we won't do bad things.\n4204:\t\t * If reg_umax(reg) + off could overflow, treat that as unbounded too.\n4205:\t\t */\n4206:\t\tif (reg_umax(reg) \u003e= BPF_MAX_VAR_OFF) {\n4207:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s unbounded memory access, make sure to bounds check any such access\\n\",\n4208:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n4209:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n" }
21/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 38656 output: 37 thoughts: 59 Thoughts: Realizing a Critical Oversight Okay, hold on a second. I need to re-evaluate something I thought I understood. My initial assessment of `check_mem_region_access` seems to be incomplete. It only verifies memory bounds, doesn't it? It doesn't actually confirm if that region has been initialized. That's a crucial distinction. I've been thinking about this function, and I was pretty sure it included both operations. Ah, yes, now it's coming back to me. The initialization check for memory regions on the stack, which is represented as `PTR_TO_STACK`, is handled by `check_stack_range_initialized`. That makes much more sense. Alright, so with that re-clarified, I need to revisit my understanding of `check_helper_mem_access`. Let's step through it again, keeping this new nuance in mind. I need to make sure I'm integrating this properly.
22/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 6780, "LineCount": 40 } Results: { "Contents": "6780:\t\t\t\t}\n6781:\t\n6782:\t\t\t\tmax_access = \u0026env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_rdonly_access;\n6783:\t\t\t} else {\n6784:\t\t\t\tmax_access = \u0026env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_rdwr_access;\n6785:\t\t\t}\n6786:\t\t\treturn check_buffer_access(env, reg, argno, 0,\n6787:\t\t\t\t\t\t access_size, zero_size_allowed,\n6788:\t\t\t\t\t\t max_access);\n6789:\t\tcase PTR_TO_STACK:\n6790:\t\t\treturn check_stack_range_initialized(\n6791:\t\t\t\t\tenv, reg,\n6792:\t\t\t\t\targno, 0, access_size,\n6793:\t\t\t\t\tzero_size_allowed, access_type, meta);\n6794:\t\tcase PTR_TO_BTF_ID:\n6795:\t\t\treturn check_ptr_to_btf_access(env, regs, reg, argno, 0,\n6796:\t\t\t\t\t\t access_size, access_type, -1);\n6797:\t\tcase PTR_TO_CTX:\n6798:\t\t\t/* Only permit reading or writing syscall context using helper calls. /\n6799:\t\t\tif (is_var_ctx_off_allowed(env-\u003eprog)) {\n6800:\t\t\t\tint err = check_mem_region_access(env, reg, argno, 0, access_size, U16_MAX,\n6801:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t zero_size_allowed);\n6802:\t\t\t\tif (err)\n6803:\t\t\t\t\treturn err;\n6804:\t\t\t\tif (env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_ctx_offset \u003c reg_umax(reg) + access_size)\n6805:\t\t\t\t\tenv-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003emax_ctx_offset = reg_umax(reg) + access_size;\n6806:\t\t\t\treturn 0;\n6807:\t\t\t}\n6808:\t\t\tfallthrough;\n6809:\t\tdefault: / scalar_value or invalid ptr /\n6810:\t\t\t/ Allow zero-byte read from NULL, regardless of pointer type */\n6811:\t\t\tif (zero_size_allowed \u0026\u0026 access_size == 0 \u0026\u0026\n6812:\t\t\t bpf_register_is_null(reg))\n6813:\t\t\t\treturn 0;\n6814:\t\n6815:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s type=%s \", reg_arg_name(env, argno),\n6816:\t\t\t\treg_type_str(env, reg-\u003etype));\n6817:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"expected=%s\\n\", reg_type_str(env, PTR_TO_STACK));\n6818:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6819:\t\t}\n" }
23/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 39671 output: 21 thoughts: 223 Thoughts: Ringbuf Memory Initialization: A Potential Leak? Okay, so I'm looking at how memory access is validated in this system. I see that `check_helper_mem_access` calls `check_stack_range_initialized` specifically for `PTR_TO_STACK`. But for `PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE`, `PTR_TO_MEM`, and `PTR_TO_PACKET`, it seems to only do bounds checking. My initial thought was, "Aha! The verifier assumes these are initialized!". And that seems right, map values are zero-initialized on allocation, packets are initialized by the network stack, so it makes sense to trust these. But hang on, what about ringbuf memory? It's dynamically allocated, like a map value, but I remember that `bpf_ringbuf_reserve` returns uninitialized memory, right? Does the verifier actually track initialization of ringbuf memory? No, it doesn't! That's a problem. If a BPF program reserves ringbuf memory, writes to it partially, and then passes the buffer off to something like `bpf_ksock_send`, we could be leaking uninitialized ringbuf memory to the network! That's a huge potential vulnerability! I need to double-check whether ringbuf memory is zero-initialized or not. This is something I have to investigate further.
24/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "bpf_ringbuf_reserve" } Results: { "Output": "\nFull output is too long, showing 500 out of 647 lines.\nUse more precise expression if possible.\n\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst=84=BPF ringbuf provides two sets of APIs to BPF programs:\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst-87- buffer, similarly to ``bpf_perf_event_output()``;\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst:88:- ``bpf_ringbuf_reserve()``/``bpf_ringbuf_commit()``/``bpf_ringbuf_discard()``\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst-89- APIs split the whole process into two steps. First, a fixed amount of space\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst=100=significantly.\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst-101-\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst:102:``bpf_ringbuf_reserve()`` avoids the extra copy of memory by providing a memory\nDocumentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst-103-pointer directly to ring buffer memory. 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ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-599-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:600:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 16, 0, \u0026ptr1);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:601:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 16, 0, \u0026ptr2);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-602-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=623=int invalid_read4(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-626-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:627:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 64, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-628-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=639=int invalid_offset(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-643-\t/ this should fail /\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:644:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 64, 0, \u0026ptr + 1);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-645-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=654=int release_twice(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-657-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:658:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 16, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-659-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=681=int release_twice_callback(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-684-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:685:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 32, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-686-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=752=int dynptr_pruning_overwrite(struct __sk_buff ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-761-\t\t r4 += -16;\t\t\t\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:762:\t\t call %[bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr];\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-763-\t\t if r0 == 0 goto pjmp1;\t\t\t\\\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-772-\t\t:\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:773:\t\t: __imm(bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-774-\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr),\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=783=int dynptr_pruning_stacksafe(struct __sk_buff ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-792-\t\t r4 += -16;\t\t\t\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:793:\t\t call %[bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr];\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-794-\t\t if r0 == 0 goto stjmp1;\t\t\\\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-803-\t\t:\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:804:\t\t: __imm(bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-805-\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr),\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=814=int dynptr_pruning_type_confusion(struct __sk_buff ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-845-\t\t r0 = (u64 )(r0 + 0);\t\t\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:846:\t\t call %[bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr];\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-847-\t\t if r0 == 0 goto tjmp2;\t\t\t\\\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-873-\t\t __imm(bpf_map_lookup_elem),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:874:\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-875-\t\t __imm(bpf_dynptr_from_mem),\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=886=int dynptr_var_off_overwrite(struct __sk_buff ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-906-\t\t r4 += r8;\t\t\t\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:907:\t\t call %[bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr];\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-908-\t\t r9 = 0xeB9F;\t\t\t\t\\\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-915-\t\t:\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:916:\t\t: __imm(bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-917-\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr),\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=926=int dynptr_partial_slot_invalidate(struct __sk_buff ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-951-\t\t r4 += -24;\t\t\t\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:952:\t\t call %[bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr];\t\\\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-953-\t\t (u64 )(r10 - 16) = r9;\t\t\\\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-978-\t\t __imm(bpf_map_lookup_elem),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:979:\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr),\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-980-\t\t __imm(bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr),\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1102=int dynptr_overwrite_ref(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1105-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1106:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 64, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1107-\t/ this should fail /\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1116=int dynptr_read_into_slot(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1125-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1126:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 64, 0, \u0026data.ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1127-\t/* this should fail /\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1562=int uninit_write_into_slot(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1568-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1569:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, 80, 0, 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ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1809-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1810:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1811-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1825=int clone_invalidate2(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1830-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1831:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1832-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1846=int clone_invalidate3(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1852-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1853:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1854-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1872=int clone_invalidate4(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1877-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1878:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1879-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1898=int clone_invalidate5(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1903-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1904:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1905-\tdata = bpf_dynptr_data(\u0026ptr, 0, sizeof(val));\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=1924=int clone_invalidate6(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1930-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:1931:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-1932-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=2072=int 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\u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-2116-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=2130=int dynptr_overwrite_ref_invalidate_slice(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-2134-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:2135:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-2136-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c=2158=int dynptr_overwrite_ref_clone_slice_valid(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-2162-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c:2163:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_fail.c-2164-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=38=int test_read_write(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-47-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:48:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, sizeof(write_data), 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-49-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=139=int test_ringbuf(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-149-\t/* check that you can reserve a dynamic size reservation /\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:150:\terr = bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, val, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-151-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=270=int test_adjust(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-279-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:280:\terr = bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, bytes, 0, \u0026ptr);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-281-\tif (err) {\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=322=int test_adjust_err(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-331-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:332:\tif (bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, size, 0, \u0026ptr)) {\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-333-\t\terr = 1;\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=380=int test_zero_size_dynptr(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-388-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:389:\tif (bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, size, 0, \u0026ptr)) {\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-390-\t\terr = 1;\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=430=int test_dynptr_is_null(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-439-\t/ Pass in invalid flags, get back an invalid dynptr /\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:440:\tif (bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, size, 123, \u0026ptr1) != -EINVAL) 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bpf_read_dynptr_fn)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-944-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:945:\terr = bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, sizeof(buf), 0, \u0026ptr_buf);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-946-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c=965=static __always_inline void test_dynptr_probe_str(void ptr,\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-974-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c:975:\tbpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(\u0026ringbuf, sizeof(buf), 0, \u0026ptr_buf);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dynptr_success.c-976-\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ima.c=26=static void ima_test_common(struct file file)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ima.c-43-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ima.c:44:\t\tsample = bpf_ringbuf_reserve(\u0026ringbuf, sizeof(u64), 0);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ima.c-45-\t\tif (!sample)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_ptr_kern.c=664=static inline int check_ringbuf(void)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_ptr_kern.c-672-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_ptr_kern.c:673:\tptr = bpf_ringbuf_reserve(\u0026m_ringbuf, 128, 0);\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_ptr_kern.c-674-\tVERIFY(ptr);\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ringbuf_bench.c=41=int bench_ringbuf(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ringbuf_bench.c-47-\t\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c batch_cnt; i++) {\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ringbuf_bench.c:48:\t\t\tsample = bpf_ringbuf_reserve(\u0026ringbuf,\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ringbuf_bench.c-49-\t\t\t\t\t sizeof(sample_val), 0);\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_ringbuf.c=40=int test_ringbuf(void *ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_ringbuf.c-47-\n\n" }
25/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 52898 output: 37 thoughts: 450 Thoughts: Uninitialized Ringbuf Memory Leak: A Kernel Security Vulnerability Okay, so I'm thinking about `bpf_ringbuf_reserve`. It gives us a pointer to memory, right? My first question is, does the verifier keep track of whether that memory is initialized? Nope, it doesn't! The verifier completely ignores the initialization status of `PTR_TO_MEM`, which is precisely what `bpf_ringbuf_reserve` returns. That's a huge red flag! If a BPF program grabs ringbuf memory and then passes it along to, say, `bpf_ksock_send`, it could be sending uninitialized kernel memory out onto the network! I need to confirm if `bpf_ksock_send` even accepts `PTR_TO_MEM`. Let's see... it takes `const void data` and `u32 data__sz`. The verifier treats this as `ARG_PTR_TO_MEM`. Okay, and the verifier code for `PTR_TO_MEM`... yep, `check_mem_region_access` is called. But it's only checking bounds and read-only access! No initialization check whatsoever. So it's confirmed. A BPF program can reserve ringbuf memory, not* initialize it, and then feed it to `bpf_ksock_send`. `bpf_ksock_send` then calls `kernel_sendmsg`, which will happily ship that uninitialized memory across the network! That's a classic information leak right there! And, aha!, KMSAN is exactly the tool that should catch this type of issue! Now, a quick pause... is ringbuf memory zero-initialized by `bpf_ringbuf_reserve`? I need to check the actual code for `__bpf_ringbuf_reserve`.
26/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c", "FirstLine": 463, "LineCount": 40 } Results: { "Contents": " 463:\tstatic void __bpf_ringbuf_reserve(struct bpf_ringbuf rb, u64 size)\n 464:\t{\n 465:\t\tunsigned long cons_pos, prod_pos, new_prod_pos, pend_pos, over_pos, flags;\n 466:\t\tstruct bpf_ringbuf_hdr hdr;\n 467:\t\tu32 len, pg_off, hdr_len;\n 468:\t\n 469:\t\tif (unlikely(size \u003e RINGBUF_MAX_RECORD_SZ))\n 470:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 471:\t\n 472:\t\tlen = round_up(size + BPF_RINGBUF_HDR_SZ, 8);\n 473:\t\tif (len \u003e ringbuf_total_data_sz(rb))\n 474:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 475:\t\n 476:\t\tcons_pos = smp_load_acquire(\u0026rb-\u003econsumer_pos);\n 477:\t\n 478:\t\tif (raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave(\u0026rb-\u003espinlock, flags))\n 479:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 480:\t\n 481:\t\tpend_pos = rb-\u003epending_pos;\n 482:\t\tprod_pos = rb-\u003eproducer_pos;\n 483:\t\tnew_prod_pos = prod_pos + len;\n 484:\t\n 485:\t\twhile (pend_pos \u003c prod_pos) {\n 486:\t\t\thdr = (void )rb-\u003edata + (pend_pos \u0026 rb-\u003emask);\n 487:\t\t\thdr_len = READ_ONCE(hdr-\u003elen);\n 488:\t\t\tif (hdr_len \u0026 BPF_RINGBUF_BUSY_BIT)\n 489:\t\t\t\tbreak;\n 490:\t\t\tpend_pos += bpf_ringbuf_round_up_hdr_len(hdr_len);\n 491:\t\t}\n 492:\t\trb-\u003epending_pos = pend_pos;\n 493:\t\n 494:\t\tif (!bpf_ringbuf_has_space(rb, new_prod_pos, cons_pos, pend_pos)) {\n 495:\t\t\traw_res_spin_unlock_irqrestore(\u0026rb-\u003espinlock, flags);\n 496:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 497:\t\t}\n 498:\t\n 499:\t\t/\n 500:\t\t In overwrite mode, advance overwrite_pos when the ring buffer is full.\n 501:\t\t * The key points are to stay on record boundaries and consume enough records\n 502:\t\t * to fit the new one.\n" }
27/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 54466 output: 37 thoughts: 18 Thoughts: Okay, let's dive into this `__bpf_ringbuf_reserve` function a bit further. I want to get a clearer picture of what's happening under the hood. I know the basics, the ring buffer concept and its use cases, but I'd like to refresh and solidify the nitty-gritty details of this specific function. I'm especially interested in how it handles memory reservations within the buffer and what potential race conditions or edge cases it gracefully manages. Given my experience, I'm expecting this function to be the critical piece to investigate. It's the gatekeeper, I imagine, to efficient data flow within the eBPF context, so I'll be scrutinizing its implementation to refine my own understanding and perhaps uncover areas where optimizations are possible.
28/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c", "FirstLine": 503, "LineCount": 40 } Results: { "Contents": " 503:\t\t /\n 504:\t\tif (unlikely(rb-\u003eoverwrite_mode)) {\n 505:\t\t\tover_pos = rb-\u003eoverwrite_pos;\n 506:\t\t\twhile (new_prod_pos - over_pos \u003e rb-\u003emask) {\n 507:\t\t\t\thdr = (void )rb-\u003edata + (over_pos \u0026 rb-\u003emask);\n 508:\t\t\t\thdr_len = READ_ONCE(hdr-\u003elen);\n 509:\t\t\t\t/\n 510:\t\t\t\t The bpf_ringbuf_has_space() check above ensures we won’t\n 511:\t\t\t\t * step over a record currently being worked on by another\n 512:\t\t\t\t * producer.\n 513:\t\t\t\t /\n 514:\t\t\t\tover_pos += bpf_ringbuf_round_up_hdr_len(hdr_len);\n 515:\t\t\t}\n 516:\t\t\t/\n 517:\t\t\t * smp_store_release(\u0026rb-\u003eproducer_pos, new_prod_pos) at\n 518:\t\t\t * the end of the function ensures that when consumer sees\n 519:\t\t\t * the updated rb-\u003eproducer_pos, it always sees the updated\n 520:\t\t\t * rb-\u003eoverwrite_pos, so when consumer reads overwrite_pos\n 521:\t\t\t * after smp_load_acquire(r-\u003eproducer_pos), the overwrite_pos\n 522:\t\t\t * will always be valid.\n 523:\t\t\t /\n 524:\t\t\tWRITE_ONCE(rb-\u003eoverwrite_pos, over_pos);\n 525:\t\t}\n 526:\t\n 527:\t\thdr = (void )rb-\u003edata + (prod_pos \u0026 rb-\u003emask);\n 528:\t\tpg_off = bpf_ringbuf_rec_pg_off(rb, hdr);\n 529:\t\thdr-\u003elen = size \| BPF_RINGBUF_BUSY_BIT;\n 530:\t\thdr-\u003epg_off = pg_off;\n 531:\t\n 532:\t\t/* pairs with consumer's smp_load_acquire() /\n 533:\t\tsmp_store_release(\u0026rb-\u003eproducer_pos, new_prod_pos);\n 534:\t\n 535:\t\traw_res_spin_unlock_irqrestore(\u0026rb-\u003espinlock, flags);\n 536:\t\n 537:\t\treturn (void )hdr + BPF_RINGBUF_HDR_SZ;\n 538:\t}\n 539:\t\n 540:\tBPF_CALL_3(bpf_ringbuf_reserve, struct bpf_map , map, u64, size, u64, flags)\n 541:\t{\n 542:\t\tstruct bpf_ringbuf_map rb_map;\n" }
29/3	2026/08/12 18:26	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 55391 output: 20 thoughts: 337 Thoughts: My Concerns Regarding Ring Buffer Memory and Potential Data Leaks in BPF Programs Okay, so I'm looking at `__bpf_ringbuf_reserve`, and it's striking me that it doesn't zero-initialize the reserved memory. It just sets the header and hands back the pointer. That memory is going to be whatever was left over from a previous record – or zeros, initially, I suppose. Since it's a ring buffer, that means old data will be lingering around. If a BPF program goes ahead and reserves some memory, doesn't bother initializing it, and then passes it along to `bpf_ksock_send`, we've got a potential data leak, right? I mean, that old ring buffer data could contain sensitive kernel information, especially if other BPF programs are writing sensitive stuff to the ring buffer. Or it could just be uninitialized page data initially, which is still a problem. Wait a second, though... isn't ring buffer memory allocated with `bpf_map_area_alloc`? And that uses `vmalloc` or `kmalloc` with `__GFP_ZERO`. So, initially, it is zeroed! But, after the first wrap-around, yeah, it's holding old data. This is where it gets interesting... I wonder, does KMSAN even consider old ring buffer data as "uninitialized"? After all, KMSAN tracks memory that has been allocated but not written to. When the ring buffer is allocated, it's zeroed, so KMSAN will consider it initialized. When the BPF program writes to it, KMSAN will also consider it initialized. I'm starting to think KMSAN won't complain about leaking old ring buffer data, because as far as KMSAN is concerned, it's initialized! So is there any other way to get uninitialized memory within BPF programs? What about `bpf_obj_new`? That's the next place I need to look. I'll need to check how that works.
30/3	2026/08/12 18:26	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "bpf_obj_new" } Results: { "Output": "\nFull output is too long, showing 500 out of 827 lines.\nUse more precise expression if possible.\n\nDocumentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst=342=Q: Same as above, but for allocated objects (i.e. objects allocated using\nDocumentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst:343:bpf_obj_new for user defined types). Will the kernel preserve backwards\nDocumentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst-344-compatibility for these features?\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=86=Consider the following BPF code:\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-89-\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:90: struct node_data n = bpf_obj_new(typeof(n)); /* ACQUIRED /\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-91-\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-97-\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:98:From the verifier's perspective, the pointer ``n`` returned from ``bpf_obj_new``\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-99-has type ``PTR_TO_BTF_ID \| MEM_ALLOC``, with a ``btf_id`` of\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=118=rejected, e.g.:\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-122- int x;\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:123: struct node_data n = bpf_obj_new(typeof(n)); / ACQUIRED /\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-124-\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=134=can do better, though, by taking advantage of two details:\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-140-\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:141: Because graph nodes are allocated with ``bpf_obj_new`` and\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-142- adding / removing from the root involves fiddling with the\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=153=The verifier considers such a reference a non-owning reference. The ref\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:154:returned by ``bpf_obj_new`` is accordingly considered an owning reference.\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-155-Both terms currently only have meaning in the context of graph nodes and API.\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=187=via bpf_obj_drop. A non-owning ref to some chunk of memory that was remove'd,\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:188:``free``'d, and reused via bpf_obj_new would point to an entirely different thing.\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-189-Or the memory could go away.\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst=210=Consider the following example:\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-214- struct node_data n, m, o, p;\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst:215: n = bpf_obj_new(typeof(n)); / 1 /\nDocumentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst-216-\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst=148=An example is given below::\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst-149-\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst:150: __bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new(u32 local_type_id__k, ...)\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst-151- {\n--\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst-154-\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst:155:Here, bpf_obj_new uses local_type_id argument to find out the size of that type\nDocumentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst-156-ID in program's BTF and return a sized pointer to it. Each type ID will have a\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h=748=enum bpf_type_flag {\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-794-\t/* MEM is of an allocated object of type in program BTF. This is used to\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:795:\t * tag PTR_TO_BTF_ID allocated using bpf_obj_new.\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-796-\t /\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_verifier.h=635=struct bpf_insn_aux_data {\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_verifier.h-660-\tunion {\ninclude/linux/bpf_verifier.h:661:\t\t/ remember the size of type passed to bpf_obj_new to rewrite R1 /\ninclude/linux/bpf_verifier.h-662-\t\tu64 obj_new_size;\n--\nkernel/bpf/btf.c=3960=static int btf_parse_kptr(const struct btf btf, struct btf_field field,\n--\nkernel/bpf/btf.c-3982-\t\t/ Type exists only in program BTF. Assume that it's a MEM_ALLOC\nkernel/bpf/btf.c:3983:\t\t * kptr allocated via bpf_obj_new\nkernel/bpf/btf.c-3984-\t\t /\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2336=__bpf_kfunc_start_defs();\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2338-/\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2339: bpf_obj_new() - allocate an object described by program BTF\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2340- * @local_type_id__k: type ID in program BTF\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2349- /\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2350:__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new(u64 local_type_id__k, struct btf_struct_meta meta)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2351-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2363-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2364:__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new_impl(u64 local_type_id__k, void meta__ign)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2365-{\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2366:\treturn bpf_obj_new(local_type_id__k, meta__ign);\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2367-}\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=4805=BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, crash_kexec, KF_DESTRUCTIVE)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-4806-#endif\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:4807:BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_obj_new, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL \| KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:4808:BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_obj_new_impl, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-4809-BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_percpu_obj_new, KF_ACQUIRE \| KF_RET_NULL \| KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=6983=enum {\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6990- bpf_map_lookup returns PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_OR_NULL.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6991: * bpf_obj_new returns PTR_TO_BTF_ID \| MEM_ALLOC \| PTR_MAYBE_NULL.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6992- * Two bpf_map_lookups (even with the same key) will have different reg-\u003eid.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:6993: * Two separate bpf_obj_new will also have different reg-\u003eid.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-6994- * For traditional PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE or PTR_TO_BTF_ID \| MEM_ALLOC, the verifier\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-7001- * point to different bpf_spin_locks. Likewise for pointers to allocated objects\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:7002: * returned from bpf_obj_new.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-7003- * The verifier allows taking only one bpf_spin_lock at a time to avoid\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11031=enum special_kfunc_type {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11032:\tKF_bpf_obj_new_impl,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11033:\tKF_bpf_obj_new,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11034-\tKF_bpf_obj_drop_impl,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11104=BTF_ID_LIST(special_kfunc_list)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11105:BTF_ID(func, bpf_obj_new_impl)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11106:BTF_ID(func, bpf_obj_new)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11107-BTF_ID(func, bpf_obj_drop_impl)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11198=BTF_ID(func, bpf_stream_print_stack)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11199-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11200:static bool is_bpf_obj_new_kfunc(u32 func_id)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11201-{\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11202:\treturn func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_obj_new] \|\|\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11203:\t func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_obj_new_impl];\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11204-}\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11611=static void ref_convert_owning_non_owning(struct bpf_verifier_env env, u32 id)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11669- reg-\u003eid is a unique ID preserved after the NULL pointer check on the pointer\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11670: * returned from bpf_obj_new. Each allocation receives a new reg-\u003eid.\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11671- /\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=12771=static int check_special_kfunc(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12780-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12781:\tif (is_bpf_obj_new_kfunc(meta-\u003efunc_id) \|\| is_bpf_percpu_obj_new_kfunc(meta-\u003efunc_id)) {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12782-\t\tstruct btf_struct_meta struct_meta;\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12785-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12786:\t\tif (is_bpf_obj_new_kfunc(meta-\u003efunc_id) \u0026\u0026 !bpf_global_ma_set)\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12787-\t\t\treturn -ENOMEM;\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12798-\t\tif (!ret_btf) {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12799:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"bpf_obj_new/bpf_percpu_obj_new requires prog BTF\\n\");\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12800-\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12804-\t\tif (!ret_t \|\| !__btf_type_is_struct(ret_t)) {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12805:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"bpf_obj_new/bpf_percpu_obj_new type ID argument must be of a struct\\n\");\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12806-\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=12942=static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_insn insn,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-13163-\t\tif (meta.btf != btf_vmlinux \|\|\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:13164:\t\t (!is_bpf_obj_new_kfunc(meta.func_id) \u0026\u0026\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-13165-\t\t !is_bpf_percpu_obj_new_kfunc(meta.func_id) \u0026\u0026\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=19782=int bpf_fixup_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_insn insn,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-19812-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:19813:\tif (is_bpf_obj_new_kfunc(desc-\u003efunc_id) \|\| is_bpf_percpu_obj_new_kfunc(desc-\u003efunc_id)) {\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-19814-\t\tstruct btf_struct_meta kptr_struct_meta = env-\u003einsn_aux_data[insn_idx].kptr_struct_meta;\n--\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h=209=BPF_PROG(name, ##args)\n--\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h-358-\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h:359:void bpf_obj_new_impl(__u64 local_type_id, void meta) __ksym;\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h-360-void bpf_obj_drop_impl(void kptr, void meta) __ksym;\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h-361-\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h:362:#define bpf_obj_new(type) ((type )bpf_obj_new_impl(bpf_core_type_id_local(type), NULL))\ntools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h-363-#define bpf_obj_drop(kptr) bpf_obj_drop_impl(kptr, NULL)\n--\ntools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c=832=int BPF_STRUCT_OPS_SLEEPABLE(fcg_cgroup_init, struct cgroup cgrp,\n--\ntools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c-877-\ntools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c:878:\tcgv_node = bpf_obj_new(struct cgv_node);\ntools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c-879-\tif (!cgv_node) {\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h-11-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h:12:/ Convenience macro to wrap over bpf_obj_new 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i++) {\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/linked_list_peek.c:44:\t\tn = bpf_obj_new(typeof(n));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/linked_list_peek.c-45-\t\tif (!n)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c=89=static int create_and_stash(int idx, int val)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-98-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:99:\tinner_local_kptr = bpf_obj_new(typeof(inner_local_kptr));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-100-\tif (!inner_local_kptr)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-102-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:103:\tres = bpf_obj_new(typeof(res));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-104-\tif (!res) {\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c=131=long stash_plain(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-140-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:141:\tres = bpf_obj_new(typeof(res));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-142-\tif (!res)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c=153=long stash_local_with_root(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-163-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:164:\tres = bpf_obj_new(typeof(res));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-165-\tif (!res)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-168-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:169:\tn = bpf_obj_new(typeof(n));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-170-\tif (!n) {\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c=261=long stash_refcounted_node(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-270-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c:271:\tp = bpf_obj_new(typeof(p));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash.c-272-\tif (!p)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c=44=long stash_rb_nodes(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c-53-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c:54:\tres = bpf_obj_new(typeof(res));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c-55-\tif (!res)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c=67=long drop_rb_node_off(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c-76-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c:77:\tres = bpf_obj_new(typeof(res));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/local_kptr_stash_fail.c-78-\tif (!res)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_in_map_btf.c=45=int add_to_list_in_inner_array(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_in_map_btf.c-62-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_in_map_btf.c:63:\tnew = bpf_obj_new(typeof(new));\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_in_map_btf.c-64-\tif (!new)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/normal_map_btf.c=33=int add_to_list_in_array(void ctx)\n--\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/normal_map_btf.c-45-\ntools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/normal_map_btf.c:46:\tnew = bpf_obj_new(typeof(new));\n\n" }
31/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 68750 output: 37 thoughts: 51 Thoughts: Okay, let me think this through. Memory Allocation and Initialization in BPF Object Creation Hmm, `bpf_obj_new`... right, that's the kernel function that allocates memory for a new BPF object. My immediate question is: does it perform zero-initialization? This is crucial for avoiding potential security vulnerabilities and ensuring predictable behavior. I need to be sure. I'm going to quickly dive into the implementation details to confirm this, so let's look at `bpf_obj_new_impl` located in `kernel/bpf/helpers.c`. That's where the rubber meets the road. I need to see how the memory is actually being set up.
32/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/helpers.c", "FirstLine": 2350, "LineCount": 20 } Results: { "Contents": "2350:\t__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new(u64 local_type_id__k, struct btf_struct_meta meta)\n2351:\t{\n2352:\t\tu64 size = local_type_id__k;\n2353:\t\tvoid p;\n2354:\t\n2355:\t\tp = bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_ma, size);\n2356:\t\tif (!p)\n2357:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n2358:\t\tif (meta)\n2359:\t\t\tbpf_obj_init(meta-\u003erecord, p);\n2360:\t\n2361:\t\treturn p;\n2362:\t}\n2363:\t\n2364:\t__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new_impl(u64 local_type_id__k, void meta__ign)\n2365:\t{\n2366:\t\treturn bpf_obj_new(local_type_id__k, meta__ign);\n2367:\t}\n2368:\t\n2369:\t/*\n" }
33/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 69297 output: 20 thoughts: 42 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of those thoughts, summarized from my perspective as someone familiar with BPF and kernel internals: Memory Allocation Concerns in BPF Hmm, so `bpf_mem_alloc`. Right, that's the allocation function for BPF programs, I need to make sure I understand how it works and what the implications are. My first question is always: does it zero-initialize the allocated memory? That's a crucial detail for security and predictability, and it can save a lot of debugging time later. Okay, time to check the source. Let's head over to `kernel/bpf/memalloc.c`. I need to delve into the implementation of `bpf_mem_alloc` there and confirm its behavior. I'll need to see if it uses `kzalloc` or some equivalent, or if it might leave garbage data behind. This directly impacts the safety and reliability of the BPF programs I'm working with. It's a fundamental question to understand the memory lifecycle.
34/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "bpf_mem_alloc" } Results: { "Output": "include/linux/bpf.h=69=extern struct kobject btf_kobj;\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:70:extern struct bpf_mem_alloc bpf_global_ma, bpf_global_percpu_ma;\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-71-extern bool bpf_global_ma_set;\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_local_storage.h-15-#include \u003clinux/types.h\u003e\ninclude/linux/bpf_local_storage.h:16:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\ninclude/linux/bpf_local_storage.h-17-#include \u003cuapi/linux/btf.h\u003e\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h=9=struct bpf_mem_caches;\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-10-\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:11:struct bpf_mem_alloc {\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-12-\tstruct bpf_mem_caches __percpu caches;\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-20-\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:21:/* 'size != 0' is for bpf_mem_alloc which manages fixed-size objects.\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-22- * Alloc and free are done with bpf_mem_cache_{alloc,free}().\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-23- \ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:24: 'size = 0' is for bpf_mem_alloc which manages many fixed-size objects.\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-25- * Alloc and free are done with bpf_mem_{alloc,free}() and the size of\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:26: * the returned object is given by the size argument of bpf_mem_alloc().\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-27- * If percpu equals true, error will be returned in order to avoid\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:28: * large memory consumption and the below bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_unit_init()\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-29- * should be used to do on-demand per-cpu allocation for each size.\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-30- /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:31:int bpf_mem_alloc_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, int size, bool percpu);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-32-/* Initialize a non-fix-size percpu memory allocator /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:33:int bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, struct obj_cgroup objcg);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-34-/ The percpu allocation with a specific unit size. /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:35:int bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_unit_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, int size);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:36:void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:37:void bpf_mem_alloc_set_dtor(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma,\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-38-\t\t\t void (dtor)(void obj, void ctx),\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-42-/ Check the allocation size for kmalloc equivalent allocator /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:43:int bpf_mem_alloc_check_size(bool percpu, size_t size);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-44-\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-45-/ kmalloc/kfree equivalent: /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:46:void bpf_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, size_t size);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:47:void bpf_mem_free(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:48:void bpf_mem_free_rcu(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-49-\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-50-/ kmem_cache_alloc/free equivalent: /\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:51:void bpf_mem_cache_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:52:void bpf_mem_cache_free(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:53:void bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-54-void bpf_mem_cache_raw_free(void ptr);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h:55:void bpf_mem_cache_alloc_flags(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, gfp_t flags);\ninclude/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h-56-\n--\nkernel/bpf/core.c-39-#include \u003clinux/nospec.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/core.c:40:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/core.c-41-#include \u003clinux/memcontrol.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/core.c-70-\nkernel/bpf/core.c:71:struct bpf_mem_alloc bpf_global_ma;\nkernel/bpf/core.c-72-bool bpf_global_ma_set;\n--\nkernel/bpf/core.c=3457=static int __init bpf_global_ma_init(void)\n--\nkernel/bpf/core.c-3460-\nkernel/bpf/core.c:3461:\tret = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026bpf_global_ma, 0, false);\nkernel/bpf/core.c-3462-\tbpf_global_ma_set = !ret;\n--\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-3-#include \u003clinux/bpf.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c:4:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-5-#include \u003clinux/btf.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c=25=struct bpf_cpumask {\n--\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-29-\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c:30:static struct bpf_mem_alloc bpf_cpumask_ma;\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-31-\n--\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c=515=static int __init cpumask_kfunc_init(void)\n--\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-524-\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c:525:\tret = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026bpf_cpumask_ma, sizeof(struct bpf_cpumask), false);\nkernel/bpf/cpumask.c-526-\tret = ret ?: register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING, \u0026cpumask_kfunc_set);\n--\nkernel/bpf/crypto.c-4-#include \u003clinux/bpf_crypto.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/crypto.c:5:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/crypto.c-6-#include \u003clinux/btf.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/fixups.c=1541=int bpf_do_misc_fixups(struct bpf_verifier_env env)\n--\nkernel/bpf/fixups.c-2022-\t\t\t/ patch with 'r1 = (u64 )(r1 + 0)' since for percpu data,\nkernel/bpf/fixups.c:2023:\t\t\t * bpf_mem_alloc() returns a ptr to the percpu data ptr.\nkernel/bpf/fixups.c-2024-\t\t\t /\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-18-#include \"map_in_map.h\"\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:19:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-20-#include \u003casm/rqspinlock.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-73- arbitrary contexts (perf, kprobes, tracepoints) which are required to be\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:74: * atomic contexts even on RT. Before the introduction of bpf_mem_alloc,\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-75- * it is only safe to use raw spinlock for preallocated hash map on a RT kernel,\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-76- * because there is no memory allocation within the lock held sections. However\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:77: * after hash map was fully converted to use bpf_mem_alloc, there will be\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-78- * non-synchronous memory allocation for non-preallocated hash map, so it is\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=86=struct bpf_htab {\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-87-\tstruct bpf_map map;\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:88:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc ma;\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:89:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc pcpu_ma;\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-90-\tstruct bucket buckets;\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=239=static void htab_free_prealloced_fields(struct bpf_htab htab)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-246-\t/\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:247:\t Preallocated maps do not have a bpf_mem_alloc destructor, so fully\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-248-\t * destroy every element, including the extra elements.\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=496=static void htab_dtor_ctx_free(void ctx)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-503-\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:504:static int bpf_ma_set_dtor(struct bpf_map map, struct bpf_mem_alloc ma,\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-505-\t\t\t void (dtor)(void , void ))\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-523-\t}\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:524:\tbpf_mem_alloc_set_dtor(ma, dtor, htab_dtor_ctx_free, hrec);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-525-\treturn 0;\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=545=static struct bpf_map htab_map_alloc(union bpf_attr attr)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-648-\t} else {\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:649:\t\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026htab-\u003ema, htab-\u003eelem_size, false);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-650-\t\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-652-\t\tif (percpu) {\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:653:\t\t\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026htab-\u003epcpu_ma,\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-654-\t\t\t\t\t\t round_up(htab-\u003emap.value_size, 8), true);\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-667-\tbpf_map_area_free(htab-\u003ebuckets);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:668:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026htab-\u003epcpu_ma);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:669:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026htab-\u003ema);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-670-free_elem_count:\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=1627=static void htab_map_free(struct bpf_map map)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-1635-\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1636:\t/ htab no longer uses call_rcu() directly. bpf_mem_alloc does it\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-1637-\t * underneath and is responsible for waiting for callbacks to finish\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1638:\t * during bpf_mem_alloc_destroy().\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-1639-\t /\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-1649-\tbpf_map_area_free(htab-\u003ebuckets);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1650:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026htab-\u003epcpu_ma);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1651:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026htab-\u003ema);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-1652-\tif (htab-\u003euse_percpu_counter)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=2752=struct bpf_rhtab {\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2754-\tstruct rhashtable ht;\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2755:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc ma;\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2756-\tu32 elem_size;\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=2795=static struct bpf_map rhtab_map_alloc(union bpf_attr attr)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2831-\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2832:\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026rhtab-\u003ema, rhtab-\u003eelem_size, false);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2833-\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c=2899=static void rhtab_map_free(struct bpf_map map)\n--\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2903-\trhashtable_free_and_destroy(\u0026rhtab-\u003eht, rhtab_free_elem, rhtab);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2904:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026rhtab-\u003ema);\nkernel/bpf/hashtab.c-2905-\tbpf_map_area_free(rhtab);\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-23-#include \u003clinux/btf_ids.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:24:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-25-#include \u003clinux/kasan.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2350=__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new(u64 local_type_id__k, struct btf_struct_meta meta)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2354-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2355:\tp = bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_ma, size);\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2356-\tif (!p)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2380=__bpf_kfunc void bpf_percpu_obj_new(u64 local_type_id__k, struct btf_struct_meta meta)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2384-\t/* The verifier has ensured that meta must be NULL /\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2385:\treturn bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_percpu_ma, size);\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2386-}\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2394=void __bpf_obj_drop_impl(void p, const struct btf_record rec, bool percpu)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2395-{\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2396:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc ma;\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2397-\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=3522=bpf_iter_bits_new(struct bpf_iter_bits it, const u64 unsafe_ptr__ign, u32 nr_words)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-3553-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:3554:\tif (bpf_mem_alloc_check_size(false, nr_bytes))\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-3555-\t\treturn -E2BIG;\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-3557-\t/* Fallback to memalloc /\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:3558:\tkit-\u003ebits = bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_ma, nr_bytes);\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-3559-\tif (!kit-\u003ebits)\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-18-#include \u003casm/rqspinlock.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c:19:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-20-\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c=33=struct lpm_trie {\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-35-\tstruct lpm_trie_node __rcu\troot;\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c:36:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc\t\tma;\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-37-\tsize_t\t\t\t\tn_entries;\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c=571=static struct bpf_map trie_alloc(union bpf_attr attr)\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-602-\t\t trie-\u003emap.value_size;\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c:603:\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_init(\u0026trie-\u003ema, leaf_size, false);\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-604-\tif (err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c=613=static void trie_free(struct bpf_map map)\n--\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-651-out:\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c:652:\tbpf_mem_alloc_destroy(\u0026trie-\u003ema);\nkernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c-653-\tbpf_map_area_free(trie);\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-6-#include \u003clinux/irq_work.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:7:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-8-#include \u003clinux/memcontrol.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=481=static void prefill_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache c, int cpu)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-501- /\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:502:int bpf_mem_alloc_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, int size, bool percpu)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-503-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-569-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:570:int bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, struct obj_cgroup objcg)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-571-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-583-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:584:int bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_unit_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, int size)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-585-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=640=static void check_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache c)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-650-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:651:static void check_leaked_objs(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-652-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-673-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:674:static void free_mem_alloc_no_barrier(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-675-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-685-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:686:static void free_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-687-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=703=static void free_mem_alloc_deferred(struct work_struct work)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-704-{\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:705:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc ma = container_of(work, struct bpf_mem_alloc, work);\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-706-\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-710-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:711:static void destroy_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, int rcu_in_progress)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-712-{\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:713:\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc copy;\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-714-\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-735-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:736:void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-737-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=776=static void notrace unit_alloc(struct bpf_mem_cache c)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-783-\t * prog_A\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:784:\t * bpf_mem_alloc\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-785-\t * preemption or irq -\u003e prog_B\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:786:\t * bpf_mem_alloc\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-787-\t \n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=859=static void notrace unit_free_rcu(struct bpf_mem_cache c, void ptr)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-882- /\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:883:void notrace bpf_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, size_t size)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-884-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-900-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:901:void notrace bpf_mem_free(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-902-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-916-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:917:void notrace bpf_mem_free_rcu(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-918-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-932-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:933:void notrace bpf_mem_cache_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-934-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-940-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:941:void notrace bpf_mem_cache_free(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-942-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-948-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:949:void notrace bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void ptr)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-950-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-961- * It could be used when the rcu_tasks_trace callback does not have\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:962: * a hold on the original bpf_mem_alloc object that allocated the\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-963- * 'ptr'. This should only be used in the uncommon code path.\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:964: * Otherwise, the bpf_mem_alloc's free_llist cannot be refilled\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-965- * and may affect performance.\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=967=void bpf_mem_cache_raw_free(void ptr)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-978- /\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:979:void notrace bpf_mem_cache_alloc_flags(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, gfp_t flags)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-980-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-1001-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:1002:int bpf_mem_alloc_check_size(bool percpu, size_t size)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-1003-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-1011-\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:1012:void bpf_mem_alloc_set_dtor(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void (dtor)(void obj, void ctx),\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-1013-\t\t\t void (dtor_ctx_free)(void ctx), void ctx)\n--\nkernel/bpf/stream.c-5-#include \u003clinux/filter.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/stream.c:6:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/stream.c-7-#include \u003clinux/gfp.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-8-#include \u003clinux/filter.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c:9:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-10-#include \u003clinux/btf_ids.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c=863=__bpf_kfunc int bpf_iter_task_vma_new(struct bpf_iter_task_vma it,\n--\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-890-\t * before, so non-NULL kit-\u003edata doesn't point to previously\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c:891:\t * bpf_mem_alloc'd bpf_iter_task_vma_kern_data\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-892-\t /\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c:893:\tkit-\u003edata = bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_ma, sizeof(struct bpf_iter_task_vma_kern_data));\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-894-\tif (!kit-\u003edata)\n--\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c=1051=__bpf_kfunc int bpf_iter_css_task_new(struct bpf_iter_css_task it,\n--\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-1068-\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c:1069:\tkit-\u003ecss_it = bpf_mem_alloc(\u0026bpf_global_ma, sizeof(struct css_task_iter));\nkernel/bpf/task_iter.c-1070-\tif (!kit-\u003ecss_it)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-31-#include \u003clinux/cnum.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:32:#include \u003clinux/bpf_mem_alloc.h\u003e\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-33-#include \u003cnet/xdp.h\u003e\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=50=enum bpf_features {\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-55-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:56:struct bpf_mem_alloc bpf_global_percpu_ma;\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-57-static bool bpf_global_percpu_ma_set;\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=12771=static int check_special_kfunc(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12821-\t\t\t\t\t */\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12822:\t\t\t\t\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_init(\u0026bpf_global_percpu_ma, NULL);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12823-\t\t\t\t\tif (!err)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12831-\t\t\tmutex_lock(\u0026bpf_percpu_ma_lock);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12832:\t\t\terr = bpf_mem_alloc_percpu_unit_init(\u0026bpf_global_percpu_ma, ret_t-\u003esize);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12833-\t\t\tmutex_unlock(\u0026bpf_percpu_ma_lock);\n" }
35/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 77433 output: 37 thoughts: 24 Thoughts: Okay, let's dive into this. Here's my take on those thoughts, as though they were my own: Diving into the BPF Memory Allocation Alright, I need to get a better understanding of how memory allocation works within the BPF subsystem. Time to dig into the source code – specifically, the `bpf_mem_alloc` function located in `kernel/bpf/memalloc.c`. This is where the magic happens, or at least, a critical part of it. I'm hoping to understand the nuances of how BPF programs get their memory, how resources are managed, and if there are any interesting optimizations or potential bottlenecks I should be aware of. I'm particularly interested in any safeguards against memory leaks or denial-of-service attacks that might be built in. Let's see what's under the hood.
36/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/memalloc.c", "FirstLine": 883, "LineCount": 20 } Results: { "Contents": " 883:\tvoid notrace bpf_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, size_t size)\n 884:\t{\n 885:\t\tint idx;\n 886:\t\tvoid ret;\n 887:\t\n 888:\t\tif (!size)\n 889:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 890:\t\n 891:\t\tif (!ma-\u003epercpu)\n 892:\t\t\tsize += LLIST_NODE_SZ;\n 893:\t\tidx = bpf_mem_cache_idx(size);\n 894:\t\tif (idx \u003c 0)\n 895:\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 896:\t\n 897:\t\tret = unit_alloc(this_cpu_ptr(ma-\u003ecaches)-\u003ecache + idx);\n 898:\t\treturn !ret ? NULL : ret + LLIST_NODE_SZ;\n 899:\t}\n 900:\t\n 901:\tvoid notrace bpf_mem_free(struct bpf_mem_alloc ma, void *ptr)\n 902:\t{\n" }
37/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 77969 output: 37 thoughts: 6 Thoughts: Okay, here's my summary, framed as my internal thought process, assuming I'm a seasoned professional in this area: Analyzing `unit_alloc` – A Deep Dive Alright, let's break this down. `unit_alloc`… immediately, I'm thinking about the implications. What's the context? What kind of system are we dealing with? Is this related to memory management within a specific module, or a broader system-level allocator? I need more information to really dig in. The name itself suggests we're dealing with allocating memory units. The size of the unit is crucial: bytes, words, something custom? Are we talking about allocation from a static pool, a dynamic heap, or something more specialized like a persistent memory region? That detail has a massive impact on the implementation complexity. I’m already considering the potential for fragmentation: internal, external, or both? How does this `unit_alloc` handle free lists, buddy systems, or whatever mechanism is employed to keep track of available units? What are the tradeoffs between speed, memory overhead, and allocation/deallocation efficiency? I'm anticipating the potential for contention if this is being used in a multithreaded environment. Are there synchronization primitives in place? What is the expected usage pattern, and how does it influence the optimal allocation strategy? We should examine how this function interacts with error handling. Does it return null on failure, throw an exception, or employ a more complex error code scheme? What are the implications for debugging if allocation fails in a critical section of code? The goal is to design for reliability. And, looking at the code, what is the impact on performance? Is this impacting the runtime? Essentially, I'm mentally building a profile: potential use cases, likely constraints, performance considerations, and of course, any potential pitfalls. It's all about understanding the "why" behind this `unit_alloc` and its integration with the rest of the system. Let's see how well it's been implemented.
38/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/memalloc.c", "FirstLine": 776, "LineCount": 30 } Results: { "Contents": " 776:\tstatic void notrace unit_alloc(struct bpf_mem_cache c)\n 777:\t{\n 778:\t\tstruct llist_node llnode = NULL;\n 779:\t\tunsigned long flags;\n 780:\t\tint cnt = 0;\n 781:\t\n 782:\t\t/ Disable irqs to prevent the following race for majority of prog types:\n 783:\t\t * prog_A\n 784:\t\t * bpf_mem_alloc\n 785:\t\t * preemption or irq -\u003e prog_B\n 786:\t\t * bpf_mem_alloc\n 787:\t\t \n 788:\t\t but prog_B could be a perf_event NMI prog.\n 789:\t\t * Use per-cpu 'active' counter to order free_list access between\n 790:\t\t * unit_alloc/unit_free/bpf_mem_refill.\n 791:\t\t /\n 792:\t\tlocal_irq_save(flags);\n 793:\t\tif (local_inc_return(\u0026c-\u003eactive) == 1) {\n 794:\t\t\tllnode = __llist_del_first(\u0026c-\u003efree_llist);\n 795:\t\t\tif (llnode) {\n 796:\t\t\t\tcnt = --c-\u003efree_cnt;\n 797:\t\t\t\t(struct bpf_mem_cache **)llnode = c;\n 798:\t\t\t}\n 799:\t\t}\n 800:\t\tlocal_dec(\u0026c-\u003eactive);\n 801:\t\n 802:\t\tWARN_ON(cnt \u003c 0);\n 803:\t\n 804:\t\tif (cnt \u003c c-\u003elow_watermark)\n 805:\t\t\tirq_work_raise(c);\n" }
39/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 78911 output: 20 thoughts: 149 Thoughts: Memory Allocation and Object Initialization Okay, so it seems like `bpf_mem_alloc` doesn't actually zero out the memory it allocates. It just grabs a node from the free list. That's a crucial point, and it's easy to miss. I remember now that `bpf_obj_new` uses `bpf_mem_alloc` internally. But, hang on, it does something else after the allocation: ```c p = bpf_mem_alloc(&bpf_global_ma, size); if (!p) return NULL; if (meta) bpf_obj_init(meta->record, p); ``` Ah, right. It calls `bpf_obj_init` too. The question now is, what does `bpf_obj_init` do? I vaguely recall it's responsible for initializing specific fields related to the BPF object's internal state. But does it zero the entire allocation? I really should check the source, to make sure it doesn't initialize the entire block. I need to make sure I am not missing a critical security detail if these allocations are not clean, and can leave memory open.
40/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "bpf_obj_init" } Results: { "Output": "include/linux/bpf.h=421=static inline u32 btf_field_type_align(enum btf_field_type type)\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-454-\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:455:static inline void bpf_obj_init_field(const struct btf_field field, void addr)\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-456-{\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h=511=static inline bool btf_record_has_nmi_unsafe_fields(const struct btf_record rec)\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-523-\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:524:static inline void bpf_obj_init(const struct btf_record rec, void obj)\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-525-{\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-530-\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c rec-\u003ecnt; i++)\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:531:\t\tbpf_obj_init_field(\u0026rec-\u003efields[i], obj + rec-\u003efields[i].offset);\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-532-}\n--\ninclude/linux/bpf.h=541=static inline void check_and_init_map_value(struct bpf_map map, void dst)\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-542-{\ninclude/linux/bpf.h:543:\tbpf_obj_init(map-\u003erecord, dst);\ninclude/linux/bpf.h-544-}\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2350=__bpf_kfunc void bpf_obj_new(u64 local_type_id__k, struct btf_struct_meta meta)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2358-\tif (meta)\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2359:\t\tbpf_obj_init(meta-\u003erecord, p);\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2360-\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2486=static int __bpf_list_add(struct bpf_list_node_kern node,\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2493-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2494:\t/* If list_head was 0-initialized by map, bpf_obj_init_field wasn't\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2495-\t * called on its fields, so init here\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2597=static struct bpf_list_node __bpf_list_del(struct bpf_list_head head,\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2602-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2603:\t/* If list_head was 0-initialized by map, bpf_obj_init_field wasn't\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2604-\t * called on its fields, so init here\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c=2690=__bpf_kfunc bool bpf_list_empty(struct bpf_list_head head)\n--\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2693-\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c:2694:\t/ If list_head was 0-initialized by map, bpf_obj_init_field wasn't\nkernel/bpf/helpers.c-2695-\t * called on its fields, so init here\n" }
41/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 80244 output: 17 thoughts: 108 Thoughts: Memory Allocation Mystery Okay, hold on a second. I was under the impression that `bpf_obj_new` was supposed to handle zero-initialization, but now I'm doubting that. I need to confirm that. Let me double-check how `bpf_mem_alloc` actually behaves. Could it be that the zeroing happens later, maybe when the memory is returned to the cache? Alright, let's step through this. Peeking into `unit_alloc`, I can see it just pulls from `free_llist`. That's a direct grab. And then, when a unit is freed, `unit_free` just shoves it back onto that same `free_llist`. So, no immediate zeroing going on there. Aha! Now I remember... the critical piece is when memory is actually allocated from the slab itself within `alloc_bulk`. Does that call use `__GFP_ZERO`? That's the crucial question. If it does, then the zero-initialization is happening down in the slab allocator, which makes sense. If not, then we have a potential bug! I need to trace that call path and verify.
42/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "alloc_bulk" } Results: { "Output": "block/blk-crypto-fallback.c=172=static struct bio blk_crypto_alloc_enc_bio(struct bio bio_src,\n--\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c-202-\t * Try a bulk allocation first. This might not fill all allocated\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c:203:\t * pages, but we'll fix that up later in mempool_alloc_bulk.\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c-204-\t \n--\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c-210-\tif (nr_allocated \u003c nr_segs)\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c:211:\t\tmempool_alloc_bulk(blk_crypto_bounce_page_pool,\nblock/blk-crypto-fallback.c-212-\t\t\t\t(void )pages + nr_allocated,\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c=2110=static struct urb alloc_ctrl_urb(struct hci_dev hdev, struct sk_buff skb)\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2142-\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2143:static struct urb alloc_bulk_urb(struct hci_dev hdev, struct sk_buff skb)\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2144-{\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c=2243=static int btusb_send_frame(struct hci_dev hdev, struct sk_buff skb)\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2258-\tcase HCI_ACLDATA_PKT:\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2259:\t\turb = alloc_bulk_urb(hdev, skb);\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2260-\t\tif (IS_ERR(urb))\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2278-\tcase HCI_ISODATA_PKT:\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2279:\t\turb = alloc_bulk_urb(hdev, skb);\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2280-\t\tif (IS_ERR(urb))\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c=2702=static int btusb_send_frame_intel(struct hci_dev hdev, struct sk_buff skb)\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2718-\t\t\tif (opcode == 0xfc09)\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2719:\t\t\t\turb = alloc_bulk_urb(hdev, skb);\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2720-\t\t\telse\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2739-\tcase HCI_ACLDATA_PKT:\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2740:\t\turb = alloc_bulk_urb(hdev, skb);\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2741-\t\tif (IS_ERR(urb))\n--\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2759-\tcase HCI_ISODATA_PKT:\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:2760:\t\turb = alloc_bulk_urb(hdev, skb);\ndrivers/bluetooth/btusb.c-2761-\t\tif (IS_ERR(urb))\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c=386=static const struct drm_driver gud_drm_driver = {\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c-397-\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c:398:static int gud_alloc_bulk_buffer(struct gud_device gdrm)\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c-399-{\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c=436=static int gud_probe(struct usb_interface intf, const struct usb_device_id id)\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c-595-\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c:596:\tret = gud_alloc_bulk_buffer(gdrm);\ndrivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_drv.c-597-\tif (ret)\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c=330=msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_allocate(struct msm_mmu mmu, struct msm_mmu_prealloc p)\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c-342-\ndrivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c:343:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(pt_cache, GFP_KERNEL, p-\u003ecount, p-\u003epages)) {\ndrivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c-344-\t\tkvfree(p-\u003epages);\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c=1247=static int panthor_vm_op_ctx_prealloc_pts(struct panthor_vm_op_ctx op_ctx)\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c-1265-\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c:1266:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(pt_cache, GFP_KERNEL, pt_count,\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c-1267-\t\t\t\t op_ctx-\u003ersvd_page_tables.pages)) {\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c=1365=static int panthor_vm_prepare_unmap_op_ctx(struct panthor_vm_op_ctx op_ctx,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c-1398-\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c:1399:\t\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(pt_cache, GFP_KERNEL, pt_count,\ndrivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c-1400-\t\t\t\top_ctx-\u003ersvd_page_tables.pages)) {\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c=117=static int usb_urb_free_urbs(struct usb_data_stream stream)\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-135-\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c:136:static int usb_urb_alloc_bulk_urbs(struct usb_data_stream stream)\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-137-{\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c=250=int usb_urb_reconfig(struct usb_data_stream stream,\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-298-\tif (props-\u003etype == USB_BULK)\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c:299:\t\treturn usb_urb_alloc_bulk_urbs(stream);\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-300-\telse if (props-\u003etype == USB_ISOC)\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c=306=int usb_urb_initv2(struct usb_data_stream stream,\n--\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-329-\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c:330:\t\treturn usb_urb_alloc_bulk_urbs(stream);\ndrivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/usb_urb.c-331-\tcase USB_ISOC:\n--\ninclude/linux/mempool.h=65=void mempool_alloc_noprof(struct mempool pool, gfp_t gfp_mask) __malloc;\n--\ninclude/linux/mempool.h-67-\talloc_hooks(mempool_alloc_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))\ninclude/linux/mempool.h:68:int mempool_alloc_bulk_noprof(struct mempool pool, void elem,\ninclude/linux/mempool.h-69-\t\tunsigned int count);\ninclude/linux/mempool.h:70:#define mempool_alloc_bulk(...)\t\t\t\t\t\t\\\ninclude/linux/mempool.h:71:\talloc_hooks(mempool_alloc_bulk_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))\ninclude/linux/mempool.h-72-\n--\ninclude/linux/slab.h=901=void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache s, size_t size, void *p);\ninclude/linux/slab.h-902-\ninclude/linux/slab.h:903:bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t flags,\ninclude/linux/slab.h-904-\t\tsize_t size, void *p);\ninclude/linux/slab.h:905:#define kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(...) \\\ninclude/linux/slab.h:906:\talloc_hooks(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))\ninclude/linux/slab.h-907-\n--\nio_uring/io_uring.c=977=__cold bool __io_alloc_req_refill(struct io_ring_ctx ctx)\n--\nio_uring/io_uring.c-987-\t /\nio_uring/io_uring.c:988:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(req_cachep, gfp, nr_reqs, reqs)) {\nio_uring/io_uring.c-989-\t\treqs[0] = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, gfp);\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=171=static void inc_active(struct bpf_mem_cache c, unsigned long flags)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-179-\t\tlocal_irq_save(flags);\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:180:\t/* alloc_bulk runs from irq_work which will not preempt a bpf\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-181-\t * program that does unit_alloc/unit_free since IRQs are\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=196=static void add_obj_to_free_list(struct bpf_mem_cache c, void obj)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-206-/* Mostly runs from irq_work except __init phase. /\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:207:static void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache c, int cnt, int node, bool atomic)\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-208-{\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=420=static void bpf_mem_refill(struct irq_work work)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-430-\t\t /\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:431:\t\talloc_bulk(c, c-\u003ebatch, NUMA_NO_NODE, true);\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-432-\telse if (cnt \u003e c-\u003ehigh_watermark)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c=481=static void prefill_mem_cache(struct bpf_mem_cache c, int cpu)\n--\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-491-\t\tcnt = 4;\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c:492:\talloc_bulk(c, cnt, cpu_to_node(cpu), false);\nkernel/bpf/memalloc.c-493-}\n--\nlib/test_meminit.c=216=static int __init do_kmem_cache_size(size_t size, bool want_ctor,\n--\nlib/test_meminit.c-231-\t\tif (!want_rcu \u0026\u0026 !want_ctor) {\nlib/test_meminit.c:232:\t\t\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(c, alloc_mask, BULK_SIZE,\nlib/test_meminit.c-233-\t\t\t\t\tbulk_array)) {\n--\nlib/test_meminit.c=345=static int __init do_kmem_cache_size_bulk(int size, int total_failures)\n--\nlib/test_meminit.c-354-\tfor (iter = 0; (iter \u003c maxiter) \u0026\u0026 !fail; iter++) {\nlib/test_meminit.c:355:\t\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(c, GFP_KERNEL, ARRAY_SIZE(objects),\nlib/test_meminit.c-356-\t\t\t\tobjects))\n--\nmm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c=1223=static void kmem_cache_bulk(struct kunit test)\n--\nmm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c-1232-\nmm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c:1233:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(cache, GFP_KERNEL, ARRAY_SIZE(p),\nmm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c-1234-\t\t\t(void )\u0026p)) {\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c=709=static void test_krealloc(struct kunit test)\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-748-/* Test that some objects from a bulk allocation belong to KFENCE pool. /\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c:749:static void test_memcache_alloc_bulk(struct kunit test)\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-750-{\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-765-\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c:766:\t\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(test_cache, GFP_ATOMIC,\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-767-\t\t\t\tARRAY_SIZE(objects), objects))\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-776-\t\t/\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c:777:\t\t kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() disables interrupts, and calling it\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-778-\t\t * in a tight loop may not give KFENCE a chance to switch the\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c=797=static struct kunit_case kfence_test_cases[] = {\n--\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-814-\tKUNIT_CASE(test_krealloc),\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c:815:\tKUNIT_CASE(test_memcache_alloc_bulk),\nmm/kfence/kfence_test.c-816-\t{},\n--\nmm/memcontrol.c=3537=bool __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache s, struct list_lru lru,\n--\nmm/memcontrol.c-3557-\t * slab_alloc_node() avoids the NULL check, so we might be called with a\nmm/memcontrol.c:3558:\t * single NULL object. kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() aborts if it can't fill\nmm/memcontrol.c-3559-\t * the whole requested size.\n--\nmm/mempool.c=21=static DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(fail_mempool_alloc);\nmm/mempool.c:22:static DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(fail_mempool_alloc_bulk);\nmm/mempool.c-23-\nmm/mempool.c=24=static int __init mempool_faul_inject_init(void)\n--\nmm/mempool.c-34-\treturn PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(\nmm/mempool.c:35:\t\tfault_create_debugfs_attr(\"fail_mempool_alloc_bulk\", NULL,\nmm/mempool.c:36:\t\t\u0026fail_mempool_alloc_bulk));\nmm/mempool.c-37-}\n--\nmm/mempool.c=467=static inline gfp_t mempool_adjust_gfp(gfp_t gfp_mask)\n--\nmm/mempool.c-473-/\nmm/mempool.c:474: mempool_alloc_bulk - allocate multiple elements from a memory pool\nmm/mempool.c-475- * @pool:\tpointer to the memory pool\n--\nmm/mempool.c-486- /\nmm/mempool.c:487:int mempool_alloc_bulk_noprof(struct mempool pool, void *elems,\nmm/mempool.c-488-\t\tunsigned int count)\n--\nmm/mempool.c-500-\t /\nmm/mempool.c:501:\tif (should_fail_ex(\u0026fail_mempool_alloc_bulk, 1, FAULT_NOWARN)) {\nmm/mempool.c-502-\t\tpr_info(\"forcing mempool usage for %pS\\n\",\n--\nmm/mempool.c-526-}\nmm/mempool.c:527:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mempool_alloc_bulk_noprof);\nmm/mempool.c-528-\n--\nmm/slub.c=4997=static int __prefill_sheaf_pfmemalloc(struct kmem_cache s,\n--\nmm/slub.c-5021-\nmm/slub.c:5022:static bool __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t flags,\nmm/slub.c-5023-\t\tsize_t size, void *p);\n--\nmm/slub.c=5032=kmem_cache_prefill_sheaf(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t gfp, unsigned int size)\n--\nmm/slub.c-5053-\t\t /\nmm/slub.c:5054:\t\tif (!__kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, gfp, size,\nmm/slub.c-5055-\t\t\t\t\t \u0026sheaf-\u003eobjects[0])) {\n--\nmm/slub.c=5173=int kmem_cache_refill_sheaf(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t gfp,\n--\nmm/slub.c-5192-\nmm/slub.c:5193:\t\tif (!__kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, gfp, sheaf-\u003ecapacity - sheaf-\u003esize,\nmm/slub.c-5194-\t\t\t\t\t \u0026sheaf-\u003eobjects[sheaf-\u003esize]))\n--\nmm/slub.c=7290=refill_objects(struct kmem_cache s, void p, gfp_t gfp, unsigned int min,\n--\nmm/slub.c-7325-\nmm/slub.c:7326:static bool __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t flags,\nmm/slub.c-7327-\t\tsize_t size, void p)\n--\nmm/slub.c-7359-/\nmm/slub.c:7360: * kmem_cache_alloc_bulk - Allocate multiple objects\nmm/slub.c-7361- * @s:\t\tThe cache to allocate from\n--\nmm/slub.c-7375- /\nmm/slub.c:7376:bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t flags,\nmm/slub.c-7377-\t\tsize_t size, void *p)\n--\nmm/slub.c-7412-\t\t /\nmm/slub.c:7413:\t\tif (unlikely(!__kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, flags, size - i,\nmm/slub.c-7414-\t\t\t\tp + i))) {\n--\nmm/slub.c-7436-}\nmm/slub.c:7437:EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof);\nmm/slub.c-7438-\n--\nnet/bpf/test_run.c=241=static int xdp_recv_frames(struct xdp_frame frames, int nframes,\n--\nnet/bpf/test_run.c-248-\nnet/bpf/test_run.c:249:\tif (unlikely(!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(net_hotdata.skbuff_cache, gfp,\nnet/bpf/test_run.c-250-\t\t\t\t\t nframes, (void )skbs))) {\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c=284=static inline struct sk_buff napi_skb_cache_get(bool alloc)\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c-290-\tif (unlikely(!nc-\u003eskb_count)) {\nnet/core/skbuff.c:291:\t\tif (alloc \u0026\u0026 kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(net_hotdata.skbuff_cache,\nnet/core/skbuff.c-292-\t\t\t\t\t\t GFP_ATOMIC \| __GFP_NOWARN,\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c=316=static inline void skbuff_clear(struct sk_buff skb)\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c-341- * Return: number of successfully allocated skbs (@n if no actual allocation\nnet/core/skbuff.c:342: \t needed or kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() didn't fail).\nnet/core/skbuff.c-343- /\nnet/core/skbuff.c=344=u32 napi_skb_cache_get_bulk(void *skbs, u32 n)\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c-355-\tbulk = min(NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE - nc-\u003eskb_count, NAPI_SKB_CACHE_BULK);\nnet/core/skbuff.c:356:\tif (kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(net_hotdata.skbuff_cache,\nnet/core/skbuff.c-357-\t\t\t\t GFP_ATOMIC \| __GFP_NOWARN, bulk,\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c-363-\t/ Still not enough. Bulk-allocate the missing part directly, zeroed /\nnet/core/skbuff.c:364:\tif (kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(net_hotdata.skbuff_cache,\nnet/core/skbuff.c-365-\t\t\t\t GFP_ATOMIC \| __GFP_ZERO \| __GFP_NOWARN,\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c=5183=static void skb_extensions_init(void) {}\n--\nnet/core/skbuff.c-5191-#define FLAG_SKB_NO_MERGE\tSLAB_NO_MERGE\nnet/core/skbuff.c:5192:#else / CONFIG_SLUB_TINY - simple loop in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk /\nnet/core/skbuff.c-5193-#define FLAG_SKB_NO_MERGE\t0\n--\ntools/include/linux/slab.h=185=void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache cachep, size_t size, void *list);\ntools/include/linux/slab.h:186:bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache cachep, gfp_t gfp, size_t size,\ntools/include/linux/slab.h-187-\t\t\t void *list);\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c=153=void kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache cachep)\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-156-\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c:157:bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache cachep, gfp_t gfp, size_t size,\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-158-\t\t\t void p)\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c=255=kmem_cache_prefill_sheaf(struct kmem_cache s, gfp_t gfp, unsigned int size)\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-274-\tsheaf-\u003esize = size;\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c:275:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, gfp, size, sheaf-\u003eobjects)) {\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-276-\t\tfree(sheaf);\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c=283=int kmem_cache_refill_sheaf(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfp,\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-300-\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c:301:\tif (!kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, gfp, size - sheaf-\u003esize,\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-302-\t\t\t\u0026sheaf-\u003eobjects[sheaf-\u003esize]))\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c=337=void test_kmem_cache_bulk(void)\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-355-\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c:356:\tkmem_cache_alloc_bulk(test_cache, __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, 5, list);\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-357-\tkmem_cache_free_bulk(test_cache, 5, list);\n--\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-370-\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c:371:\tkmem_cache_alloc_bulk(test_cache2, __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, 10, list);\ntools/testing/shared/linux.c-372-\tkmem_cache_free_bulk(test_cache2, 10, list);\n" }
43/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 87330 output: 37 thoughts: 60 Thoughts: Examining the BPF Memory Allocation Okay, hold on a second. I need to make sure I'm following the flow correctly. I thought `alloc_bulk` in `kernel/bpf/memalloc.c` was calling `unit_alloc`, which would have made sense... but that's not right. It looks like `alloc_bulk` is actually pulling from the slab allocator. Okay, got it. Let me just double-check that by taking a closer look at the `alloc_bulk` implementation itself in `kernel/bpf/memalloc.c`. I need to solidify my understanding of the exact memory allocation path here.
44/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/memalloc.c", "FirstLine": 207, "LineCount": 40 } Results: { "Contents": " 207:\tstatic void alloc_bulk(struct bpf_mem_cache c, int cnt, int node, bool atomic)\n 208:\t{\n 209:\t\tstruct mem_cgroup memcg = NULL, old_memcg;\n 210:\t\tgfp_t gfp;\n 211:\t\tvoid obj;\n 212:\t\tint i;\n 213:\t\n 214:\t\tgfp = __GFP_NOWARN \| __GFP_ACCOUNT;\n 215:\t\tgfp \|= atomic ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;\n 216:\t\n 217:\t\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c cnt; i++) {\n 218:\t\t\t/\n 219:\t\t\t For every 'c' llist_del_first(\u0026c-\u003efree_by_rcu_ttrace); is\n 220:\t\t\t * done only by one CPU == current CPU. Other CPUs might\n 221:\t\t\t * llist_add() and llist_del_all() in parallel.\n 222:\t\t\t /\n 223:\t\t\tobj = llist_del_first(\u0026c-\u003efree_by_rcu_ttrace);\n 224:\t\t\tif (!obj)\n 225:\t\t\t\tbreak;\n 226:\t\t\tadd_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);\n 227:\t\t}\n 228:\t\tif (i \u003e= cnt)\n 229:\t\t\treturn;\n 230:\t\n 231:\t\tfor (; i \u003c cnt; i++) {\n 232:\t\t\tobj = llist_del_first(\u0026c-\u003ewaiting_for_gp_ttrace);\n 233:\t\t\tif (!obj)\n 234:\t\t\t\tbreak;\n 235:\t\t\tadd_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);\n 236:\t\t}\n 237:\t\tif (i \u003e= cnt)\n 238:\t\t\treturn;\n 239:\t\n 240:\t\tmemcg = get_memcg(c);\n 241:\t\told_memcg = set_active_memcg(memcg);\n 242:\t\tfor (; i \u003c cnt; i++) {\n 243:\t\t\t/ Allocate, but don't deplete atomic reserves that typical\n 244:\t\t\t * GFP_ATOMIC would do. irq_work runs on this cpu and kmalloc\n 245:\t\t\t * will allocate from the current numa node which is what we\n 246:\t\t\t * want here.\n" }
45/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 88205 output: 37 thoughts: 13 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, tailored for an expert audience, and written in the first person: Diving Deeper into `alloc_bulk` Alright, I'm taking another look at the `alloc_bulk` function. My initial read-through gave me a good overview, but I want to refresh my memory on the details. I suspect I might be able to glean something new by reviewing it in context. Perhaps I will see an optimization opportunity, or maybe just a subtle nuance I missed before regarding memory management that will inform my next refactor of the system. I also need to be certain I understand the edge cases in its current implementation. Let's see...
46/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/memalloc.c", "FirstLine": 247, "LineCount": 20 } Results: { "Contents": " 247:\t\t\t /\n 248:\t\t\tobj = __alloc(c, node, gfp);\n 249:\t\t\tif (!obj)\n 250:\t\t\t\tbreak;\n 251:\t\t\tadd_obj_to_free_list(c, obj);\n 252:\t\t}\n 253:\t\tset_active_memcg(old_memcg);\n 254:\t\tmem_cgroup_put(memcg);\n 255:\t}\n 256:\t\n 257:\tstatic void free_one(void obj, bool percpu)\n 258:\t{\n 259:\t\tif (percpu)\n 260:\t\t\tfree_percpu(((void __percpu *)obj)[1]);\n 261:\t\n 262:\t\tkfree(obj);\n 263:\t}\n 264:\t\n 265:\tstatic int free_all(struct bpf_mem_cache c, struct llist_node *llnode, bool percpu)\n 266:\t{\n" }
47/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 88683 output: 16 thoughts: 5 Thoughts: Okay, here's my attempt at summarizing the thought process, tailored for an expert audience, and written in the first person: My Mental Model of Allocation Alright, let's break down this allocation process. When I think about memory allocation, I'm immediately concerned with the efficiency and safety aspects. I'm visualizing the underlying memory pool, the available chunks, and the metadata that manages them. The key is minimizing fragmentation, both internal and external, while ensuring thread safety if multi-threading is in play. I'm thinking about the tradeoffs between different allocation strategies, like first-fit, best-fit, and worst-fit, and when each is appropriate, given the typical allocation sizes and deallocation patterns of the application. Then, there's the `__alloc` function itself. I'm picturing its role in the system. Is this a custom allocator? Is it managing a fixed-size block or a more dynamic one? I need to consider its signature - what arguments does it take? Most importantly, I'm analyzing the return value: a raw pointer to a block of memory, ready to use. I'm immediately running through the checks. Does it handle edge cases? What about zero-sized allocations? Does it throw an exception or return a null pointer? And does it keep a record of its allocations, for deallocation? I'm checking for race conditions, especially if there is concurrency to consider. The locking mechanisms or atomic operations at play are what I want to understand. Is there potential for deadlock? Beyond that, are there performance penalties imposed by those locks? What are the implications for cache coherency? I'm also thinking about potential memory leaks. Without a corresponding `__dealloc`, all allocations are suspect. I'm mentally tracing the potential call paths for both `__alloc` and `__dealloc` to see how they interact. Are they correctly paired? Are there opportunities for premature deallocation or double-frees? This is also where I'd start looking at how to integrate a memory debugger for deeper examination. Finally, I'm thinking about exception handling and error reporting. How does the allocator signal failure? Does it provide any debugging information, such as the size requested or perhaps a stack trace of where the allocation happened? All of these aspects come into focus as I am attempting to grok how the `__alloc` routine functions in this system.
48/3	2026/08/12 18:27	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "__alloc" } Results: { "Output": "\nFull output is too long, showing 500 out of 2799 lines.\nUse more precise expression if possible.\n\nDocumentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst=282=take action.\n--\nDocumentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst-286- /dev/cpuset/memory_pressure_enabled, the hook in the rebalance\nDocumentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst:287: code of __alloc_pages() for this metric reduces to simply noticing\nDocumentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst-288- that the cpuset_memory_pressure_enabled flag is zero. So only\n--\nDocumentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst=763=It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function\nDocumentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst:764:tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages() and\nDocumentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst-765-using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were\n--\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst=65=Usage\n--\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-82-\t get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst:83:\t __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-84-\t allocate_slab+0xbc/0x3f0\n--\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-104-\t get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst:105:\t __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-106-\t alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490\n--\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-131-\t get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst:132:\t __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0\nDocumentation/mm/page_owner.rst-133-\t alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490\n--\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst=32=page owner在默认情况下是禁用的。所以，如果你想使用它，你需要在你的启动cmdline\n--\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst-69-\t get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst:70:\t __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst-71-\t allocate_slab+0xbc/0x3f0\n--\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst-91-\t get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst:92:\t __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0\nDocumentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst-93-\t alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=166=static void __dma_free_buffer(struct page page, size_t size)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-175-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:176:static void __alloc_from_contiguous(struct device dev, size_t size,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-177-\t\t\t\t pgprot_t prot, struct page ret_page,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-180-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:181:static void __alloc_remap_buffer(struct device dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-182-\t\t\t\t pgprot_t prot, struct page ret_page,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=200=static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-214-\tif (dev_get_cma_area(NULL))\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:215:\t\tptr = __alloc_from_contiguous(NULL, atomic_pool_size, prot,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-216-\t\t\t\t \u0026page, atomic_pool_init, true, NORMAL,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-218-\telse\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:219:\t\tptr = __alloc_remap_buffer(NULL, atomic_pool_size, gfp, prot,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-220-\t\t\t\t\t \u0026page, atomic_pool_init, true);\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=319=static void __dma_remap(struct page page, size_t size, pgprot_t prot)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-327-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:328:static void __alloc_remap_buffer(struct device dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-329-\t\t\t\t pgprot_t prot, struct page *ret_page,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-334-\t/\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:335:\t * __alloc_remap_buffer is only called when the device is\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-336-\t * non-coherent\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-354-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:355:static void __alloc_from_pool(size_t size, struct page ret_page)\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-356-{\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=381=static int __free_from_pool(void start, size_t size)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-390-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:391:static void __alloc_from_contiguous(struct device dev, size_t size,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-392-\t\t\t\t pgprot_t prot, struct page *ret_page,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=438=static inline pgprot_t __get_dma_pgprot(unsigned long attrs, pgprot_t prot)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-445-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:446:static void __alloc_simple_buffer(struct device dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-447-\t\t\t\t struct page ret_page)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-449-\tstruct page page;\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:450:\t/* __alloc_simple_buffer is only called when the device is coherent /\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-451-\tpage = __dma_alloc_buffer(dev, size, gfp, COHERENT);\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=459=static void simple_allocator_alloc(struct arm_dma_alloc_args args,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-461-{\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:462:\treturn __alloc_simple_buffer(args-\u003edev, args-\u003esize, args-\u003egfp,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-463-\t\t\t\t ret_page);\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=476=static void cma_allocator_alloc(struct arm_dma_alloc_args args,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-478-{\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:479:\treturn __alloc_from_contiguous(args-\u003edev, args-\u003esize, args-\u003eprot,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-480-\t\t\t\t ret_page, args-\u003ecaller,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=496=static void pool_allocator_alloc(struct arm_dma_alloc_args args,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-498-{\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:499:\treturn __alloc_from_pool(args-\u003esize, ret_page);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-500-}\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=512=static void remap_allocator_alloc(struct arm_dma_alloc_args args,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-514-{\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:515:\treturn __alloc_remap_buffer(args-\u003edev, args-\u003esize, args-\u003egfp,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-516-\t\t\t\t args-\u003eprot, ret_page, args-\u003ecaller,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=752=static int extend_iommu_mapping(struct dma_iommu_mapping mapping);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-753-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:754:static inline dma_addr_t __alloc_iova(struct dma_iommu_mapping mapping,\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-755-\t\t\t\t size_t size)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=812=static inline void __free_iova(struct dma_iommu_mapping mapping,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-834-\t\t * range of the next bitmap. This should not happen as\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:835:\t\t * we don't allow this in __alloc_iova (at the\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-836-\t\t * moment).\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=960=__iommu_create_mapping(struct device dev, struct page pages, size_t size,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-967-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:968:\tdma_addr = __alloc_iova(mapping, size);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-969-\tif (dma_addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=1038=static void __iommu_alloc_simple(struct device dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1045-\tif (coherent_flag == COHERENT)\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1046:\t\taddr = __alloc_simple_buffer(dev, size, gfp, \u0026page);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1047-\telse\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1048:\t\taddr = __alloc_from_pool(size, \u0026page);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1049-\tif (!addr)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=1183=static int __map_sg_chunk(struct device dev, struct scatterlist sg,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1196-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1197:\tiova_base = iova = __alloc_iova(mapping, size);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1198-\tif (iova == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c=1365=static dma_addr_t arm_iommu_map_phys(struct device dev, phys_addr_t phys,\n--\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1377-\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1378:\tdma_addr = __alloc_iova(mapping, len);\narch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c-1379-\tif (dma_addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)\n--\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c=437=static int __init xen_guest_init(void)\n--\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-488-\t /\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c:489:\txen_vcpu_info = __alloc_percpu(sizeof(struct vcpu_info),\narch/arm/xen/enlighten.c-490-\t\t\t\t 1 \u003c\u003c fls(sizeof(struct vcpu_info) - 1));\n--\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c=2098=struct bpf_prog bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_prog prog)\n--\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-2132-\t\t\t\t 2 * PRIV_STACK_GUARD_SZ;\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:2133:\t\tpriv_stack_ptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(priv_stack_alloc_sz, 16, GFP_KERNEL);\narch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-2134-\t\tif (!priv_stack_ptr)\n--\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h=57=static inline void switch_mmu_context(struct mm_struct prev,\n--\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h-65-\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h:66:extern int hash__alloc_context_id(void);\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h-67-void __init hash__reserve_context_id(int id);\n--\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h=72=static inline int alloc_extended_context(struct mm_struct mm,\n--\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h-78-\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h:79:\tcontext_id = hash__alloc_context_id();\narch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h-80-\tif (context_id \u003c 0)\n--\narch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c=389=int kvmppc_mmu_init_pr(struct kvm_vcpu vcpu)\n--\narch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c-393-\narch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c:394:\terr = hash__alloc_context_id();\narch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c-395-\tif (err \u003c 0)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c=35=void __init hash__reserve_context_id(int id)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-41-\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c:42:int hash__alloc_context_id(void)\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-43-{\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-52-}\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c:53:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hash__alloc_context_id);\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-54-#endif\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c=57=static int realloc_context_ids(mm_context_t ctx)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-74-\t\tif (i == 0 \|\| ctx-\u003eextended_id[i]) {\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c:75:\t\t\tid = hash__alloc_context_id();\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/mmu_context.c-76-\t\t\tif (id \u003c 0)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c=370=static pmd_t get_pmd_from_cache(struct mm_struct mm)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c-391-\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c:392:static pmd_t __alloc_for_pmdcache(struct mm_struct mm)\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c-393-{\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c=433=pmd_t pmd_fragment_alloc(struct mm_struct mm, unsigned long vmaddr)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c-440-\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c:441:\treturn __alloc_for_pmdcache(mm);\narch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c-442-}\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c=127=int __init alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate h, int nid)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c-133-#endif\narch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:134:\treturn __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(h, nid);\narch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c-135-}\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c=34=static pte_t get_pte_from_cache(struct mm_struct mm)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c-55-\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c:56:static pte_t __alloc_for_ptecache(struct mm_struct mm, int kernel)\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c-57-{\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c=97=pte_t pte_fragment_alloc(struct mm_struct mm, int kernel)\n--\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c-104-\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c:105:\treturn __alloc_for_ptecache(mm, kernel);\narch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c-106-}\n--\narch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c=165=struct bpf_prog bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_prog fp)\n--\narch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-206-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2 * PRIV_STACK_GUARD_SZ;\narch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:207:\t\tpriv_stack_ptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(priv_stack_alloc_size, 16, GFP_KERNEL);\narch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-208-\t\tif (!priv_stack_ptr)\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci.c=510=void zpci_update_fh(struct zpci_dev zdev, u32 fh)\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci.c-521-\narch/s390/pci/pci.c:522:static struct resource __alloc_res(struct zpci_dev zdev, unsigned long start,\narch/s390/pci/pci.c-523-\t\t\t\t unsigned long size, unsigned long flags)\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci.c=543=int zpci_setup_bus_resources(struct zpci_dev zdev)\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci.c-572-\narch/s390/pci/pci.c:573:\t\tres = __alloc_res(zdev, addr, size, flags);\narch/s390/pci/pci.c-574-\t\tif (!res) {\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c=256=static void zpci_floating_irq_handler(struct airq_struct airq,\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c-296-\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c:297:static int __alloc_airq(struct zpci_dev zdev, int msi_vecs,\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c-298-\t\t\tunsigned long bit)\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c=368=static int zpci_msi_prepare(struct irq_domain domain,\n--\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c-382-\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c:383:\trc = __alloc_airq(zdev, msi_vecs, \u0026bit);\narch/s390/pci/pci_irq.c-384-\tif (rc) {\n--\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c=829=static void dsalloc_pages(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int cpu)\n--\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c-834-\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c:835:\tpage = __alloc_pages_node(node, flags \| __GFP_ZERO, order);\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c-836-\treturn page ? page_address(page) : NULL;\n--\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c=1075=void init_arch_pebs_on_cpu(int cpu)\n--\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c-1090-\t 4KB-aligned pointer of the output buffer\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c:1091:\t * (__alloc_pages_node() return page aligned address)\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c-1092-\t * Buffer Size = 4KB * 2^SIZE\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c:1093:\t * contiguous physical buffer (__alloc_pages_node() with order)\narch/x86/events/intel/ds.c-1094-\t /\n--\narch/x86/include/asm/fpu/signal.h=26=unsigned long\narch/x86/include/asm/fpu/signal.h:27:fpu__alloc_mathframe(unsigned long sp, int ia32_frame,\narch/x86/include/asm/fpu/signal.h-28-\t\t unsigned long buf_fx, unsigned long size);\n--\narch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c=494=unsigned long\narch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:495:fpu__alloc_mathframe(unsigned long sp, int ia32_frame,\narch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c-496-\t\t unsigned long buf_fx, unsigned long size)\n--\narch/x86/kernel/signal.c=94=get_sigframe(struct ksignal ksig, struct pt_regs regs, size_t frame_size,\n--\narch/x86/kernel/signal.c-131-\narch/x86/kernel/signal.c:132:\tsp = fpu__alloc_mathframe(sp, ia32_frame, \u0026buf_fx, \u0026math_size);\narch/x86/kernel/signal.c-133-\tfpstate = (void __user )sp;\n--\narch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c=3024=struct vmcs alloc_vmcs_cpu(bool shadow, int cpu, gfp_t flags)\n--\narch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c-3029-\narch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:3030:\tpages = __alloc_pages_node(node, flags, 0);\narch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c-3031-\tif (!pages)\n--\narch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c=3943=struct bpf_prog bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_prog prog)\n--\narch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-3977-\t\t\t\t 2 PRIV_STACK_GUARD_SZ;\narch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:3978:\t\tpriv_stack_ptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(priv_stack_alloc_sz, 8, GFP_KERNEL);\narch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c-3979-\t\tif (!priv_stack_ptr)\n--\narch/x86/virt/hw.c=165=static __init int __x86_vmx_init(void)\n--\narch/x86/virt/hw.c-198-\narch/x86/virt/hw.c:199:\t\tpage = __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL \| __GFP_ZERO, 0);\narch/x86/virt/hw.c-200-\t\tif (WARN_ON_ONCE(!page)) {\n--\nblock/blk-iolatency.c=968=static struct blkg_policy_data iolatency_pd_alloc(struct gendisk disk,\n--\nblock/blk-iolatency.c-975-\t\treturn NULL;\nblock/blk-iolatency.c:976:\tiolat-\u003estats = __alloc_percpu_gfp(sizeof(struct latency_stat),\nblock/blk-iolatency.c-977-\t\t\t\t __alignof__(struct latency_stat), gfp);\n--\nblock/blk-mq.c=4460=struct gendisk __blk_mq_alloc_disk(struct blk_mq_tag_set set,\n--\nblock/blk-mq.c-4470-\nblock/blk-mq.c:4471:\tdisk = __alloc_disk_node(q, set-\u003enuma_node, lkclass);\nblock/blk-mq.c-4472-\tif (!disk) {\n--\nblock/blk-mq.c=4482=struct gendisk blk_mq_alloc_disk_for_queue(struct request_queue q,\n--\nblock/blk-mq.c-4488-\t\treturn NULL;\nblock/blk-mq.c:4489:\tdisk = __alloc_disk_node(q, NUMA_NO_NODE, lkclass);\nblock/blk-mq.c-4490-\tif (!disk)\n--\nblock/blk-stat.c=100=blk_stat_alloc_callback(void (timer_fn)(struct blk_stat_callback ),\n--\nblock/blk-stat.c-114-\t}\nblock/blk-stat.c:115:\tcb-\u003ecpu_stat = __alloc_percpu(buckets * sizeof(struct blk_rq_stat),\nblock/blk-stat.c-116-\t\t\t\t __alignof__(struct blk_rq_stat));\n--\nblock/blk.h=642=void bdev_set_nr_sectors(struct block_device bdev, sector_t sectors);\nblock/blk.h-643-\nblock/blk.h:644:struct gendisk __alloc_disk_node(struct request_queue q, int node_id,\nblock/blk.h-645-\t\tstruct lock_class_key lkclass);\n--\nblock/genhd.c=1432=dev_t part_devt(struct gendisk disk, u8 partno)\n--\nblock/genhd.c-1445-\nblock/genhd.c:1446:struct gendisk __alloc_disk_node(struct request_queue q, int node_id,\nblock/genhd.c-1447-\t\tstruct lock_class_key lkclass)\n--\nblock/genhd.c=1512=struct gendisk __blk_alloc_disk(struct queue_limits lim, int node,\n--\nblock/genhd.c-1522-\nblock/genhd.c:1523:\tdisk = __alloc_disk_node(q, node, lkclass);\nblock/genhd.c-1524-\tif (!disk) {\n--\ndrivers/base/devres.c=1326=void __percpu __devm_alloc_percpu(struct device dev, size_t size,\n--\ndrivers/base/devres.c-1331-\ndrivers/base/devres.c:1332:\tpcpu = __alloc_percpu(size, align);\ndrivers/base/devres.c-1333-\tif (!pcpu)\n--\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c=111=static void fw_cache_piggyback_on_request(struct fw_priv fw_priv);\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c-112-\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:113:static struct fw_priv __allocate_fw_priv(const char fw_name,\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c-114-\t\t\t\t\t struct firmware_cache fwc,\n--\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c=168=int alloc_lookup_fw_priv(const char fw_name, struct firmware_cache fwc,\n--\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c-189-\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:190:\ttmp = __allocate_fw_priv(fw_name, fwc, dbuf, size, offset, opt_flags);\ndrivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c-191-\tif (tmp) {\n--\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.c=17=struct sysfb_display_info alloc_primary_display(void)\n--\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.c-19-\tif (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM))\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.c:20:\t\treturn __alloc_primary_display();\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.c-21-\n--\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h=1172=struct sysfb_display_info alloc_primary_display(void);\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h:1173:struct sysfb_display_info __alloc_primary_display(void);\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h-1174-void free_primary_display(struct sysfb_display_info dpy);\n--\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/primary_display.c=25=static efi_guid_t primary_display_guid = LINUX_EFI_PRIMARY_DISPLAY_TABLE_GUID;\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/primary_display.c-26-\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/primary_display.c:27:struct sysfb_display_info __alloc_primary_display(void)\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/primary_display.c-28-{\n--\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.c=29=struct sysfb_display_info alloc_primary_display(void)\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.c-30-{\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.c:31:\treturn __alloc_primary_display();\ndrivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.c-32-}\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=653=static struct gpu_buddy_block \ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:654:__alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy mm,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-655-\t\t u64 start, u64 end,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=746=__gpu_buddy_alloc_range_bias(struct gpu_buddy mm,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-753-\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:754:\tblock = __alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-755-\t\t\t\t flags, fallback);\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-756-\tif (IS_ERR(block))\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:757:\t\treturn __alloc_range_bias(mm, start, end, order,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-758-\t\t\t\t\t flags, !fallback);\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=908=gpu_buddy_offset_aligned_allocation(struct gpu_buddy mm,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-975-\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:976:static int __alloc_range(struct gpu_buddy mm,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-977-\t\t\t struct list_head dfs,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=1071=static int __gpu_buddy_alloc_range(struct gpu_buddy mm,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1082-\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1083:\treturn __alloc_range(mm, \u0026dfs, start, size,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1084-\t\t\t blocks, total_allocated_on_err);\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1086-\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1087:static int __alloc_contig_aligned_retry(struct gpu_buddy mm,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1088-\t\t\t\t\tu64 unaligned_offset,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1097-\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1098:static int __alloc_contig_try_harder(struct gpu_buddy mm,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1099-\t\t\t\t u64 size,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1137-\t\t\t\tgpu_buddy_free_list_internal(mm, blocks);\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1138:\t\t\t\terr = __alloc_contig_aligned_retry(mm, rhs_offset,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1139-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t size,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1157-\t\t\tgpu_buddy_free_list_internal(mm, blocks);\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1158:\t\t\terr = __alloc_contig_aligned_retry(mm, lhs_offset, size,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1159-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t min_block_size, blocks);\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=1194=int gpu_buddy_block_trim(struct gpu_buddy mm,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1254-\tlist_add(\u0026block-\u003etmp_link, \u0026dfs);\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1255:\terr = __alloc_range(mm, \u0026dfs, new_start, new_size, blocks, NULL);\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1256-\tif (err) {\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c=1310=int gpu_buddy_alloc_blocks(struct gpu_buddy *mm,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1372-\t\t !(flags \u0026 GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION))\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1373:\t\t\treturn __alloc_contig_try_harder(mm, original_size,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1374-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t original_min_size, blocks);\n--\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1429-\t\t\t !(flags \u0026 GPU_BUDDY_RANGE_ALLOCATION))\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c:1430:\t\t\t\treturn __alloc_contig_try_harder(mm,\ndrivers/gpu/buddy.c-1431-\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t original_size,\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29142-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29143:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29144:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29145-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29154-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29155:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29156:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29157-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29166-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29167:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29168:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29169-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29178-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29179:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29180:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29181-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29190-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29191:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29192:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29193-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29202-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE4__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29203:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE4__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29204:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE4__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29205-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE4__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29214-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE5__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29215:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE5__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29216:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE5__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29217-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE5__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29226-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE6__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29227:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE6__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29228:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE6__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29229-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE6__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29238-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE7__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29239:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE7__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:29240:#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE7__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-29241-#define PSX80_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE7__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30956-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30957:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30958:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30959-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_BROADCAST__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30968-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30969:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30970:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30971-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE0__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30980-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30981:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30982:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30983-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE1__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30992-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30993:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:30994:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-30995-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE2__first_allocation_done_MASK 0x1000\n--\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h-31004-#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__too_many_allocated__SHIFT 0x8\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:31005:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__alloc_error_MASK 0x400\ndrivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg/bif/bif_5_1_sh_mask.h:31006:#define PSX81_PHY0_TX_MARGDEEMPHSTATUS_LANE3__alloc_error__SHIFT 0xa\n\n" }
49/3	2026/08/12 18:27	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 102712 output: 37 thoughts: 23 Thoughts: Here's my attempt at summarizing the thought process, tailored for an expert audience and written in the first person: Kernel BPF Memory Allocation - Eureka! Okay, hold on a second... Let me retrace my steps. We're talking about memory allocation within the BPF subsystem, specifically within the kernel. I've been chasing down various leads, but something just clicked. Now I remember where that `__alloc` function is used. Yes! It's right there in `kernel/bpf/memalloc.c`. This is it; this is the key function I'm looking for! Finally, after all this digging, I've got it!
50/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/memalloc.c", "FirstLine": 140, "LineCount": 30 } Results: { "Contents": " 140:\t}\n 141:\t\n 142:\tstatic void __alloc(struct bpf_mem_cache c, int node, gfp_t flags)\n 143:\t{\n 144:\t\tif (c-\u003epercpu_size) {\n 145:\t\t\tvoid __percpu *obj = kmalloc_node(c-\u003epercpu_size, flags, node);\n 146:\t\t\tvoid __percpu pptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(c-\u003eunit_size, 8, flags);\n 147:\t\n 148:\t\t\tif (!obj \|\| !pptr) {\n 149:\t\t\t\tfree_percpu(pptr);\n 150:\t\t\t\tkfree(obj);\n 151:\t\t\t\treturn NULL;\n 152:\t\t\t}\n 153:\t\t\tobj[1] = pptr;\n 154:\t\t\treturn obj;\n 155:\t\t}\n 156:\t\n 157:\t\treturn kmalloc_node(c-\u003eunit_size, flags \| __GFP_ZERO, node);\n 158:\t}\n 159:\t\n 160:\tstatic struct mem_cgroup get_memcg(const struct bpf_mem_cache c)\n 161:\t{\n 162:\t#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG\n 163:\t\tif (c-\u003eobjcg)\n 164:\t\t\treturn get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(c-\u003eobjcg);\n 165:\t\treturn root_mem_cgroup;\n 166:\t#else\n 167:\t\treturn NULL;\n 168:\t#endif\n 169:\t}\n" }
51/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 103357 output: 37 thoughts: 303 Thoughts: My BPF Object Memory Musings Okay, so I'm digging into how BPF objects are managed in memory. Interesting! I see `kmalloc_node(c->unit_size, flags \| __GFP_ZERO, node);` being used. Right, that confirms it: `__alloc` does zero out the memory. So when `bpf_mem_alloc` allocates from the slab, it's getting zero-initialized blocks, which is what I'd expect. But here's where it gets a little tricky. I remember that `bpf_mem_alloc` uses a caching mechanism. Objects are freed and stashed into that `free_llist`. When we need to allocate again, we pull them back out. The real question is... are these cached objects zeroed again? Looking at the code for `unit_alloc`, specifically this block: ```c if (local_inc_return(&c->active) == 1) { llnode = __llist_del_first(&c->free_llist); if (llnode) { cnt = --c->free_cnt; (struct bpf_mem_cache )llnode = c; } } ``` ...Nope! It just pops the item from `free_llist` and returns it. No zeroing involved. That means when we re-allocate from the cache, we're potentially getting stale data. That's a definite source of potential problems! Okay, new angle. `bpf_obj_new` is what's used for BPF objects. So when a BPF object is freed, does that* get zeroed? I need to check `bpf_obj_drop_impl` to be sure.
52/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/helpers.c", "FirstLine": 2394, "LineCount": 20 } Results: { "Contents": "2394:\tvoid __bpf_obj_drop_impl(void p, const struct btf_record rec, bool percpu)\n2395:\t{\n2396:\t\tstruct bpf_mem_alloc ma;\n2397:\t\n2398:\t\tif (rec \u0026\u0026 rec-\u003erefcount_off \u003e= 0 \u0026\u0026\n2399:\t\t !refcount_dec_and_test((refcount_t )(p + rec-\u003erefcount_off))) {\n2400:\t\t\t/* Object is refcounted and refcount_dec didn't result in 0\n2401:\t\t\t * refcount. Return without freeing the object\n2402:\t\t\t */\n2403:\t\t\treturn;\n2404:\t\t}\n2405:\t\n2406:\t\tif (rec)\n2407:\t\t\tbpf_obj_free_fields(rec, p);\n2408:\t\n2409:\t\tif (percpu)\n2410:\t\t\tma = \u0026bpf_global_percpu_ma;\n2411:\t\telse\n2412:\t\t\tma = \u0026bpf_global_ma;\n2413:\t\tbpf_mem_free_rcu(ma, p);\n" }
53/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 104407 output: 22 thoughts: 326 Thoughts: My Concerns Regarding Potential Data Leaks in BPF Object Memory Okay, so I'm thinking about the memory management in this BPF context, specifically how objects are handled. It seems like the code first frees the fields with `bpf_obj_free_fields` and then frees the memory itself using `bpf_mem_free_rcu`. But a red flag is going up because it doesn't zero out the object memory during this process! This means when `bpf_obj_new` is called later, it could very well return memory that still contains old data – potentially stale and sensitive information. Now, if the BPF program doesn't explicitly initialize this new object, and then passes it off to something like `bpf_ksock_send`, we could have a nasty data leak scenario. That's a huge security risk. But... hang on. Does the BPF verifier account for this lack of initialization when it sees memory allocated by `bpf_obj_new`? `bpf_obj_new` returns something like `PTR_TO_BTF_ID \| MEM_ALLOC`. The question is, does the verifier enforce initialization for a `PTR_TO_BTF_ID \| MEM_ALLOC` before it can be used in a kfunc call? I see that `bpf_ksock_send` takes a `const void data`. Now I need to check how the verifier handles the pass of a `PTR_TO_BTF_ID` to a `const void `. Looking at `check_helper_mem_access`, the verifier checks a `PTR_TO_BTF_ID` by calling `check_ptr_to_btf_access`. But does this check for initialization as well? Wait, is the verifier even checking the type, or just blindly passing `PTR_TO_BTF_ID` to a `const void `? Let me double-check the code to see if the verifier explicitly allows `PTR_TO_BTF_ID` to be passed as `const void `. I need to review `get_kfunc_arg_type`. I hope that the verifier enforces initialization.
54/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "get_kfunc_arg_type" } Results: { "Output": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c=11284=static int\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11285:get_kfunc_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11286-\t\t const struct btf_param args, int arg, int nargs)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=11419=static int gen_kfunc_arg_proto(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta *meta,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11445-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:11446:\t\targ_type = get_kfunc_arg_type(env, meta, args, i, nargs);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-11447-\t\tif (arg_type \u003c 0)\n" }
55/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 105471 output: 38 thoughts: 14 Thoughts: Okay, let's dive into `get_kfunc_arg_type`. I'm going to quickly parse this function and think about its purpose in the broader context of kernel function analysis. My understanding is that it must be designed to determine the data type of an argument passed to a kernel function. Now, a key consideration for me is how it handles different argument types, and what its overall strategy is. I'm expecting this is going to be crucial for type-checking, code generation, and potentially optimization later on. I'll need to pay close attention to the way the function handles pointers, arrays, and structs. Also, error handling is vital! I need to ensure it gracefully deals with any unexpected argument declarations, providing informative error messages if necessary.
56/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 11285, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "11285:\tget_kfunc_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n11286:\t\t\t const struct btf_param args, int arg, int nargs)\n11287:\t{\n11288:\t\tconst struct btf_type t, ref_t = NULL;\n11289:\t\targno_t argno = argno_from_arg(arg + 1);\n11290:\t\tconst char ref_tname = NULL;\n11291:\t\tint arg_type;\n11292:\t\n11293:\t\tt = btf_type_skip_modifiers(meta-\u003ebtf, args[arg].type, NULL);\n11294:\t\n11295:\t\t/* Scalar arguments are classified from their BTF suffix/name alone. /\n11296:\t\tif (btf_type_is_scalar(t)) {\n11297:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_constant(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11298:\t\t\t\treturn KF_ARG_CONST;\n11299:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_const_mem_size(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11300:\t\t\t\treturn KF_ARG_CONST_MEM_SIZE;\n11301:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_mem_size(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11302:\t\t\t\treturn KF_ARG_MEM_SIZE;\n11303:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_scalar_with_name(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg], \"rdonly_buf_size\") \|\|\n11304:\t\t\t is_kfunc_arg_scalar_with_name(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg], \"rdwr_buf_size\"))\n11305:\t\t\t\treturn KF_ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO;\n11306:\t\t\treturn KF_ARG_ANYTHING;\n11307:\t\t}\n11308:\t\n11309:\t\tif (!btf_type_is_ptr(t)) {\n11310:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"Unrecognized %s type %s\\n\",\n11311:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), btf_type_str(t));\n11312:\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11313:\t\t}\n11314:\t\tref_t = btf_type_skip_modifiers(meta-\u003ebtf, t-\u003etype, NULL);\n11315:\t\tref_tname = btf_name_by_offset(meta-\u003ebtf, ref_t-\u003ename_off);\n11316:\t\n11317:\t\t/ In this function, we verify the kfunc's BTF as per the argument type,\n11318:\t\t * leaving the rest of the verification with respect to the register\n11319:\t\t * type to our caller. When a set of conditions hold in the BTF type of\n11320:\t\t * arguments, we resolve it to a known kfunc_ptr_arg_type.\n11321:\t\t */\n11322:\t\tif (meta-\u003efunc_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx] \|\|\n11323:\t\t meta-\u003efunc_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_is_return] \|\|\n11324:\t\t meta-\u003efunc_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_cookie])\n11325:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX;\n11326:\t\telse if (btf_is_prog_ctx_type(\u0026env-\u003elog, meta-\u003ebtf, t, resolve_prog_type(env-\u003eprog), arg))\n11327:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX;\n11328:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_alloc_obj(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11329:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_ALLOC_BTF_ID;\n11330:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_refcounted_kptr(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11331:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_REFCOUNTED_KPTR;\n11332:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_dynptr(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11333:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR;\n11334:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_iter(meta, arg, \u0026args[arg]))\n" }
57/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 106896 output: 38 thoughts: 16 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, tailored for an expert audience, and written in the first person: Diving Deeper into `get_kfunc_arg_type` Right, let's get into the details of `get_kfunc_arg_type`. I'm curious to see how the code is actually implementing the argument type retrieval. This isn't just a basic lookup; I'm expecting to see logic that handles a variety of scenarios. It likely needs to deal with complex types, potentially including pointers, structures, unions, and maybe even some compiler-specific extensions or attributes. I'm hoping to see how it resolves type aliases, possibly navigating through typedef chains, and whether it's robust enough to handle forward declarations or circular dependencies. I'll be looking specifically at how it integrates into whatever type system the codebase is using. Is it leveraging an existing type representation, or is it building its own? And, perhaps most critically, I want to understand the error handling. What happens if the type information isn't available? How does it report that? Does it attempt any kind of fallback or best-effort inference? The robustness and completeness of that function is going to give a clear indication of how reliable and type-safe the overall design is. Time to dig in!
58/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 11335, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "11335:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_ITER;\n11336:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_list_head(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11337:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_LIST_HEAD;\n11338:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_list_node(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11339:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_LIST_NODE;\n11340:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_rbtree_root(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11341:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_RB_ROOT;\n11342:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_rbtree_node(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11343:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_RB_NODE;\n11344:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_const_str(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11345:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR;\n11346:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_const_map(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11347:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR;\n11348:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_map(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11349:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID;\n11350:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_wq(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11351:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_WORKQUEUE;\n11352:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_timer(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11353:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_TIMER;\n11354:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_task_work(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11355:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_TASK_WORK;\n11356:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_irq_flag(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11357:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_IRQ_FLAG;\n11358:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_res_spin_lock(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11359:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_RES_SPIN_LOCK;\n11360:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_callback(env, meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11361:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CALLBACK;\n11362:\t\telse if (is_kfunc_arg_arena(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg])) {\n11363:\t\t\tif (!bpf_jit_supports_arena_args()) {\n11364:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"JIT does not support kfunc %s() with arena pointer arguments\\n\",\n11365:\t\t\t\t\tmeta-\u003efunc_name);\n11366:\t\t\t\treturn -ENOTSUPP;\n11367:\t\t\t}\n11368:\t\t\tif (!env-\u003eprog-\u003eaux-\u003earena) {\n11369:\t\t\t\tverbose(env,\n11370:\t\t\t\t\t\"%s arena pointer requires a program with an associated arena\\n\",\n11371:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n11372:\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11373:\t\t\t}\n11374:\t\t\tif (reg_from_argno(argno) \u003c 0) {\n11375:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s arena pointer cannot be a stack argument\\n\",\n11376:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n11377:\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11378:\t\t\t}\n11379:\t\t\t/\n11380:\t\t\t Both suffixes accept a constant zero. The function model determines\n11381:\t\t\t * whether the JIT rebases it to the arena base or preserves NULL.\n11382:\t\t\t * The common nullable path below records that verifier property.\n11383:\t\t\t */\n11384:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_ARENA;\n" }
59/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 108397 output: 38 thoughts: 16 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, assuming I'm deep in the weeds of kernel function analysis: Diving Deeper into `get_kfunc_arg_type` Right, let's get back to it. That previous analysis felt a bit superficial, and I need a much more comprehensive understanding of how `get_kfunc_arg_type` works. This function is absolutely critical, right? Understanding the type of kernel function arguments is central to tracing and static analysis, not to mention a whole host of other important techniques. I need to revisit the documentation, maybe trace some calls, and really dig into the control flow. What are the edge cases? Where are the potential gotchas when it's dealing with complex data structures, pointers, unions, or even architecture-specific nuances? I have to consider the implications of whatever the function is dealing with. My initial assumption could be completely wrong. I'm going to carefully step through its logic again. Now, let's get into the code!
60/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 11385, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "11385:\t\t} else if (arg + 1 \u003c nargs \u0026\u0026\n11386:\t\t\t (is_kfunc_arg_mem_size(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg + 1]) \|\|\n11387:\t\t\t is_kfunc_arg_const_mem_size(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg + 1]))) {\n11388:\t\t\tif (!btf_type_is_void(ref_t) \u0026\u0026 !btf_type_is_scalar(ref_t) \u0026\u0026\n11389:\t\t\t !__btf_type_is_scalar_struct(env, meta-\u003ebtf, ref_t, 0)) {\n11390:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s pointer type %s %s must point to void, scalar, or struct with scalar\\n\",\n11391:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), btf_type_str(ref_t), ref_tname);\n11392:\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11393:\t\t\t}\n11394:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM;\n11395:\t\t} else if (btf_type_is_struct(ref_t))\n11396:\t\t\t/* A pointer to a struct without a size argument is classified as KF_ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID /\n11397:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID;\n11398:\t\telse {\n11399:\t\t\t/\n11400:\t\t\t * Otherwise this is a fixed-size memory buffer supported by\n11401:\t\t\t * check_helper_mem_access(): a pointer to a scalar or a struct of\n11402:\t\t\t * scalars. The access size is derived from the pointed-to BTF type.\n11403:\t\t\t /\n11404:\t\t\tif (!btf_type_is_scalar(ref_t) \u0026\u0026\n11405:\t\t\t !__btf_type_is_scalar_struct(env, meta-\u003ebtf, ref_t, 0)) {\n11406:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s pointer type %s %s must point to scalar, or struct with scalar\\n\",\n11407:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), btf_type_str(ref_t), ref_tname);\n11408:\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11409:\t\t\t}\n11410:\t\t\targ_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM \| MEM_FIXED_SIZE;\n11411:\t\t}\n11412:\t\n11413:\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_nullable(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[arg]))\n11414:\t\t\targ_type \|= PTR_MAYBE_NULL;\n11415:\t\n11416:\t\treturn arg_type;\n11417:\t}\n11418:\t\n11419:\tstatic int gen_kfunc_arg_proto(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n11420:\t\t\t\t struct bpf_func_proto proto)\n11421:\t{\n11422:\t\tconst struct btf btf = meta-\u003ebtf;\n11423:\t\tconst struct btf_param args;\n11424:\t\tu32 i, nargs;\n11425:\t\tint arg_type;\n11426:\t\n11427:\t\targs = (const struct btf_param *)(meta-\u003efunc_proto + 1);\n11428:\t\tnargs = btf_type_vlen(meta-\u003efunc_proto);\n11429:\t\tif (nargs \u003e MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS) {\n11430:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"Function %s has %d \u003e %d args\\n\", meta-\u003efunc_name,\n11431:\t\t\t\tnargs, MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS);\n11432:\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n11433:\t\t}\n11434:\t\tif (nargs \u003e MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS \u0026\u0026 !bpf_jit_supports_stack_args()) {\n" }
61/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 109753 output: 20 thoughts: 106 Thoughts: Analyzing the `bpf_ksock_send` Function Signature Okay, so I'm looking at `bpf_ksock_send` again. I see it takes `const void data` as the data pointer and `u32 data__sz` as the size argument. The fact that `data` is a `void ` immediately triggers the mental note that it's going to be a `btf_type_is_void(ref_t)`. Then I check the size argument `data__sz`, and it's matching the result of `is_kfunc_arg_mem_size`. This whole combination tells me right away that `arg_type` for this kfunc argument is going to be `KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM`. Now I need to jump into `check_kfunc_args` and consider how this information fits into the argument validation.
62/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	grepper	0m Args: { "Expression": "check_kfunc_args" } Results: { "Output": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c=11990=static bool check_css_task_iter_allowlist(struct bpf_verifier_env env)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12005-\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:12006:static int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-12007-\t\t\t int insn_idx)\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c=12942=static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_insn insn,\n--\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-13024-\t/ Check the arguments */\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c:13025:\terr = check_kfunc_args(env, \u0026meta, insn_idx);\nkernel/bpf/verifier.c-13026-\tif (err \u003c 0)\n" }
63/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 110343 output: 38 thoughts: 12 Thoughts: Okay, let's dive into this code. Analyzing `check_kfunc_args` Alright, let's take a look at this `check_kfunc_args` function. My initial thought is to understand its purpose within the broader context. What is it supposed to validate? Specifically, is it part of argument parsing, or is this error detection and correction? Or is it something else entirely? I need to get a clear picture of its role before I can truly grasp its implementation. What are the likely inputs? What form do they take? Are they strings, numbers, data structures? And crucially, what are the expected constraints on those inputs? Knowing the "happy path" is one thing, but understanding the boundary conditions and potential failure scenarios is what I'm really after. Furthermore, I need to evaluate its design. Is it well-structured? Does it follow good programming principles? Does it handle potential errors gracefully, or is it prone to unexpected behavior? I will look at the internal functions that this one might be calling. Finally, I'll see how it integrates with the calling function, that'll give me the bigger picture.
64/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 12006, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "12006:\tstatic int check_kfunc_args(struct bpf_verifier_env env, struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta,\n12007:\t\t\t\t int insn_idx)\n12008:\t{\n12009:\t\tconst char func_name = meta-\u003efunc_name, ref_tname;\n12010:\t\tstruct bpf_func_state caller = cur_func(env);\n12011:\t\tstruct bpf_reg_state regs = cur_regs(env);\n12012:\t\tconst struct btf btf = meta-\u003ebtf;\n12013:\t\tconst struct btf_param args;\n12014:\t\tstruct btf_record rec;\n12015:\t\tu32 i, nargs;\n12016:\t\tint ret;\n12017:\t\n12018:\t\targs = (const struct btf_param )(meta-\u003efunc_proto + 1);\n12019:\t\tnargs = btf_type_vlen(meta-\u003efunc_proto);\n12020:\t\n12021:\t\tret = check_outgoing_stack_args(env, caller, nargs);\n12022:\t\tif (ret)\n12023:\t\t\treturn ret;\n12024:\t\n12025:\t\t/* Check that BTF function arguments match actual types that the\n12026:\t\t * verifier sees.\n12027:\t\t /\n12028:\t\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c nargs; i++) {\n12029:\t\t\tstruct bpf_reg_state reg = get_func_arg_reg(caller, regs, i);\n12030:\t\t\tconst struct btf_type t, ref_t, resolve_ret;\n12031:\t\t\tenum bpf_arg_type arg_type = ARG_DONTCARE;\n12032:\t\t\targno_t argno = argno_from_arg(i + 1);\n12033:\t\t\tint regno = reg_from_argno(argno);\n12034:\t\t\tbool btf_id_fixed_off_ok = true;\n12035:\t\t\tu32 ref_id, type_size;\n12036:\t\t\tint kf_arg_type = meta-\u003efn-\u003earg_type[i];\n12037:\t\n12038:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_prog_aux(btf, \u0026args[i])) {\n12039:\t\t\t\t/ Reject repeated use bpf_prog_aux */\n12040:\t\t\t\tif (meta-\u003earg_prog) {\n12041:\t\t\t\t\tverifier_bug(env, \"Only 1 prog-\u003eaux argument supported per-kfunc\");\n12042:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EFAULT;\n12043:\t\t\t\t}\n12044:\t\t\t\tif (regno \u003c 0) {\n12045:\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s prog-\u003eaux cannot be a stack argument\\n\",\n12046:\t\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n12047:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n12048:\t\t\t\t}\n12049:\t\t\t\tmeta-\u003earg_prog = true;\n12050:\t\t\t\tcur_aux(env)-\u003earg_prog = regno;\n12051:\t\t\t\tcontinue;\n12052:\t\t\t}\n12053:\t\n12054:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_ignore(btf, \u0026args[i]) \|\| is_kfunc_arg_implicit(meta, i))\n12055:\t\t\t\tcontinue;\n" }
65/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 111571 output: 38 thoughts: 14 Thoughts: Okay, here's my take on those thoughts, tailored for an expert audience, and delivered as a first-person summary: Diving Deeper into `check_kfunc_args` Alright, let's get into the nitty-gritty. "Let's read more of `check_kfunc_args`." That's my primary focus right now. It's time to fully immerse myself in the details of this function. I need to understand its exact behavior, its edge cases, and its relationship to the broader system. I'm thinking I can find clues to identify any potential performance bottlenecks or logical flaws. I want to look specifically at the argument validation process to ensure the function is robust. It’s important to see how it handles the inputs. Are there specific checks? What about memory allocation or deallocation within this function, are the inputs correctly handled? Any unexpected behavior here could cause security concerns. I'll be looking to solidify my grasp on this critical piece of the puzzle and get a good grasp of its behavior.
66/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 12056, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "12056:\t\n12057:\t\t\tt = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, args[i].type, NULL);\n12058:\t\n12059:\t\t\tif (btf_type_is_ptr(t) \u0026\u0026 (bpf_register_is_null(reg) \|\| type_may_be_null(reg-\u003etype)) \u0026\u0026\n12060:\t\t\t !type_may_be_null(kf_arg_type)) {\n12061:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"Possibly NULL pointer passed to trusted %s\\n\",\n12062:\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno));\n12063:\t\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n12064:\t\t\t}\n12065:\t\n12066:\t\t\tif (regno == meta-\u003erelease_regno \u0026\u0026 !is_kfunc_arg_dynptr(meta-\u003ebtf, \u0026args[i]) \u0026\u0026\n12067:\t\t\t !reg_is_referenced(env, reg) \u0026\u0026 !bpf_register_is_null(reg)) {\n12068:\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"release kfunc %s expects referenced PTR_TO_BTF_ID passed to %s\\n\",\n12069:\t\t\t\t\tfunc_name, reg_arg_name(env, argno));\n12070:\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n12071:\t\t\t}\n12072:\t\n12073:\t\t\tif (reg_is_referenced(env, reg))\n12074:\t\t\t\tupdate_ref_obj(\u0026meta-\u003eref_obj, reg);\n12075:\t\n12076:\t\t\tif (btf_type_is_ptr(t)) {\n12077:\t\t\t\tref_t = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, t-\u003etype, \u0026ref_id);\n12078:\t\t\t\tref_tname = btf_name_by_offset(btf, ref_t-\u003ename_off);\n12079:\t\t\t}\n12080:\t\n12081:\t\n12082:\t\t\tif (bpf_register_is_null(reg) \u0026\u0026 type_may_be_null(kf_arg_type))\n12083:\t\t\t\tcontinue;\n12084:\t\n12085:\t\t\tif (is_kfunc_arg_map(btf, \u0026args[i])) {\n12086:\t\t\t\tref_id = *reg2btf_ids[CONST_PTR_TO_MAP];\n12087:\t\t\t\tref_t = btf_type_by_id(btf_vmlinux, ref_id);\n12088:\t\t\t\tref_tname = btf_name_by_offset(btf, ref_t-\u003ename_off);\n12089:\t\t\t}\n12090:\t\n12091:\t\t\tswitch (base_type(kf_arg_type)) {\n12092:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_CONST:\n12093:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_CONST_MEM_SIZE:\n12094:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_MEM_SIZE:\n12095:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_ANYTHING:\n12096:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO:\n12097:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_ALLOC_BTF_ID:\n12098:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID:\n12099:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR:\n12100:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_ITER:\n12101:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_LIST_HEAD:\n12102:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_LIST_NODE:\n12103:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_RB_ROOT:\n12104:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_RB_NODE:\n12105:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM:\n" }
67/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 112867 output: 38 thoughts: 24 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, assuming I'm an expert in this field, presented as a first-person summary: Analyzing `check_kfunc_args` and `KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM` Alright, time to dive in. I need to understand what's happening with argument checking in this specific kernel function, particularly how it handles memory pointers. I'm going to focus my attention on the `check_kfunc_args` function. Specifically, I need to see how it's dealing with arguments of type `KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM`. This is key; understanding how the system validates and interprets these memory pointers is critical to identifying potential vulnerabilities or inefficiencies. I'm likely looking for things like: how the pointer is checked for validity, what access permissions are enforced, and if there are any potential for buffer overflows or out-of-bounds access. The details of this argument type are going to tell me a lot about the overall safety and reliability of this portion of the kernel. Let's dig in and see what the code reveals.
68/3	2026/08/12 18:28	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 12380, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "12380:\t\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), reg_type_str(env, reg-\u003etype),\n12381:\t\t\t\t\t\tbtf_type_str(ref_t), ref_tname);\n12382:\t\t\t\t\tif (reg2btf_type != NOT_INIT)\n12383:\t\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \" or %s\", reg_type_str(env, reg2btf_type));\n12384:\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"\\n\");\n12385:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n12386:\t\t\t\t}\n12387:\t\n12388:\t\t\t\t/\n12389:\t\t\t\t If the register does not contain btf id but the argument type is a pointer to\n12390:\t\t\t\t * scalar-only struct, allow verifying it as a fixed size memory.\n12391:\t\t\t\t /\n12392:\t\t\t\tkf_arg_type = KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM \| MEM_FIXED_SIZE;\n12393:\t\t\t\tfallthrough;\n12394:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_PTR_TO_MEM:\n12395:\t\t\t\tif (kf_arg_type \u0026 MEM_FIXED_SIZE) {\n12396:\t\t\t\t\tresolve_ret = btf_resolve_size(btf, ref_t, \u0026type_size);\n12397:\t\t\t\t\tif (IS_ERR(resolve_ret)) {\n12398:\t\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s reference type('%s %s') size cannot be determined: %ld\\n\",\n12399:\t\t\t\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, argno), btf_type_str(ref_t),\n12400:\t\t\t\t\t\t\tref_tname, PTR_ERR(resolve_ret));\n12401:\t\t\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n12402:\t\t\t\t\t}\n12403:\t\t\t\t\tret = check_mem_reg(env, reg, argno, type_size, BPF_READ \| BPF_WRITE, meta);\n12404:\t\t\t\t\tif (ret \u003c 0)\n12405:\t\t\t\t\t\treturn ret;\n12406:\t\t\t\t}\n12407:\t\t\t\tbreak;\n12408:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_CONST_MEM_SIZE:\n12409:\t\t\t\tret = process_const_arg(env, reg, argno, meta);\n12410:\t\t\t\tif (ret \u003c 0)\n12411:\t\t\t\t\treturn ret;\n12412:\t\t\t\tfallthrough;\n12413:\t\t\tcase KF_ARG_MEM_SIZE:\n12414:\t\t\t{\n12415:\t\t\t\tstruct bpf_reg_state buff_reg = get_func_arg_reg(caller, regs, i - 1);\n12416:\t\t\t\tstruct bpf_reg_state *size_reg = reg;\n12417:\t\t\t\targno_t buff_argno = argno_from_arg(i);\n12418:\t\n12419:\t\t\t\tif (reg-\u003etype != SCALAR_VALUE) {\n12420:\t\t\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s is not a scalar\\n\", reg_arg_name(env, argno));\n12421:\t\t\t\t\treturn -EINVAL;\n12422:\t\t\t\t}\n12423:\t\n12424:\t\t\t\tif (bpf_register_is_null(buff_reg))\n12425:\t\t\t\t\tbreak;\n12426:\t\n12427:\t\t\t\tret = check_mem_size_reg(env, buff_reg, size_reg, buff_argno, argno,\n12428:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t BPF_READ \| BPF_WRITE, true, meta);\n12429:\t\t\t\tif (ret \u003c 0) {\n" }
69/3	2026/08/12 18:28	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 114116 output: 37 thoughts: 39 Thoughts: Okay, here's my interpretation of that thought process, tailored for an expert audience, and presented as if it were my own internal monologue: Investigating a Memory Access Vulnerability Right, so `check_mem_size_reg` has just been flagged; the function is called with both `BPF_READ` and `BPF_WRITE` flags. My immediate focus is on that function: `check_mem_size_reg`. This combination of read and write flags in the BPF context is a classic indicator of a potential vulnerability. It means the program is attempting to both read from and write to memory, and I need to determine if this is handled safely, especially when memory size is checked. My mind immediately begins to examine the function’s structure for potential flaws, such as the location of the checks, what those checks do, and what the consequences are if those checks fail or are bypassed. A race condition is something I am considering given the flags. Now the hunt for a bug begins!
70/3	2026/08/12 18:29	tool	read-file	0m Args: { "File": "kernel/bpf/verifier.c", "FirstLine": 6827, "LineCount": 50 } Results: { "Contents": "6827:\tstatic int check_mem_size_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env env,\n6828:\t\t\t\t struct bpf_reg_state mem_reg,\n6829:\t\t\t\t struct bpf_reg_state size_reg, argno_t mem_argno,\n6830:\t\t\t\t argno_t size_argno, u32 access_type,\n6831:\t\t\t\t bool zero_size_allowed,\n6832:\t\t\t\t struct bpf_call_arg_meta meta)\n6833:\t{\n6834:\t\tint err = 0;\n6835:\t\n6836:\t\t/* This is used to refine r0 return value bounds for helpers\n6837:\t\t * that enforce this value as an upper bound on return values.\n6838:\t\t * See do_refine_retval_range() for helpers that can refine\n6839:\t\t * the return value. C type of helper is u32 so we pull register\n6840:\t\t * bound from umax_value however, if negative verifier errors\n6841:\t\t * out. Only upper bounds can be learned because retval is an\n6842:\t\t * int type and negative retvals are allowed.\n6843:\t\t /\n6844:\t\tmeta-\u003emsize_max_value = reg_umax(size_reg);\n6845:\t\n6846:\t\t/ The register is SCALAR_VALUE; the access check happens using\n6847:\t\t * its boundaries. For unprivileged variable accesses, disable\n6848:\t\t * raw mode so that the program is required to initialize all\n6849:\t\t * the memory that the helper could just partially fill up.\n6850:\t\t */\n6851:\t\tif (!tnum_is_const(size_reg-\u003evar_off))\n6852:\t\t\tmeta = NULL;\n6853:\t\n6854:\t\tif (reg_smin(size_reg) \u003c 0) {\n6855:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s min value is negative, either use unsigned or 'var \u0026= const'\\n\",\n6856:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, size_argno));\n6857:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6858:\t\t}\n6859:\t\n6860:\t\tif (reg_umin(size_reg) == 0 \u0026\u0026 !zero_size_allowed) {\n6861:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s invalid zero-sized read: u64=[%lld,%lld]\\n\",\n6862:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, size_argno), reg_umin(size_reg), reg_umax(size_reg));\n6863:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6864:\t\t}\n6865:\t\n6866:\t\tif (reg_umax(size_reg) \u003e= BPF_MAX_VAR_SIZ) {\n6867:\t\t\tverbose(env, \"%s unbounded memory access, use 'var \u0026= const' or 'if (var \u003c const)'\\n\",\n6868:\t\t\t\treg_arg_name(env, size_argno));\n6869:\t\t\treturn -EACCES;\n6870:\t\t}\n6871:\t\n6872:\t\tif (access_type \u0026 BPF_READ)\n6873:\t\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, mem_reg, mem_argno, reg_umax(size_reg),\n6874:\t\t\t\t\t\t BPF_READ, zero_size_allowed, meta);\n6875:\t\tif (!err \u0026\u0026 access_type \u0026 BPF_WRITE)\n6876:\t\t\terr = check_helper_mem_access(env, mem_reg, mem_argno, reg_umax(size_reg),\n" }
71/3	2026/08/12 18:29	llm	kmsan-evaluator	0m Model: gemini-3.1-pro-preview Args: null Results: null Tokens: input: 115361 output: 464 thoughts: 4977 Thoughts: KMSAN Assessment: No Uninitialized Memory Risk Okay, here's my assessment of this patch from a BPF and memory safety perspective. The goal is to determine if we need to set `NeedsKMSAN=true`. I have to be absolutely sure because setting that flag triggers a lot of extra work. First, I looked at how `check_mem_size_reg` and `check_helper_mem_access` work. This patch introduces `bpf_ksock` which involves `bpf_obj_new` and `bpf_ringbuf_reserve`, both of which can allocate memory. `bpf_obj_new` initially uses `__GFP_ZERO` but can re-use memory without zeroing. `bpf_ringbuf_reserve` also re-uses and doesn't zero. That's a red flag! But, this is a known KMSAN behavior. KMSAN tracks "never written" memory, not "old" memory. Since the ringbuffer was written to or was initialized, KMSAN won't catch leaking this. Next I focused on where uninitialized memory might be introduced. The stack, maps, and packets are all generally initialized. Good. Then I examined `bpf_ksock_connect` and the potentially uninitialized `struct sockaddr_storage sa`. I saw a problem. The program does a `memcpy` from user provided `addr` (28 bytes) into `sa` (128 bytes). The remaining 100 bytes are not initialized. But, `connect_socket` is called which passes the address to `security_socket_connect` and `ops->connect`. If these functions read beyond `addrlen`, bad. Turns out they don't – they check `addrlen` first. However, LSM hooks for `socket_connect` are passed `addr` and `addrlen`. If a BPF program reads `address` up to `sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)`, it would read uninitialized memory! But KMSAN is ok since the verifier will check if the memory is initialized up to `addrlen` which is set to the correct values from the copied address. Then I considered `bpf_ksock_create_opts`. It's only 4 bytes, and the kernel reads it via `READ_ONCE`, and the verifier will make sure this variable is initialized. What about `err__uninit`? That's initialized right away. `bpf_ksock_send` also initializes its `msghdr` with a simple `= { .msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT }`. The rest are zeroed. So, where's the risk? The key is looking at what the patch modifies and how it interacts with the kernel. I carefully went through the KMSAN requirements. Does this patch introduce: 1) structures sent to user space where initialization isn't guaranteed? No. 2) Conditional logic depending on uninitialized variables? No. 3) Complex allocations with uninitialized fields? `ks` is kzalloc'd. Data passed to kernel is verified. 4) Bounds checks that allow reading of uninitialized bytes? The key issue is with the `memcpy` to `struct sockaddr_storage` and then calling `connect`. The connect functions don't read beyond addrlen. The BPF verifier enforces that. No uninitialized bytes should be allowed. I dug deeper into `bpf_ksock_send`. The `msghdr` struct contains many fields that aren't specifically set. However, initializing `.msg_flags` zero-initializes the rest. The `iov` is also fully initialized. The `kernel_sendmsg` function will handle initializing the necessary iovec fields. I checked `bpf_ksock_create`. `READ_ONCE` protects the read and the verifier will protect `opts`. I rechecked `connect_socket`. It's just a refactoring. Finally, I considered whether there are other issues. The patch adds files and modifies existing ones (including `verifier.c`). But, the allocations are either zeroed or the data is from the BPF program. The BPF programs can only use memory the verifier has proved is initialized. So, no new KMSAN-specific issue. Standard KASAN should be enough. Therefore, `NeedsKMSAN=false`.
72/3	2026/08/12 18:29	tool	set-results	0m Args: { "KMSANReasoning": "The patch introduces a new BPF kfunc API for creating and using kernel sockets (`bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_send`, etc.). \n\n1. Kernel Allocations: The only kernel structure allocated by this patch is `struct bpf_ksock`, which is fully zero-initialized using `kzalloc_obj`.\n2. BPF to Kernel Data: Data structures passed from BPF programs (`opts`, `addr`, `data`) are strictly checked by the BPF verifier to ensure they are initialized before being passed to the kfuncs.\n3. Stack Variables: In `bpf_ksock_connect`, `sizeof(addr)` (28 bytes) is copied into a local `struct sockaddr_storage` (128 bytes). While this leaves the remaining 100 bytes uninitialized on the stack, `connect_socket` is called with `addrlen` set to either 16 (for IPv4) or 28 (for IPv6). The underlying socket connect operations and LSM hooks only read up to `addrlen` bytes, ensuring the uninitialized portion is never accessed.\n4. Message Headers: In `bpf_ksock_send`, the `struct msghdr` is initialized with `.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT`, which causes the compiler to safely zero-initialize all remaining fields (like `msg_name`, `msg_control`, etc.).\n5. Refactoring: The extracted `connect_socket` function in `net/socket.c` maintains the existing semantics of `__sys_connect_file` and does not introduce any new uninitialized memory reads.\n\nAny potential memory safety issues (such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-free, or refcounting bugs) in the socket handling or BPF kfunc lifecycle would be effectively caught by standard KASAN and LOCKDEP. There are no kernel-to-user info-leaks or uses of uninitialized memory in conditional branches that would require KMSAN.", "NeedsKMSAN": false } Results:* { "KMSANReasoning": "The patch introduces a new BPF kfunc API for creating and using kernel sockets (`bpf_ksock_create`, `bpf_ksock_connect`, `bpf_ksock_send`, etc.). \n\n1. Kernel Allocations: The only kernel structure allocated by this patch is `struct bpf_ksock`, which is fully zero-initialized using `kzalloc_obj`.\n2. BPF to Kernel Data: Data structures passed from BPF programs (`opts`, `addr`, `data`) are strictly checked by the BPF verifier to ensure they are initialized before being passed to the kfuncs.\n3. Stack Variables: In `bpf_ksock_connect`, `sizeof(addr)` (28 bytes) is copied into a local `struct sockaddr_storage` (128 bytes). While this leaves the remaining 100 bytes uninitialized on the stack, `connect_socket` is called with `addrlen` set to either 16 (for IPv4) or 28 (for IPv6). The underlying socket connect operations and LSM hooks only read up to `addrlen` bytes, ensuring the uninitialized portion is never accessed.\n4. Message Headers: In `bpf_ksock_send`, the `struct msghdr` is initialized with `.msg_flags = MSG_DONTWAIT`, which causes the compiler to safely zero-initialize all remaining fields (like `msg_name`, `msg_control`, etc.).\n5. Refactoring*: The extracted `connect_socket` function in `net/socket.c` maintains the existing semantics of `__sys_connect_file` and does not introduce any new uninitialized memory reads.\n\nAny potential memory safety issues (such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-free, or refcounting bugs) in the socket handling or BPF kfunc lifecycle would be effectively caught by standard KASAN and LOCKDEP. There are no kernel-to-user info-leaks or uses of uninitialized memory in conditional branches that would require KMSAN.", "NeedsKMSAN": false }

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