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    • Wang Sheng-Hui's avatar
      samples, bpf: remove redundant ret assignment in bpf_load_program() · c0885f61
      Wang Sheng-Hui authored 
      2 redundant ret assignments removed:

* 'ret = 1' before the logic 'if (data_maps)', and if any errors jump to
  label 'done'. No 'ret = 1' needed before the error jump.

* After the '/* load programs */' part, if everything goes well, then
  the BPF code will be loaded and 'ret' set to 0 by load_and_attach().
  If something goes wrong, 'ret' set to none-O, the redundant 'ret = 0'
  after the for clause will make the error skipped.

  For example, if some BPF code cannot provide supported program types
  in ELF SEC("unknown"), the for clause will not call load_and_attach()
  to load the BPF code. 1 should be returned to callees instead of 0.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      c0885f61
    • Daniel Borkmann's avatar
      Merge branch 'bpf-uapi-helper-doc' · a6712d45
      Daniel Borkmann authored 
      Quentin Monnet says:

====================
eBPF helper functions can be called from within eBPF programs to perform
a variety of tasks that would be otherwise hard or impossible to do with
eBPF itself. There is a growing number of such helper functions in the
kernel, but documentation is scarce. The main user space header file
does contain a short commented description of most helpers, but it is
somewhat outdated and not complete. It is more a "cheat sheet" than a
real documentation accessible to new eBPF developers.

This commit attempts to improve the situation by replacing the existing
overview for the helpers with a more developed description. Furthermore,
a Python script is added to generate a manual page for eBPF helpers. The
workflow is the following, and requires the rst2man utility:

    $ ./scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py \
            --filename include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > /tmp/bpf-helpers.rst
    $ rst2man /tmp/bpf-helpers.rst > /tmp/bpf-helpers.7
    $ man /tmp/bpf-helpers.7

The objective is to keep all documentation related to the helpers in a
single place, and to be able to generate from here a manual page that
could be packaged in the man-pages repository and shipped with most
distributions.

Additionally, parsing the prototypes of the helper functions could
hopefully be reused, with a different Printer object, to generate
header files needed in some eBPF-related projects.

Regarding the description of each helper, it comprises several items:

- The function prototype.
- A description of the function and of its arguments (except for a
  couple of cases, when there are no arguments and the return value
  makes the function usage really obvious).
- A description of return values (if not void).

Additional items such as the list of compatible eBPF program and map
types for each helper, Linux kernel version that introduced the helper,
GPL-only restriction, and commit hash could be added in the future, but
it was decided on the mailing list to leave them aside for now.

For several helpers, descriptions are inspired (at times, nearly copied)
from the commit logs introducing them in the kernel--Many thanks to
their respective authors! Some sentences were also adapted from comments
from the reviews, thanks to the reviewers as well. Descriptions were
completed as much as possible, the objective being to have something easily
accessible even for people just starting with eBPF. There is probably a bit
more work to do in this direction for some helpers.

Some RST formatting is used in the descriptions (not in function
prototypes, to keep them readable, but the Python script provided in
order to generate the RST for the manual page does add formatting to
prototypes, to produce something pretty) to get "bold" and "italics" in
manual pages. Hopefully, the descriptions in bpf.h file remains
perfectly readable. Note that the few trailing white spaces are
intentional, removing them would break paragraphs for rst2man.

The descriptions should ideally be updated each time someone adds a new
helper, or updates the behaviour (new socket option supported, ...) or
the interface (new flags available, ...) of existing ones.

To ease the review process, the documentation has been split into several
patches.

v3 -> v4:
- Add a patch (#9) for newly added BPF helpers.
- Add a patch (#10) to update UAPI bpf.h version under tools/.
- Use SPDX tag in Python script.
- Several fixes on man page header and footer, and helpers documentation.
  Please refer to individual patches for details.

RFC v2 -> PATCH v3:
Several fixes on man page header and footer, and helpers documentation.
Please refer to individual patches for details.

RFC v1 -> RFC v2:
- Remove "For" (compatible program and map types), "Since" (minimal
  Linux kernel version required), "GPL only" sections and commit hashes
  for the helpers.
- Add comment on top of the description list to explain how this
  documentation is supposed to be processed.
- Update Python script accordingly (remove the same sections, and remove
  paragraphs on program types and GPL restrictions from man page
  header).
- Split series into several patches.
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
      a6712d45
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: update bpf.h uapi header for tools · 9cde0c88
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Update tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h file in order to reflect the
changes for BPF helper functions documentation introduced in previous
commits.
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      9cde0c88
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (65-66) · 2d020dd7
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions:

Helper from Nikita:
- bpf_xdp_adjust_tail()

Helper from Eyal:
- bpf_skb_get_xfrm_state()

v4:
- New patch (helpers did not exist yet for previous versions).

Cc: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
Cc: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      2d020dd7
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (58-64) · ab127040
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions, all
written by John:

- bpf_redirect_map()
- bpf_sk_redirect_map()
- bpf_sock_map_update()
- bpf_msg_redirect_map()
- bpf_msg_apply_bytes()
- bpf_msg_cork_bytes()
- bpf_msg_pull_data()

v4:
- bpf_redirect_map(): Fix typos: "XDP_ABORT" changed to "XDP_ABORTED",
  "his" to "this". Also add a paragraph on performance improvement over
  bpf_redirect() helper.

v3:
- bpf_sk_redirect_map(): Improve description of BPF_F_INGRESS flag.
- bpf_msg_redirect_map(): Improve description of BPF_F_INGRESS flag.
- bpf_redirect_map(): Fix note on CPU redirection, not fully implemented
  for generic XDP but supported on native XDP.
- bpf_msg_pull_data(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.

Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      ab127040
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (51-57) · 7aa79a86
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions:

Helpers from Lawrence:
- bpf_setsockopt()
- bpf_getsockopt()
- bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags_set()

Helpers from Yonghong:
- bpf_perf_event_read_value()
- bpf_perf_prog_read_value()

Helper from Josef:
- bpf_override_return()

Helper from Andrey:
- bpf_bind()

v4:
- bpf_perf_event_read_value(): State that this helper should be
  preferred over bpf_perf_event_read().

v3:
- bpf_perf_event_read_value(): Fix time of selection for perf event type
  in description. Remove occurences of "cores" to avoid confusion with
  "CPU".
- bpf_bind(): Remove last paragraph of description, which was off topic.

Cc: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
[for bpf_perf_event_read_value(), bpf_perf_prog_read_value()]
Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
[for bpf_bind()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      7aa79a86
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (42-50) · c6b5fb86
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions:

Helper from Kaixu:
- bpf_perf_event_read()

Helpers from Martin:
- bpf_skb_under_cgroup()
- bpf_xdp_adjust_head()

Helpers from Sargun:
- bpf_probe_write_user()
- bpf_current_task_under_cgroup()

Helper from Thomas:
- bpf_skb_change_head()

Helper from Gianluca:
- bpf_probe_read_str()

Helpers from Chenbo:
- bpf_get_socket_cookie()
- bpf_get_socket_uid()

v4:
- bpf_perf_event_read(): State that bpf_perf_event_read_value() should
  be preferred over this helper.
- bpf_skb_change_head(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_xdp_adjust_head(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_probe_write_user(): Add that dst must be a valid user space
  address.
- bpf_get_socket_cookie(): Improve description by making clearer that
  the cockie belongs to the socket, and state that it remains stable for
  the life of the socket.

v3:
- bpf_perf_event_read(): Fix time of selection for perf event type in
  description. Remove occurences of "cores" to avoid confusion with
  "CPU".

Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Gianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Cc: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
[for bpf_skb_under_cgroup(), bpf_xdp_adjust_head()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      c6b5fb86
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (33-41) · fa15601a
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions, all
written by Daniel:

- bpf_get_hash_recalc()
- bpf_skb_change_tail()
- bpf_skb_pull_data()
- bpf_csum_update()
- bpf_set_hash_invalid()
- bpf_get_numa_node_id()
- bpf_set_hash()
- bpf_skb_adjust_room()
- bpf_xdp_adjust_meta()

v4:
- bpf_skb_change_tail(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_skb_pull_data(): Clarify the motivation for using this helper or
  bpf_skb_load_bytes(), on non-linear buffers. Fix RST formatting for
  *skb*. Clarify comment about invalidated verifier checks.
- bpf_csum_update(): Fix description of checksum (entire packet, not IP
  checksum). Fix a typo: "header" instead of "helper".
- bpf_set_hash_invalid(): Mention bpf_get_hash_recalc().
- bpf_get_numa_node_id(): State that the helper is not restricted to
  programs attached to sockets.
- bpf_skb_adjust_room(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_xdp_adjust_meta(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      fa15601a
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (23-32) · 1fdd08be
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions, all
written by Daniel:

- bpf_get_prandom_u32()
- bpf_get_smp_processor_id()
- bpf_get_cgroup_classid()
- bpf_get_route_realm()
- bpf_skb_load_bytes()
- bpf_csum_diff()
- bpf_skb_get_tunnel_opt()
- bpf_skb_set_tunnel_opt()
- bpf_skb_change_proto()
- bpf_skb_change_type()

v4:
- bpf_get_prandom_u32(): Warn that the prng is not cryptographically
  secure.
- bpf_get_smp_processor_id(): Fix a typo (case).
- bpf_get_cgroup_classid(): Clarify description. Add notes on the helper
  being limited to cgroup v1, and to egress path.
- bpf_get_route_realm(): Add comparison with bpf_get_cgroup_classid().
  Add a note about usage with TC and advantage of clsact. Fix a typo in
  return value ("sdb" instead of "skb").
- bpf_skb_load_bytes(): Make explicit loading large data loads it to the
  eBPF stack.
- bpf_csum_diff(): Add a note on seed that can be cascaded. Link to
  bpf_l3|l4_csum_replace().
- bpf_skb_get_tunnel_opt(): Add a note about usage with "collect
  metadata" mode, and example of this with Geneve.
- bpf_skb_set_tunnel_opt(): Add a link to bpf_skb_get_tunnel_opt()
  description.
- bpf_skb_change_proto(): Mention that the main use case is NAT64.
  Clarify comment about invalidated verifier checks.

v3:
- bpf_get_prandom_u32(): Fix helper name :(. Add description, including
  a note on the internal random state.
- bpf_get_smp_processor_id(): Add description, including a note on the
  processor id remaining stable during program run.
- bpf_get_cgroup_classid(): State that CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_CLASSID is
  required to use the helper. Add a reference to related documentation.
  State that placing a task in net_cls controller disables cgroup-bpf.
- bpf_get_route_realm(): State that CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_CLASSID is
  required to use this helper.
- bpf_skb_load_bytes(): Fix comment on current use cases for the helper.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      1fdd08be
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (12-22) · c456dec4
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions, all
written by Alexei:

- bpf_get_current_pid_tgid()
- bpf_get_current_uid_gid()
- bpf_get_current_comm()
- bpf_skb_vlan_push()
- bpf_skb_vlan_pop()
- bpf_skb_get_tunnel_key()
- bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key()
- bpf_redirect()
- bpf_perf_event_output()
- bpf_get_stackid()
- bpf_get_current_task()

v4:
- bpf_redirect(): Fix typo: "XDP_ABORT" changed to "XDP_ABORTED". Add
  note on bpf_redirect_map() providing better performance. Replace "Save
  for" with "Except for".
- bpf_skb_vlan_push(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_skb_vlan_pop(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_skb_get_tunnel_key(): Add notes on tunnel_id, "collect metadata"
  mode, and example tunneling protocols with which it can be used.
- bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key(): Add a reference to the description of
  bpf_skb_get_tunnel_key().
- bpf_perf_event_output(): Specify that, and for what purpose, the
  helper can be used with programs attached to TC and XDP.

v3:
- bpf_skb_get_tunnel_key(): Change and improve description and example.
- bpf_redirect(): Improve description of BPF_F_INGRESS flag.
- bpf_perf_event_output(): Fix first sentence of description. Delete
  wrong statement on context being evaluated as a struct pt_reg. Remove
  the long yet incomplete example.
- bpf_get_stackid(): Add a note about PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH being
  configurable.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      c456dec4
    • Quentin Monnet's avatar
      bpf: add documentation for eBPF helpers (01-11) · ad4a5223
      Quentin Monnet authored 
      Add documentation for eBPF helper functions to bpf.h user header file.
This documentation can be parsed with the Python script provided in
another commit of the patch series, in order to provide a RST document
that can later be converted into a man page.

The objective is to make the documentation easily understandable and
accessible to all eBPF developers, including beginners.

This patch contains descriptions for the following helper functions, all
written by Alexei:

- bpf_map_lookup_elem()
- bpf_map_update_elem()
- bpf_map_delete_elem()
- bpf_probe_read()
- bpf_ktime_get_ns()
- bpf_trace_printk()
- bpf_skb_store_bytes()
- bpf_l3_csum_replace()
- bpf_l4_csum_replace()
- bpf_tail_call()
- bpf_clone_redirect()

v4:
- bpf_map_lookup_elem(): Add "const" qualifier for key.
- bpf_map_update_elem(): Add "const" qualifier for key and value.
- bpf_map_lookup_elem(): Add "const" qualifier for key.
- bpf_skb_store_bytes(): Clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.
- bpf_l3_csum_replace(): Mention L3 instead of just IP, and add a note
  about bpf_csum_diff().
- bpf_l4_csum_replace(): Mention L4 instead of just TCP/UDP, and add a
  note about bpf_csum_diff().
- bpf_tail_call(): Bring minor edits to description.
- bpf_clone_redirect(): Add a note about the relation with
  bpf_redirect(). Also clarify comment about invalidated verifier
  checks.

v3:
- bpf_map_lookup_elem(): Fix description of restrictions for flags
  related to the existence of the entry.
- bpf_trace_printk(): State that trace_pipe can be configured. Fix
  return value in case an unknown format specifier is met. Add a note on
  kernel log notice when the helper is used. Edit example.
- bpf_tail_call(): Improve comment on stack inheritance.
- bpf_clone_redirect(): Improve description of BPF_F_INGRESS flag.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      ad4a5223
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