From 8c42d2fa4eeab6c37a0b1b1aa7a2715248ef4f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yonghong Song Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:26:09 -0800 Subject: bpf: Support BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG for btf_type_tag attributes LLVM patches ([1] for clang, [2] and [3] for BPF backend) added support for btf_type_tag attributes. This patch added support for the kernel. The main motivation for btf_type_tag is to bring kernel annotations __user, __rcu etc. to btf. With such information available in btf, bpf verifier can detect mis-usages and reject the program. For example, for __user tagged pointer, developers can then use proper helper like bpf_probe_read_user() etc. to read the data. BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG may also useful for other tracing facility where instead of to require user to specify kernel/user address type, the kernel can detect it by itself with btf. [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113222 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113496 Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211112012609.1505032-1-yhs@fb.com --- tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/include') diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h index deb12f755f0f..b0d8fea1951d 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct btf_type { * "size" tells the size of the type it is describing. * * "type" is used by PTR, TYPEDEF, VOLATILE, CONST, RESTRICT, - * FUNC, FUNC_PROTO, VAR and DECL_TAG. + * FUNC, FUNC_PROTO, VAR, DECL_TAG and TYPE_TAG. * "type" is a type_id referring to another type. */ union { @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ enum { BTF_KIND_DATASEC = 15, /* Section */ BTF_KIND_FLOAT = 16, /* Floating point */ BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG = 17, /* Decl Tag */ + BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG = 18, /* Type Tag */ NR_BTF_KINDS, BTF_KIND_MAX = NR_BTF_KINDS - 1, -- cgit v1.2.3