From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
To: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com, song@kernel.org,
yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com,
jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: mark mm->owner as __safe_rcu_or_null
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:39:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251016063929.13830-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016063929.13830-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com>
When CONFIG_MEMCG is enabled, we can access mm->owner under RCU. The
owner can be NULL. With this change, BPF helpers can safely access
mm->owner to retrieve the associated task from the mm. We can then make
policy decision based on the task attribute.
The typical use case is as follows,
bpf_rcu_read_lock(); // rcu lock must be held for rcu trusted field
@owner = @mm->owner; // mm_struct::owner is rcu trusted or null
if (!@owner)
goto out;
/* Do something based on the task attribute */
out:
bpf_rcu_read_unlock();
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index c908015b2d34..d0adf5600c4d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7054,6 +7054,9 @@ BTF_TYPE_SAFE_RCU(struct cgroup_subsys_state) {
/* RCU trusted: these fields are trusted in RCU CS and can be NULL */
BTF_TYPE_SAFE_RCU_OR_NULL(struct mm_struct) {
struct file __rcu *exe_file;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
+ struct task_struct __rcu *owner;
+#endif
};
/* skb->sk, req->sk are not RCU protected, but we mark them as such
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-16 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-16 6:39 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] bpf: MM related minor changes Yafang Shao
2025-10-16 6:39 ` Yafang Shao [this message]
2025-10-16 6:39 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpf: mark vma->{vm_mm,vm_file} as __safe_trusted_or_null Yafang Shao
2025-10-16 16:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] bpf: MM related minor changes Song Liu
2025-10-19 2:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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