Re: [PATCH PATCH v2 v2 2/6] bpf: Add bpf_perf_event_aux_pause kfunc

From: Eduard Zingerman
Date: Mon Jul 21 2025 - 18:39:18 EST


On Fri, 2025-07-18 at 16:25 +0100, Leo Yan wrote:

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> +__bpf_kfunc int bpf_perf_event_aux_pause(void *p__map, u64 flags, u32 pause)
> +{
> + struct bpf_map *map = p__map;
> + struct bpf_array *array = container_of(map, struct bpf_array, map);

Verifier makes sure that p__map is a not null pointer to an object of
type bpf_map, but it does not guarantee that the object is an instance
of bpf_array.
You need to check map->type, same way bpf_arena_alloc_pages() does.

> + unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> + u64 index = flags & BPF_F_INDEX_MASK;
> + struct bpf_event_entry *ee;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + /* Disabling IRQ avoids race condition with perf event flows. */
> + guard(irqsave)();
> +
> + if (unlikely(flags & ~(BPF_F_INDEX_MASK))) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + if (index == BPF_F_CURRENT_CPU)
> + index = cpu;
> +
> + if (unlikely(index >= array->map.max_entries)) {
> + ret = -E2BIG;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + ee = READ_ONCE(array->ptrs[index]);
> + if (!ee) {
> + ret = -ENOENT;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + if (!has_aux(ee->event))
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> +
> + perf_event_aux_pause(ee->event, pause);
> +out:
> + return ret;
> +}

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