linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC bpf-next 0/3] bpf: report probe fault to BPF stderr

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Message-ID: <20250927061210.194502-1-menglong.dong@linux.dev>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:12:07 +0800
From: Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
To: ast@...nel.org
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jiang.biao@...ux.dev
Subject: [PATCH RFC bpf-next 0/3] bpf: report probe fault to BPF stderr

For now, we can do the memory read with bpf_core_cast, which is faster
than bpf_probe_read_kernel. But the memory probe read is not aware of the
read failure, and the user can't get such failure information.

I wanted to introduce a fault_callback to the BPF program, which can be
called when the memory read fails. Then I saw the BPF stream interface,
and it's already used in the error reporting. So I implement the probe
fault base on the BPF stream.

This series adds a new function bpf_prog_report_probe_violation to report
probe fault to BPF stderr. It is used to report probe read fault and probe
write fault.

The shortcoming of this way is that we can't report the fault event if the
memory address is not a kernel address. I remember that we will check if
the address is a kernel address in the JIT compiler, and it will not
trigger the fault event if the address is not a kernel address. If we
implement the fault callback, we call the callback during the address
checking by JIT.

Menglong Dong (3):
  bpf: report probe fault to BPF stderr
  x86,bpf: use bpf_prog_report_probe_violation for x86
  selftests/bpf: add testcase for probe read fault

 arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c                   |  2 ++
 include/linux/bpf.h                           |  1 +
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c                      | 18 +++++++++++++++
 .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/stream.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/stream.c    | 21 ++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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