Add support for specifying multiple file sources in 'bpftool btf dump'
to generate a single C header containing types from vmlinux plus
multiple kernel modules:
bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/mod1 file /sys/kernel/btf/mod2 format c
This is useful for BPF programs that need to access types defined in
kernel modules. Previously this required a separate bpftool invocation
for each module, producing separate headers that could not be combined
due to overlapping vmlinux type definitions.
The implementation collects all file paths, then for the multi-file
case creates an empty split BTF on the vmlinux base and iteratively
merges each module's types into it via btf__add_btf(). The single-file
code path is preserved exactly to avoid any regression risk.
Auto-detection of vmlinux as the base BTF from sysfs paths works as
before. If vmlinux itself appears in the file list it is skipped with
a warning since its types are already provided by the base.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b19c2760ffe48cec546dd3810d237f8cad20d606.1772657690.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Add support for the 'prepend' option when attaching tcx_ingress and
tcx_egress programs. This option allows inserting a BPF program at
the beginning of the TCX chain instead of appending it at the end.
The implementation uses BPF_F_BEFORE flag which automatically inserts
the program at the beginning of the chain when no relative reference
is specified.
This change includes:
- Modify do_attach_tcx() to support prepend insertion using BPF_F_BEFORE
- Update documentation to describe the new 'prepend' option
- Add bash completion support for the 'prepend' option on tcx attach types
- Add example usage in the documentation
- Add validation to reject 'overwrite' for non-XDP attach types
The 'prepend' option is only valid for tcx_ingress and tcx_egress attach
types. For XDP attach types, the existing 'overwrite' option remains
available.
Example usage:
# bpftool net attach tcx_ingress name tc_prog dev lo prepend
This feature is useful when the order of program execution in the TCX
chain matters and users need to ensure certain programs run first.
Co-developed-by: Siwan Kim <siwan.kim@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Siwan Kim <siwan.kim@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Gyutae Bae <gyutae.bae@navercorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260112034516.22723-1-gyutae.opensource@navercorp.com
Commit 40863f4d6e ("bpftool: Add support for signing BPF programs")
added new options for "bpftool prog load" and "bpftool gen skeleton".
This commit brings the relevant update to the bash completion file.
We rework slightly the processing of options to make completion more
resilient for options that take an argument.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923103802.57695-1-qmo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add support for printing the BPF stream contents of a program in
bpftool. The new bpftool prog tracelog command is extended to take
stdout and stderr arguments, and then the prog specification.
The bpf_prog_stream_read() API added in previous patch is simply reused
to grab data and then it is dumped to the respective file. The stdout
data is sent to stdout, and stderr is printed to stderr.
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703204818.925464-12-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch exposes the btf_custom_path feature to bpftool, allowing users
to specify a custom BTF file when loading BPF programs using prog load or
prog loadall commands.
The argument 'btf_custom_path' in libbpf is used for those kernels that
don't have CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled but still want to perform CO-RE
relocations.
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516144708.298652-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Sort bpftool c dump output; aiming to simplify vmlinux.h diffing and
forcing more natural type definitions ordering.
Definitions are sorted first by their BTF kind ranks, then by their base
type name and by their own name.
Type ranks
Assign ranks to btf kinds (defined in function btf_type_rank) to set
next order:
1. Anonymous enums/enums64
2. Named enums/enums64
3. Trivial types typedefs (ints, then floats)
4. Structs/Unions
5. Function prototypes
6. Forward declarations
Type rank is set to maximum for unnamed reference types, structs and
unions to avoid emitting those types early. They will be emitted as
part of the type chain starting with named type.
Lexicographical ordering
Each type is assigned a sort_name and own_name.
sort_name is the resolved name of the final base type for reference
types (typedef, pointer, array etc). Sorting by sort_name allows to
group typedefs of the same base type. sort_name for non-reference type
is the same as own_name. own_name is a direct name of particular type,
is used as final sorting step.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240514131221.20585-1-yatsenko@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This commit contains a series of clean-ups and fixes for bpftool's bash
completion file:
- Make sure all local variables are declared as such.
- Make sure variables are initialised before being read.
- Update ELF section ("maps" -> ".maps") for looking up map names in
object files.
- Fix call to _init_completion.
- Move definition for MAP_TYPE and PROG_TYPE higher up in the scope to
avoid defining them multiple times, reuse MAP_TYPE where relevant.
- Simplify completion for "duration" keyword in "bpftool prog profile".
- Fix completion for "bpftool struct_ops register" and "bpftool link
(pin|detach)" where we would repeatedly suggest file names instead of
suggesting just one name.
- Fix completion for "bpftool iter pin ... map MAP" to account for the
"map" keyword.
- Add missing "detach" suggestion for "bpftool link".
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240413011427.14402-3-qmo@kernel.org
Add ability to specify a network interface used to resolve XDP hints
kfuncs when loading program through bpftool.
Usage:
bpftool prog load [...] xdpmeta_dev <ifname>
Writing just 'dev <ifname>' instead of 'xdpmeta_dev' is a very probable
mistake that results in not very descriptive errors,
so 'bpftool prog load [...] dev <ifname>' syntax becomes deprecated,
followed by 'bpftool map create [...] dev <ifname>' for consistency.
Now, to offload program, execute:
bpftool prog load [...] offload_dev <ifname>
To offload map:
bpftool map create [...] offload_dev <ifname>
'dev <ifname>' still performs offloading in the commands above, but now
triggers a warning and is excluded from bash completion.
'xdpmeta_dev' and 'offload_dev' are mutually exclusive options, because
'xdpmeta_dev' basically makes a program device-bound without loading it
onto the said device. For now, offloaded programs cannot use XDP hints [0],
but if this changes, using 'offload_dev <ifname>' should cover this case.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/a5a636cc-5b03-686f-4be0-000383b05cfc@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230517160103.1088185-1-larysa.zaremba@intel.com
In bpftool's bash completion file, function _bpftool_once_attr() is able
to process multiple arguments. There are a few locations where this
function is called multiple times in a row, each time for a single
argument; let's pass all arguments instead to minimize the number of
function calls required for the completion.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405132120.59886-8-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When dumping a program, the keywords "opcodes" (for printing the raw
opcodes), "linum" (for displaying the filename, line number, column
number along with the source code), and "visual" (for generating the
control flow graph for translated programs) are mutually exclusive. But
there's no reason why they should be. Let's make it possible to pass
several of them at once. The "file FILE" option, which makes bpftool
output a binary image to a file, remains incompatible with the others.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405132120.59886-6-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
We do not support JSON output for control flow graphs of programs with
bpftool. So far, requiring both the CFG and JSON output would result in
producing a null JSON object. It makes more sense to raise an error
directly when parsing command line arguments and options, so that users
know they won't get any output they might expect.
If JSON is required for the graph, we leave it to Graphviz instead:
# bpftool prog dump xlated <REF> visual | dot -Tjson
Suggested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405132120.59886-5-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
To make it more explicit that the features listed with "bpftool feature
list" are known to bpftool, but not necessary available on the system
(as opposed to the probed features), rename the "feature list" command
into "feature list_builtins".
Note that "bpftool feature list" still works as before given that we
recognise arguments from their prefixes; but the real name of the
subcommand, in particular as displayed in the man page or the
interactive help, will now include "_builtins".
Since we update the bash completion accordingly, let's also take this
chance to redirect error output to /dev/null in the completion script,
to avoid displaying unexpected error messages when users attempt to
tab-complete.
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220701093805.16920-1-quentin@isovalent.com
Now that bpftool is able to produce a list of known program, map, attach
types, let's use as much of this as we can in the bash completion file,
so that we don't have to expand the list each time a new type is added
to the kernel.
Also update the relevant test script to remove some checks that are no
longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220629203637.138944-3-quentin@isovalent.com
Add a "bpftool feature list" subcommand to list BPF "features".
Contrarily to "bpftool feature probe", this is not about the features
available on the system. Instead, it lists all features known to bpftool
from compilation time; in other words, all program, map, attach, link
types known to the libbpf version in use, and all helpers found in the
UAPI BPF header.
The first use case for this feature is bash completion: running the
command provides a list of types that can be used to produce the list of
candidate map types, for example.
Now that bpftool uses "standard" names provided by libbpf for the
program, map, link, and attach types, having the ability to list these
types and helpers could also be useful in scripts to loop over existing
items.
Sample output:
# bpftool feature list prog_types | grep -vw unspec | head -n 6
socket_filter
kprobe
sched_cls
sched_act
tracepoint
xdp
# bpftool -p feature list map_types | jq '.[1]'
"hash"
# bpftool feature list attach_types | grep '^cgroup_'
cgroup_inet_ingress
cgroup_inet_egress
[...]
cgroup_inet_sock_release
# bpftool feature list helpers | grep -vw bpf_unspec | wc -l
207
The "unspec" types and helpers are not filtered out by bpftool, so as to
remain closer to the enums, and to preserve the indices in the JSON
arrays (e.g. "hash" at index 1 == BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH in map types list).
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220629203637.138944-2-quentin@isovalent.com
This change switches bpftool over to using the recently introduced
libbpf_bpf_attach_type_str function instead of maintaining its own
string representation for the bpf_attach_type enum.
Note that contrary to other enum types, the variant names that bpftool
maps bpf_attach_type to do not adhere a simple to follow rule. With
bpf_prog_type, for example, the textual representation can easily be
inferred by stripping the BPF_PROG_TYPE_ prefix and lowercasing the
remaining string. bpf_attach_type violates this rule for various
variants.
We decided to fix up this deficiency with this change, meaning that
bpftool uses the same textual representations as libbpf. Supporting
tests, completion scripts, and man pages have been adjusted accordingly.
However, we did add support for accepting (the now undocumented)
original attach type names when they are provided by users.
For the test (test_bpftool_synctypes.py), I have removed the enum
representation checks, because we no longer mirror the various enum
variant names in bpftool source code. For the man page, help text, and
completion script checks we are now using enum definitions from
uapi/linux/bpf.h as the source of truth directly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523230428.3077108-10-deso@posteo.net
Subskeletons are headers which require an already loaded program to
operate.
For example, when a BPF library is linked into a larger BPF object file,
the library userspace needs a way to access its own global variables
without requiring knowledge about the larger program at build time.
As a result, subskeletons require a loaded bpf_object to open().
Further, they find their own symbols in the larger program by
walking BTF type data at run time.
At this time, programs, maps, and globals are supported through
non-owning pointers.
Signed-off-by: Delyan Kratunov <delyank@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ca8a48b4841c72d285ecce82371bef4a899756cb.1647473511.git.delyank@fb.com
To support the different BPF map or attach types, bpftool must remain
up-to-date with the types supported by the kernel. Let's update the
lists, by adding the missing Bloom filter map type and the perf_event
attach type.
Both missing items were found with test_bpftool_synctypes.py.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211110114632.24537-6-quentin@isovalent.com
