Re: [bpf-next v8 0/5] emit ENDBR/BTI instructions for indirect jump targets

From: Anton Protopopov

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 13:26:52 EST


On 26/03/09 10:00PM, Xu Kuohai wrote:
> On architectures with CFI protection enabled that require landing pad
> instructions at indirect jump targets, such as x86 with CET/IBT eanbled
^ enabled
> and arm64 with BTI enabled, kernel panics when an indirect jump lands on
> a target witout landing pad. Therefore, the JIT must emit landing pad
^ without
> instructions for indirect jump targets.
>
> The verifier already recognizes which instructions are indirect jump
> targets during the verification phase. So we can stores this information
^ store
> in env->insn_aux_data and pass it to the JIT as new parameter, so the JIT
> knows which instructions are indirect jump targets.
>
> During JIT, constants blinding is performed. It rewrites the private copy
> of instructions for the JITed program, but it does not adjust the global
> env->insn_aux_data array. As a result, after constants blinding, the
> instruction indexes used by JIT may no longer match the indexes in
> env->insn_aux_data, so the JIT can not lookup env->insn_aux_data directly.
>
> To avoid this mistach, and considering that all existing arch-specific JITs
^ mismatch?
> already implement constants blinding with largely duplicated code, move
> constants blinding from JIT to generic code, before copying instructions
> for each subprog.
>
> v8:
> - Define void bpf_jit_blind_constants() function when CONFIG_BPF_JIT is not set
> - Move indirect_target fixup for insn patching from bpf_jit_blind_constants()
> to adjust_insn_aux_data()
>
> v7: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260307103949.2340104-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> - Move constants blinding logic back to bpf/core.c
> - Compute ip address before switch statement in x86 JIT
> - Clear JIT state from error path on arm64 and loongarch
>
> v6: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260306102329.2056216-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - Move constants blinding from JIT to verifier
> - Move call to bpf_prog_select_runtime from bpf_prog_load to verifier
>
> v5: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260302102726.1126019-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - Switch to pass env to JIT directly to get rid of coping private insn_aux_data for
> each prog
>
> v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260114093914.2403982-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - Switch to the approach proposed by Eduard, using insn_aux_data to indentify indirect
> jump targets, and emit ENDBR on x86
>
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251227081033.240336-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - Get rid of unnecessary enum definition (Yonghong Song, Anton Protopopov)
>
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251223085447.139301-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> - Exclude instruction arrays not used for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov)
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251127140318.3944249-1-xukuohai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Xu Kuohai (5):
> bpf: Move constants blinding from JIT to verifier
> bpf: Pass bpf_verifier_env to JIT
> bpf: Add helper to detect indirect jump targets
> bpf, x86: Emit ENDBR for indirect jump targets
> bpf, arm64: Emit BTI for indirect jump target
>
> arch/arc/net/bpf_jit_core.c | 37 +++-----
> arch/arm/net/bpf_jit_32.c | 43 ++--------
> arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 86 +++++++------------
> arch/loongarch/net/bpf_jit.c | 58 ++++---------
> arch/mips/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 22 +----
> arch/parisc/net/bpf_jit_core.c | 40 ++-------
> arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 47 +++-------
> arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_core.c | 47 +++-------
> arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 43 ++--------
> arch/sparc/net/bpf_jit_comp_64.c | 43 ++--------
> arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 68 +++++----------
> arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp32.c | 35 ++------
> include/linux/bpf.h | 2 +
> include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 9 +-
> include/linux/filter.h | 15 +++-
> kernel/bpf/core.c | 142 +++++++++----------------------
> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 4 -
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 45 +++++++---
> 18 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 553 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.47.3
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