[PATCH bpf-next v9 05/11] bpf: support fsession for bpf_session_cookie

From: Menglong Dong

Date: Sat Jan 10 2026 - 09:12:22 EST


Implement session cookie for fsession. In order to limit the stack usage,
we make 4 as the maximum of the cookie count.

The offset of the current cookie is stored in the
"(ctx[-1] >> BPF_TRAMP_M_COOKIE) & 0xFF". Therefore, we can get the
session cookie with ctx[-offset].

The stack will look like this:

return value -> 8 bytes
argN -> 8 bytes
...
arg1 -> 8 bytes
nr_args -> 8 bytes
ip (optional) -> 8 bytes
cookie2 -> 8 bytes
cookie1 -> 8 bytes

Implement and inline the bpf_session_cookie() for the fsession in the
verifier.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v9:
- remove the definition of bpf_fsession_cookie()

v7:
- reuse bpf_session_cookie() instead of introduce new kfunc

v5:
- remove "cookie_cnt" in struct bpf_trampoline

v4:
- limit the maximum of the cookie count to 4
- store the session cookies before nr_regs in stack
---
include/linux/bpf.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c | 13 +++++++++++--
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index 2640ec2157e1..a416050e0dd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@ enum {

#define BPF_TRAMP_M_NR_ARGS 0
#define BPF_TRAMP_M_IS_RETURN 8
+#define BPF_TRAMP_M_COOKIE 9

struct bpf_tramp_links {
struct bpf_tramp_link *links[BPF_MAX_TRAMP_LINKS];
@@ -1783,6 +1784,7 @@ struct bpf_prog {
enforce_expected_attach_type:1, /* Enforce expected_attach_type checking at attach time */
call_get_stack:1, /* Do we call bpf_get_stack() or bpf_get_stackid() */
call_get_func_ip:1, /* Do we call get_func_ip() */
+ call_session_cookie:1, /* Do we call bpf_session_cookie() */
tstamp_type_access:1, /* Accessed __sk_buff->tstamp_type */
sleepable:1; /* BPF program is sleepable */
enum bpf_prog_type type; /* Type of BPF program */
@@ -2191,6 +2193,19 @@ static inline int bpf_fsession_cnt(struct bpf_tramp_links *links)
return cnt;
}

+static inline int bpf_fsession_cookie_cnt(struct bpf_tramp_links *links)
+{
+ struct bpf_tramp_links fentries = links[BPF_TRAMP_FENTRY];
+ int cnt = 0;
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < links[BPF_TRAMP_FENTRY].nr_links; i++) {
+ if (fentries.links[i]->link.prog->call_session_cookie)
+ cnt++;
+ }
+
+ return cnt;
+}
+
int bpf_prog_ctx_arg_info_init(struct bpf_prog *prog,
const struct bpf_ctx_arg_aux *info, u32 cnt);

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c b/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c
index 11e043049d68..29b4e00d860c 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/trampoline.c
@@ -592,6 +592,8 @@ static int bpf_freplace_check_tgt_prog(struct bpf_prog *tgt_prog)
return 0;
}

+#define BPF_TRAMP_MAX_COOKIES 4
+
static int __bpf_trampoline_link_prog(struct bpf_tramp_link *link,
struct bpf_trampoline *tr,
struct bpf_prog *tgt_prog)
@@ -600,7 +602,7 @@ static int __bpf_trampoline_link_prog(struct bpf_tramp_link *link,
struct bpf_tramp_link *link_exiting;
struct bpf_fsession_link *fslink;
struct hlist_head *prog_list;
- int err = 0;
+ int err = 0, cookie_cnt = 0;
int cnt = 0, i;

kind = bpf_attach_type_to_tramp(link->link.prog);
@@ -637,11 +639,18 @@ static int __bpf_trampoline_link_prog(struct bpf_tramp_link *link,
/* prog already linked */
return -EBUSY;
hlist_for_each_entry(link_exiting, prog_list, tramp_hlist) {
- if (link_exiting->link.prog != link->link.prog)
+ if (link_exiting->link.prog != link->link.prog) {
+ if (kind == BPF_TRAMP_FSESSION &&
+ link_exiting->link.prog->call_session_cookie)
+ cookie_cnt++;
continue;
+ }
/* prog already linked */
return -EBUSY;
}
+ if (link->link.prog->call_session_cookie &&
+ cookie_cnt >= BPF_TRAMP_MAX_COOKIES)
+ return -E2BIG;

hlist_add_head(&link->tramp_hlist, prog_list);
if (kind == BPF_TRAMP_FSESSION) {
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 1b0292a03186..b91fd8af2393 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -12508,7 +12508,8 @@ get_kfunc_ptr_arg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
bool arg_mem_size = false;

if (meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx] ||
- meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_is_return])
+ meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_is_return] ||
+ meta->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_cookie])
return KF_ARG_PTR_TO_CTX;

if (argno + 1 < nargs &&
@@ -14294,6 +14295,9 @@ static int check_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
return err;
}

+ if (meta.func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_cookie])
+ env->prog->call_session_cookie = true;
+
return 0;
}

@@ -22571,6 +22575,22 @@ static int fixup_kfunc_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_insn *insn,
insn_buf[1] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_RSH, BPF_REG_0, BPF_TRAMP_M_IS_RETURN);
insn_buf[2] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_AND, BPF_REG_0, 1);
*cnt = 3;
+ } else if (desc->func_id == special_kfunc_list[KF_bpf_session_cookie] &&
+ env->prog->expected_attach_type == BPF_TRACE_FSESSION) {
+ /* inline bpf_session_cookie() for fsession:
+ * __u64 *bpf_session_cookie(void *ctx)
+ * {
+ * u64 off = (((u64 *)ctx)[-1] >> BPF_TRAMP_M_COOKIE) & 0xFF;
+ * return &((u64 *)ctx)[-off];
+ * }
+ */
+ insn_buf[0] = BPF_LDX_MEM(BPF_DW, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_1, -8);
+ insn_buf[1] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_RSH, BPF_REG_0, BPF_TRAMP_M_COOKIE);
+ insn_buf[2] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_AND, BPF_REG_0, 0xFF);
+ insn_buf[3] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_LSH, BPF_REG_0, 3);
+ insn_buf[4] = BPF_ALU64_REG(BPF_SUB, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_1);
+ insn_buf[5] = BPF_ALU64_IMM(BPF_NEG, BPF_REG_0, 0);
+ *cnt = 6;
}

if (env->insn_aux_data[insn_idx].arg_prog) {
--
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