[PATCH bpf-next 5/5] selftests/bpf: Add test to verify checking padding bytes for BPF syscall common attributes

From: Leon Hwang

Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 11:13:26 EST


Add a test to verify that the tailing padding 4 bytes are checked in
syscall.c::__sys_bpf() using bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

Without the fix, the test fails with:

test_common_attr_padding:FAIL:syscall unexpected syscall: actual 4 >= expected 0
#213/12 map_create_failure/common_attr_padding:FAIL

Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/map_init.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/map_init.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/map_init.c
index b0b902d5783d..c804c3ce9be9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/map_init.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/map_init.c
@@ -353,6 +353,30 @@ static void test_excl_prog_hash_size_2(void)
test_map_create_array(&opts, msg);
}

+static void test_common_attr_padding(void)
+{
+ struct bpf_common_attr_fake {
+ __u8 attrs[offsetofend(struct bpf_common_attr, log_true_size)];
+ __u32 pad;
+ } attr_common = {
+ .pad = 1,
+ };
+ union bpf_attr attr = {
+ .map_type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY,
+ .key_size = 4,
+ .value_size = 4,
+ .max_entries = 1,
+ };
+ int fd;
+
+ fd = syscall(__NR_bpf, BPF_MAP_CREATE | BPF_COMMON_ATTRS, &attr, sizeof(attr), &attr_common,
+ sizeof(attr_common));
+ if (!ASSERT_LT(fd, 0, "syscall"))
+ close(fd);
+ else
+ ASSERT_EQ(errno, E2BIG, "errno");
+}
+
void test_map_create_failure(void)
{
if (test__start_subtest("invalid_vmlinux_value_type_id_struct_ops"))
@@ -377,4 +401,6 @@ void test_map_create_failure(void)
test_excl_prog_hash_size_1();
if (test__start_subtest("invalid_excl_prog_hash_size_2"))
test_excl_prog_hash_size_2();
+ if (test__start_subtest("common_attr_padding"))
+ test_common_attr_padding();
}
--
2.54.0