[RFC PATCH 07/20] rv: Add reactors support to BPF monitors

From: Gabriele Monaco

Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 05:26:11 EST


The struct_ops system allows BPF monitors to be assigned reactors
transparently, but calling rv_react() is something the monitors should
do and BPF monitors cannot, as well as they cannot easily get a pointer
to the rv_monitor structure.

Add a bpf_rv_react kfunc that finds the monitor pointer given its name
and triggers a reaction. Since variadic functions are complicated in
BPF, this kfunc receives a plain string, that should be populated by the
caller with some sort of sprintf().

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/rv/rv_bpf.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_bpf.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_bpf.c
index 0450bcaf1b79..90ac7af1edff 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_bpf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_bpf.c
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
#include <linux/btf.h>
#include <linux/btf_ids.h>
#include <linux/filter.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/rv.h>
+#include "rv.h"

static int bpf_rv_monitor_init(struct btf *btf)
{
@@ -111,8 +113,62 @@ static struct bpf_struct_ops bpf_rv_monitor_ops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
};

-static int __init bpf_rv_monitor_init_ops(void)
+__bpf_kfunc_start_defs();
+
+/**
+ * bpf_rv_react - trigger a reactor from BPF
+ * @name: monitor name
+ * @msg: pre-formatted message string
+ * @msg__sz: size of the msg buffer
+ *
+ * This kfunc allows BPF monitors to trigger reactors with a message.
+ * The message should be pre-formatted by the BPF program using bpf_snprintf.
+ */
+__bpf_kfunc void bpf_rv_react(char *name__str, char *msg, u32 msg__sz)
+{
+ struct rv_monitor *monitor;
+ char safe_msg[256];
+
+ if (msg__sz == 0)
+ return;
+ msg__sz = min_t(u32, msg__sz, sizeof(safe_msg));
+ if (strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(safe_msg, msg, msg__sz) < 0)
+ return;
+ safe_msg[msg__sz - 1] = '\0';
+
+ guard(rcu)();
+ monitor = rv_get_monitor_by_name(name__str);
+
+ if (monitor)
+ rv_react(monitor, "%s", safe_msg);
+}
+
+__bpf_kfunc_end_defs();
+
+BTF_KFUNCS_START(rv_kfunc_set_ids)
+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_rv_react)
+BTF_KFUNCS_END(rv_kfunc_set_ids)
+
+static const struct btf_kfunc_id_set rv_kfunc_set = {
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+ .set = &rv_kfunc_set_ids,
+};
+
+static int __init rv_monitor_init_bpf(void)
{
- return register_bpf_struct_ops(&bpf_rv_monitor_ops, rv_monitor);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = register_bpf_struct_ops(&bpf_rv_monitor_ops, rv_monitor);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("rv: Failed to register struct_ops (%pe)\n", ERR_PTR(ret));
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ ret = register_btf_kfunc_id_set(BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING, &rv_kfunc_set);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("rv: Failed to register reactor kfunc (%pe)\n", ERR_PTR(ret));
+ return ret;
+ }
+ return 0;
}
-late_initcall(bpf_rv_monitor_init_ops);
+late_initcall(rv_monitor_init_bpf);
--
2.55.0