[PATCHv4 11/12] tools/kexec: Introduce a bpf-prog to parse zboot image format
Pingfan Liu
piliu at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 19:03:18 PDT 2025
This BPF program aligns with the convention defined in the kernel file
kexec_pe_parser_bpf.lskel.h, where the interface between the BPF program
and the kernel is established, and is composed of:
four maps:
struct bpf_map_desc ringbuf_1;
struct bpf_map_desc ringbuf_2;
struct bpf_map_desc ringbuf_3;
struct bpf_map_desc ringbuf_4;
four sections:
struct bpf_map_desc rodata;
struct bpf_map_desc data;
struct bpf_map_desc bss;
struct bpf_map_desc rodata_str1_1;
two progs:
SEC("fentry.s/bpf_handle_pefile")
SEC("fentry.s/bpf_post_handle_pefile")
This BPF program only uses ringbuf_1, so it minimizes the size of the
other three ringbufs to one byte. The size of ringbuf_1 is deduced from
the size of the uncompressed file 'vmlinux.bin', which is usually less
than 64MB. With the help of a group of bpf kfuncs: bpf_decompress(),
bpf_copy_to_kernel(), bpf_mem_range_result_put(), this bpf-prog stores
the uncompressed kernel image inside the kernel space.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo at redhat.com>
Cc: bpf at vger.kernel.org
To: kexec at lists.infradead.org
---
tools/kexec/Makefile | 82 +++++++++++++++++
tools/kexec/zboot_parser_bpf.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 240 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/kexec/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/kexec/zboot_parser_bpf.c
diff --git a/tools/kexec/Makefile b/tools/kexec/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c9e7ce9ff4c19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/kexec/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+# Ensure Kbuild variables are available
+include ../scripts/Makefile.include
+
+srctree := $(patsubst %/tools/kexec,%,$(CURDIR))
+VMLINUX = $(srctree)/vmlinux
+TOOLSDIR := $(srctree)/tools
+LIBDIR := $(TOOLSDIR)/lib
+BPFDIR := $(LIBDIR)/bpf
+ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ -e s/aarch64.*/arm64/ -e s/riscv64/riscv/ -e s/loongarch.*/loongarch/)
+# At present, zboot image format is used by arm64, riscv, loongarch
+# And arch/$(ARCH)/boot/vmlinux.bin is the uncompressed file instead of arch/$(ARCH)/boot/Image
+ifeq ($(ARCH),$(filter $(ARCH),arm64 riscv loongarch))
+ EFI_IMAGE := $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/boot/vmlinuz.efi
+ KERNEL_IMAGE := $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/boot/vmlinux.bin
+else
+ @echo "Unsupported architecture: $(ARCH)"
+ @exit 1
+endif
+
+
+CC = clang
+CFLAGS = -O2
+BPF_PROG_CFLAGS = -g -O2 -target bpf -Wall -I $(BPFDIR) -I .
+BPFTOOL = bpftool
+
+# List of generated target files
+HEADERS = vmlinux.h bpf_helper_defs.h image_size.h
+ZBOOT_TARGETS = bytecode.c zboot_parser_bpf.o bytecode.o
+
+
+# Targets
+zboot: $(HEADERS) $(ZBOOT_TARGETS)
+
+# Rule to generate vmlinux.h from vmlinux
+vmlinux.h: $(VMLINUX)
+ @command -v $(BPFTOOL) >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "$(BPFTOOL) is required but not found. Please install it."; exit 1; }
+ @$(BPFTOOL) btf dump file $(VMLINUX) format c > vmlinux.h
+
+bpf_helper_defs.h: $(srctree)/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+ @$(QUIET_GEN)$(srctree)/scripts/bpf_doc.py --header \
+ --file $(srctree)/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > bpf_helper_defs.h
+
+image_size.h: $(KERNEL_IMAGE)
+ @{ \
+ if [ ! -f "$(KERNEL_IMAGE)" ]; then \
+ echo "Error: File '$(KERNEL_IMAGE)' does not exist"; \
+ exit 1; \
+ fi; \
+ FILE_SIZE=$$(stat -c '%s' "$(KERNEL_IMAGE)" 2>/dev/null); \
+ POWER=4096; \
+ while [ $$POWER -le $$FILE_SIZE ]; do \
+ POWER=$$((POWER * 2)); \
+ done; \
+ RINGBUF_SIZE=$$POWER; \
+ echo "#define RINGBUF1_SIZE $$RINGBUF_SIZE" > $@; \
+ echo "#define IMAGE_SIZE $$FILE_SIZE" >> $@; \
+ }
+
+
+# Rule to generate zboot_parser_bpf.o, depends on vmlinux.h
+zboot_parser_bpf.o: zboot_parser_bpf.c vmlinux.h bpf_helper_defs.h
+ @$(CC) $(BPF_PROG_CFLAGS) -c zboot_parser_bpf.c -o zboot_parser_bpf.o
+
+# Generate zboot_parser_bpf.lskel.h using bpftool
+# Then, extract the opts_data[] and opts_insn[] arrays and remove 'static'
+# keywords to avoid being optimized away.
+bytecode.c: zboot_parser_bpf.o
+ @$(BPFTOOL) gen skeleton -L zboot_parser_bpf.o > zboot_parser_bpf.lskel.h
+ @sed -n '/static const char opts_data\[\]/,/;/p' zboot_parser_bpf.lskel.h | sed 's/static const/const/' > $@
+ @sed -n '/static const char opts_insn\[\]/,/;/p' zboot_parser_bpf.lskel.h | sed 's/static const/const/' >> $@
+ @rm -f zboot_parser_bpf.lskel.h
+
+bytecode.o: bytecode.c
+ @$(CC) -c $< -o $@
+
+# Clean up generated files
+clean:
+ @rm -f $(HEADERS) $(ZBOOT_TARGETS)
+
+.PHONY: all clean
diff --git a/tools/kexec/zboot_parser_bpf.c b/tools/kexec/zboot_parser_bpf.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e60621780a1a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/kexec/zboot_parser_bpf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+//
+#include "vmlinux.h"
+#include <bpf_helpers.h>
+#include <bpf_tracing.h>
+#include "image_size.h"
+
+/* uncompressed vmlinux.bin plus 4KB */
+#define MAX_RECORD_SIZE (IMAGE_SIZE + 4096)
+/* ringbuf 2,3,4 are useless */
+#define MIN_BUF_SIZE 1
+
+#define KEXEC_RES_KERNEL_NAME "kexec:kernel"
+#define KEXEC_RES_INITRD_NAME "kexec:initrd"
+#define KEXEC_RES_CMDLINE_NAME "kexec:cmdline"
+
+/* ringbuf is safe since the user space has no write access to them */
+struct {
+ __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF);
+ __uint(max_entries, RINGBUF1_SIZE);
+} ringbuf_1 SEC(".maps");
+
+struct {
+ __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF);
+ __uint(max_entries, MIN_BUF_SIZE);
+} ringbuf_2 SEC(".maps");
+
+struct {
+ __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF);
+ __uint(max_entries, MIN_BUF_SIZE);
+} ringbuf_3 SEC(".maps");
+
+struct {
+ __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF);
+ __uint(max_entries, MIN_BUF_SIZE);
+} ringbuf_4 SEC(".maps");
+
+char LICENSE[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
+
+/*
+ * This function ensures that the sections .rodata, .data .bss and .rodata.str1.1
+ * are created for a bpf prog.
+ */
+__attribute__((used)) static int dummy(void)
+{
+ static const char res_kernel[16] __attribute__((used, section(".rodata"))) = KEXEC_RES_KERNEL_NAME;
+ static char local_name[16] __attribute__((used, section(".data"))) = KEXEC_RES_CMDLINE_NAME;
+ static char res_cmdline[16] __attribute__((used, section(".bss")));
+
+ __builtin_memcpy(local_name, KEXEC_RES_INITRD_NAME, 16);
+ return __builtin_memcmp(local_name, res_kernel, 4);
+}
+
+extern int bpf_copy_to_kernel(const char *name, char *buf, int size) __weak __ksym;
+extern struct mem_range_result *bpf_decompress(char *image_gz_payload, int image_gz_sz) __weak __ksym;
+extern int bpf_mem_range_result_put(struct mem_range_result *result) __weak __ksym;
+
+
+
+
+/* see drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S */
+struct linux_pe_zboot_header {
+ unsigned int mz_magic;
+ char image_type[4];
+ unsigned int payload_offset;
+ unsigned int payload_size;
+ unsigned int reserved[2];
+ char comp_type[4];
+ unsigned int linux_pe_magic;
+ unsigned int pe_header_offset;
+} __attribute__((packed));
+
+
+SEC("fentry.s/bpf_handle_pefile")
+int BPF_PROG(parse_pe, struct kexec_context *context)
+{
+ struct linux_pe_zboot_header *zboot_header;
+ unsigned int image_sz;
+ char *buf;
+ char local_name[32];
+
+ bpf_printk("begin parse PE\n");
+ /* BPF verifier should know each variable initial state */
+ if (!context->image || (context->image_sz > MAX_RECORD_SIZE)) {
+ bpf_printk("Err: image size is greater than 0x%lx\n", MAX_RECORD_SIZE);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* In order to access bytes not aligned on 2 order, copy into ringbuf.
+ * And allocate the memory all at once, later overwriting.
+ *
+ * R2 is ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO, should be decided at compling time
+ */
+ buf = (char *)bpf_ringbuf_reserve(&ringbuf_1, MAX_RECORD_SIZE, 0);
+ if (!buf) {
+ bpf_printk("Err: fail to reserve ringbuf to parse zboot header\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+ image_sz = context->image_sz;
+ bpf_probe_read((void *)buf, sizeof(struct linux_pe_zboot_header), context->image);
+ zboot_header = (struct linux_pe_zboot_header *)buf;
+ if (!!__builtin_memcmp(&zboot_header->image_type, "zimg",
+ sizeof(zboot_header->image_type))) {
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_printk("Err: image is not zboot image\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ unsigned int payload_offset = zboot_header->payload_offset;
+ unsigned int payload_size = zboot_header->payload_size;
+ bpf_printk("zboot image payload offset=0x%x, size=0x%x\n", payload_offset, payload_size);
+ /* sane check */
+ if (payload_size > image_sz) {
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_printk("Invalid zboot image payload offset and size\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+ if (payload_size >= MAX_RECORD_SIZE ) {
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_printk("Err: payload_size > MAX_RECORD_SIZE\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+ /* Overwrite buf */
+ bpf_probe_read((void *)buf, payload_size, context->image + payload_offset);
+ bpf_printk("Calling bpf_kexec_decompress()\n");
+ struct mem_range_result *r = bpf_decompress(buf, payload_size - 4);
+ if (!r) {
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_printk("Err: fail to decompress\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ image_sz = r->data_sz;
+ if (image_sz > MAX_RECORD_SIZE) {
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_mem_range_result_put(r);
+ bpf_printk("Err: decompressed size too big\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* Since the decompressed size is bigger than original, no need to clean */
+ bpf_probe_read((void *)buf, image_sz, r->buf);
+ bpf_printk("Calling bpf_copy_to_kernel(), image_sz=0x%x\n", image_sz);
+ /* Verifier is unhappy to expose .rodata.str1.1 'map' to kernel */
+ __builtin_memcpy(local_name, KEXEC_RES_KERNEL_NAME, 32);
+ const char *res_name = local_name;
+ bpf_copy_to_kernel(res_name, buf, image_sz);
+ bpf_ringbuf_discard(buf, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP);
+ bpf_mem_range_result_put(r);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+SEC("fentry.s/bpf_post_handle_pefile")
+int BPF_PROG(post_parse_pe, struct kexec_context *context)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
--
2.49.0
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