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

Anton Protopopov a.s.protopopov at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 10:34:49 PDT 2026


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@huaweicloud.com
> - 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@huaweicloud.com/
> - 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@huaweicloud.com/
> - 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@huaweicloud.com/
> - 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@huaweicloud.com/
> - Get rid of unnecessary enum definition (Yonghong Song, Anton Protopopov)
> 
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251223085447.139301-1-xukuohai@huaweicloud.com/
> - Exclude instruction arrays not used for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov)
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251127140318.3944249-1-xukuohai@huaweicloud.com/
> 
> 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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