The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 1e9d74660d4df625b0889e77018f9e94727ceacd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 13:46:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bpf: Fix mount source show for bpffs
We noticed our tc ebpf tools can't start after we upgrade our in-house kernel
version from 4.19 to 5.10. That is because of the behaviour change in bpffs
caused by commit d2935de7e4fd ("vfs: Convert bpf to use the new mount API").
In our tc ebpf tools, we do strict environment check. If the environment is
not matched, we won't allow to start the ebpf progs. One of the check is whether
bpffs is properly mounted. The mount information of bpffs in kernel-4.19 and
kernel-5.10 are as follows:
- kernel 4.19
$ mount -t bpf bpffs /sys/fs/bpf
$ mount -t bpf
bpffs on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,relatime)
- kernel 5.10
$ mount -t bpf bpffs /sys/fs/bpf
$ mount -t bpf
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,relatime)
The device name in kernel-5.10 is displayed as none instead of bpffs, then our
environment check fails. Currently we modify the tools to adopt to the kernel
behaviour change, but I think we'd better change the kernel code to keep the
behavior consistent.
After this change, the mount information will be displayed the same with the
behavior in kernel-4.19, for example:
$ mount -t bpf bpffs /sys/fs/bpf
$ mount -t bpf
bpffs on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,relatime)
Fixes: d2935de7e4fd ("vfs: Convert bpf to use the new mount API")
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220108134623.32467-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/inode.c b/kernel/bpf/inode.c
index 80da1db47c68..5a8d9f7467bf 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/inode.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/inode.c
@@ -648,12 +648,22 @@ static int bpf_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
int opt;
opt = fs_parse(fc, bpf_fs_parameters, param, &result);
- if (opt < 0)
+ if (opt < 0) {
/* We might like to report bad mount options here, but
* traditionally we've ignored all mount options, so we'd
* better continue to ignore non-existing options for bpf.
*/
- return opt == -ENOPARAM ? 0 : opt;
+ if (opt == -ENOPARAM) {
+ opt = vfs_parse_fs_param_source(fc, param);
+ if (opt != -ENOPARAM)
+ return opt;
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (opt < 0)
+ return opt;
+ }
switch (opt) {
case OPT_MODE:
