Failed to load eBPF byte-code on TAP device

madhukar mythri madhukar.mythri at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 09:11:27 CET 2023


Hi Stephen,

I had added some logs in the BPF verifier of Kernel code, to print the
number of instructions processed and error-code returned as follows:
============================
logs # dmesg |tail -n 20
[   76.318101] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999989 insn
[   76.318102] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999990 insn
[   76.318103] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999991 insn
[   76.318104] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999992 insn
[   76.318105] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999993 insn
[   76.318106] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999994 insn
[   76.318107] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999995 insn
[   76.318108] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999996 insn
[   76.318109] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999997 insn
[   76.318110] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999998 insn
[   76.318111] #### do_check: instructions Processed 999999 insn
[   76.318112] #### do_check: instructions Processed 1000000 insn
[   76.318113] BPF program is too large. Processed 1000001 insn
[   76.318209] ########## bpf_check:  do_check_main done..: ret: -7
[   76.318210] ########## bpf_check:  bpf_prog_offload_finalize done..:
ret: -7
[   76.318212] ########## bpf_check:  check_max_stack_depth done..: ret: -7
[   76.318212] ########## bpf_check:  fixup_call_args done..: ret: -7
[   76.318224] ########## bpf_check:  end..: ret: -7
[   76.318224] ##########  BPF  bpf_check return err: -7..:
=========================

Only these logs which I add in the Kernel-code were printed and do not see
any other Kernel-logs.

Thanks,
Madhuker.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 8:49 PM Stephen Hemminger <
stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:38:55 +0530
> madhukar mythri <madhukar.mythri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On the RHEL9.2 with DPDK 22.11.1 version, DPDK primary application failed
> > to add RSS flow on TAP sub-device, when loading the TAP BPF byte-code
> > instructions.
> >
> > This "struct bpf_insn l3_l4_hash_insns[]" array(from file:
> > drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf_insns.h) is in eBPF bytecode instructions format,
> > this eBPF failed to load on TAP PMD with the following error:
> >
> > =====================
> > rss_add_actions(): Failed to load BPF section 'l3_l4' (7): Argument list
> > too long.
> > net_failsafe: Failed to create a flow on sub_device 1."
> > =====================
> > On Kernel-version:  5.15.0 #9 SMP PREEMPT
> > Arch: x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > When added some debug logs on Kernel BPF verifier code, we could see that
> > instruction processed were reached to 1 Million.
> > But, the Byte code has only 1698 instructions only. Why the Kernel BPF
> > verifier is processing beyond 1,698 instructions ?
> >
> > The same byte-code(with DPDK-22.11.1) worked well with RHEL8.x and not
> > working in RHEL-9.x version.
> >
> > Does anybody faced such issues ?
> > Please let me know how to debug such issues on Byte-code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Madhukar.
>
> Is there anything in the kernel log?
>
>
>
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