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([157.185.136.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-3b105864bffsm11462095a91.3.2026.11.09.07.25.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:25:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6af1e5f2.a438010f.130489.ab94@mx.google.com> X-Google-Original-Message-ID: <<179423792787.1832964.14629633117175086624@gmail.com>> From: Zhijian Han X-Google-Original-From: Zhijian Han To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, sched-ext@lists.linux.dev Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, tj@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, void@manifault.com, arighi@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zhijian Han Subject: sched_ext selftest enable_cmask fails to load on 7.4-rc2: verifier rejects arena pointer cast from scx_enable_args.cmask_arena_addr Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 23:25:32 +0800 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Zhijian Han Hello, The enable_cmask selftest (tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/, added in the recent merge window via d781d1b78acf "selftests/sched_ext: Check the cmask cid-form ops.enable() receives") fails to load on v7.4-rc2 and linux-next-20261105. The BPF program enable_cmask_enable is rejected by the verifier at load time: libbpf: prog 'enable_cmask_enable': BPF program load failed: -EACCES 94: (61) r1 = *(u32 *)(r8 +0) R8 invalid mem access 'scalar' Verification failed: Register Type Safety: Invalid dereference The test follows the usage documented in kernel/sched/ext/internal.h: struct scx_enable_args { u64 cmask_arena_addr; }; /* * ... The address is a plain value rather than a typed pointer ... * Cast it to struct scx_cmask __arena * before use. */ i.e. enable_cmask.bpf.c:101: struct scx_cmask __arena *m = (struct scx_cmask __arena *)args->cmask_arena_addr; The C cast does not emit an addr_space_cast insn: in the generated bytecode the member load (insn 1: r7 = *(u64 *)(r2 + 0)) produces R7=scalar(), which stays scalar across the cast and the inlined check_mask() prologue, so the first dereference m->base (insn 94) is rejected. The same selftest was verified by Tejun on the for-7.3-fixes branch (per the v3 cover letter, 20260919002838.1960071-1-tj, 16-CPU VM, three standalone runs plus the full suite); the verifier-side arena handling that changed during the 7.4 merge window appears to no longer accept this pattern. The struct_ops argument path (direct __arena args, e.g. ops.set_cmask) still works — only the u64-carried address form is affected. Reproducer (deterministic, two consecutive runs identical): # kernel: defconfig + SCHED_CLASS_EXT, DEBUG_INFO_BTF, FUNCTION_TRACER make O=build -j$(nproc) cd tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext make LLVM=1 O=$PWD/../../../../../build OUTPUT=out/ TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR= # initrd with out/runner + out/build + libs + busybox + kernel .config # at /boot/config-$(uname -r); then: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -m 2G -nographic \ -kernel build/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -initrd initrd.cpio.gz \ -append "console=ttyS0" /root # ./runner -t enable_cmask not ok 1 enable_cmask # Tested on: v7.4-rc2 (7475ea8b5): FAIL (verifier rejects at load) next-20261105 (gddfe51b0a0f5): FAIL (same rejection) v7.3: SKIP (struct scx_enable_args not present) Compiler versions tried: clang 18 and clang 19 — identical bytecode around the failing insn, identical rejection, so this does not look compiler-dependent. The other 40 tests in the suite pass on both 7.4-rc2 and next (after enabling CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, without which the fentry-based tests maximal/kick_immediate/reload_loop fail with -EBUSY — worth a note in the selftest docs, but that part is config, not a bug). Possible directions (not investigated in depth): - a kfunc or verifier-supported way to convert the u64 carried in scx_enable_args into a PTR_TO_ARENA, - or an __arena-typed member/alias in scx_enable_args once BTF can express arena pointer members (the internal.h comment already anticipates this), - or adjusting the test to obtain the cmask through a path the verifier accepts. Full verifier log and QEMU boot log available on request. Signed-off-by: Zhijian Han