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[RFC PATCH bpf-next v6 03/12] bpf: mark struct oom_control's memcg field as TRUSTED_OR_NULL

From: Hui Zhu <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-04 08:57:46
Also in: bpf, cgroups, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: bpf [core], bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), the rest · Maintainers: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Linus Torvalds

From: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>

Struct oom_control is used to describe the OOM context.
It's memcg field defines the scope of OOM: it's NULL for global
OOMs and a valid memcg pointer for memcg-scoped OOMs.
Teach bpf verifier to recognize it as trusted or NULL pointer.
It will provide the bpf OOM handler a trusted memcg pointer,
which for example is required for iterating the memcg's subtree.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index c2f2650db9fd..cca36edb460d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7242,6 +7242,10 @@ BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct vm_area_struct) {
 	struct file *vm_file;
 };
 
+BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct oom_control) {
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+};
+
 static bool type_is_rcu(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 			struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
 			const char *field_name, u32 btf_id)
@@ -7284,6 +7288,7 @@ static bool type_is_trusted_or_null(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	BTF_TYPE_EMIT(BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct socket));
 	BTF_TYPE_EMIT(BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct dentry));
 	BTF_TYPE_EMIT(BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct vm_area_struct));
+	BTF_TYPE_EMIT(BTF_TYPE_SAFE_TRUSTED_OR_NULL(struct oom_control));
 
 	return btf_nested_type_is_trusted(&env->log, reg, field_name, btf_id,
 					  "__safe_trusted_or_null");
-- 
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