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<title>bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:03:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-16T04:05:40+00:00</published>
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Since out-of-order unlocks are unsupported for rqspinlock, and irqsave
variants enforce strict FIFO ordering anyway, make the same change for
normal non-irqsave variants, such that FIFO ordering is enforced.

Two new verifier state fields (active_lock_id, active_lock_ptr) are used
to denote the top of the stack, and prev_id and prev_ptr are ascertained
whenever popping the topmost entry through an unlock.

Take special care to make these fields part of the state comparison in
refsafe.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-25-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Since out-of-order unlocks are unsupported for rqspinlock, and irqsave
variants enforce strict FIFO ordering anyway, make the same change for
normal non-irqsave variants, such that FIFO ordering is enforced.

Two new verifier state fields (active_lock_id, active_lock_ptr) are used
to denote the top of the stack, and prev_id and prev_ptr are ascertained
whenever popping the topmost entry through an unlock.

Take special care to make these fields part of the state comparison in
refsafe.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-25-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:03:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T04:05:39+00:00</published>
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Introduce verifier-side support for rqspinlock kfuncs. The first step is
allowing bpf_res_spin_lock type to be defined in map values and
allocated objects, so BTF-side is updated with a new BPF_RES_SPIN_LOCK
field to recognize and validate.

Any object cannot have both bpf_spin_lock and bpf_res_spin_lock, only
one of them (and at most one of them per-object, like before) must be
present. The bpf_res_spin_lock can also be used to protect objects that
require lock protection for their kfuncs, like BPF rbtree and linked
list.

The verifier plumbing to simulate success and failure cases when calling
the kfuncs is done by pushing a new verifier state to the verifier state
stack which will verify the failure case upon calling the kfunc. The
path where success is indicated creates all lock reference state and IRQ
state (if necessary for irqsave variants). In the case of failure, the
state clears the registers r0-r5, sets the return value, and skips kfunc
processing, proceeding to the next instruction.

When marking the return value for success case, the value is marked as
0, and for the failure case as [-MAX_ERRNO, -1]. Then, in the program,
whenever user checks the return value as 'if (ret)' or 'if (ret &lt; 0)'
the verifier never traverses such branches for success cases, and would
be aware that the lock is not held in such cases.

We push the kfunc state in check_kfunc_call whenever rqspinlock kfuncs
are invoked. We introduce a kfunc_class state to avoid mixing lock
irqrestore kfuncs with IRQ state created by bpf_local_irq_save.

With all this infrastructure, these kfuncs become usable in programs
while satisfying all safety properties required by the kernel.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-24-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce verifier-side support for rqspinlock kfuncs. The first step is
allowing bpf_res_spin_lock type to be defined in map values and
allocated objects, so BTF-side is updated with a new BPF_RES_SPIN_LOCK
field to recognize and validate.

Any object cannot have both bpf_spin_lock and bpf_res_spin_lock, only
one of them (and at most one of them per-object, like before) must be
present. The bpf_res_spin_lock can also be used to protect objects that
require lock protection for their kfuncs, like BPF rbtree and linked
list.

The verifier plumbing to simulate success and failure cases when calling
the kfuncs is done by pushing a new verifier state to the verifier state
stack which will verify the failure case upon calling the kfunc. The
path where success is indicated creates all lock reference state and IRQ
state (if necessary for irqsave variants). In the case of failure, the
state clears the registers r0-r5, sets the return value, and skips kfunc
processing, proceeding to the next instruction.

When marking the return value for success case, the value is marked as
0, and for the failure case as [-MAX_ERRNO, -1]. Then, in the program,
whenever user checks the return value as 'if (ret)' or 'if (ret &lt; 0)'
the verifier never traverses such branches for success cases, and would
be aware that the lock is not held in such cases.

We push the kfunc state in check_kfunc_call whenever rqspinlock kfuncs
are invoked. We introduce a kfunc_class state to avoid mixing lock
irqrestore kfuncs with IRQ state created by bpf_local_irq_save.

With all this infrastructure, these kfuncs become usable in programs
while satisfying all safety properties required by the kernel.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-24-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: simple DFA-based live registers analysis</title>
<updated>2025-03-15T18:48:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-04T19:50:22+00:00</published>
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Compute may-live registers before each instruction in the program.
The register is live before the instruction I if it is read by I or
some instruction S following I during program execution and is not
overwritten between I and S.

This information would be used in the next patch as a hint in
func_states_equal().

Use a simple algorithm described in [1] to compute this information:
- define the following:
  - I.use : a set of all registers read by instruction I;
  - I.def : a set of all registers written by instruction I;
  - I.in  : a set of all registers that may be alive before I execution;
  - I.out : a set of all registers that may be alive after I execution;
  - I.successors : a set of instructions S that might immediately
                   follow I for some program execution;
- associate separate empty sets 'I.in' and 'I.out' with each instruction;
- visit each instruction in a postorder and update corresponding
  'I.in' and 'I.out' sets as follows:

      I.out = U [S.in for S in I.successors]
      I.in  = (I.out / I.def) U I.use

  (where U stands for set union, / stands for set difference)
- repeat the computation while I.{in,out} changes for any instruction.

On implementation side keep things as simple, as possible:
- check_cfg() already marks instructions EXPLORED in post-order,
  modify it to save the index of each EXPLORED instruction in a vector;
- represent I.{in,out,use,def} as bitmasks;
- don't split the program into basic blocks and don't maintain the
  work queue, instead:
  - do fixed-point computation by visiting each instruction;
  - maintain a simple 'changed' flag if I.{in,out} for any instruction
    change;
  Measurements show that even such simplistic implementation does not
  add measurable verification time overhead (for selftests, at-least).

Note on check_cfg() ex_insn_beg/ex_done change:
To avoid out of bounds access to env-&gt;cfg.insn_postorder array,
it should be guaranteed that instruction transitions to EXPLORED state
only once. Previously this was not the fact for incorrect programs
with direct calls to exception callbacks.

The 'align' selftest needs adjustment to skip computed insn/live
registers printout. Otherwise it matches lines from the live registers
printout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-variable_analysis

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Compute may-live registers before each instruction in the program.
The register is live before the instruction I if it is read by I or
some instruction S following I during program execution and is not
overwritten between I and S.

This information would be used in the next patch as a hint in
func_states_equal().

Use a simple algorithm described in [1] to compute this information:
- define the following:
  - I.use : a set of all registers read by instruction I;
  - I.def : a set of all registers written by instruction I;
  - I.in  : a set of all registers that may be alive before I execution;
  - I.out : a set of all registers that may be alive after I execution;
  - I.successors : a set of instructions S that might immediately
                   follow I for some program execution;
- associate separate empty sets 'I.in' and 'I.out' with each instruction;
- visit each instruction in a postorder and update corresponding
  'I.in' and 'I.out' sets as follows:

      I.out = U [S.in for S in I.successors]
      I.in  = (I.out / I.def) U I.use

  (where U stands for set union, / stands for set difference)
- repeat the computation while I.{in,out} changes for any instruction.

On implementation side keep things as simple, as possible:
- check_cfg() already marks instructions EXPLORED in post-order,
  modify it to save the index of each EXPLORED instruction in a vector;
- represent I.{in,out,use,def} as bitmasks;
- don't split the program into basic blocks and don't maintain the
  work queue, instead:
  - do fixed-point computation by visiting each instruction;
  - maintain a simple 'changed' flag if I.{in,out} for any instruction
    change;
  Measurements show that even such simplistic implementation does not
  add measurable verification time overhead (for selftests, at-least).

Note on check_cfg() ex_insn_beg/ex_done change:
To avoid out of bounds access to env-&gt;cfg.insn_postorder array,
it should be guaranteed that instruction transitions to EXPLORED state
only once. Previously this was not the fact for incorrect programs
with direct calls to exception callbacks.

The 'align' selftest needs adjustment to skip computed insn/live
registers printout. Otherwise it matches lines from the live registers
printout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-variable_analysis

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Summarize sleepable global subprogs</title>
<updated>2025-03-15T18:48:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-01T15:18:44+00:00</published>
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The verifier currently does not permit global subprog calls when a lock
is held, preemption is disabled, or when IRQs are disabled. This is
because we don't know whether the global subprog calls sleepable
functions or not.

In case of locks, there's an additional reason: functions called by the
global subprog may hold additional locks etc. The verifier won't know
while verifying the global subprog whether it was called in context
where a spin lock is already held by the program.

Perform summarization of the sleepable nature of a global subprog just
like changes_pkt_data and then allow calls to global subprogs for
non-sleepable ones from atomic context.

While making this change, I noticed that RCU read sections had no
protection against sleepable global subprog calls, include it in the
checks and fix this while we're at it.

Care needs to be taken to not allow global subprog calls when regular
bpf_spin_lock is held. When resilient spin locks is held, we want to
potentially have this check relaxed, but not for now.

Also make sure extensions freplacing global functions cannot do so
in case the target is non-sleepable, but the extension is. The other
combination is ok.

Tests are included in the next patch to handle all special conditions.

Fixes: 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250301151846.1552362-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The verifier currently does not permit global subprog calls when a lock
is held, preemption is disabled, or when IRQs are disabled. This is
because we don't know whether the global subprog calls sleepable
functions or not.

In case of locks, there's an additional reason: functions called by the
global subprog may hold additional locks etc. The verifier won't know
while verifying the global subprog whether it was called in context
where a spin lock is already held by the program.

Perform summarization of the sleepable nature of a global subprog just
like changes_pkt_data and then allow calls to global subprogs for
non-sleepable ones from atomic context.

While making this change, I noticed that RCU read sections had no
protection against sleepable global subprog calls, include it in the
checks and fix this while we're at it.

Care needs to be taken to not allow global subprog calls when regular
bpf_spin_lock is held. When resilient spin locks is held, we want to
potentially have this check relaxed, but not for now.

Also make sure extensions freplacing global functions cannot do so
in case the target is non-sleepable, but the extension is. The other
combination is ok.

Tests are included in the next patch to handle all special conditions.

Fixes: 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250301151846.1552362-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: fix env-&gt;peak_states computation</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T03:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-15T11:04:01+00:00</published>
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Compute env-&gt;peak_states as a maximum value of sum of
env-&gt;explored_states and env-&gt;free_list size.

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-11-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Compute env-&gt;peak_states as a maximum value of sum of
env-&gt;explored_states and env-&gt;free_list size.

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-11-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: free verifier states when they are no longer referenced</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T03:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-15T11:04:00+00:00</published>
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When fixes from patches 1 and 3 are applied, Patrick Somaru reported
an increase in memory consumption for sched_ext iterator-based
programs hitting 1M instructions limit. For example, 2Gb VMs ran out
of memory while verifying a program. Similar behaviour could be
reproduced on current bpf-next master.

Here is an example of such program:

    /* verification completes if given 16G or RAM,
     * final env-&gt;free_list size is 369,960 entries.
     */
    SEC("raw_tp")
    __flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ)
    __success
    int free_list_bomb(const void *ctx)
    {
        volatile char buf[48] = {};
        unsigned i, j;

        j = 0;
        bpf_for(i, 0, 10) {
            /* this forks verifier state:
             * - verification of current path continues and
             *   creates a checkpoint after 'if';
             * - verification of forked path hits the
             *   checkpoint and marks it as loop_entry.
             */
            if (bpf_get_prandom_u32())
                asm volatile ("");
            /* this marks 'j' as precise, thus any checkpoint
             * created on current iteration would not be matched
             * on the next iteration.
             */
            buf[j++] = 42;
            j %= ARRAY_SIZE(buf);
        }
        asm volatile (""::"r"(buf));
        return 0;
    }

Memory consumption increased due to more states being marked as loop
entries and eventually added to env-&gt;free_list.

This commit introduces logic to free states from env-&gt;free_list during
verification. A state in env-&gt;free_list can be freed if:
- it has no child states;
- it is not used as a loop_entry.

This commit:
- updates bpf_verifier_state-&gt;used_as_loop_entry to be a counter
  that tracks how many states use this one as a loop entry;
- adds a function maybe_free_verifier_state(), which:
  - frees a state if its -&gt;branches and -&gt;used_as_loop_entry counters
    are both zero;
  - if the state is freed, state-&gt;loop_entry-&gt;used_as_loop_entry is
    decremented, and an attempt is made to free state-&gt;loop_entry.

In the example above, this approach reduces the maximum number of
states in the free list from 369,960 to 16,223.

However, this approach has its limitations. If the buf size in the
example above is modified to 64, state caching overflows: the state
for j=0 is evicted from the cache before it can be used to stop
traversal. As a result, states in the free list accumulate because
their branch counters do not reach zero.

The effect of this patch on the selftests looks as follows:

File                              Program                               Max free list (A)  Max free list (B)  Max free list (DIFF)
--------------------------------  ------------------------------------  -----------------  -----------------  --------------------
arena_list.bpf.o                  arena_list_add                                       17                  3         -14 (-82.35%)
bpf_iter_task_stack.bpf.o         dump_task_stack                                      39                  9         -30 (-76.92%)
iters.bpf.o                       checkpoint_states_deletion                          265                 89        -176 (-66.42%)
iters.bpf.o                       clean_live_states                                    19                  0        -19 (-100.00%)
profiler2.bpf.o                   tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill                102                  1        -101 (-99.02%)
profiler3.bpf.o                   tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill                144                  0       -144 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_iter.bpf.o              on_event                                             15                  0        -15 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_nounroll.bpf.o          on_event                                           1170               1158          -12 (-1.03%)
setget_sockopt.bpf.o              skops_sockopt                                        18                  0        -18 (-100.00%)
strobemeta_nounroll1.bpf.o        on_event                                            147                 83         -64 (-43.54%)
strobemeta_nounroll2.bpf.o        on_event                                            312                209        -103 (-33.01%)
strobemeta_subprogs.bpf.o         on_event                                            124                 86         -38 (-30.65%)
test_cls_redirect_subprogs.bpf.o  cls_redirect                                         15                  0        -15 (-100.00%)
timer.bpf.o                       test1                                                30                 15         -15 (-50.00%)

Measured using "do-not-submit" patches from here:
https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup

Reported-by: Patrick Somaru &lt;patsomaru@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-10-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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When fixes from patches 1 and 3 are applied, Patrick Somaru reported
an increase in memory consumption for sched_ext iterator-based
programs hitting 1M instructions limit. For example, 2Gb VMs ran out
of memory while verifying a program. Similar behaviour could be
reproduced on current bpf-next master.

Here is an example of such program:

    /* verification completes if given 16G or RAM,
     * final env-&gt;free_list size is 369,960 entries.
     */
    SEC("raw_tp")
    __flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ)
    __success
    int free_list_bomb(const void *ctx)
    {
        volatile char buf[48] = {};
        unsigned i, j;

        j = 0;
        bpf_for(i, 0, 10) {
            /* this forks verifier state:
             * - verification of current path continues and
             *   creates a checkpoint after 'if';
             * - verification of forked path hits the
             *   checkpoint and marks it as loop_entry.
             */
            if (bpf_get_prandom_u32())
                asm volatile ("");
            /* this marks 'j' as precise, thus any checkpoint
             * created on current iteration would not be matched
             * on the next iteration.
             */
            buf[j++] = 42;
            j %= ARRAY_SIZE(buf);
        }
        asm volatile (""::"r"(buf));
        return 0;
    }

Memory consumption increased due to more states being marked as loop
entries and eventually added to env-&gt;free_list.

This commit introduces logic to free states from env-&gt;free_list during
verification. A state in env-&gt;free_list can be freed if:
- it has no child states;
- it is not used as a loop_entry.

This commit:
- updates bpf_verifier_state-&gt;used_as_loop_entry to be a counter
  that tracks how many states use this one as a loop entry;
- adds a function maybe_free_verifier_state(), which:
  - frees a state if its -&gt;branches and -&gt;used_as_loop_entry counters
    are both zero;
  - if the state is freed, state-&gt;loop_entry-&gt;used_as_loop_entry is
    decremented, and an attempt is made to free state-&gt;loop_entry.

In the example above, this approach reduces the maximum number of
states in the free list from 369,960 to 16,223.

However, this approach has its limitations. If the buf size in the
example above is modified to 64, state caching overflows: the state
for j=0 is evicted from the cache before it can be used to stop
traversal. As a result, states in the free list accumulate because
their branch counters do not reach zero.

The effect of this patch on the selftests looks as follows:

File                              Program                               Max free list (A)  Max free list (B)  Max free list (DIFF)
--------------------------------  ------------------------------------  -----------------  -----------------  --------------------
arena_list.bpf.o                  arena_list_add                                       17                  3         -14 (-82.35%)
bpf_iter_task_stack.bpf.o         dump_task_stack                                      39                  9         -30 (-76.92%)
iters.bpf.o                       checkpoint_states_deletion                          265                 89        -176 (-66.42%)
iters.bpf.o                       clean_live_states                                    19                  0        -19 (-100.00%)
profiler2.bpf.o                   tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill                102                  1        -101 (-99.02%)
profiler3.bpf.o                   tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill                144                  0       -144 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_iter.bpf.o              on_event                                             15                  0        -15 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_nounroll.bpf.o          on_event                                           1170               1158          -12 (-1.03%)
setget_sockopt.bpf.o              skops_sockopt                                        18                  0        -18 (-100.00%)
strobemeta_nounroll1.bpf.o        on_event                                            147                 83         -64 (-43.54%)
strobemeta_nounroll2.bpf.o        on_event                                            312                209        -103 (-33.01%)
strobemeta_subprogs.bpf.o         on_event                                            124                 86         -38 (-30.65%)
test_cls_redirect_subprogs.bpf.o  cls_redirect                                         15                  0        -15 (-100.00%)
timer.bpf.o                       test1                                                30                 15         -15 (-50.00%)

Measured using "do-not-submit" patches from here:
https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup

Reported-by: Patrick Somaru &lt;patsomaru@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-10-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: use list_head to track explored states and free list</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T03:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-15T11:03:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5564ee3abb2ebece37000662a52eb6607b9c9f7d'/>
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The next patch in the set needs the ability to remove individual
states from env-&gt;free_list while only holding a pointer to the state.
Which requires env-&gt;free_list to be a doubly linked list.
This patch converts env-&gt;free_list and struct bpf_verifier_state_list
to use struct list_head for this purpose. The change to
env-&gt;explored_states is collateral.

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-9-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The next patch in the set needs the ability to remove individual
states from env-&gt;free_list while only holding a pointer to the state.
Which requires env-&gt;free_list to be a doubly linked list.
This patch converts env-&gt;free_list and struct bpf_verifier_state_list
to use struct list_head for this purpose. The change to
env-&gt;explored_states is collateral.

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-9-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf</title>
<updated>2024-12-16T16:53:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T16:52:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=06103dccbbd29408255a409f6f98f7f02387dc93'/>
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Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes in:
Auto-merging include/linux/bpf.h
Auto-merging include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/btf.c
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c
Auto-merging kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tp_btf_nullable.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes in:
Auto-merging include/linux/bpf.h
Auto-merging include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/btf.c
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c
Auto-merging kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tp_btf_nullable.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: track changes_pkt_data property for global functions</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T18:24:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-10T04:10:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=51081a3f25c742da5a659d7fc6fd77ebfdd555be'/>
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<content type='text'>
When processing calls to certain helpers, verifier invalidates all
packet pointers in a current state. For example, consider the
following program:

    __attribute__((__noinline__))
    long skb_pull_data(struct __sk_buff *sk, __u32 len)
    {
        return bpf_skb_pull_data(sk, len);
    }

    SEC("tc")
    int test_invalidate_checks(struct __sk_buff *sk)
    {
        int *p = (void *)(long)sk-&gt;data;
        if ((void *)(p + 1) &gt; (void *)(long)sk-&gt;data_end) return TCX_DROP;
        skb_pull_data(sk, 0);
        *p = 42;
        return TCX_PASS;
    }

After a call to bpf_skb_pull_data() the pointer 'p' can't be used
safely. See function filter.c:bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data() for a list
of such helpers.

At the moment verifier invalidates packet pointers when processing
helper function calls, and does not traverse global sub-programs when
processing calls to global sub-programs. This means that calls to
helpers done from global sub-programs do not invalidate pointers in
the caller state. E.g. the program above is unsafe, but is not
rejected by verifier.

This commit fixes the omission by computing field
bpf_subprog_info-&gt;changes_pkt_data for each sub-program before main
verification pass.
changes_pkt_data should be set if:
- subprogram calls helper for which bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data
  returns true;
- subprogram calls a global function,
  for which bpf_subprog_info-&gt;changes_pkt_data should be set.

The verifier.c:check_cfg() pass is modified to compute this
information. The commit relies on depth first instruction traversal
done by check_cfg() and absence of recursive function calls:
- check_cfg() would eventually visit every call to subprogram S in a
  state when S is fully explored;
- when S is fully explored:
  - every direct helper call within S is explored
    (and thus changes_pkt_data is set if needed);
  - every call to subprogram S1 called by S was visited with S1 fully
    explored (and thus S inherits changes_pkt_data from S1).

The downside of such approach is that dead code elimination is not
taken into account: if a helper call inside global function is dead
because of current configuration, verifier would conservatively assume
that the call occurs for the purpose of the changes_pkt_data
computation.

Reported-by: Nick Zavaritsky &lt;mejedi@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0498CA22-5779-4767-9C0C-A9515CEA711F@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210041100.1898468-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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When processing calls to certain helpers, verifier invalidates all
packet pointers in a current state. For example, consider the
following program:

    __attribute__((__noinline__))
    long skb_pull_data(struct __sk_buff *sk, __u32 len)
    {
        return bpf_skb_pull_data(sk, len);
    }

    SEC("tc")
    int test_invalidate_checks(struct __sk_buff *sk)
    {
        int *p = (void *)(long)sk-&gt;data;
        if ((void *)(p + 1) &gt; (void *)(long)sk-&gt;data_end) return TCX_DROP;
        skb_pull_data(sk, 0);
        *p = 42;
        return TCX_PASS;
    }

After a call to bpf_skb_pull_data() the pointer 'p' can't be used
safely. See function filter.c:bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data() for a list
of such helpers.

At the moment verifier invalidates packet pointers when processing
helper function calls, and does not traverse global sub-programs when
processing calls to global sub-programs. This means that calls to
helpers done from global sub-programs do not invalidate pointers in
the caller state. E.g. the program above is unsafe, but is not
rejected by verifier.

This commit fixes the omission by computing field
bpf_subprog_info-&gt;changes_pkt_data for each sub-program before main
verification pass.
changes_pkt_data should be set if:
- subprogram calls helper for which bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data
  returns true;
- subprogram calls a global function,
  for which bpf_subprog_info-&gt;changes_pkt_data should be set.

The verifier.c:check_cfg() pass is modified to compute this
information. The commit relies on depth first instruction traversal
done by check_cfg() and absence of recursive function calls:
- check_cfg() would eventually visit every call to subprogram S in a
  state when S is fully explored;
- when S is fully explored:
  - every direct helper call within S is explored
    (and thus changes_pkt_data is set if needed);
  - every call to subprogram S1 called by S was visited with S1 fully
    explored (and thus S inherits changes_pkt_data from S1).

The downside of such approach is that dead code elimination is not
taken into account: if a helper call inside global function is dead
because of current configuration, verifier would conservatively assume
that the call occurs for the purpose of the changes_pkt_data
computation.

Reported-by: Nick Zavaritsky &lt;mejedi@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0498CA22-5779-4767-9C0C-A9515CEA711F@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210041100.1898468-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Introduce support for bpf_local_irq_{save,restore}</title>
<updated>2024-12-04T16:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-04T03:03:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c8e2ee1f3df05dc4caa746c062c6b5791c745c79'/>
<id>c8e2ee1f3df05dc4caa746c062c6b5791c745c79</id>
<content type='text'>
Teach the verifier about IRQ-disabled sections through the introduction
of two new kfuncs, bpf_local_irq_save, to save IRQ state and disable
them, and bpf_local_irq_restore, to restore IRQ state and enable them
back again.

For the purposes of tracking the saved IRQ state, the verifier is taught
about a new special object on the stack of type STACK_IRQ_FLAG. This is
a 8 byte value which saves the IRQ flags which are to be passed back to
the IRQ restore kfunc.

Renumber the enums for REF_TYPE_* to simplify the check in
find_lock_state, filtering out non-lock types as they grow will become
cumbersome and is unecessary.

To track a dynamic number of IRQ-disabled regions and their associated
saved states, a new resource type RES_TYPE_IRQ is introduced, which its
state management functions: acquire_irq_state and release_irq_state,
taking advantage of the refactoring and clean ups made in earlier
commits.

One notable requirement of the kernel's IRQ save and restore API is that
they cannot happen out of order. For this purpose, when releasing reference
we keep track of the prev_id we saw with REF_TYPE_IRQ. Since reference
states are inserted in increasing order of the index, this is used to
remember the ordering of acquisitions of IRQ saved states, so that we
maintain a logical stack in acquisition order of resource identities,
and can enforce LIFO ordering when restoring IRQ state. The top of the
stack is maintained using bpf_verifier_state's active_irq_id.

To maintain the stack property when releasing reference states, we need
to modify release_reference_state to instead shift the remaining array
left using memmove instead of swapping deleted element with last that
might break the ordering. A selftest to test this subtle behavior is
added in late patches.

The logic to detect initialized and unitialized irq flag slots, marking
and unmarking is similar to how it's done for iterators. No additional
checks are needed in refsafe for REF_TYPE_IRQ, apart from the usual
check_id satisfiability check on the ref[i].id. We have to perform the
same check_ids check on state-&gt;active_irq_id as well.

To ensure we don't get assigned REF_TYPE_PTR by default after
acquire_reference_state, if someone forgets to assign the type, let's
also renumber the enum ref_state_type. This way any unassigned types
get caught by refsafe's default switch statement, don't assume
REF_TYPE_PTR by default.

The kfuncs themselves are plain wrappers over local_irq_save and
local_irq_restore macros.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Teach the verifier about IRQ-disabled sections through the introduction
of two new kfuncs, bpf_local_irq_save, to save IRQ state and disable
them, and bpf_local_irq_restore, to restore IRQ state and enable them
back again.

For the purposes of tracking the saved IRQ state, the verifier is taught
about a new special object on the stack of type STACK_IRQ_FLAG. This is
a 8 byte value which saves the IRQ flags which are to be passed back to
the IRQ restore kfunc.

Renumber the enums for REF_TYPE_* to simplify the check in
find_lock_state, filtering out non-lock types as they grow will become
cumbersome and is unecessary.

To track a dynamic number of IRQ-disabled regions and their associated
saved states, a new resource type RES_TYPE_IRQ is introduced, which its
state management functions: acquire_irq_state and release_irq_state,
taking advantage of the refactoring and clean ups made in earlier
commits.

One notable requirement of the kernel's IRQ save and restore API is that
they cannot happen out of order. For this purpose, when releasing reference
we keep track of the prev_id we saw with REF_TYPE_IRQ. Since reference
states are inserted in increasing order of the index, this is used to
remember the ordering of acquisitions of IRQ saved states, so that we
maintain a logical stack in acquisition order of resource identities,
and can enforce LIFO ordering when restoring IRQ state. The top of the
stack is maintained using bpf_verifier_state's active_irq_id.

To maintain the stack property when releasing reference states, we need
to modify release_reference_state to instead shift the remaining array
left using memmove instead of swapping deleted element with last that
might break the ordering. A selftest to test this subtle behavior is
added in late patches.

The logic to detect initialized and unitialized irq flag slots, marking
and unmarking is similar to how it's done for iterators. No additional
checks are needed in refsafe for REF_TYPE_IRQ, apart from the usual
check_id satisfiability check on the ref[i].id. We have to perform the
same check_ids check on state-&gt;active_irq_id as well.

To ensure we don't get assigned REF_TYPE_PTR by default after
acquire_reference_state, if someone forgets to assign the type, let's
also renumber the enum ref_state_type. This way any unassigned types
get caught by refsafe's default switch statement, don't assume
REF_TYPE_PTR by default.

The kfuncs themselves are plain wrappers over local_irq_save and
local_irq_restore macros.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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