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<title>bpf: Verify scalar ids mapping in regsafe() using check_ids()</title>
<updated>2023-06-13T22:15:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-13T15:38:23+00:00</published>
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Make sure that the following unsafe example is rejected by verifier:

1: r9 = ... some pointer with range X ...
2: r6 = ... unbound scalar ID=a ...
3: r7 = ... unbound scalar ID=b ...
4: if (r6 &gt; r7) goto +1
5: r6 = r7
6: if (r6 &gt; X) goto ...
--- checkpoint ---
7: r9 += r7
8: *(u64 *)r9 = Y

This example is unsafe because not all execution paths verify r7 range.
Because of the jump at (4) the verifier would arrive at (6) in two states:
I.  r6{.id=b}, r7{.id=b} via path 1-6;
II. r6{.id=a}, r7{.id=b} via path 1-4, 6.

Currently regsafe() does not call check_ids() for scalar registers,
thus from POV of regsafe() states (I) and (II) are identical. If the
path 1-6 is taken by verifier first, and checkpoint is created at (6)
the path [1-4, 6] would be considered safe.

Changes in this commit:
- check_ids() is modified to disallow mapping multiple old_id to the
  same cur_id.
- check_scalar_ids() is added, unlike check_ids() it treats ID zero as
  a unique scalar ID.
- check_scalar_ids() needs to generate temporary unique IDs, field
  'tmp_id_gen' is added to bpf_verifier_env::idmap_scratch to
  facilitate this.
- regsafe() is updated to:
  - use check_scalar_ids() for precise scalar registers.
  - compare scalar registers using memcmp only for explore_alu_limits
    branch. This simplifies control flow for scalar case, and has no
    measurable performance impact.
- check_alu_op() is updated to avoid generating bpf_reg_state::id for
  constant scalar values when processing BPF_MOV. ID is needed to
  propagate range information for identical values, but there is
  nothing to propagate for constants.

Fixes: 75748837b7e5 ("bpf: Propagate scalar ranges through register assignments.")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230613153824.3324830-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
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Make sure that the following unsafe example is rejected by verifier:

1: r9 = ... some pointer with range X ...
2: r6 = ... unbound scalar ID=a ...
3: r7 = ... unbound scalar ID=b ...
4: if (r6 &gt; r7) goto +1
5: r6 = r7
6: if (r6 &gt; X) goto ...
--- checkpoint ---
7: r9 += r7
8: *(u64 *)r9 = Y

This example is unsafe because not all execution paths verify r7 range.
Because of the jump at (4) the verifier would arrive at (6) in two states:
I.  r6{.id=b}, r7{.id=b} via path 1-6;
II. r6{.id=a}, r7{.id=b} via path 1-4, 6.

Currently regsafe() does not call check_ids() for scalar registers,
thus from POV of regsafe() states (I) and (II) are identical. If the
path 1-6 is taken by verifier first, and checkpoint is created at (6)
the path [1-4, 6] would be considered safe.

Changes in this commit:
- check_ids() is modified to disallow mapping multiple old_id to the
  same cur_id.
- check_scalar_ids() is added, unlike check_ids() it treats ID zero as
  a unique scalar ID.
- check_scalar_ids() needs to generate temporary unique IDs, field
  'tmp_id_gen' is added to bpf_verifier_env::idmap_scratch to
  facilitate this.
- regsafe() is updated to:
  - use check_scalar_ids() for precise scalar registers.
  - compare scalar registers using memcmp only for explore_alu_limits
    branch. This simplifies control flow for scalar case, and has no
    measurable performance impact.
- check_alu_op() is updated to avoid generating bpf_reg_state::id for
  constant scalar values when processing BPF_MOV. ID is needed to
  propagate range information for identical values, but there is
  nothing to propagate for constants.

Fixes: 75748837b7e5 ("bpf: Propagate scalar ranges through register assignments.")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230613153824.3324830-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Use scalar ids in mark_chain_precision()</title>
<updated>2023-06-13T22:14:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eduard Zingerman</name>
<email>eddyz87@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-13T15:38:21+00:00</published>
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Change mark_chain_precision() to track precision in situations
like below:

    r2 = unknown value
    ...
  --- state #0 ---
    ...
    r1 = r2                 // r1 and r2 now share the same ID
    ...
  --- state #1 {r1.id = A, r2.id = A} ---
    ...
    if (r2 &gt; 10) goto exit; // find_equal_scalars() assigns range to r1
    ...
  --- state #2 {r1.id = A, r2.id = A} ---
    r3 = r10
    r3 += r1                // need to mark both r1 and r2

At the beginning of the processing of each state, ensure that if a
register with a scalar ID is marked as precise, all registers sharing
this ID are also marked as precise.

This property would be used by a follow-up change in regsafe().

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230613153824.3324830-2-eddyz87@gmail.com
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Change mark_chain_precision() to track precision in situations
like below:

    r2 = unknown value
    ...
  --- state #0 ---
    ...
    r1 = r2                 // r1 and r2 now share the same ID
    ...
  --- state #1 {r1.id = A, r2.id = A} ---
    ...
    if (r2 &gt; 10) goto exit; // find_equal_scalars() assigns range to r1
    ...
  --- state #2 {r1.id = A, r2.id = A} ---
    r3 = r10
    r3 += r1                // need to mark both r1 and r2

At the beginning of the processing of each state, ensure that if a
register with a scalar ID is marked as precise, all registers sharing
this ID are also marked as precise.

This property would be used by a follow-up change in regsafe().

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230613153824.3324830-2-eddyz87@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: improve precision backtrack logging</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T05:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-05T04:33:11+00:00</published>
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Add helper to format register and stack masks in more human-readable
format. Adjust logging a bit during backtrack propagation and especially
during forcing precision fallback logic to make it clearer what's going
on (with log_level=2, of course), and also start reporting affected
frame depth. This is in preparation for having more than one active
frame later when precision propagation between subprog calls is added.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230505043317.3629845-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add helper to format register and stack masks in more human-readable
format. Adjust logging a bit during backtrack propagation and especially
during forcing precision fallback logic to make it clearer what's going
on (with log_level=2, of course), and also start reporting affected
frame depth. This is in preparation for having more than one active
frame later when precision propagation between subprog calls is added.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230505043317.3629845-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: encapsulate precision backtracking bookkeeping</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T05:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-05T04:33:10+00:00</published>
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Add struct backtrack_state and straightforward API around it to keep
track of register and stack masks used and maintained during precision
backtracking process. Having this logic separately allow to keep
high-level backtracking algorithm cleaner, but also it sets us up to
cleanly keep track of register and stack masks per frame, allowing (with
some further logic adjustments) to perform precision backpropagation
across multiple frames (i.e., subprog calls).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230505043317.3629845-4-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add struct backtrack_state and straightforward API around it to keep
track of register and stack masks used and maintained during precision
backtracking process. Having this logic separately allow to keep
high-level backtracking algorithm cleaner, but also it sets us up to
cleanly keep track of register and stack masks per frame, allowing (with
some further logic adjustments) to perform precision backpropagation
across multiple frames (i.e., subprog calls).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230505043317.3629845-4-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Migrate bpf_rbtree_add and bpf_list_push_{front,back} to possibly fail</title>
<updated>2023-04-16T00:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Marchevsky</name>
<email>davemarchevsky@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-15T20:18:07+00:00</published>
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Consider this code snippet:

  struct node {
    long key;
    bpf_list_node l;
    bpf_rb_node r;
    bpf_refcount ref;
  }

  int some_bpf_prog(void *ctx)
  {
    struct node *n = bpf_obj_new(/*...*/), *m;

    bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);

    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;r, /* ... */);
    m = bpf_refcount_acquire(n);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;other_tree, &amp;m-&gt;r, /* ... */);

    bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);

    /* ... */
  }

After bpf_refcount_acquire, n and m point to the same underlying memory,
and that node's bpf_rb_node field is being used by the some_tree insert,
so overwriting it as a result of the second insert is an error. In order
to properly support refcounted nodes, the rbtree and list insert
functions must be allowed to fail. This patch adds such support.

The kfuncs bpf_rbtree_add, bpf_list_push_{front,back} are modified to
return an int indicating success/failure, with 0 -&gt; success, nonzero -&gt;
failure.

bpf_obj_drop on failure
=======================

Currently the only reason an insert can fail is the example above: the
bpf_{list,rb}_node is already in use. When such a failure occurs, the
insert kfuncs will bpf_obj_drop the input node. This allows the insert
operations to logically fail without changing their verifier owning ref
behavior, namely the unconditional release_reference of the input
owning ref.

With insert that always succeeds, ownership of the node is always passed
to the collection, since the node always ends up in the collection.

With a possibly-failed insert w/ bpf_obj_drop, ownership of the node
is always passed either to the collection (success), or to bpf_obj_drop
(failure). Regardless, it's correct to continue unconditionally
releasing the input owning ref, as something is always taking ownership
from the calling program on insert.

Keeping owning ref behavior unchanged results in a nice default UX for
insert functions that can fail. If the program's reaction to a failed
insert is "fine, just get rid of this owning ref for me and let me go
on with my business", then there's no reason to check for failure since
that's default behavior. e.g.:

  long important_failures = 0;

  int some_bpf_prog(void *ctx)
  {
    struct node *n, *m, *o; /* all bpf_obj_new'd */

    bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;m-&gt;node, /* ... */);
    if (bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;o-&gt;node, /* ... */)) {
      important_failures++;
    }
    bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);
  }

If we instead chose to pass ownership back to the program on failed
insert - by returning NULL on success or an owning ref on failure -
programs would always have to do something with the returned ref on
failure. The most likely action is probably "I'll just get rid of this
owning ref and go about my business", which ideally would look like:

  if (n = bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */))
    bpf_obj_drop(n);

But bpf_obj_drop isn't allowed in a critical section and inserts must
occur within one, so in reality error handling would become a
hard-to-parse mess.

For refcounted nodes, we can replicate the "pass ownership back to
program on failure" logic with this patch's semantics, albeit in an ugly
way:

  struct node *n = bpf_obj_new(/* ... */), *m;

  bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);

  m = bpf_refcount_acquire(n);
  if (bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */)) {
    /* Do something with m */
  }

  bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);
  bpf_obj_drop(m);

bpf_refcount_acquire is used to simulate "return owning ref on failure".
This should be an uncommon occurrence, though.

Addition of two verifier-fixup'd args to collection inserts
===========================================================

The actual bpf_obj_drop kfunc is
bpf_obj_drop_impl(void *, struct btf_struct_meta *), with bpf_obj_drop
macro populating the second arg with 0 and the verifier later filling in
the arg during insn fixup.

Because bpf_rbtree_add and bpf_list_push_{front,back} now might do
bpf_obj_drop, these kfuncs need a btf_struct_meta parameter that can be
passed to bpf_obj_drop_impl.

Similarly, because the 'node' param to those insert functions is the
bpf_{list,rb}_node within the node type, and bpf_obj_drop expects a
pointer to the beginning of the node, the insert functions need to be
able to find the beginning of the node struct. A second
verifier-populated param is necessary: the offset of {list,rb}_node within the
node type.

These two new params allow the insert kfuncs to correctly call
__bpf_obj_drop_impl:

  beginning_of_node = bpf_rb_node_ptr - offset
  if (already_inserted)
    __bpf_obj_drop_impl(beginning_of_node, btf_struct_meta-&gt;record);

Similarly to other kfuncs with "hidden" verifier-populated params, the
insert functions are renamed with _impl prefix and a macro is provided
for common usage. For example, bpf_rbtree_add kfunc is now
bpf_rbtree_add_impl and bpf_rbtree_add is now a macro which sets
"hidden" args to 0.

Due to the two new args BPF progs will need to be recompiled to work
with the new _impl kfuncs.

This patch also rewrites the "hidden argument" explanation to more
directly say why the BPF program writer doesn't need to populate the
arguments with anything meaningful.

How does this new logic affect non-owning references?
=====================================================

Currently, non-owning refs are valid until the end of the critical
section in which they're created. We can make this guarantee because, if
a non-owning ref exists, the referent was added to some collection. The
collection will drop() its nodes when it goes away, but it can't go away
while our program is accessing it, so that's not a problem. If the
referent is removed from the collection in the same CS that it was added
in, it can't be bpf_obj_drop'd until after CS end. Those are the only
two ways to free the referent's memory and neither can happen until
after the non-owning ref's lifetime ends.

On first glance, having these collection insert functions potentially
bpf_obj_drop their input seems like it breaks the "can't be
bpf_obj_drop'd until after CS end" line of reasoning. But we care about
the memory not being _freed_ until end of CS end, and a previous patch
in the series modified bpf_obj_drop such that it doesn't free refcounted
nodes until refcount == 0. So the statement can be more accurately
rewritten as "can't be free'd until after CS end".

We can prove that this rewritten statement holds for any non-owning
reference produced by collection insert functions:

* If the input to the insert function is _not_ refcounted
  * We have an owning reference to the input, and can conclude it isn't
    in any collection
    * Inserting a node in a collection turns owning refs into
      non-owning, and since our input type isn't refcounted, there's no
      way to obtain additional owning refs to the same underlying
      memory
  * Because our node isn't in any collection, the insert operation
    cannot fail, so bpf_obj_drop will not execute
  * If bpf_obj_drop is guaranteed not to execute, there's no risk of
    memory being free'd

* Otherwise, the input to the insert function is refcounted
  * If the insert operation fails due to the node's list_head or rb_root
    already being in some collection, there was some previous successful
    insert which passed refcount to the collection
  * We have an owning reference to the input, it must have been
    acquired via bpf_refcount_acquire, which bumped the refcount
  * refcount must be &gt;= 2 since there's a valid owning reference and the
    node is already in a collection
  * Insert triggering bpf_obj_drop will decr refcount to &gt;= 1, never
    resulting in a free

So although we may do bpf_obj_drop during the critical section, this
will never result in memory being free'd, and no changes to non-owning
ref logic are needed in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky &lt;davemarchevsky@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230415201811.343116-6-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Consider this code snippet:

  struct node {
    long key;
    bpf_list_node l;
    bpf_rb_node r;
    bpf_refcount ref;
  }

  int some_bpf_prog(void *ctx)
  {
    struct node *n = bpf_obj_new(/*...*/), *m;

    bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);

    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;r, /* ... */);
    m = bpf_refcount_acquire(n);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;other_tree, &amp;m-&gt;r, /* ... */);

    bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);

    /* ... */
  }

After bpf_refcount_acquire, n and m point to the same underlying memory,
and that node's bpf_rb_node field is being used by the some_tree insert,
so overwriting it as a result of the second insert is an error. In order
to properly support refcounted nodes, the rbtree and list insert
functions must be allowed to fail. This patch adds such support.

The kfuncs bpf_rbtree_add, bpf_list_push_{front,back} are modified to
return an int indicating success/failure, with 0 -&gt; success, nonzero -&gt;
failure.

bpf_obj_drop on failure
=======================

Currently the only reason an insert can fail is the example above: the
bpf_{list,rb}_node is already in use. When such a failure occurs, the
insert kfuncs will bpf_obj_drop the input node. This allows the insert
operations to logically fail without changing their verifier owning ref
behavior, namely the unconditional release_reference of the input
owning ref.

With insert that always succeeds, ownership of the node is always passed
to the collection, since the node always ends up in the collection.

With a possibly-failed insert w/ bpf_obj_drop, ownership of the node
is always passed either to the collection (success), or to bpf_obj_drop
(failure). Regardless, it's correct to continue unconditionally
releasing the input owning ref, as something is always taking ownership
from the calling program on insert.

Keeping owning ref behavior unchanged results in a nice default UX for
insert functions that can fail. If the program's reaction to a failed
insert is "fine, just get rid of this owning ref for me and let me go
on with my business", then there's no reason to check for failure since
that's default behavior. e.g.:

  long important_failures = 0;

  int some_bpf_prog(void *ctx)
  {
    struct node *n, *m, *o; /* all bpf_obj_new'd */

    bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */);
    bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;m-&gt;node, /* ... */);
    if (bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;o-&gt;node, /* ... */)) {
      important_failures++;
    }
    bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);
  }

If we instead chose to pass ownership back to the program on failed
insert - by returning NULL on success or an owning ref on failure -
programs would always have to do something with the returned ref on
failure. The most likely action is probably "I'll just get rid of this
owning ref and go about my business", which ideally would look like:

  if (n = bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */))
    bpf_obj_drop(n);

But bpf_obj_drop isn't allowed in a critical section and inserts must
occur within one, so in reality error handling would become a
hard-to-parse mess.

For refcounted nodes, we can replicate the "pass ownership back to
program on failure" logic with this patch's semantics, albeit in an ugly
way:

  struct node *n = bpf_obj_new(/* ... */), *m;

  bpf_spin_lock(&amp;glock);

  m = bpf_refcount_acquire(n);
  if (bpf_rbtree_add(&amp;some_tree, &amp;n-&gt;node, /* ... */)) {
    /* Do something with m */
  }

  bpf_spin_unlock(&amp;glock);
  bpf_obj_drop(m);

bpf_refcount_acquire is used to simulate "return owning ref on failure".
This should be an uncommon occurrence, though.

Addition of two verifier-fixup'd args to collection inserts
===========================================================

The actual bpf_obj_drop kfunc is
bpf_obj_drop_impl(void *, struct btf_struct_meta *), with bpf_obj_drop
macro populating the second arg with 0 and the verifier later filling in
the arg during insn fixup.

Because bpf_rbtree_add and bpf_list_push_{front,back} now might do
bpf_obj_drop, these kfuncs need a btf_struct_meta parameter that can be
passed to bpf_obj_drop_impl.

Similarly, because the 'node' param to those insert functions is the
bpf_{list,rb}_node within the node type, and bpf_obj_drop expects a
pointer to the beginning of the node, the insert functions need to be
able to find the beginning of the node struct. A second
verifier-populated param is necessary: the offset of {list,rb}_node within the
node type.

These two new params allow the insert kfuncs to correctly call
__bpf_obj_drop_impl:

  beginning_of_node = bpf_rb_node_ptr - offset
  if (already_inserted)
    __bpf_obj_drop_impl(beginning_of_node, btf_struct_meta-&gt;record);

Similarly to other kfuncs with "hidden" verifier-populated params, the
insert functions are renamed with _impl prefix and a macro is provided
for common usage. For example, bpf_rbtree_add kfunc is now
bpf_rbtree_add_impl and bpf_rbtree_add is now a macro which sets
"hidden" args to 0.

Due to the two new args BPF progs will need to be recompiled to work
with the new _impl kfuncs.

This patch also rewrites the "hidden argument" explanation to more
directly say why the BPF program writer doesn't need to populate the
arguments with anything meaningful.

How does this new logic affect non-owning references?
=====================================================

Currently, non-owning refs are valid until the end of the critical
section in which they're created. We can make this guarantee because, if
a non-owning ref exists, the referent was added to some collection. The
collection will drop() its nodes when it goes away, but it can't go away
while our program is accessing it, so that's not a problem. If the
referent is removed from the collection in the same CS that it was added
in, it can't be bpf_obj_drop'd until after CS end. Those are the only
two ways to free the referent's memory and neither can happen until
after the non-owning ref's lifetime ends.

On first glance, having these collection insert functions potentially
bpf_obj_drop their input seems like it breaks the "can't be
bpf_obj_drop'd until after CS end" line of reasoning. But we care about
the memory not being _freed_ until end of CS end, and a previous patch
in the series modified bpf_obj_drop such that it doesn't free refcounted
nodes until refcount == 0. So the statement can be more accurately
rewritten as "can't be free'd until after CS end".

We can prove that this rewritten statement holds for any non-owning
reference produced by collection insert functions:

* If the input to the insert function is _not_ refcounted
  * We have an owning reference to the input, and can conclude it isn't
    in any collection
    * Inserting a node in a collection turns owning refs into
      non-owning, and since our input type isn't refcounted, there's no
      way to obtain additional owning refs to the same underlying
      memory
  * Because our node isn't in any collection, the insert operation
    cannot fail, so bpf_obj_drop will not execute
  * If bpf_obj_drop is guaranteed not to execute, there's no risk of
    memory being free'd

* Otherwise, the input to the insert function is refcounted
  * If the insert operation fails due to the node's list_head or rb_root
    already being in some collection, there was some previous successful
    insert which passed refcount to the collection
  * We have an owning reference to the input, it must have been
    acquired via bpf_refcount_acquire, which bumped the refcount
  * refcount must be &gt;= 2 since there's a valid owning reference and the
    node is already in a collection
  * Insert triggering bpf_obj_drop will decr refcount to &gt;= 1, never
    resulting in a free

So although we may do bpf_obj_drop during the critical section, this
will never result in memory being free'd, and no changes to non-owning
ref logic are needed in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky &lt;davemarchevsky@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230415201811.343116-6-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Simplify internal verifier log interface</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:05:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T23:41:59+00:00</published>
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Simplify internal verifier log API down to bpf_vlog_init() and
bpf_vlog_finalize(). The former handles input arguments validation in
one place and makes it easier to change it. The latter subsumes -ENOSPC
(truncation) and -EFAULT handling and simplifies both caller's code
(bpf_check() and btf_parse()).

For btf_parse(), this patch also makes sure that verifier log
finalization happens even if there is some error condition during BTF
verification process prior to normal finalization step.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-14-andrii@kernel.org
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Simplify internal verifier log API down to bpf_vlog_init() and
bpf_vlog_finalize(). The former handles input arguments validation in
one place and makes it easier to change it. The latter subsumes -ENOSPC
(truncation) and -EFAULT handling and simplifies both caller's code
(bpf_check() and btf_parse()).

For btf_parse(), this patch also makes sure that verifier log
finalization happens even if there is some error condition during BTF
verification process prior to normal finalization step.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-14-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Keep track of total log content size in both fixed and rolling modes</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:05:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T23:41:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fa1c7d5cc404ac3b6e6b4ab6d00b07c76bd819be'/>
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Change how we do accounting in BPF_LOG_FIXED mode and adopt log-&gt;end_pos
as *logical* log position. This means that we can go beyond physical log
buffer size now and be able to tell what log buffer size should be to
fit entire log contents without -ENOSPC.

To do this for BPF_LOG_FIXED mode, we need to remove a short-circuiting
logic of not vsnprintf()'ing further log content once we filled up
user-provided buffer, which is done by bpf_verifier_log_needed() checks.
We modify these checks to always keep going if log-&gt;level is non-zero
(i.e., log is requested), even if log-&gt;ubuf was NULL'ed out due to
copying data to user-space, or if entire log buffer is physically full.
We adopt bpf_verifier_vlog() routine to work correctly with
log-&gt;ubuf == NULL condition, performing log formatting into temporary
kernel buffer, doing all the necessary accounting, but just avoiding
copying data out if buffer is full or NULL'ed out.

With these changes, it's now possible to do this sort of determination of
log contents size in both BPF_LOG_FIXED and default rolling log mode.
We need to keep in mind bpf_vlog_reset(), though, which shrinks log
contents after successful verification of a particular code path. This
log reset means that log-&gt;end_pos isn't always increasing, so to return
back to users what should be the log buffer size to fit all log content
without causing -ENOSPC even in the presence of log resetting, we need
to keep maximum over "lifetime" of logging. We do this accounting in
bpf_vlog_update_len_max() helper.

A related and subtle aspect is that with this logical log-&gt;end_pos even in
BPF_LOG_FIXED mode we could temporary "overflow" buffer, but then reset
it back with bpf_vlog_reset() to a position inside user-supplied
log_buf. In such situation we still want to properly maintain
terminating zero. We will eventually return -ENOSPC even if final log
buffer is small (we detect this through log-&gt;len_max check). This
behavior is simpler to reason about and is consistent with current
behavior of verifier log. Handling of this required a small addition to
bpf_vlog_reset() logic to avoid doing put_user() beyond physical log
buffer dimensions.

Another issue to keep in mind is that we limit log buffer size to 32-bit
value and keep such log length as u32, but theoretically verifier could
produce huge log stretching beyond 4GB. Instead of keeping (and later
returning) 64-bit log length, we cap it at UINT_MAX. Current UAPI makes
it impossible to specify log buffer size bigger than 4GB anyways, so we
don't really loose anything here and keep everything consistently 32-bit
in UAPI. This property will be utilized in next patch.

Doing the same determination of maximum log buffer for rolling mode is
trivial, as log-&gt;end_pos and log-&gt;start_pos are already logical
positions, so there is nothing new there.

These changes do incidentally fix one small issue with previous logging
logic. Previously, if use provided log buffer of size N, and actual log
output was exactly N-1 bytes + terminating \0, kernel logic coun't
distinguish this condition from log truncation scenario which would end
up with truncated log contents of N-1 bytes + terminating \0 as well.

But now with log-&gt;end_pos being logical position that could go beyond
actual log buffer size, we can distinguish these two conditions, which
we do in this patch. This plays nicely with returning log_size_actual
(implemented in UAPI in the next patch), as we can now guarantee that if
user takes such log_size_actual and provides log buffer of that exact
size, they will not get -ENOSPC in return.

All in all, all these changes do conceptually unify fixed and rolling
log modes much better, and allow a nice feature requested by users:
knowing what should be the size of the buffer to avoid -ENOSPC.

We'll plumb this through the UAPI and the code in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-12-andrii@kernel.org
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Change how we do accounting in BPF_LOG_FIXED mode and adopt log-&gt;end_pos
as *logical* log position. This means that we can go beyond physical log
buffer size now and be able to tell what log buffer size should be to
fit entire log contents without -ENOSPC.

To do this for BPF_LOG_FIXED mode, we need to remove a short-circuiting
logic of not vsnprintf()'ing further log content once we filled up
user-provided buffer, which is done by bpf_verifier_log_needed() checks.
We modify these checks to always keep going if log-&gt;level is non-zero
(i.e., log is requested), even if log-&gt;ubuf was NULL'ed out due to
copying data to user-space, or if entire log buffer is physically full.
We adopt bpf_verifier_vlog() routine to work correctly with
log-&gt;ubuf == NULL condition, performing log formatting into temporary
kernel buffer, doing all the necessary accounting, but just avoiding
copying data out if buffer is full or NULL'ed out.

With these changes, it's now possible to do this sort of determination of
log contents size in both BPF_LOG_FIXED and default rolling log mode.
We need to keep in mind bpf_vlog_reset(), though, which shrinks log
contents after successful verification of a particular code path. This
log reset means that log-&gt;end_pos isn't always increasing, so to return
back to users what should be the log buffer size to fit all log content
without causing -ENOSPC even in the presence of log resetting, we need
to keep maximum over "lifetime" of logging. We do this accounting in
bpf_vlog_update_len_max() helper.

A related and subtle aspect is that with this logical log-&gt;end_pos even in
BPF_LOG_FIXED mode we could temporary "overflow" buffer, but then reset
it back with bpf_vlog_reset() to a position inside user-supplied
log_buf. In such situation we still want to properly maintain
terminating zero. We will eventually return -ENOSPC even if final log
buffer is small (we detect this through log-&gt;len_max check). This
behavior is simpler to reason about and is consistent with current
behavior of verifier log. Handling of this required a small addition to
bpf_vlog_reset() logic to avoid doing put_user() beyond physical log
buffer dimensions.

Another issue to keep in mind is that we limit log buffer size to 32-bit
value and keep such log length as u32, but theoretically verifier could
produce huge log stretching beyond 4GB. Instead of keeping (and later
returning) 64-bit log length, we cap it at UINT_MAX. Current UAPI makes
it impossible to specify log buffer size bigger than 4GB anyways, so we
don't really loose anything here and keep everything consistently 32-bit
in UAPI. This property will be utilized in next patch.

Doing the same determination of maximum log buffer for rolling mode is
trivial, as log-&gt;end_pos and log-&gt;start_pos are already logical
positions, so there is nothing new there.

These changes do incidentally fix one small issue with previous logging
logic. Previously, if use provided log buffer of size N, and actual log
output was exactly N-1 bytes + terminating \0, kernel logic coun't
distinguish this condition from log truncation scenario which would end
up with truncated log contents of N-1 bytes + terminating \0 as well.

But now with log-&gt;end_pos being logical position that could go beyond
actual log buffer size, we can distinguish these two conditions, which
we do in this patch. This plays nicely with returning log_size_actual
(implemented in UAPI in the next patch), as we can now guarantee that if
user takes such log_size_actual and provides log buffer of that exact
size, they will not get -ENOSPC in return.

All in all, all these changes do conceptually unify fixed and rolling
log modes much better, and allow a nice feature requested by users:
knowing what should be the size of the buffer to avoid -ENOSPC.

We'll plumb this through the UAPI and the code in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-12-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Switch BPF verifier log to be a rotating log by default</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:05:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T23:41:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1216640938035e63bdbd32438e91c9bcc1fd8ee1'/>
<id>1216640938035e63bdbd32438e91c9bcc1fd8ee1</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, if user-supplied log buffer to collect BPF verifier log turns
out to be too small to contain full log, bpf() syscall returns -ENOSPC,
fails BPF program verification/load, and preserves first N-1 bytes of
the verifier log (where N is the size of user-supplied buffer).

This is problematic in a bunch of common scenarios, especially when
working with real-world BPF programs that tend to be pretty complex as
far as verification goes and require big log buffers. Typically, it's
when debugging tricky cases at log level 2 (verbose). Also, when BPF program
is successfully validated, log level 2 is the only way to actually see
verifier state progression and all the important details.

Even with log level 1, it's possible to get -ENOSPC even if the final
verifier log fits in log buffer, if there is a code path that's deep
enough to fill up entire log, even if normally it would be reset later
on (there is a logic to chop off successfully validated portions of BPF
verifier log).

In short, it's not always possible to pre-size log buffer. Also, what's
worse, in practice, the end of the log most often is way more important
than the beginning, but verifier stops emitting log as soon as initial
log buffer is filled up.

This patch switches BPF verifier log behavior to effectively behave as
rotating log. That is, if user-supplied log buffer turns out to be too
short, verifier will keep overwriting previously written log,
effectively treating user's log buffer as a ring buffer. -ENOSPC is
still going to be returned at the end, to notify user that log contents
was truncated, but the important last N bytes of the log would be
returned, which might be all that user really needs. This consistent
-ENOSPC behavior, regardless of rotating or fixed log behavior, allows
to prevent backwards compatibility breakage. The only user-visible
change is which portion of verifier log user ends up seeing *if buffer
is too small*. Given contents of verifier log itself is not an ABI,
there is no breakage due to this behavior change. Specialized tools that
rely on specific contents of verifier log in -ENOSPC scenario are
expected to be easily adapted to accommodate old and new behaviors.

Importantly, though, to preserve good user experience and not require
every user-space application to adopt to this new behavior, before
exiting to user-space verifier will rotate log (in place) to make it
start at the very beginning of user buffer as a continuous
zero-terminated string. The contents will be a chopped off N-1 last
bytes of full verifier log, of course.

Given beginning of log is sometimes important as well, we add
BPF_LOG_FIXED (which equals 8) flag to force old behavior, which allows
tools like veristat to request first part of verifier log, if necessary.
BPF_LOG_FIXED flag is also a simple and straightforward way to check if
BPF verifier supports rotating behavior.

On the implementation side, conceptually, it's all simple. We maintain
64-bit logical start and end positions. If we need to truncate the log,
start position will be adjusted accordingly to lag end position by
N bytes. We then use those logical positions to calculate their matching
actual positions in user buffer and handle wrap around the end of the
buffer properly. Finally, right before returning from bpf_check(), we
rotate user log buffer contents in-place as necessary, to make log
contents contiguous. See comments in relevant functions for details.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-4-andrii@kernel.org
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Currently, if user-supplied log buffer to collect BPF verifier log turns
out to be too small to contain full log, bpf() syscall returns -ENOSPC,
fails BPF program verification/load, and preserves first N-1 bytes of
the verifier log (where N is the size of user-supplied buffer).

This is problematic in a bunch of common scenarios, especially when
working with real-world BPF programs that tend to be pretty complex as
far as verification goes and require big log buffers. Typically, it's
when debugging tricky cases at log level 2 (verbose). Also, when BPF program
is successfully validated, log level 2 is the only way to actually see
verifier state progression and all the important details.

Even with log level 1, it's possible to get -ENOSPC even if the final
verifier log fits in log buffer, if there is a code path that's deep
enough to fill up entire log, even if normally it would be reset later
on (there is a logic to chop off successfully validated portions of BPF
verifier log).

In short, it's not always possible to pre-size log buffer. Also, what's
worse, in practice, the end of the log most often is way more important
than the beginning, but verifier stops emitting log as soon as initial
log buffer is filled up.

This patch switches BPF verifier log behavior to effectively behave as
rotating log. That is, if user-supplied log buffer turns out to be too
short, verifier will keep overwriting previously written log,
effectively treating user's log buffer as a ring buffer. -ENOSPC is
still going to be returned at the end, to notify user that log contents
was truncated, but the important last N bytes of the log would be
returned, which might be all that user really needs. This consistent
-ENOSPC behavior, regardless of rotating or fixed log behavior, allows
to prevent backwards compatibility breakage. The only user-visible
change is which portion of verifier log user ends up seeing *if buffer
is too small*. Given contents of verifier log itself is not an ABI,
there is no breakage due to this behavior change. Specialized tools that
rely on specific contents of verifier log in -ENOSPC scenario are
expected to be easily adapted to accommodate old and new behaviors.

Importantly, though, to preserve good user experience and not require
every user-space application to adopt to this new behavior, before
exiting to user-space verifier will rotate log (in place) to make it
start at the very beginning of user buffer as a continuous
zero-terminated string. The contents will be a chopped off N-1 last
bytes of full verifier log, of course.

Given beginning of log is sometimes important as well, we add
BPF_LOG_FIXED (which equals 8) flag to force old behavior, which allows
tools like veristat to request first part of verifier log, if necessary.
BPF_LOG_FIXED flag is also a simple and straightforward way to check if
BPF verifier supports rotating behavior.

On the implementation side, conceptually, it's all simple. We maintain
64-bit logical start and end positions. If we need to truncate the log,
start position will be adjusted accordingly to lag end position by
N bytes. We then use those logical positions to calculate their matching
actual positions in user buffer and handle wrap around the end of the
buffer properly. Finally, right before returning from bpf_check(), we
rotate user log buffer contents in-place as necessary, to make log
contents contiguous. See comments in relevant functions for details.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-4-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Split off basic BPF verifier log into separate file</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T23:41:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4294a0a7ab6282c3d92f03de84e762dda993c93d'/>
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kernel/bpf/verifier.c file is large and growing larger all the time. So
it's good to start splitting off more or less self-contained parts into
separate files to keep source code size (somewhat) somewhat under
control.

This patch is a one step in this direction, moving some of BPF verifier log
routines into a separate kernel/bpf/log.c. Right now it's most low-level
and isolated routines to append data to log, reset log to previous
position, etc. Eventually we could probably move verifier state
printing logic here as well, but this patch doesn't attempt to do that
yet.

Subsequent patches will add more logic to verifier log management, so
having basics in a separate file will make sure verifier.c doesn't grow
more with new changes.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-2-andrii@kernel.org
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kernel/bpf/verifier.c file is large and growing larger all the time. So
it's good to start splitting off more or less self-contained parts into
separate files to keep source code size (somewhat) somewhat under
control.

This patch is a one step in this direction, moving some of BPF verifier log
routines into a separate kernel/bpf/log.c. Right now it's most low-level
and isolated routines to append data to log, reset log to previous
position, etc. Eventually we could probably move verifier state
printing logic here as well, but this patch doesn't attempt to do that
yet.

Subsequent patches will add more logic to verifier log management, so
having basics in a separate file will make sure verifier.c doesn't grow
more with new changes.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-2-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: ensure state checkpointing at iter_next() call sites</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T16:31:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-10T06:01:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4b5ce570dbef57a20acdd71b0c65376009012354'/>
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State equivalence check and checkpointing performed in is_state_visited()
employs certain heuristics to try to save memory by avoiding state checkpoints
if not enough jumps and instructions happened since last checkpoint. This leads
to unpredictability of whether a particular instruction will be checkpointed
and how regularly. While normally this is not causing much problems (except
inconveniences for predictable verifier tests, which we overcome with
BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ flag), turns out it's not the case for open-coded
iterators.

Checking and saving state checkpoints at iter_next() call is crucial for fast
convergence of open-coded iterator loop logic, so we need to force it. If we
don't do that, is_state_visited() might skip saving a checkpoint, causing
unnecessarily long sequence of not checkpointed instructions and jumps, leading
to exhaustion of jump history buffer, and potentially other undesired outcomes.
It is expected that with correct open-coded iterators convergence will happen
quickly, so we don't run a risk of exhausting memory.

This patch adds, in addition to prune and jump instruction marks, also a
"forced checkpoint" mark, and makes sure that any iter_next() call instruction
is marked as such.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310060149.625887-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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State equivalence check and checkpointing performed in is_state_visited()
employs certain heuristics to try to save memory by avoiding state checkpoints
if not enough jumps and instructions happened since last checkpoint. This leads
to unpredictability of whether a particular instruction will be checkpointed
and how regularly. While normally this is not causing much problems (except
inconveniences for predictable verifier tests, which we overcome with
BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ flag), turns out it's not the case for open-coded
iterators.

Checking and saving state checkpoints at iter_next() call is crucial for fast
convergence of open-coded iterator loop logic, so we need to force it. If we
don't do that, is_state_visited() might skip saving a checkpoint, causing
unnecessarily long sequence of not checkpointed instructions and jumps, leading
to exhaustion of jump history buffer, and potentially other undesired outcomes.
It is expected that with correct open-coded iterators convergence will happen
quickly, so we don't run a risk of exhausting memory.

This patch adds, in addition to prune and jump instruction marks, also a
"forced checkpoint" mark, and makes sure that any iter_next() call instruction
is marked as such.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310060149.625887-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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