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<title>bpf: Add rcu_read_lock in bpf_get_current_[ancestor_]cgroup_id() helpers</title>
<updated>2021-08-11T18:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
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<published>2021-08-10T23:05:37+00:00</published>
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Currently, if bpf_get_current_cgroup_id() or
bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() helper is
called with sleepable programs e.g., sleepable
fentry/fmod_ret/fexit/lsm programs, a rcu warning
may appear. For example, if I added the following
hack to test_progs/test_lsm sleepable fentry program
test_sys_setdomainname:

  --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/lsm.c
  +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/lsm.c
  @@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ int BPF_PROG(test_sys_setdomainname, struct pt_regs *regs)
          int buf = 0;
          long ret;

  +       __u64 cg_id = bpf_get_current_cgroup_id();
  +       if (cg_id == 1000)
  +               copy_test++;
  +
          ret = bpf_copy_from_user(&amp;buf, sizeof(buf), ptr);
          if (len == -2 &amp;&amp; ret == 0 &amp;&amp; buf == 1234)
                  copy_test++;

I will hit the following rcu warning:

  include/linux/cgroup.h:481 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
  other info that might help us debug this:
    rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
    1 lock held by test_progs/260:
      #0: ffffffffa5173360 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable+0x0/0xa0
    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 1 PID: 260 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G           O      5.14.0-rc2+ #176
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x7b
      bpf_get_current_cgroup_id+0x9c/0xb1
      bpf_prog_a29888d1c6706e09_test_sys_setdomainname+0x3e/0x89c
      bpf_trampoline_6442469132_0+0x2d/0x1000
      __x64_sys_setdomainname+0x5/0x110
      do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

I can get similar warning using bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() helper.
syzbot reported a similar issue in [1] for syscall program. Helper
bpf_get_current_cgroup_id() or bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id()
has the following callchain:
   task_dfl_cgroup
     task_css_set
       task_css_set_check
and we have
   #define task_css_set_check(task, __c)                                   \
           rcu_dereference_check((task)-&gt;cgroups,                          \
                   lockdep_is_held(&amp;cgroup_mutex) ||                       \
                   lockdep_is_held(&amp;css_set_lock) ||                       \
                   ((task)-&gt;flags &amp; PF_EXITING) || (__c))
Since cgroup_mutex/css_set_lock is not held and the task
is not existing and rcu read_lock is not held, a warning
will be issued. Note that bpf sleepable program is protected by
rcu_read_lock_trace().

The above sleepable bpf programs are already protected
by migrate_disable(). Adding rcu_read_lock() in these
two helpers will silence the above warning.
I marked the patch fixing 95b861a7935b
("bpf: Allow bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id for tracing")
which added bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() to tracing programs
in 5.14. I think backporting 5.14 is probably good enough as sleepable
progrems are not widely used.

This patch should fix [1] as well since syscall program is a sleepable
program protected with migrate_disable().

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0000000000006d5cab05c7d9bb87@google.com/

Fixes: 95b861a7935b ("bpf: Allow bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id for tracing")
Reported-by: syzbot+7ee5c2c09c284495371f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810230537.2864668-1-yhs@fb.com
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Currently, if bpf_get_current_cgroup_id() or
bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() helper is
called with sleepable programs e.g., sleepable
fentry/fmod_ret/fexit/lsm programs, a rcu warning
may appear. For example, if I added the following
hack to test_progs/test_lsm sleepable fentry program
test_sys_setdomainname:

  --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/lsm.c
  +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/lsm.c
  @@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ int BPF_PROG(test_sys_setdomainname, struct pt_regs *regs)
          int buf = 0;
          long ret;

  +       __u64 cg_id = bpf_get_current_cgroup_id();
  +       if (cg_id == 1000)
  +               copy_test++;
  +
          ret = bpf_copy_from_user(&amp;buf, sizeof(buf), ptr);
          if (len == -2 &amp;&amp; ret == 0 &amp;&amp; buf == 1234)
                  copy_test++;

I will hit the following rcu warning:

  include/linux/cgroup.h:481 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
  other info that might help us debug this:
    rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
    1 lock held by test_progs/260:
      #0: ffffffffa5173360 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable+0x0/0xa0
    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 1 PID: 260 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G           O      5.14.0-rc2+ #176
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x7b
      bpf_get_current_cgroup_id+0x9c/0xb1
      bpf_prog_a29888d1c6706e09_test_sys_setdomainname+0x3e/0x89c
      bpf_trampoline_6442469132_0+0x2d/0x1000
      __x64_sys_setdomainname+0x5/0x110
      do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

I can get similar warning using bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() helper.
syzbot reported a similar issue in [1] for syscall program. Helper
bpf_get_current_cgroup_id() or bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id()
has the following callchain:
   task_dfl_cgroup
     task_css_set
       task_css_set_check
and we have
   #define task_css_set_check(task, __c)                                   \
           rcu_dereference_check((task)-&gt;cgroups,                          \
                   lockdep_is_held(&amp;cgroup_mutex) ||                       \
                   lockdep_is_held(&amp;css_set_lock) ||                       \
                   ((task)-&gt;flags &amp; PF_EXITING) || (__c))
Since cgroup_mutex/css_set_lock is not held and the task
is not existing and rcu read_lock is not held, a warning
will be issued. Note that bpf sleepable program is protected by
rcu_read_lock_trace().

The above sleepable bpf programs are already protected
by migrate_disable(). Adding rcu_read_lock() in these
two helpers will silence the above warning.
I marked the patch fixing 95b861a7935b
("bpf: Allow bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id for tracing")
which added bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id() to tracing programs
in 5.14. I think backporting 5.14 is probably good enough as sleepable
progrems are not widely used.

This patch should fix [1] as well since syscall program is a sleepable
program protected with migrate_disable().

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0000000000006d5cab05c7d9bb87@google.com/

Fixes: 95b861a7935b ("bpf: Allow bpf_get_current_ancestor_cgroup_id for tracing")
Reported-by: syzbot+7ee5c2c09c284495371f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810230537.2864668-1-yhs@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()</title>
<updated>2021-08-10T08:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T01:04:13+00:00</published>
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Commit b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage()
helper") fixed a bug for bpf_get_local_storage() helper so different tasks
won't mess up with each other's percpu local storage.

The percpu data contains 8 slots so it can hold up to 8 contexts (same or
different tasks), for 8 different program runs, at the same time. This in
general is sufficient. But our internal testing showed the following warning
multiple times:

  [...]
  warning: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 41661 at include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h:193
     __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_sock_ops+0x13e/0x180
  RIP: 0010:__cgroup_bpf_run_filter_sock_ops+0x13e/0x180
  &lt;IRQ&gt;
   tcp_call_bpf.constprop.99+0x93/0xc0
   tcp_conn_request+0x41e/0xa50
   ? tcp_rcv_state_process+0x203/0xe00
   tcp_rcv_state_process+0x203/0xe00
   ? sk_filter_trim_cap+0xbc/0x210
   ? tcp_v6_inbound_md5_hash.constprop.41+0x44/0x160
   tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x181/0x3e0
   tcp_v6_rcv+0xc65/0xcb0
   ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xbd/0x450
   ip6_input_finish+0x11/0x20
   ip6_input+0xb5/0xc0
   ip6_sublist_rcv_finish+0x37/0x50
   ip6_sublist_rcv+0x1dc/0x270
   ipv6_list_rcv+0x113/0x140
   __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1a0/0x210
   netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x186/0x2a0
   gro_normal_list.part.170+0x19/0x40
   napi_complete_done+0x65/0x150
   mlx5e_napi_poll+0x1ae/0x680
   __napi_poll+0x25/0x120
   net_rx_action+0x11e/0x280
   __do_softirq+0xbb/0x271
   irq_exit_rcu+0x97/0xa0
   common_interrupt+0x7f/0xa0
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;
   asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
  RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_1835a9241238291a_tw_egress+0x5/0xbac
   ? __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb+0x378/0x4e0
   ? do_softirq+0x34/0x70
   ? ip6_finish_output2+0x266/0x590
   ? ip6_finish_output+0x66/0xa0
   ? ip6_output+0x6c/0x130
   ? ip6_xmit+0x279/0x550
   ? ip6_dst_check+0x61/0xd0
  [...]

Using drgn [0] to dump the percpu buffer contents showed that on this CPU
slot 0 is still available, but slots 1-7 are occupied and those tasks in
slots 1-7 mostly don't exist any more. So we might have issues in
bpf_cgroup_storage_unset().

Further debugging confirmed that there is a bug in bpf_cgroup_storage_unset().
Currently, it tries to unset "current" slot with searching from the start.
So the following sequence is possible:

  1. A task is running and claims slot 0
  2. Running BPF program is done, and it checked slot 0 has the "task"
     and ready to reset it to NULL (not yet).
  3. An interrupt happens, another BPF program runs and it claims slot 1
     with the *same* task.
  4. The unset() in interrupt context releases slot 0 since it matches "task".
  5. Interrupt is done, the task in process context reset slot 0.

At the end, slot 1 is not reset and the same process can continue to occupy
slots 2-7 and finally, when the above step 1-5 is repeated again, step 3 BPF
program won't be able to claim an empty slot and a warning will be issued.

To fix the issue, for unset() function, we should traverse from the last slot
to the first. This way, the above issue can be avoided.

The same reverse traversal should also be done in bpf_get_local_storage() helper
itself. Otherwise, incorrect local storage may be returned to BPF program.

  [0] https://github.com/osandov/drgn

Fixes: b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage() helper")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810010413.1976277-1-yhs@fb.com
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Commit b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage()
helper") fixed a bug for bpf_get_local_storage() helper so different tasks
won't mess up with each other's percpu local storage.

The percpu data contains 8 slots so it can hold up to 8 contexts (same or
different tasks), for 8 different program runs, at the same time. This in
general is sufficient. But our internal testing showed the following warning
multiple times:

  [...]
  warning: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 41661 at include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h:193
     __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_sock_ops+0x13e/0x180
  RIP: 0010:__cgroup_bpf_run_filter_sock_ops+0x13e/0x180
  &lt;IRQ&gt;
   tcp_call_bpf.constprop.99+0x93/0xc0
   tcp_conn_request+0x41e/0xa50
   ? tcp_rcv_state_process+0x203/0xe00
   tcp_rcv_state_process+0x203/0xe00
   ? sk_filter_trim_cap+0xbc/0x210
   ? tcp_v6_inbound_md5_hash.constprop.41+0x44/0x160
   tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x181/0x3e0
   tcp_v6_rcv+0xc65/0xcb0
   ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xbd/0x450
   ip6_input_finish+0x11/0x20
   ip6_input+0xb5/0xc0
   ip6_sublist_rcv_finish+0x37/0x50
   ip6_sublist_rcv+0x1dc/0x270
   ipv6_list_rcv+0x113/0x140
   __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1a0/0x210
   netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x186/0x2a0
   gro_normal_list.part.170+0x19/0x40
   napi_complete_done+0x65/0x150
   mlx5e_napi_poll+0x1ae/0x680
   __napi_poll+0x25/0x120
   net_rx_action+0x11e/0x280
   __do_softirq+0xbb/0x271
   irq_exit_rcu+0x97/0xa0
   common_interrupt+0x7f/0xa0
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;
   asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
  RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_1835a9241238291a_tw_egress+0x5/0xbac
   ? __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb+0x378/0x4e0
   ? do_softirq+0x34/0x70
   ? ip6_finish_output2+0x266/0x590
   ? ip6_finish_output+0x66/0xa0
   ? ip6_output+0x6c/0x130
   ? ip6_xmit+0x279/0x550
   ? ip6_dst_check+0x61/0xd0
  [...]

Using drgn [0] to dump the percpu buffer contents showed that on this CPU
slot 0 is still available, but slots 1-7 are occupied and those tasks in
slots 1-7 mostly don't exist any more. So we might have issues in
bpf_cgroup_storage_unset().

Further debugging confirmed that there is a bug in bpf_cgroup_storage_unset().
Currently, it tries to unset "current" slot with searching from the start.
So the following sequence is possible:

  1. A task is running and claims slot 0
  2. Running BPF program is done, and it checked slot 0 has the "task"
     and ready to reset it to NULL (not yet).
  3. An interrupt happens, another BPF program runs and it claims slot 1
     with the *same* task.
  4. The unset() in interrupt context releases slot 0 since it matches "task".
  5. Interrupt is done, the task in process context reset slot 0.

At the end, slot 1 is not reset and the same process can continue to occupy
slots 2-7 and finally, when the above step 1-5 is repeated again, step 3 BPF
program won't be able to claim an empty slot and a warning will be issued.

To fix the issue, for unset() function, we should traverse from the last slot
to the first. This way, the above issue can be avoided.

The same reverse traversal should also be done in bpf_get_local_storage() helper
itself. Otherwise, incorrect local storage may be returned to BPF program.

  [0] https://github.com/osandov/drgn

Fixes: b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage() helper")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810010413.1976277-1-yhs@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add _kernel suffix to internal lockdown_bpf_read</title>
<updated>2021-08-09T19:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-09T19:45:32+00:00</published>
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Rename LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ into LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ_KERNEL so we have naming
more consistent with a LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER option that we are adding.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ into LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ_KERNEL so we have naming
more consistent with a LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER option that we are adding.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Allow RCU-protected lookups to happen from bh context</title>
<updated>2021-06-24T17:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-24T16:05:54+00:00</published>
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XDP programs are called from a NAPI poll context, which means the RCU
reference liveness is ensured by local_bh_disable(). Add
rcu_read_lock_bh_held() as a condition to the RCU checks for map lookups so
lockdep understands that the dereferences are safe from inside *either* an
rcu_read_lock() section *or* a local_bh_disable() section. While both
bh_disabled and rcu_read_lock() provide RCU protection, they are
semantically distinct, so we need both conditions to prevent lockdep
complaints.

This change is done in preparation for removing the redundant
rcu_read_lock()s from drivers.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-5-toke@redhat.com
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XDP programs are called from a NAPI poll context, which means the RCU
reference liveness is ensured by local_bh_disable(). Add
rcu_read_lock_bh_held() as a condition to the RCU checks for map lookups so
lockdep understands that the dereferences are safe from inside *either* an
rcu_read_lock() section *or* a local_bh_disable() section. While both
bh_disabled and rcu_read_lock() provide RCU protection, they are
semantically distinct, so we need both conditions to prevent lockdep
complaints.

This change is done in preparation for removing the redundant
rcu_read_lock()s from drivers.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-5-toke@redhat.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, lockdown, audit: Fix buggy SELinux lockdown permission checks</title>
<updated>2021-06-02T19:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-28T09:16:31+00:00</published>
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Commit 59438b46471a ("security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown")
added an implementation of the locked_down LSM hook to SELinux, with the aim
to restrict which domains are allowed to perform operations that would breach
lockdown. This is indirectly also getting audit subsystem involved to report
events. The latter is problematic, as reported by Ondrej and Serhei, since it
can bring down the whole system via audit:

  1) The audit events that are triggered due to calls to security_locked_down()
     can OOM kill a machine, see below details [0].

  2) It also seems to be causing a deadlock via avc_has_perm()/slow_avc_audit()
     when trying to wake up kauditd, for example, when using trace_sched_switch()
     tracepoint, see details in [1]. Triggering this was not via some hypothetical
     corner case, but with existing tools like runqlat &amp; runqslower from bcc, for
     example, which make use of this tracepoint. Rough call sequence goes like:

     rq_lock(rq) -&gt; -------------------------+
       trace_sched_switch() -&gt;               |
         bpf_prog_xyz() -&gt;                   +-&gt; deadlock
           selinux_lockdown() -&gt;             |
             audit_log_end() -&gt;              |
               wake_up_interruptible() -&gt;    |
                 try_to_wake_up() -&gt;         |
                   rq_lock(rq) --------------+

What's worse is that the intention of 59438b46471a to further restrict lockdown
settings for specific applications in respect to the global lockdown policy is
completely broken for BPF. The SELinux policy rule for the current lockdown check
looks something like this:

  allow &lt;who&gt; &lt;who&gt; : lockdown { &lt;reason&gt; };

However, this doesn't match with the 'current' task where the security_locked_down()
is executed, example: httpd does a syscall. There is a tracing program attached
to the syscall which triggers a BPF program to run, which ends up doing a
bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}() helper call. The selinux_lockdown() hook does
the permission check against 'current', that is, httpd in this example. httpd
has literally zero relation to this tracing program, and it would be nonsensical
having to write an SELinux policy rule against httpd to let the tracing helper
pass. The policy in this case needs to be against the entity that is installing
the BPF program. For example, if bpftrace would generate a histogram of syscall
counts by user space application:

  bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'

bpftrace would then go and generate a BPF program from this internally. One way
of doing it [for the sake of the example] could be to call bpf_get_current_task()
helper and then access current-&gt;comm via one of bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}()
helpers. So the program itself has nothing to do with httpd or any other random
app doing a syscall here. The BPF program _explicitly initiated_ the lockdown
check. The allow/deny policy belongs in the context of bpftrace: meaning, you
want to grant bpftrace access to use these helpers, but other tracers on the
system like my_random_tracer _not_.

Therefore fix all three issues at the same time by taking a completely different
approach for the security_locked_down() hook, that is, move the check into the
program verification phase where we actually retrieve the BPF func proto. This
also reliably gets the task (current) that is trying to install the BPF tracing
program, e.g. bpftrace/bcc/perf/systemtap/etc, and it also fixes the OOM since
we're moving this out of the BPF helper's fast-path which can be called several
millions of times per second.

The check is then also in line with other security_locked_down() hooks in the
system where the enforcement is performed at open/load time, for example,
open_kcore() for /proc/kcore access or module_sig_check() for module signatures
just to pick few random ones. What's out of scope in the fix as well as in
other security_locked_down() hook locations /outside/ of BPF subsystem is that
if the lockdown policy changes on the fly there is no retrospective action.
This requires a different discussion, potentially complex infrastructure, and
it's also not clear whether this can be solved generically. Either way, it is
out of scope for a suitable stable fix which this one is targeting. Note that
the breakage is specifically on 59438b46471a where it started to rely on 'current'
as UAPI behavior, and _not_ earlier infrastructure such as 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf:
Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode").

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955585, Jakub Hrozek says:

  I starting seeing this with F-34. When I run a container that is traced with
  BPF to record the syscalls it is doing, auditd is flooded with messages like:

  type=AVC msg=audit(1619784520.593:282387): avc:  denied  { confidentiality }
    for pid=476 comm="auditd" lockdown_reason="use of bpf to read kernel RAM"
      scontext=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0
        tclass=lockdown permissive=0

  This seems to be leading to auditd running out of space in the backlog buffer
  and eventually OOMs the machine.

  [...]
  auditd running at 99% CPU presumably processing all the messages, eventually I get:
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: backlog limit exceeded
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: backlog limit exceeded
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152579 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152626 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152694 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_lost=6878426 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: oci-seccomp-bpf invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0, oom_score_adj=-1000
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 13284 Comm: oci-seccomp-bpf Not tainted 5.11.12-300.fc34.x86_64 #1
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
  [...]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-audit/CANYvDQN7H5tVp47fbYcRasv4XF07eUbsDwT_eDCHXJUj43J7jQ@mail.gmail.com/,
    Serhei Makarov says:

  Upstream kernel 5.11.0-rc7 and later was found to deadlock during a
  bpf_probe_read_compat() call within a sched_switch tracepoint. The problem
  is reproducible with the reg_alloc3 testcase from SystemTap's BPF backend
  testsuite on x86_64 as well as the runqlat, runqslower tools from bcc on
  ppc64le. Example stack trace:

  [...]
  [  730.868702] stack backtrace:
  [  730.869590] CPU: 1 PID: 701 Comm: in:imjournal Not tainted, 5.12.0-0.rc2.20210309git144c79ef3353.166.fc35.x86_64 #1
  [  730.871605] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
  [  730.873278] Call Trace:
  [  730.873770]  dump_stack+0x7f/0xa1
  [  730.874433]  check_noncircular+0xdf/0x100
  [  730.875232]  __lock_acquire+0x1202/0x1e10
  [  730.876031]  ? __lock_acquire+0xfc0/0x1e10
  [  730.876844]  lock_acquire+0xc2/0x3a0
  [  730.877551]  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.878434]  ? lock_acquire+0xc2/0x3a0
  [  730.879186]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xa7/0x120
  [  730.880044]  ? skb_queue_tail+0x1b/0x50
  [  730.880800]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4d/0x90
  [  730.881656]  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.882532]  __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.883375]  audit_log_end+0x5b/0x100
  [  730.884104]  slow_avc_audit+0x69/0x90
  [  730.884836]  avc_has_perm+0x8b/0xb0
  [  730.885532]  selinux_lockdown+0xa5/0xd0
  [  730.886297]  security_locked_down+0x20/0x40
  [  730.887133]  bpf_probe_read_compat+0x66/0xd0
  [  730.887983]  bpf_prog_250599c5469ac7b5+0x10f/0x820
  [  730.888917]  trace_call_bpf+0xe9/0x240
  [  730.889672]  perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x4d/0xc0
  [  730.890579]  perf_trace_sched_switch+0x142/0x180
  [  730.891485]  ? __schedule+0x6d8/0xb20
  [  730.892209]  __schedule+0x6d8/0xb20
  [  730.892899]  schedule+0x5b/0xc0
  [  730.893522]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x11d/0x240
  [  730.894457]  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x70
  [  730.895361]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  [...]

Fixes: 59438b46471a ("security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown")
Reported-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jakub Hrozek &lt;jhrozek@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Serhei Makarov &lt;smakarov@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jamorris@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/01135120-8bf7-df2e-cff0-1d73f1f841c3@iogearbox.net
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Commit 59438b46471a ("security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown")
added an implementation of the locked_down LSM hook to SELinux, with the aim
to restrict which domains are allowed to perform operations that would breach
lockdown. This is indirectly also getting audit subsystem involved to report
events. The latter is problematic, as reported by Ondrej and Serhei, since it
can bring down the whole system via audit:

  1) The audit events that are triggered due to calls to security_locked_down()
     can OOM kill a machine, see below details [0].

  2) It also seems to be causing a deadlock via avc_has_perm()/slow_avc_audit()
     when trying to wake up kauditd, for example, when using trace_sched_switch()
     tracepoint, see details in [1]. Triggering this was not via some hypothetical
     corner case, but with existing tools like runqlat &amp; runqslower from bcc, for
     example, which make use of this tracepoint. Rough call sequence goes like:

     rq_lock(rq) -&gt; -------------------------+
       trace_sched_switch() -&gt;               |
         bpf_prog_xyz() -&gt;                   +-&gt; deadlock
           selinux_lockdown() -&gt;             |
             audit_log_end() -&gt;              |
               wake_up_interruptible() -&gt;    |
                 try_to_wake_up() -&gt;         |
                   rq_lock(rq) --------------+

What's worse is that the intention of 59438b46471a to further restrict lockdown
settings for specific applications in respect to the global lockdown policy is
completely broken for BPF. The SELinux policy rule for the current lockdown check
looks something like this:

  allow &lt;who&gt; &lt;who&gt; : lockdown { &lt;reason&gt; };

However, this doesn't match with the 'current' task where the security_locked_down()
is executed, example: httpd does a syscall. There is a tracing program attached
to the syscall which triggers a BPF program to run, which ends up doing a
bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}() helper call. The selinux_lockdown() hook does
the permission check against 'current', that is, httpd in this example. httpd
has literally zero relation to this tracing program, and it would be nonsensical
having to write an SELinux policy rule against httpd to let the tracing helper
pass. The policy in this case needs to be against the entity that is installing
the BPF program. For example, if bpftrace would generate a histogram of syscall
counts by user space application:

  bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'

bpftrace would then go and generate a BPF program from this internally. One way
of doing it [for the sake of the example] could be to call bpf_get_current_task()
helper and then access current-&gt;comm via one of bpf_probe_read_kernel{,_str}()
helpers. So the program itself has nothing to do with httpd or any other random
app doing a syscall here. The BPF program _explicitly initiated_ the lockdown
check. The allow/deny policy belongs in the context of bpftrace: meaning, you
want to grant bpftrace access to use these helpers, but other tracers on the
system like my_random_tracer _not_.

Therefore fix all three issues at the same time by taking a completely different
approach for the security_locked_down() hook, that is, move the check into the
program verification phase where we actually retrieve the BPF func proto. This
also reliably gets the task (current) that is trying to install the BPF tracing
program, e.g. bpftrace/bcc/perf/systemtap/etc, and it also fixes the OOM since
we're moving this out of the BPF helper's fast-path which can be called several
millions of times per second.

The check is then also in line with other security_locked_down() hooks in the
system where the enforcement is performed at open/load time, for example,
open_kcore() for /proc/kcore access or module_sig_check() for module signatures
just to pick few random ones. What's out of scope in the fix as well as in
other security_locked_down() hook locations /outside/ of BPF subsystem is that
if the lockdown policy changes on the fly there is no retrospective action.
This requires a different discussion, potentially complex infrastructure, and
it's also not clear whether this can be solved generically. Either way, it is
out of scope for a suitable stable fix which this one is targeting. Note that
the breakage is specifically on 59438b46471a where it started to rely on 'current'
as UAPI behavior, and _not_ earlier infrastructure such as 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf:
Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode").

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1955585, Jakub Hrozek says:

  I starting seeing this with F-34. When I run a container that is traced with
  BPF to record the syscalls it is doing, auditd is flooded with messages like:

  type=AVC msg=audit(1619784520.593:282387): avc:  denied  { confidentiality }
    for pid=476 comm="auditd" lockdown_reason="use of bpf to read kernel RAM"
      scontext=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0
        tclass=lockdown permissive=0

  This seems to be leading to auditd running out of space in the backlog buffer
  and eventually OOMs the machine.

  [...]
  auditd running at 99% CPU presumably processing all the messages, eventually I get:
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: backlog limit exceeded
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: backlog limit exceeded
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152579 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152626 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_backlog=2152694 &gt; audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:42 fedora kernel: audit: audit_lost=6878426 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=64
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: oci-seccomp-bpf invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0, oom_score_adj=-1000
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 13284 Comm: oci-seccomp-bpf Not tainted 5.11.12-300.fc34.x86_64 #1
  Apr 30 12:20:45 fedora kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
  [...]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-audit/CANYvDQN7H5tVp47fbYcRasv4XF07eUbsDwT_eDCHXJUj43J7jQ@mail.gmail.com/,
    Serhei Makarov says:

  Upstream kernel 5.11.0-rc7 and later was found to deadlock during a
  bpf_probe_read_compat() call within a sched_switch tracepoint. The problem
  is reproducible with the reg_alloc3 testcase from SystemTap's BPF backend
  testsuite on x86_64 as well as the runqlat, runqslower tools from bcc on
  ppc64le. Example stack trace:

  [...]
  [  730.868702] stack backtrace:
  [  730.869590] CPU: 1 PID: 701 Comm: in:imjournal Not tainted, 5.12.0-0.rc2.20210309git144c79ef3353.166.fc35.x86_64 #1
  [  730.871605] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
  [  730.873278] Call Trace:
  [  730.873770]  dump_stack+0x7f/0xa1
  [  730.874433]  check_noncircular+0xdf/0x100
  [  730.875232]  __lock_acquire+0x1202/0x1e10
  [  730.876031]  ? __lock_acquire+0xfc0/0x1e10
  [  730.876844]  lock_acquire+0xc2/0x3a0
  [  730.877551]  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.878434]  ? lock_acquire+0xc2/0x3a0
  [  730.879186]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xa7/0x120
  [  730.880044]  ? skb_queue_tail+0x1b/0x50
  [  730.880800]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4d/0x90
  [  730.881656]  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.882532]  __wake_up_common_lock+0x52/0x90
  [  730.883375]  audit_log_end+0x5b/0x100
  [  730.884104]  slow_avc_audit+0x69/0x90
  [  730.884836]  avc_has_perm+0x8b/0xb0
  [  730.885532]  selinux_lockdown+0xa5/0xd0
  [  730.886297]  security_locked_down+0x20/0x40
  [  730.887133]  bpf_probe_read_compat+0x66/0xd0
  [  730.887983]  bpf_prog_250599c5469ac7b5+0x10f/0x820
  [  730.888917]  trace_call_bpf+0xe9/0x240
  [  730.889672]  perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x4d/0xc0
  [  730.890579]  perf_trace_sched_switch+0x142/0x180
  [  730.891485]  ? __schedule+0x6d8/0xb20
  [  730.892209]  __schedule+0x6d8/0xb20
  [  730.892899]  schedule+0x5b/0xc0
  [  730.893522]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x11d/0x240
  [  730.894457]  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x70
  [  730.895361]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  [...]

Fixes: 59438b46471a ("security,lockdown,selinux: implement SELinux lockdown")
Reported-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jakub Hrozek &lt;jhrozek@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Serhei Makarov &lt;smakarov@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jamorris@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Eigler &lt;fche@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/01135120-8bf7-df2e-cff0-1d73f1f841c3@iogearbox.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Avoid using ARRAY_SIZE on an uninitialized pointer</title>
<updated>2021-05-20T21:48:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T09:28:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0af02eb2a7d76ca85a1ecaf4b3775e2c86408fab'/>
<id>0af02eb2a7d76ca85a1ecaf4b3775e2c86408fab</id>
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The cppcheck static code analysis reported the following error:

    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nest_level &gt; ARRAY_SIZE(bufs-&gt;tmp_bufs))) {
                                             ^
ARRAY_SIZE is a macro that expands to sizeofs, so bufs is not actually
dereferenced at runtime, and the code is actually safe. But to keep
things tidy, this patch removes the need for a call to ARRAY_SIZE by
extracting the size of the array into a macro. Cppcheck should no longer
be confused and the code ends up being a bit cleaner.

Fixes: e2d5b2bb769f ("bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210517092830.1026418-2-revest@chromium.org
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<pre>
The cppcheck static code analysis reported the following error:

    if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nest_level &gt; ARRAY_SIZE(bufs-&gt;tmp_bufs))) {
                                             ^
ARRAY_SIZE is a macro that expands to sizeofs, so bufs is not actually
dereferenced at runtime, and the code is actually safe. But to keep
things tidy, this patch removes the need for a call to ARRAY_SIZE by
extracting the size of the array into a macro. Cppcheck should no longer
be confused and the code ends up being a bit cleaner.

Fixes: e2d5b2bb769f ("bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210517092830.1026418-2-revest@chromium.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Clarify a bpf_bprintf_prepare macro</title>
<updated>2021-05-20T21:48:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-17T09:28:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8afcc19fbf083a8459284d9a29b4b5ac1cb2396c'/>
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The per-cpu buffers contain bprintf data rather than printf arguments.
The macro name and comment were a bit confusing, this rewords them in a
clearer way.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210517092830.1026418-1-revest@chromium.org
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<pre>
The per-cpu buffers contain bprintf data rather than printf arguments.
The macro name and comment were a bit confusing, this rewords them in a
clearer way.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210517092830.1026418-1-revest@chromium.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T21:02:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-11T08:10:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e2d5b2bb769fa5f500760caba76436ba3a10a895'/>
<id>e2d5b2bb769fa5f500760caba76436ba3a10a895</id>
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The bpf_seq_printf, bpf_trace_printk and bpf_snprintf helpers share one
per-cpu buffer that they use to store temporary data (arguments to
bprintf). They "get" that buffer with try_get_fmt_tmp_buf and "put" it
by the end of their scope with bpf_bprintf_cleanup.

If one of these helpers gets called within the scope of one of these
helpers, for example: a first bpf program gets called, uses
bpf_trace_printk which calls raw_spin_lock_irqsave which is traced by
another bpf program that calls bpf_snprintf, then the second "get"
fails. Essentially, these helpers are not re-entrant. They would return
-EBUSY and print a warning message once.

This patch triples the number of bprintf buffers to allow three levels
of nesting. This is very similar to what was done for tracepoints in
"9594dc3c7e7 bpf: fix nested bpf tracepoints with per-cpu data"

Fixes: d9c9e4db186a ("bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf")
Reported-by: syzbot+63122d0bc347f18c1884@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210511081054.2125874-1-revest@chromium.org
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The bpf_seq_printf, bpf_trace_printk and bpf_snprintf helpers share one
per-cpu buffer that they use to store temporary data (arguments to
bprintf). They "get" that buffer with try_get_fmt_tmp_buf and "put" it
by the end of their scope with bpf_bprintf_cleanup.

If one of these helpers gets called within the scope of one of these
helpers, for example: a first bpf program gets called, uses
bpf_trace_printk which calls raw_spin_lock_irqsave which is traced by
another bpf program that calls bpf_snprintf, then the second "get"
fails. Essentially, these helpers are not re-entrant. They would return
-EBUSY and print a warning message once.

This patch triples the number of bprintf buffers to allow three levels
of nesting. This is very similar to what was done for tracepoints in
"9594dc3c7e7 bpf: fix nested bpf tracepoints with per-cpu data"

Fixes: d9c9e4db186a ("bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf")
Reported-by: syzbot+63122d0bc347f18c1884@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210511081054.2125874-1-revest@chromium.org
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<title>bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf</title>
<updated>2021-04-27T22:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T17:43:13+00:00</published>
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BPF has three formatted output helpers: bpf_trace_printk, bpf_seq_printf
and bpf_snprintf. Their signatures specify that all arguments are
provided from the BPF world as u64s (in an array or as registers). All
of these helpers are currently implemented by calling functions such as
snprintf() whose signatures take a variable number of arguments, then
placed in a va_list by the compiler to call vsnprintf().

"d9c9e4db bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf" introduced
a bpf_printf_prepare function that fills an array of u64 sanitized
arguments with an array of "modifiers" which indicate what the "real"
size of each argument should be (given by the format specifier). The
BPF_CAST_FMT_ARG macro consumes these arrays and casts each argument to
its real size. However, the C promotion rules implicitely cast them all
back to u64s. Therefore, the arguments given to snprintf are u64s and
the va_list constructed by the compiler will use 64 bits for each
argument. On 64 bit machines, this happens to work well because 32 bit
arguments in va_lists need to occupy 64 bits anyway, but on 32 bit
architectures this breaks the layout of the va_list expected by the
called function and mangles values.

In "88a5c690b6 bpf: fix bpf_trace_printk on 32 bit archs", this problem
had been solved for bpf_trace_printk only with a "horrid workaround"
that emitted multiple calls to trace_printk where each call had
different argument types and generated different va_list layouts. One of
the call would be dynamically chosen at runtime. This was ok with the 3
arguments that bpf_trace_printk takes but bpf_seq_printf and
bpf_snprintf accept up to 12 arguments. Because this approach scales
code exponentially, it is not a viable option anymore.

Because the promotion rules are part of the language and because the
construction of a va_list is an arch-specific ABI, it's best to just
avoid variadic arguments and va_lists altogether. Thankfully the
kernel's snprintf() has an alternative in the form of bstr_printf() that
accepts arguments in a "binary buffer representation". These binary
buffers are currently created by vbin_printf and used in the tracing
subsystem to split the cost of printing into two parts: a fast one that
only dereferences and remembers values, and a slower one, called later,
that does the pretty-printing.

This patch refactors bpf_printf_prepare to construct binary buffers of
arguments consumable by bstr_printf() instead of arrays of arguments and
modifiers. This gets rid of BPF_CAST_FMT_ARG and greatly simplifies the
bpf_printf_prepare usage but there are a few gotchas that change how
bpf_printf_prepare needs to do things.

Currently, bpf_printf_prepare uses a per cpu temporary buffer as a
generic storage for strings and IP addresses. With this refactoring, the
temporary buffers now holds all the arguments in a structured binary
format.

To comply with the format expected by bstr_printf, certain format
specifiers also need to be pre-formatted: %pB and %pi6/%pi4/%pI4/%pI6.
Because vsnprintf subroutines for these specifiers are hard to expose,
we pre-format these arguments with calls to snprintf().

Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210427174313.860948-3-revest@chromium.org
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BPF has three formatted output helpers: bpf_trace_printk, bpf_seq_printf
and bpf_snprintf. Their signatures specify that all arguments are
provided from the BPF world as u64s (in an array or as registers). All
of these helpers are currently implemented by calling functions such as
snprintf() whose signatures take a variable number of arguments, then
placed in a va_list by the compiler to call vsnprintf().

"d9c9e4db bpf: Factorize bpf_trace_printk and bpf_seq_printf" introduced
a bpf_printf_prepare function that fills an array of u64 sanitized
arguments with an array of "modifiers" which indicate what the "real"
size of each argument should be (given by the format specifier). The
BPF_CAST_FMT_ARG macro consumes these arrays and casts each argument to
its real size. However, the C promotion rules implicitely cast them all
back to u64s. Therefore, the arguments given to snprintf are u64s and
the va_list constructed by the compiler will use 64 bits for each
argument. On 64 bit machines, this happens to work well because 32 bit
arguments in va_lists need to occupy 64 bits anyway, but on 32 bit
architectures this breaks the layout of the va_list expected by the
called function and mangles values.

In "88a5c690b6 bpf: fix bpf_trace_printk on 32 bit archs", this problem
had been solved for bpf_trace_printk only with a "horrid workaround"
that emitted multiple calls to trace_printk where each call had
different argument types and generated different va_list layouts. One of
the call would be dynamically chosen at runtime. This was ok with the 3
arguments that bpf_trace_printk takes but bpf_seq_printf and
bpf_snprintf accept up to 12 arguments. Because this approach scales
code exponentially, it is not a viable option anymore.

Because the promotion rules are part of the language and because the
construction of a va_list is an arch-specific ABI, it's best to just
avoid variadic arguments and va_lists altogether. Thankfully the
kernel's snprintf() has an alternative in the form of bstr_printf() that
accepts arguments in a "binary buffer representation". These binary
buffers are currently created by vbin_printf and used in the tracing
subsystem to split the cost of printing into two parts: a fast one that
only dereferences and remembers values, and a slower one, called later,
that does the pretty-printing.

This patch refactors bpf_printf_prepare to construct binary buffers of
arguments consumable by bstr_printf() instead of arrays of arguments and
modifiers. This gets rid of BPF_CAST_FMT_ARG and greatly simplifies the
bpf_printf_prepare usage but there are a few gotchas that change how
bpf_printf_prepare needs to do things.

Currently, bpf_printf_prepare uses a per cpu temporary buffer as a
generic storage for strings and IP addresses. With this refactoring, the
temporary buffers now holds all the arguments in a structured binary
format.

To comply with the format expected by bstr_printf, certain format
specifiers also need to be pre-formatted: %pB and %pi6/%pi4/%pI4/%pI6.
Because vsnprintf subroutines for these specifiers are hard to expose,
we pre-format these arguments with calls to snprintf().

Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210427174313.860948-3-revest@chromium.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add a bpf_snprintf helper</title>
<updated>2021-04-19T22:27:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florent Revest</name>
<email>revest@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-19T15:52:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7b15523a989b63927c2bb08e9b5b0bbc10b58bef'/>
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The implementation takes inspiration from the existing bpf_trace_printk
helper but there are a few differences:

To allow for a large number of format-specifiers, parameters are
provided in an array, like in bpf_seq_printf.

Because the output string takes two arguments and the array of
parameters also takes two arguments, the format string needs to fit in
one argument. Thankfully, ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR is guaranteed to point to
a zero-terminated read-only map so we don't need a format string length
arg.

Because the format-string is known at verification time, we also do
a first pass of format string validation in the verifier logic. This
makes debugging easier.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210419155243.1632274-4-revest@chromium.org
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The implementation takes inspiration from the existing bpf_trace_printk
helper but there are a few differences:

To allow for a large number of format-specifiers, parameters are
provided in an array, like in bpf_seq_printf.

Because the output string takes two arguments and the array of
parameters also takes two arguments, the format string needs to fit in
one argument. Thankfully, ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR is guaranteed to point to
a zero-terminated read-only map so we don't need a format string length
arg.

Because the format-string is known at verification time, we also do
a first pass of format string validation in the verifier logic. This
makes debugging easier.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210419155243.1632274-4-revest@chromium.org
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