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<title>bpf: Use memmove for bpf_dynptr_{read,write}</title>
<updated>2022-12-09T02:39:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-07T20:41:40+00:00</published>
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It may happen that destination buffer memory overlaps with memory dynptr
points to. Hence, we must use memmove to correctly copy from dynptr to
destination buffer, or source buffer to dynptr.

This actually isn't a problem right now, as memcpy implementation falls
back to memmove on detecting overlap and warns about it, but we
shouldn't be relying on that.

Acked-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204141.308952-7-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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It may happen that destination buffer memory overlaps with memory dynptr
points to. Hence, we must use memmove to correctly copy from dynptr to
destination buffer, or source buffer to dynptr.

This actually isn't a problem right now, as memcpy implementation falls
back to memmove on detecting overlap and warns about it, but we
shouldn't be relying on that.

Acked-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204141.308952-7-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Rework process_dynptr_func</title>
<updated>2022-12-09T02:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-07T20:41:37+00:00</published>
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Recently, user ringbuf support introduced a PTR_TO_DYNPTR register type
for use in callback state, because in case of user ringbuf helpers,
there is no dynptr on the stack that is passed into the callback. To
reflect such a state, a special register type was created.

However, some checks have been bypassed incorrectly during the addition
of this feature. First, for arg_type with MEM_UNINIT flag which
initialize a dynptr, they must be rejected for such register type.
Secondly, in the future, there are plans to add dynptr helpers that
operate on the dynptr itself and may change its offset and other
properties.

In all of these cases, PTR_TO_DYNPTR shouldn't be allowed to be passed
to such helpers, however the current code simply returns 0.

The rejection for helpers that release the dynptr is already handled.

For fixing this, we take a step back and rework existing code in a way
that will allow fitting in all classes of helpers and have a coherent
model for dealing with the variety of use cases in which dynptr is used.

First, for ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR, it can either be set alone or together
with a DYNPTR_TYPE_* constant that denotes the only type it accepts.

Next, helpers which initialize a dynptr use MEM_UNINIT to indicate this
fact. To make the distinction clear, use MEM_RDONLY flag to indicate
that the helper only operates on the memory pointed to by the dynptr,
not the dynptr itself. In C parlance, it would be equivalent to taking
the dynptr as a point to const argument.

When either of these flags are not present, the helper is allowed to
mutate both the dynptr itself and also the memory it points to.
Currently, the read only status of the memory is not tracked in the
dynptr, but it would be trivial to add this support inside dynptr state
of the register.

With these changes and renaming PTR_TO_DYNPTR to CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to
better reflect its usage, it can no longer be passed to helpers that
initialize a dynptr, i.e. bpf_dynptr_from_mem, bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr.

A note to reviewers is that in code that does mark_stack_slots_dynptr,
and unmark_stack_slots_dynptr, we implicitly rely on the fact that
PTR_TO_STACK reg is the only case that can reach that code path, as one
cannot pass CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to helpers that don't set MEM_RDONLY. In
both cases such helpers won't be setting that flag.

The next patch will add a couple of selftest cases to make sure this
doesn't break.

Fixes: 205715673844 ("bpf: Add bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() helper")
Acked-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204141.308952-4-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Recently, user ringbuf support introduced a PTR_TO_DYNPTR register type
for use in callback state, because in case of user ringbuf helpers,
there is no dynptr on the stack that is passed into the callback. To
reflect such a state, a special register type was created.

However, some checks have been bypassed incorrectly during the addition
of this feature. First, for arg_type with MEM_UNINIT flag which
initialize a dynptr, they must be rejected for such register type.
Secondly, in the future, there are plans to add dynptr helpers that
operate on the dynptr itself and may change its offset and other
properties.

In all of these cases, PTR_TO_DYNPTR shouldn't be allowed to be passed
to such helpers, however the current code simply returns 0.

The rejection for helpers that release the dynptr is already handled.

For fixing this, we take a step back and rework existing code in a way
that will allow fitting in all classes of helpers and have a coherent
model for dealing with the variety of use cases in which dynptr is used.

First, for ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR, it can either be set alone or together
with a DYNPTR_TYPE_* constant that denotes the only type it accepts.

Next, helpers which initialize a dynptr use MEM_UNINIT to indicate this
fact. To make the distinction clear, use MEM_RDONLY flag to indicate
that the helper only operates on the memory pointed to by the dynptr,
not the dynptr itself. In C parlance, it would be equivalent to taking
the dynptr as a point to const argument.

When either of these flags are not present, the helper is allowed to
mutate both the dynptr itself and also the memory it points to.
Currently, the read only status of the memory is not tracked in the
dynptr, but it would be trivial to add this support inside dynptr state
of the register.

With these changes and renaming PTR_TO_DYNPTR to CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to
better reflect its usage, it can no longer be passed to helpers that
initialize a dynptr, i.e. bpf_dynptr_from_mem, bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr.

A note to reviewers is that in code that does mark_stack_slots_dynptr,
and unmark_stack_slots_dynptr, we implicitly rely on the fact that
PTR_TO_STACK reg is the only case that can reach that code path, as one
cannot pass CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to helpers that don't set MEM_RDONLY. In
both cases such helpers won't be setting that flag.

The next patch will add a couple of selftest cases to make sure this
doesn't break.

Fixes: 205715673844 ("bpf: Add bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() helper")
Acked-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204141.308952-4-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf/docs: Document struct cgroup * kfuncs</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T01:11:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-07T20:49:11+00:00</published>
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bpf_cgroup_acquire(), bpf_cgroup_release(), bpf_cgroup_kptr_get(), and
bpf_cgroup_ancestor(), are kfuncs that were recently added to
kernel/bpf/helpers.c. These are "core" kfuncs in that they're available
for use in any tracepoint or struct_ops BPF program. Though they have no
ABI stability guarantees, we should still document them. This patch adds
a struct cgroup * subsection to the Core kfuncs section which describes
each of these kfuncs.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204911.873646-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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bpf_cgroup_acquire(), bpf_cgroup_release(), bpf_cgroup_kptr_get(), and
bpf_cgroup_ancestor(), are kfuncs that were recently added to
kernel/bpf/helpers.c. These are "core" kfuncs in that they're available
for use in any tracepoint or struct_ops BPF program. Though they have no
ABI stability guarantees, we should still document them. This patch adds
a struct cgroup * subsection to the Core kfuncs section which describes
each of these kfuncs.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204911.873646-3-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf/docs: Document struct task_struct * kfuncs</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T01:09:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-07T20:49:10+00:00</published>
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bpf_task_acquire(), bpf_task_release(), and bpf_task_from_pid() are
kfuncs that were recently added to kernel/bpf/helpers.c. These are
"core" kfuncs in that they're available for use for any tracepoint or
struct_ops BPF program. Though they have no ABI stability guarantees, we
should still document them. This patch adds a new Core kfuncs section to
the BPF kfuncs doc, and adds entries for all of these task kfuncs.

Note that bpf_task_kptr_get() is not documented, as it still returns
NULL while we're working to resolve how it can use RCU to ensure struct
task_struct * lifetime.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204911.873646-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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bpf_task_acquire(), bpf_task_release(), and bpf_task_from_pid() are
kfuncs that were recently added to kernel/bpf/helpers.c. These are
"core" kfuncs in that they're available for use for any tracepoint or
struct_ops BPF program. Though they have no ABI stability guarantees, we
should still document them. This patch adds a new Core kfuncs section to
the BPF kfuncs doc, and adds entries for all of these task kfuncs.

Note that bpf_task_kptr_get() is not documented, as it still returns
NULL while we're working to resolve how it can use RCU to ensure struct
task_struct * lifetime.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207204911.873646-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Don't use rcu_users to refcount in task kfuncs</title>
<updated>2022-12-07T00:40:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-06T21:05:38+00:00</published>
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A series of prior patches added some kfuncs that allow struct
task_struct * objects to be used as kptrs. These kfuncs leveraged the
'refcount_t rcu_users' field of the task for performing refcounting.
This field was used instead of 'refcount_t usage', as we wanted to
leverage the safety provided by RCU for ensuring a task's lifetime.

A struct task_struct is refcounted by two different refcount_t fields:

1. p-&gt;usage:     The "true" refcount field which task lifetime. The
		 task is freed as soon as this refcount drops to 0.

2. p-&gt;rcu_users: An "RCU users" refcount field which is statically
		 initialized to 2, and is co-located in a union with
		 a struct rcu_head field (p-&gt;rcu). p-&gt;rcu_users
		 essentially encapsulates a single p-&gt;usage
		 refcount, and when p-&gt;rcu_users goes to 0, an RCU
		 callback is scheduled on the struct rcu_head which
		 decrements the p-&gt;usage refcount.

Our logic was that by using p-&gt;rcu_users, we would be able to use RCU to
safely issue refcount_inc_not_zero() a task's rcu_users field to
determine if a task could still be acquired, or was exiting.
Unfortunately, this does not work due to p-&gt;rcu_users and p-&gt;rcu sharing
a union. When p-&gt;rcu_users goes to 0, an RCU callback is scheduled to
drop a single p-&gt;usage refcount, and because the fields share a union,
the refcount immediately becomes nonzero again after the callback is
scheduled.

If we were to split the fields out of the union, this wouldn't be a
problem. Doing so should also be rather non-controversial, as there are
a number of places in struct task_struct that have padding which we
could use to avoid growing the structure by splitting up the fields.

For now, so as to fix the kfuncs to be correct, this patch instead
updates bpf_task_acquire() and bpf_task_release() to use the p-&gt;usage
field for refcounting via the get_task_struct() and put_task_struct()
functions. Because we can no longer rely on RCU, the change also guts
the bpf_task_acquire_not_zero() and bpf_task_kptr_get() functions
pending a resolution on the above problem.

In addition, the task fixes the kfunc and rcu_read_lock selftests to
expect this new behavior.

Fixes: 90660309b0c7 ("bpf: Add kfuncs for storing struct task_struct * as a kptr")
Fixes: fca1aa75518c ("bpf: Handle MEM_RCU type properly")
Reported-by: Matus Jokay &lt;matus.jokay@stuba.sk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221206210538.597606-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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A series of prior patches added some kfuncs that allow struct
task_struct * objects to be used as kptrs. These kfuncs leveraged the
'refcount_t rcu_users' field of the task for performing refcounting.
This field was used instead of 'refcount_t usage', as we wanted to
leverage the safety provided by RCU for ensuring a task's lifetime.

A struct task_struct is refcounted by two different refcount_t fields:

1. p-&gt;usage:     The "true" refcount field which task lifetime. The
		 task is freed as soon as this refcount drops to 0.

2. p-&gt;rcu_users: An "RCU users" refcount field which is statically
		 initialized to 2, and is co-located in a union with
		 a struct rcu_head field (p-&gt;rcu). p-&gt;rcu_users
		 essentially encapsulates a single p-&gt;usage
		 refcount, and when p-&gt;rcu_users goes to 0, an RCU
		 callback is scheduled on the struct rcu_head which
		 decrements the p-&gt;usage refcount.

Our logic was that by using p-&gt;rcu_users, we would be able to use RCU to
safely issue refcount_inc_not_zero() a task's rcu_users field to
determine if a task could still be acquired, or was exiting.
Unfortunately, this does not work due to p-&gt;rcu_users and p-&gt;rcu sharing
a union. When p-&gt;rcu_users goes to 0, an RCU callback is scheduled to
drop a single p-&gt;usage refcount, and because the fields share a union,
the refcount immediately becomes nonzero again after the callback is
scheduled.

If we were to split the fields out of the union, this wouldn't be a
problem. Doing so should also be rather non-controversial, as there are
a number of places in struct task_struct that have padding which we
could use to avoid growing the structure by splitting up the fields.

For now, so as to fix the kfuncs to be correct, this patch instead
updates bpf_task_acquire() and bpf_task_release() to use the p-&gt;usage
field for refcounting via the get_task_struct() and put_task_struct()
functions. Because we can no longer rely on RCU, the change also guts
the bpf_task_acquire_not_zero() and bpf_task_kptr_get() functions
pending a resolution on the above problem.

In addition, the task fixes the kfunc and rcu_read_lock selftests to
expect this new behavior.

Fixes: 90660309b0c7 ("bpf: Add kfuncs for storing struct task_struct * as a kptr")
Fixes: fca1aa75518c ("bpf: Handle MEM_RCU type properly")
Reported-by: Matus Jokay &lt;matus.jokay@stuba.sk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221206210538.597606-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Handle MEM_RCU type properly</title>
<updated>2022-12-04T20:52:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-03T18:46:02+00:00</published>
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Commit 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
introduced MEM_RCU and bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock() support. In that
commit, a rcu pointer is tagged with both MEM_RCU and PTR_TRUSTED
so that it can be passed into kfuncs or helpers as an argument.

Martin raised a good question in [1] such that the rcu pointer,
although being able to accessing the object, might have reference
count of 0. This might cause a problem if the rcu pointer is passed
to a kfunc which expects trusted arguments where ref count should
be greater than 0.

This patch makes the following changes related to MEM_RCU pointer:
  - MEM_RCU pointer might be NULL (PTR_MAYBE_NULL).
  - Introduce KF_RCU so MEM_RCU ptr can be acquired with
    a KF_RCU tagged kfunc which assumes ref count of rcu ptr
    could be zero.
  - For mem access 'b = ptr-&gt;a', say 'ptr' is a MEM_RCU ptr, and
    'a' is tagged with __rcu as well. Let us mark 'b' as
    MEM_RCU | PTR_MAYBE_NULL.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ac70f574-4023-664e-b711-e0d3b18117fd@linux.dev/

Fixes: 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221203184602.477272-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
introduced MEM_RCU and bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock() support. In that
commit, a rcu pointer is tagged with both MEM_RCU and PTR_TRUSTED
so that it can be passed into kfuncs or helpers as an argument.

Martin raised a good question in [1] such that the rcu pointer,
although being able to accessing the object, might have reference
count of 0. This might cause a problem if the rcu pointer is passed
to a kfunc which expects trusted arguments where ref count should
be greater than 0.

This patch makes the following changes related to MEM_RCU pointer:
  - MEM_RCU pointer might be NULL (PTR_MAYBE_NULL).
  - Introduce KF_RCU so MEM_RCU ptr can be acquired with
    a KF_RCU tagged kfunc which assumes ref count of rcu ptr
    could be zero.
  - For mem access 'b = ptr-&gt;a', say 'ptr' is a MEM_RCU ptr, and
    'a' is tagged with __rcu as well. Let us mark 'b' as
    MEM_RCU | PTR_MAYBE_NULL.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ac70f574-4023-664e-b711-e0d3b18117fd@linux.dev/

Fixes: 9bb00b2895cb ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221203184602.477272-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()</title>
<updated>2022-11-24T20:54:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-24T05:32:17+00:00</published>
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Add two kfunc's bpf_rcu_read_lock() and bpf_rcu_read_unlock(). These two kfunc's
can be used for all program types. The following is an example about how
rcu pointer are used w.r.t. bpf_rcu_read_lock()/bpf_rcu_read_unlock().

  struct task_struct {
    ...
    struct task_struct              *last_wakee;
    struct task_struct __rcu        *real_parent;
    ...
  };

Let us say prog does 'task = bpf_get_current_task_btf()' to get a
'task' pointer. The basic rules are:
  - 'real_parent = task-&gt;real_parent' should be inside bpf_rcu_read_lock
    region. This is to simulate rcu_dereference() operation. The
    'real_parent' is marked as MEM_RCU only if (1). task-&gt;real_parent is
    inside bpf_rcu_read_lock region, and (2). task is a trusted ptr. So
    MEM_RCU marked ptr can be 'trusted' inside the bpf_rcu_read_lock region.
  - 'last_wakee = real_parent-&gt;last_wakee' should be inside bpf_rcu_read_lock
    region since it tries to access rcu protected memory.
  - the ptr 'last_wakee' will be marked as PTR_UNTRUSTED since in general
    it is not clear whether the object pointed by 'last_wakee' is valid or
    not even inside bpf_rcu_read_lock region.

The verifier will reset all rcu pointer register states to untrusted
at bpf_rcu_read_unlock() kfunc call site, so any such rcu pointer
won't be trusted any more outside the bpf_rcu_read_lock() region.

The current implementation does not support nested rcu read lock
region in the prog.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124053217.2373910-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add two kfunc's bpf_rcu_read_lock() and bpf_rcu_read_unlock(). These two kfunc's
can be used for all program types. The following is an example about how
rcu pointer are used w.r.t. bpf_rcu_read_lock()/bpf_rcu_read_unlock().

  struct task_struct {
    ...
    struct task_struct              *last_wakee;
    struct task_struct __rcu        *real_parent;
    ...
  };

Let us say prog does 'task = bpf_get_current_task_btf()' to get a
'task' pointer. The basic rules are:
  - 'real_parent = task-&gt;real_parent' should be inside bpf_rcu_read_lock
    region. This is to simulate rcu_dereference() operation. The
    'real_parent' is marked as MEM_RCU only if (1). task-&gt;real_parent is
    inside bpf_rcu_read_lock region, and (2). task is a trusted ptr. So
    MEM_RCU marked ptr can be 'trusted' inside the bpf_rcu_read_lock region.
  - 'last_wakee = real_parent-&gt;last_wakee' should be inside bpf_rcu_read_lock
    region since it tries to access rcu protected memory.
  - the ptr 'last_wakee' will be marked as PTR_UNTRUSTED since in general
    it is not clear whether the object pointed by 'last_wakee' is valid or
    not even inside bpf_rcu_read_lock region.

The verifier will reset all rcu pointer register states to untrusted
at bpf_rcu_read_unlock() kfunc call site, so any such rcu pointer
won't be trusted any more outside the bpf_rcu_read_lock() region.

The current implementation does not support nested rcu read lock
region in the prog.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124053217.2373910-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Introduce might_sleep field in bpf_func_proto</title>
<updated>2022-11-24T20:27:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-24T05:32:11+00:00</published>
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Introduce bpf_func_proto-&gt;might_sleep to indicate a particular helper
might sleep. This will make later check whether a helper might be
sleepable or not easier.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124053211.2373553-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce bpf_func_proto-&gt;might_sleep to indicate a particular helper
might sleep. This will make later check whether a helper might be
sleepable or not easier.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124053211.2373553-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_task_from_pid() kfunc</title>
<updated>2022-11-24T01:45:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-22T14:52:59+00:00</published>
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Callers can currently store tasks as kptrs using bpf_task_acquire(),
bpf_task_kptr_get(), and bpf_task_release(). These are useful if a
caller already has a struct task_struct *, but there may be some callers
who only have a pid, and want to look up the associated struct
task_struct * from that to e.g. find task-&gt;comm.

This patch therefore adds a new bpf_task_from_pid() kfunc which allows
BPF programs to get a struct task_struct * kptr from a pid.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122145300.251210-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Callers can currently store tasks as kptrs using bpf_task_acquire(),
bpf_task_kptr_get(), and bpf_task_release(). These are useful if a
caller already has a struct task_struct *, but there may be some callers
who only have a pid, and want to look up the associated struct
task_struct * from that to e.g. find task-&gt;comm.

This patch therefore adds a new bpf_task_from_pid() kfunc which allows
BPF programs to get a struct task_struct * kptr from a pid.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122145300.251210-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Don't use idx variable when registering kfunc dtors</title>
<updated>2022-11-23T19:58:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-23T13:52:53+00:00</published>
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In commit fda01efc6160 ("bpf: Enable cgroups to be used as kptrs"), I
added an 'int idx' variable to kfunc_init() which was meant to
dynamically set the index of the btf id entries of the
'generic_dtor_ids' array. This was done to make the code slightly less
brittle as the struct cgroup * kptr kfuncs such as bpf_cgroup_aquire()
are compiled out if CONFIG_CGROUPS is not defined. This, however, causes
an lkp build warning:

&gt;&gt; kernel/bpf/helpers.c:2005:40: warning: multiple unsequenced
   modifications to 'idx' [-Wunsequenced]
	.btf_id       = generic_dtor_ids[idx++],

Fix the warning by just hard-coding the indices.

Fixes: fda01efc6160 ("bpf: Enable cgroups to be used as kptrs")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123135253.637525-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In commit fda01efc6160 ("bpf: Enable cgroups to be used as kptrs"), I
added an 'int idx' variable to kfunc_init() which was meant to
dynamically set the index of the btf id entries of the
'generic_dtor_ids' array. This was done to make the code slightly less
brittle as the struct cgroup * kptr kfuncs such as bpf_cgroup_aquire()
are compiled out if CONFIG_CGROUPS is not defined. This, however, causes
an lkp build warning:

&gt;&gt; kernel/bpf/helpers.c:2005:40: warning: multiple unsequenced
   modifications to 'idx' [-Wunsequenced]
	.btf_id       = generic_dtor_ids[idx++],

Fix the warning by just hard-coding the indices.

Fixes: fda01efc6160 ("bpf: Enable cgroups to be used as kptrs")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123135253.637525-1-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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