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<title>bpf: add missing map_flags to bpf_map_show_fdinfo</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T15:36:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-24T23:30:25+00:00</published>
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Add map_flags attribute to bpf_map_show_fdinfo(), so that tools like
tc can check for them when loading objects from a pinned entry, e.g.
if user intent wrt allocation (BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC) is different to the
pinned object, it can bail out. Follow-up to 6c9059817432 ("bpf:
pre-allocate hash map elements"), so that tc can still support this
with v4.6.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add map_flags attribute to bpf_map_show_fdinfo(), so that tools like
tc can check for them when loading objects from a pinned entry, e.g.
if user intent wrt allocation (BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC) is different to the
pinned object, it can bail out. Follow-up to 6c9059817432 ("bpf:
pre-allocate hash map elements"), so that tc can still support this
with v4.6.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</published>
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>bpf: avoid copying junk bytes in bpf_get_current_comm()</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T04:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T04:02:33+00:00</published>
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Lots of places in the kernel use memcpy(buf, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); but
the result is typically passed to print("%s", buf) and extra bytes
after zero don't cause any harm.
In bpf the result of bpf_get_current_comm() is used as the part of
map key and was causing spurious hash map mismatches.
Use strlcpy() to guarantee zero-terminated string.
bpf verifier checks that output buffer is zero-initialized,
so even for short task names the output buffer don't have junk bytes.
Note it's not a security concern, since kprobe+bpf is root only.

Fixes: ffeedafbf023 ("bpf: introduce current-&gt;pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors")
Reported-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lots of places in the kernel use memcpy(buf, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); but
the result is typically passed to print("%s", buf) and extra bytes
after zero don't cause any harm.
In bpf the result of bpf_get_current_comm() is used as the part of
map key and was causing spurious hash map mismatches.
Use strlcpy() to guarantee zero-terminated string.
bpf verifier checks that output buffer is zero-initialized,
so even for short task names the output buffer don't have junk bytes.
Note it's not a security concern, since kprobe+bpf is root only.

Fixes: ffeedafbf023 ("bpf: introduce current-&gt;pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors")
Reported-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: bpf_stackmap_copy depends on CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T04:26:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T02:56:49+00:00</published>
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0-day bot reported build error:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `map_lookup_elem':
&gt;&gt; kernel/bpf/.tmp_syscall.o:(.text+0x329b3c): undefined reference to `bpf_stackmap_copy'
when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is set and CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is not.
Add weak definition to resolve it.
This code path in map_lookup_elem() is never taken
when CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is not set.

Fixes: 557c0c6e7df8 ("bpf: convert stackmap to pre-allocation")
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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0-day bot reported build error:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `map_lookup_elem':
&gt;&gt; kernel/bpf/.tmp_syscall.o:(.text+0x329b3c): undefined reference to `bpf_stackmap_copy'
when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is set and CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is not.
Add weak definition to resolve it.
This code path in map_lookup_elem() is never taken
when CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is not set.

Fixes: 557c0c6e7df8 ("bpf: convert stackmap to pre-allocation")
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: convert stackmap to pre-allocation</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T20:28:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T05:57:17+00:00</published>
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It was observed that calling bpf_get_stackid() from a kprobe inside
slub or from spin_unlock causes similar deadlock as with hashmap,
therefore convert stackmap to use pre-allocated memory.

The call_rcu is no longer feasible mechanism, since delayed freeing
causes bpf_get_stackid() to fail unpredictably when number of actual
stacks is significantly less than user requested max_entries.
Since elements are no longer freed into slub, we can push elements into
freelist immediately and let them be recycled.
However the very unlikley race between user space map_lookup() and
program-side recycling is possible:
     cpu0                          cpu1
     ----                          ----
user does lookup(stackidX)
starts copying ips into buffer
                                   delete(stackidX)
                                   calls bpf_get_stackid()
				   which recyles the element and
                                   overwrites with new stack trace

To avoid user space seeing a partial stack trace consisting of two
merged stack traces, do bucket = xchg(, NULL); copy; xchg(,bucket);
to preserve consistent stack trace delivery to user space.
Now we can move memset(,0) of left-over element value from critical
path of bpf_get_stackid() into slow-path of user space lookup.
Also disallow lookup() from bpf program, since it's useless and
program shouldn't be messing with collected stack trace.

Note that similar race between user space lookup and kernel side updates
is also present in hashmap, but it's not a new race. bpf programs were
always allowed to modify hash and array map elements while user space
is copying them.

Fixes: d5a3b1f69186 ("bpf: introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It was observed that calling bpf_get_stackid() from a kprobe inside
slub or from spin_unlock causes similar deadlock as with hashmap,
therefore convert stackmap to use pre-allocated memory.

The call_rcu is no longer feasible mechanism, since delayed freeing
causes bpf_get_stackid() to fail unpredictably when number of actual
stacks is significantly less than user requested max_entries.
Since elements are no longer freed into slub, we can push elements into
freelist immediately and let them be recycled.
However the very unlikley race between user space map_lookup() and
program-side recycling is possible:
     cpu0                          cpu1
     ----                          ----
user does lookup(stackidX)
starts copying ips into buffer
                                   delete(stackidX)
                                   calls bpf_get_stackid()
				   which recyles the element and
                                   overwrites with new stack trace

To avoid user space seeing a partial stack trace consisting of two
merged stack traces, do bucket = xchg(, NULL); copy; xchg(,bucket);
to preserve consistent stack trace delivery to user space.
Now we can move memset(,0) of left-over element value from critical
path of bpf_get_stackid() into slow-path of user space lookup.
Also disallow lookup() from bpf program, since it's useless and
program shouldn't be messing with collected stack trace.

Note that similar race between user space lookup and kernel side updates
is also present in hashmap, but it's not a new race. bpf programs were
always allowed to modify hash and array map elements while user space
is copying them.

Fixes: d5a3b1f69186 ("bpf: introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: check for reserved flag bits in array and stack maps</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T20:28:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T05:57:16+00:00</published>
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Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: pre-allocate hash map elements</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T20:28:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T05:57:15+00:00</published>
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If kprobe is placed on spin_unlock then calling kmalloc/kfree from
bpf programs is not safe, since the following dead lock is possible:
kfree-&gt;spin_lock(kmem_cache_node-&gt;lock)...spin_unlock-&gt;kprobe-&gt;
bpf_prog-&gt;map_update-&gt;kmalloc-&gt;spin_lock(of the same kmem_cache_node-&gt;lock)
and deadlocks.

The following solutions were considered and some implemented, but
eventually discarded
- kmem_cache_create for every map
- add recursion check to slow-path of slub
- use reserved memory in bpf_map_update for in_irq or in preempt_disabled
- kmalloc via irq_work

At the end pre-allocation of all map elements turned out to be the simplest
solution and since the user is charged upfront for all the memory, such
pre-allocation doesn't affect the user space visible behavior.

Since it's impossible to tell whether kprobe is triggered in a safe
location from kmalloc point of view, use pre-allocation by default
and introduce new BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC flag.

While testing of per-cpu hash maps it was discovered
that alloc_percpu(GFP_ATOMIC) has odd corner cases and often
fails to allocate memory even when 90% of it is free.
The pre-allocation of per-cpu hash elements solves this problem as well.

Turned out that bpf_map_update() quickly followed by
bpf_map_lookup()+bpf_map_delete() is very common pattern used
in many of iovisor/bcc/tools, so there is additional benefit of
pre-allocation, since such use cases are must faster.

Since all hash map elements are now pre-allocated we can remove
atomic increment of htab-&gt;count and save few more cycles.

Also add bpf_map_precharge_memlock() to check rlimit_memlock early to avoid
large malloc/free done by users who don't have sufficient limits.

Pre-allocation is done with vmalloc and alloc/free is done
via percpu_freelist. Here are performance numbers for different
pre-allocation algorithms that were implemented, but discarded
in favor of percpu_freelist:

1 cpu:
pcpu_ida	2.1M
pcpu_ida nolock	2.3M
bt		2.4M
kmalloc		1.8M
hlist+spinlock	2.3M
pcpu_freelist	2.6M

4 cpu:
pcpu_ida	1.5M
pcpu_ida nolock	1.8M
bt w/smp_align	1.7M
bt no/smp_align	1.1M
kmalloc		0.7M
hlist+spinlock	0.2M
pcpu_freelist	2.0M

8 cpu:
pcpu_ida	0.7M
bt w/smp_align	0.8M
kmalloc		0.4M
pcpu_freelist	1.5M

32 cpu:
kmalloc		0.13M
pcpu_freelist	0.49M

pcpu_ida nolock is a modified percpu_ida algorithm without
percpu_ida_cpu locks and without cross-cpu tag stealing.
It's faster than existing percpu_ida, but not as fast as pcpu_freelist.

bt is a variant of block/blk-mq-tag.c simlified and customized
for bpf use case. bt w/smp_align is using cache line for every 'long'
(similar to blk-mq-tag). bt no/smp_align allocates 'long'
bitmasks continuously to save memory. It's comparable to percpu_ida
and in some cases faster, but slower than percpu_freelist

hlist+spinlock is the simplest free list with single spinlock.
As expeceted it has very bad scaling in SMP.

kmalloc is existing implementation which is still available via
BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC flag. It's significantly slower in single cpu and
in 8 cpu setup it's 3 times slower than pre-allocation with pcpu_freelist,
but saves memory, so in cases where map-&gt;max_entries can be large
and number of map update/delete per second is low, it may make
sense to use it.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If kprobe is placed on spin_unlock then calling kmalloc/kfree from
bpf programs is not safe, since the following dead lock is possible:
kfree-&gt;spin_lock(kmem_cache_node-&gt;lock)...spin_unlock-&gt;kprobe-&gt;
bpf_prog-&gt;map_update-&gt;kmalloc-&gt;spin_lock(of the same kmem_cache_node-&gt;lock)
and deadlocks.

The following solutions were considered and some implemented, but
eventually discarded
- kmem_cache_create for every map
- add recursion check to slow-path of slub
- use reserved memory in bpf_map_update for in_irq or in preempt_disabled
- kmalloc via irq_work

At the end pre-allocation of all map elements turned out to be the simplest
solution and since the user is charged upfront for all the memory, such
pre-allocation doesn't affect the user space visible behavior.

Since it's impossible to tell whether kprobe is triggered in a safe
location from kmalloc point of view, use pre-allocation by default
and introduce new BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC flag.

While testing of per-cpu hash maps it was discovered
that alloc_percpu(GFP_ATOMIC) has odd corner cases and often
fails to allocate memory even when 90% of it is free.
The pre-allocation of per-cpu hash elements solves this problem as well.

Turned out that bpf_map_update() quickly followed by
bpf_map_lookup()+bpf_map_delete() is very common pattern used
in many of iovisor/bcc/tools, so there is additional benefit of
pre-allocation, since such use cases are must faster.

Since all hash map elements are now pre-allocated we can remove
atomic increment of htab-&gt;count and save few more cycles.

Also add bpf_map_precharge_memlock() to check rlimit_memlock early to avoid
large malloc/free done by users who don't have sufficient limits.

Pre-allocation is done with vmalloc and alloc/free is done
via percpu_freelist. Here are performance numbers for different
pre-allocation algorithms that were implemented, but discarded
in favor of percpu_freelist:

1 cpu:
pcpu_ida	2.1M
pcpu_ida nolock	2.3M
bt		2.4M
kmalloc		1.8M
hlist+spinlock	2.3M
pcpu_freelist	2.6M

4 cpu:
pcpu_ida	1.5M
pcpu_ida nolock	1.8M
bt w/smp_align	1.7M
bt no/smp_align	1.1M
kmalloc		0.7M
hlist+spinlock	0.2M
pcpu_freelist	2.0M

8 cpu:
pcpu_ida	0.7M
bt w/smp_align	0.8M
kmalloc		0.4M
pcpu_freelist	1.5M

32 cpu:
kmalloc		0.13M
pcpu_freelist	0.49M

pcpu_ida nolock is a modified percpu_ida algorithm without
percpu_ida_cpu locks and without cross-cpu tag stealing.
It's faster than existing percpu_ida, but not as fast as pcpu_freelist.

bt is a variant of block/blk-mq-tag.c simlified and customized
for bpf use case. bt w/smp_align is using cache line for every 'long'
(similar to blk-mq-tag). bt no/smp_align allocates 'long'
bitmasks continuously to save memory. It's comparable to percpu_ida
and in some cases faster, but slower than percpu_freelist

hlist+spinlock is the simplest free list with single spinlock.
As expeceted it has very bad scaling in SMP.

kmalloc is existing implementation which is still available via
BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC flag. It's significantly slower in single cpu and
in 8 cpu setup it's 3 times slower than pre-allocation with pcpu_freelist,
but saves memory, so in cases where map-&gt;max_entries can be large
and number of map update/delete per second is low, it may make
sense to use it.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>bpf: introduce percpu_freelist</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T20:28:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T05:57:14+00:00</published>
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Introduce simple percpu_freelist to keep single list of elements
spread across per-cpu singly linked lists.

/* push element into the list */
void pcpu_freelist_push(struct pcpu_freelist *, struct pcpu_freelist_node *);

/* pop element from the list */
struct pcpu_freelist_node *pcpu_freelist_pop(struct pcpu_freelist *);

The object is pushed to the current cpu list.
Pop first trying to get the object from the current cpu list,
if it's empty goes to the neigbour cpu list.

For bpf program usage pattern the collision rate is very low,
since programs push and pop the objects typically on the same cpu.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Introduce simple percpu_freelist to keep single list of elements
spread across per-cpu singly linked lists.

/* push element into the list */
void pcpu_freelist_push(struct pcpu_freelist *, struct pcpu_freelist_node *);

/* pop element from the list */
struct pcpu_freelist_node *pcpu_freelist_pop(struct pcpu_freelist *);

The object is pushed to the current cpu list.
Pop first trying to get the object from the current cpu list,
if it's empty goes to the neigbour cpu list.

For bpf program usage pattern the collision rate is very low,
since programs push and pop the objects typically on the same cpu.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>bpf: prevent kprobe+bpf deadlocks</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T20:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T05:57:13+00:00</published>
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if kprobe is placed within update or delete hash map helpers
that hold bucket spin lock and triggered bpf program is trying to
grab the spinlock for the same bucket on the same cpu, it will
deadlock.
Fix it by extending existing recursion prevention mechanism.

Note, map_lookup and other tracing helpers don't have this problem,
since they don't hold any locks and don't modify global data.
bpf_trace_printk has its own recursive check and ok as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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if kprobe is placed within update or delete hash map helpers
that hold bucket spin lock and triggered bpf program is trying to
grab the spinlock for the same bucket on the same cpu, it will
deadlock.
Fix it by extending existing recursion prevention mechanism.

Note, map_lookup and other tracing helpers don't have this problem,
since they don't hold any locks and don't modify global data.
bpf_trace_printk has its own recursive check and ok as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>bpf: Mark __bpf_prog_run() stack frame as non-standard</title>
<updated>2016-02-29T07:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-29T04:22:37+00:00</published>
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objtool reports the following false positive warnings:

  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x5c: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x60: function has unreachable instruction
  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x64: function has unreachable instruction
  [...]

It's confused by the following dynamic jump instruction in
__bpf_prog_run()::

  jmp     *(%r12,%rax,8)

which corresponds to the following line in the C code:

  goto *jumptable[insn-&gt;code];

There's no way for objtool to deterministically find all possible
branch targets for a dynamic jump, so it can't verify this code.

In this case the jumps all stay within the function, and there's nothing
unusual going on related to the stack, so we can whitelist the function.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch &lt;bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Alves &lt;palves@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b90e6bf3fdbfb5c4cc1b164b965502e53cf48935.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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objtool reports the following false positive warnings:

  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x5c: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x60: function has unreachable instruction
  kernel/bpf/core.o: warning: objtool: __bpf_prog_run()+0x64: function has unreachable instruction
  [...]

It's confused by the following dynamic jump instruction in
__bpf_prog_run()::

  jmp     *(%r12,%rax,8)

which corresponds to the following line in the C code:

  goto *jumptable[insn-&gt;code];

There's no way for objtool to deterministically find all possible
branch targets for a dynamic jump, so it can't verify this code.

In this case the jumps all stay within the function, and there's nothing
unusual going on related to the stack, so we can whitelist the function.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch &lt;bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Alves &lt;palves@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b90e6bf3fdbfb5c4cc1b164b965502e53cf48935.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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