Currently, nested rcu critical sections are rejected by the verifier and
rcu_lock state is managed by a boolean variable. Add support for nested
rcu critical sections by make active_rcu_locks a counter similar to
active_preempt_locks. bpf_rcu_read_lock() increments this counter and
bpf_rcu_read_unlock() decrements it, MEM_RCU -> PTR_UNTRUSTED transition
happens when active_rcu_locks drops to 0.
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251117200411.25563-2-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This updates bpf_insn_successors() reflecting that control flow might
jump over the instructions between tail call and function exit, verifier
might assume that some writes to parent stack always happen, which is
not the case.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Teichmann <martin.teichmann@xfel.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119160355.1160932-4-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add support for a new instruction
BPF_JMP|BPF_X|BPF_JA, SRC=0, DST=Rx, off=0, imm=0
which does an indirect jump to a location stored in Rx. The register
Rx should have type PTR_TO_INSN. This new type assures that the Rx
register contains a value (or a range of values) loaded from a
correct jump table – map of type instruction array.
For example, for a C switch LLVM will generate the following code:
0: r3 = r1 # "switch (r3)"
1: if r3 > 0x13 goto +0x666 # check r3 boundaries
2: r3 <<= 0x3 # adjust to an index in array of addresses
3: r1 = 0xbeef ll # r1 is PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE, r1->map_ptr=M
5: r1 += r3 # r1 inherits boundaries from r3
6: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0x0) # r1 now has type INSN_TO_PTR
7: gotox r1 # jit will generate proper code
Here the gotox instruction corresponds to one particular map. This is
possible however to have a gotox instruction which can be loaded from
different maps, e.g.
0: r1 &= 0x1
1: r2 <<= 0x3
2: r3 = 0x0 ll # load from map M_1
4: r3 += r2
5: if r1 == 0x0 goto +0x4
6: r1 <<= 0x3
7: r3 = 0x0 ll # load from map M_2
9: r3 += r1
A: r1 = *(u64 *)(r3 + 0x0)
B: gotox r1 # jump to target loaded from M_1 or M_2
During check_cfg stage the verifier will collect all the maps which
point to inside the subprog being verified. When building the config,
the high 16 bytes of the insn_state are used, so this patch
(theoretically) supports jump tables of up to 2^16 slots.
During the later stage, in check_indirect_jump, it is checked that
the register Rx was loaded from a particular instruction array.
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251105090410.1250500-9-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
On bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD) syscall user-supplied BPF programs are
translated by the verifier into "xlated" BPF programs. During this
process the original instructions offsets might be adjusted and/or
individual instructions might be replaced by new sets of instructions,
or deleted.
Add a new BPF map type which is aimed to keep track of how, for a
given program, the original instructions were relocated during the
verification. Also, besides keeping track of the original -> xlated
mapping, make x86 JIT to build the xlated -> jitted mapping for every
instruction listed in an instruction array. This is required for every
future application of instruction arrays: static keys, indirect jumps
and indirect calls.
A map of the BPF_MAP_TYPE_INSN_ARRAY type must be created with a u32
keys and value of size 8. The values have different semantics for
userspace and for BPF space. For userspace a value consists of two
u32 values – xlated and jitted offsets. For BPF side the value is
a real pointer to a jitted instruction.
On map creation/initialization, before loading the program, each
element of the map should be initialized to point to an instruction
offset within the program. Before the program load such maps should
be made frozen. After the program verification xlated and jitted
offsets can be read via the bpf(2) syscall.
If a tracked instruction is removed by the verifier, then the xlated
offset is set to (u32)-1 which is considered to be too big for a valid
BPF program offset.
One such a map can, obviously, be used to track one and only one BPF
program. If the verification process was unsuccessful, then the same
map can be re-used to verify the program with a different log level.
However, if the program was loaded fine, then such a map, being
frozen in any case, can't be reused by other programs even after the
program release.
Example. Consider the following original and xlated programs:
Original prog: Xlated prog:
0: r1 = 0x0 0: r1 = 0
1: *(u32 *)(r10 - 0x4) = r1 1: *(u32 *)(r10 -4) = r1
2: r2 = r10 2: r2 = r10
3: r2 += -0x4 3: r2 += -4
4: r1 = 0x0 ll 4: r1 = map[id:88]
6: call 0x1 6: r1 += 272
7: r0 = *(u32 *)(r2 +0)
8: if r0 >= 0x1 goto pc+3
9: r0 <<= 3
10: r0 += r1
11: goto pc+1
12: r0 = 0
7: r6 = r0 13: r6 = r0
8: if r6 == 0x0 goto +0x2 14: if r6 == 0x0 goto pc+4
9: call 0x76 15: r0 = 0xffffffff8d2079c0
17: r0 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0)
10: *(u64 *)(r6 + 0x0) = r0 18: *(u64 *)(r6 +0) = r0
11: r0 = 0x0 19: r0 = 0x0
12: exit 20: exit
An instruction array map, containing, e.g., instructions [0,4,7,12]
will be translated by the verifier to [0,4,13,20]. A map with
index 5 (the middle of 16-byte instruction) or indexes greater than 12
(outside the program boundaries) would be rejected.
The functionality provided by this patch will be extended in consequent
patches to implement BPF Static Keys, indirect jumps, and indirect calls.
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251105090410.1250500-2-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The bpf_insn_successors() function is used to return successors
to a BPF instruction. So far, an instruction could have 0, 1 or 2
successors. Prepare the verifier code to introduction of instructions
with more than 2 successors (namely, indirect jumps).
To do this, introduce a new struct, struct bpf_iarray, containing
an array of bpf instruction indexes and make bpf_insn_successors
to return a pointer of that type. The storage for all instructions
is allocated in the env->succ, which holds an array of size 2,
to be used for all instructions.
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251019202145.3944697-10-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Rename the storage_get_func_atomic flag to a more generic non_sleepable
flag that tracks whether a helper or kfunc may be called from a
non-sleepable context. This makes the flag more broadly applicable
beyond just storage_get helpers. See [0] for more context.
The flag is now set unconditionally for all helpers and kfuncs when:
- RCU critical section is active.
- Preemption is disabled.
- IRQs are disabled.
- In a non-sleepable context within a sleepable program (e.g., timer
callbacks), which is indicated by !in_sleepable().
Previously, the flag was only set for storage_get helpers in these
contexts. With this change, it can be used by any code that needs to
differentiate between sleepable and non-sleepable contexts at the
per-instruction level.
The existing usage in do_misc_fixups() for storage_get helpers is
preserved by checking is_storage_get_function() before using the flag.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAP01T76cbaNi4p-y8E0sjE2NXSra2S=Uja8G4hSQDu_SbXxREQ@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251007220349.3852807-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Converting bpf_insn_successors() to use lookup table makes it ~1.5
times faster.
Also remove unnecessary conditionals:
- `idx + 1 < prog->len` is unnecessary because after check_cfg() all
jump targets are guaranteed to be within a program;
- `i == 0 || succ[0] != dst` is unnecessary because any client of
bpf_insn_successors() can handle duplicate edges:
- compute_live_registers()
- compute_scc()
Moving bpf_insn_successors() to liveness.c allows its inlining in
liveness.c:__update_stack_liveness().
Such inlining speeds up __update_stack_liveness() by ~40%.
bpf_insn_successors() is used in both verifier.c and liveness.c.
perf shows such move does not negatively impact users in verifier.c,
as these are executed only once before main varification pass.
Unlike __update_stack_liveness() which can be triggered multiple
times.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-10-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Remove register chain based liveness tracking:
- struct bpf_reg_state->{parent,live} fields are no longer needed;
- REG_LIVE_WRITTEN marks are superseded by bpf_mark_stack_write()
calls;
- mark_reg_read() calls are superseded by bpf_mark_stack_read();
- log.c:print_liveness() is superseded by logging in liveness.c;
- propagate_liveness() is superseded by bpf_update_live_stack();
- no need to establish register chains in is_state_visited() anymore;
- fix a bunch of tests expecting "_w" suffixes in verifier log
messages.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-9-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Unlike the new algorithm, register chain based liveness tracking is
fully path sensitive, and thus should be strictly more accurate.
Validate the new algorithm by signaling an error whenever it considers
a stack slot dead while the old algorithm considers it alive.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-8-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This commit adds a flow-sensitive, context-sensitive, path-insensitive
data flow analysis for live stack slots:
- flow-sensitive: uses program control flow graph to compute data flow
values;
- context-sensitive: collects data flow values for each possible call
chain in a program;
- path-insensitive: does not distinguish between separate control flow
graph paths reaching the same instruction.
Compared to the current path-sensitive analysis, this approach trades
some precision for not having to enumerate every path in the program.
This gives a theoretical capability to run the analysis before main
verification pass. See cover letter for motivation.
The basic idea is as follows:
- Data flow values indicate stack slots that might be read and stack
slots that are definitely written.
- Data flow values are collected for each
(call chain, instruction number) combination in the program.
- Within a subprogram, data flow values are propagated using control
flow graph.
- Data flow values are transferred from entry instructions of callee
subprograms to call sites in caller subprograms.
In other words, a tree of all possible call chains is constructed.
Each node of this tree represents a subprogram. Read and write marks
are collected for each instruction of each node. Live stack slots are
first computed for lower level nodes. Then, information about outer
stack slots that might be read or are definitely written by a
subprogram is propagated one level up, to the corresponding call
instructions of the upper nodes. Procedure repeats until root node is
processed.
In the absence of value range analysis, stack read/write marks are
collected during main verification pass, and data flow computation is
triggered each time verifier.c:states_equal() needs to query the
information.
Implementation details are documented in kernel/bpf/liveness.c.
Quantitative data about verification performance changes and memory
consumption is in the cover letter.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-6-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The next patch would require doing postorder traversal of individual
subprograms. Facilitate this by moving env->cfg.insn_postorder
computation from check_cfg() to a separate pass, as check_cfg()
descends into called subprograms (and it needs to, because of
merge_callee_effects() logic).
env->cfg.insn_postorder is used only by compute_live_registers(),
this function does not track cross subprogram dependencies,
thus the change does not affect it's operation.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-5-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Prepare for bpf_reg_state->live field removal by introducing a
separate flag to track if clean_verifier_state() had been applied to
the state. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-1-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Yonghong noticed that error messages for potential verifier bugs often
have a '(1)' at the end. This is happening because verifier_bug_if(cond,
env, fmt, args...) prints "(" #cond ")\n" as part of the message and
verifier_bug() is defined as:
#define verifier_bug(env, fmt, args...) verifier_bug_if(1, env, fmt, ##args)
Hence, verifier_bug() always ends up displaying '(1)'. This small patch
fixes it by having verifier_bug_if conditionally call verifier_bug
instead of the other way around.
Fixes: 1cb0f56d96 ("bpf: WARN_ONCE on verifier bugs")
Reported-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/aJo9THBrzo8jFXsh@mail.gmail.com
Allow syscall programs to call non-recur helpers too since syscall bpf
programs runs in process context through bpf syscall, BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN,
and cannot run recursively.
bpf_task_storage_{get,set} have "_recur" versions that call trylock
instead of taking the lock directly to avoid deadlock when called by
bpf programs that run recursively. Currently, only bpf_lsm, bpf_iter,
struct_ops without private stack are allow to call the non-recur helpers
since they cannot be recursively called in another bpf program.
Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730185903.3574598-2-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add a 'struct bpf_scc_callchain callchain_buf' field in bpf_verifier_env.
This way, the previous bpf_scc_callchain local variables can be
replaced by taking address of env->callchain_buf. This can reduce stack
usage and fix the following error:
kernel/bpf/verifier.c:19921:12: error: stack frame size (1368) exceeds limit (1280) in 'do_check'
[-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703141117.1485108-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The previous patch switched read and precision tracking for
iterator-based loops from state-graph-based loop tracking to
control-flow-graph-based loop tracking.
This patch removes the now-unused `update_loop_entry()` and
`get_loop_entry()` functions, which were part of the state-graph-based
logic.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611200836.4135542-9-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Current loop_entry-based exact states comparison logic does not handle
the following case:
.-> A --. Assume the states are visited in the order A, B, C.
| | | Assume that state B reaches a state equivalent to state A.
| v v At this point, state C is not processed yet, so state A
'-- B C has not received any read or precision marks from C.
As a result, these marks won't be propagated to B.
If B has incomplete marks, it is unsafe to use it in states_equal()
checks.
This commit replaces the existing logic with the following:
- Strongly connected components (SCCs) are computed over the program's
control flow graph (intraprocedurally).
- When a verifier state enters an SCC, that state is recorded as the
SCC entry point.
- When a verifier state is found equivalent to another (e.g., B to A
in the example), it is recorded as a states graph backedge.
Backedges are accumulated per SCC.
- When an SCC entry state reaches `branches == 0`, read and precision
marks are propagated through the backedges (e.g., from A to B, from
C to A, and then again from A to B).
To support nested subprogram calls, the entry state and backedge list
are associated not with the SCC itself but with an object called
`bpf_scc_callchain`. A callchain is a tuple `(callsite*, scc_id)`,
where `callsite` is the index of a call instruction for each frame
except the last.
See the comments added in `is_state_visited()` and
`compute_scc_callchain()` for more details.
Fixes: 2a0992829e ("bpf: correct loop detection for iterators convergence")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611200836.4135542-8-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This reverts commit 96a30e469c.
Next patches in the series modify propagate_precision() to allow
arbitrary starting state. Precision propagation requires access to
jump history, and arbitrary states represent history not belonging to
`env->cur_state`.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611200836.4135542-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This implements the core of the series and causes the verifier to fall
back to mitigating Spectre v1 using speculation barriers. The approach
was presented at LPC'24 [1] and RAID'24 [2].
If we find any forbidden behavior on a speculative path, we insert a
nospec (e.g., lfence speculation barrier on x86) before the instruction
and stop verifying the path. While verifying a speculative path, we can
furthermore stop verification of that path whenever we encounter a
nospec instruction.
A minimal example program would look as follows:
A = true
B = true
if A goto e
f()
if B goto e
unsafe()
e: exit
There are the following speculative and non-speculative paths
(`cur->speculative` and `speculative` referring to the value of the
push_stack() parameters):
- A = true
- B = true
- if A goto e
- A && !cur->speculative && !speculative
- exit
- !A && !cur->speculative && speculative
- f()
- if B goto e
- B && cur->speculative && !speculative
- exit
- !B && cur->speculative && speculative
- unsafe()
If f() contains any unsafe behavior under Spectre v1 and the unsafe
behavior matches `state->speculative &&
error_recoverable_with_nospec(err)`, do_check() will now add a nospec
before f() instead of rejecting the program:
A = true
B = true
if A goto e
nospec
f()
if B goto e
unsafe()
e: exit
Alternatively, the algorithm also takes advantage of nospec instructions
inserted for other reasons (e.g., Spectre v4). Taking the program above
as an example, speculative path exploration can stop before f() if a
nospec was inserted there because of Spectre v4 sanitization.
In this example, all instructions after the nospec are dead code (and
with the nospec they are also dead code speculatively).
For this, it relies on the fact that speculation barriers generally
prevent all later instructions from executing if the speculation was not
correct:
* On Intel x86_64, lfence acts as full speculation barrier, not only as
a load fence [3]:
An LFENCE instruction or a serializing instruction will ensure that
no later instructions execute, even speculatively, until all prior
instructions complete locally. [...] Inserting an LFENCE instruction
after a bounds check prevents later operations from executing before
the bound check completes.
This was experimentally confirmed in [4].
* On AMD x86_64, lfence is dispatch-serializing [5] (requires MSR
C001_1029[1] to be set if the MSR is supported, this happens in
init_amd()). AMD further specifies "A dispatch serializing instruction
forces the processor to retire the serializing instruction and all
previous instructions before the next instruction is executed" [8]. As
dispatch is not specific to memory loads or branches, lfence therefore
also affects all instructions there. Also, if retiring a branch means
it's PC change becomes architectural (should be), this means any
"wrong" speculation is aborted as required for this series.
* ARM's SB speculation barrier instruction also affects "any instruction
that appears later in the program order than the barrier" [6].
* PowerPC's barrier also affects all subsequent instructions [7]:
[...] executing an ori R31,R31,0 instruction ensures that all
instructions preceding the ori R31,R31,0 instruction have completed
before the ori R31,R31,0 instruction completes, and that no
subsequent instructions are initiated, even out-of-order, until
after the ori R31,R31,0 instruction completes. The ori R31,R31,0
instruction may complete before storage accesses associated with
instructions preceding the ori R31,R31,0 instruction have been
performed
Regarding the example, this implies that `if B goto e` will not execute
before `if A goto e` completes. Once `if A goto e` completes, the CPU
should find that the speculation was wrong and continue with `exit`.
If there is any other path that leads to `if B goto e` (and therefore
`unsafe()`) without going through `if A goto e`, then a nospec will
still be needed there. However, this patch assumes this other path will
be explored separately and therefore be discovered by the verifier even
if the exploration discussed here stops at the nospec.
This patch furthermore has the unfortunate consequence that Spectre v1
mitigations now only support architectures which implement BPF_NOSPEC.
Before this commit, Spectre v1 mitigations prevented exploits by
rejecting the programs on all architectures. Because some JITs do not
implement BPF_NOSPEC, this patch therefore may regress unpriv BPF's
security to a limited extent:
* The regression is limited to systems vulnerable to Spectre v1, have
unprivileged BPF enabled, and do NOT emit insns for BPF_NOSPEC. The
latter is not the case for x86 64- and 32-bit, arm64, and powerpc
64-bit and they are therefore not affected by the regression.
According to commit a6f6a95f25 ("LoongArch, bpf: Fix jit to skip
speculation barrier opcode"), LoongArch is not vulnerable to Spectre
v1 and therefore also not affected by the regression.
* To the best of my knowledge this regression may therefore only affect
MIPS. This is deemed acceptable because unpriv BPF is still disabled
there by default. As stated in a previous commit, BPF_NOSPEC could be
implemented for MIPS based on GCC's speculation_barrier
implementation.
* It is unclear which other architectures (besides x86 64- and 32-bit,
ARM64, PowerPC 64-bit, LoongArch, and MIPS) supported by the kernel
are vulnerable to Spectre v1. Also, it is not clear if barriers are
available on these architectures. Implementing BPF_NOSPEC on these
architectures therefore is non-trivial. Searching GCC and the kernel
for speculation barrier implementations for these architectures
yielded no result.
* If any of those regressed systems is also vulnerable to Spectre v4,
the system was already vulnerable to Spectre v4 attacks based on
unpriv BPF before this patch and the impact is therefore further
limited.
As an alternative to regressing security, one could still reject
programs if the architecture does not emit BPF_NOSPEC (e.g., by removing
the empty BPF_NOSPEC-case from all JITs except for LoongArch where it
appears justified). However, this will cause rejections on these archs
that are likely unfounded in the vast majority of cases.
In the tests, some are now successful where we previously had a
false-positive (i.e., rejection). Change them to reflect where the
nospec should be inserted (using __xlated_unpriv) and modify the error
message if the nospec is able to mitigate a problem that previously
shadowed another problem (in that case __xlated_unpriv does not work,
therefore just add a comment).
Define SPEC_V1 to avoid duplicating this ifdef whenever we check for
nospec insns using __xlated_unpriv, define it here once. This also
improves readability. PowerPC can probably also be added here. However,
omit it for now because the BPF CI currently does not include a test.
Limit it to EPERM, EACCES, and EINVAL (and not everything except for
EFAULT and ENOMEM) as it already has the desired effect for most
real-world programs. Briefly went through all the occurrences of EPERM,
EINVAL, and EACCESS in verifier.c to validate that catching them like
this makes sense.
Thanks to Dustin for their help in checking the vendor documentation.
[1] https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1954/ ("Mitigating
Spectre-PHT using Speculation Barriers in Linux eBPF")
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00078 ("VeriFence: Lightweight and
Precise Spectre Defenses for Untrusted Linux Kernel Extensions")
[3] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/technical-documentation/runtime-speculative-side-channel-mitigations.html
("Managed Runtime Speculative Execution Side Channel Mitigations")
[4] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359789.3359837 ("Speculator: a
tool to analyze speculative execution attacks and mitigations" -
Section 4.6 "Stopping Speculative Execution")
[5] https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/processor-tech-docs/programmer-references/software-techniques-for-managing-speculation.pdf
("White Paper - SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING SPECULATION ON AMD
PROCESSORS - REVISION 5.09.23")
[6] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0597/2020-12/Base-Instructions/SB--Speculation-Barrier-
("SB - Speculation Barrier - Arm Armv8-A A32/T32 Instruction Set
Architecture (2020-12)")
[7] https://wiki.raptorcs.com/w/images/5/5f/OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf
("Power ISA™ - Version 3.1C - May 26, 2024 - Section 9.2.1 of Book
III")
[8] https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/processor-tech-docs/programmer-references/40332.pdf
("AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volumes 1–5 - Revision 4.08
- April 2024 - 7.6.4 Serializing Instructions")
Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Henriette Herzog <henriette.herzog@rub.de>
Cc: Dustin Nguyen <nguyen@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Maximilian Ott <ott@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Milan Stephan <milan.stephan@fau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603212428.338473-1-luis.gerhorst@fau.de
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This is made to clarify that this flag will cause a nospec to be added
after this insn and can therefore be relied upon to reduce speculative
path analysis.
Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Henriette Herzog <henriette.herzog@rub.de>
Cc: Maximilian Ott <ott@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Milan Stephan <milan.stephan@fau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250603212024.338154-1-luis.gerhorst@fau.de
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Throughout the verifier's logic, there are multiple checks for
inconsistent states that should never happen and would indicate a
verifier bug. These bugs are typically logged in the verifier logs and
sometimes preceded by a WARN_ONCE.
This patch reworks these checks to consistently emit a verifier log AND
a warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled. The consistent use of
WARN_ONCE should help fuzzers (ex. syzkaller) expose any situation
where they are actually able to reach one of those buggy verifier
states.
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aCs1nYvNNMq8dAWP@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Instead of hardcoding the list of kfuncs that need prog->aux passed to
them with a combination of fixup_kfunc_call adjustment + __ign suffix,
combine both in __prog suffix, which ignores the argument passed in, and
fixes it up to the prog->aux. This allows kfuncs to have the prog->aux
passed into them without having to touch the verifier.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250513142812.1021591-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Since out-of-order unlocks are unsupported for rqspinlock, and irqsave
variants enforce strict FIFO ordering anyway, make the same change for
normal non-irqsave variants, such that FIFO ordering is enforced.
Two new verifier state fields (active_lock_id, active_lock_ptr) are used
to denote the top of the stack, and prev_id and prev_ptr are ascertained
whenever popping the topmost entry through an unlock.
Take special care to make these fields part of the state comparison in
refsafe.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-25-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Introduce verifier-side support for rqspinlock kfuncs. The first step is
allowing bpf_res_spin_lock type to be defined in map values and
allocated objects, so BTF-side is updated with a new BPF_RES_SPIN_LOCK
field to recognize and validate.
Any object cannot have both bpf_spin_lock and bpf_res_spin_lock, only
one of them (and at most one of them per-object, like before) must be
present. The bpf_res_spin_lock can also be used to protect objects that
require lock protection for their kfuncs, like BPF rbtree and linked
list.
The verifier plumbing to simulate success and failure cases when calling
the kfuncs is done by pushing a new verifier state to the verifier state
stack which will verify the failure case upon calling the kfunc. The
path where success is indicated creates all lock reference state and IRQ
state (if necessary for irqsave variants). In the case of failure, the
state clears the registers r0-r5, sets the return value, and skips kfunc
processing, proceeding to the next instruction.
When marking the return value for success case, the value is marked as
0, and for the failure case as [-MAX_ERRNO, -1]. Then, in the program,
whenever user checks the return value as 'if (ret)' or 'if (ret < 0)'
the verifier never traverses such branches for success cases, and would
be aware that the lock is not held in such cases.
We push the kfunc state in check_kfunc_call whenever rqspinlock kfuncs
are invoked. We introduce a kfunc_class state to avoid mixing lock
irqrestore kfuncs with IRQ state created by bpf_local_irq_save.
With all this infrastructure, these kfuncs become usable in programs
while satisfying all safety properties required by the kernel.
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-24-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Compute may-live registers before each instruction in the program.
The register is live before the instruction I if it is read by I or
some instruction S following I during program execution and is not
overwritten between I and S.
This information would be used in the next patch as a hint in
func_states_equal().
Use a simple algorithm described in [1] to compute this information:
- define the following:
- I.use : a set of all registers read by instruction I;
- I.def : a set of all registers written by instruction I;
- I.in : a set of all registers that may be alive before I execution;
- I.out : a set of all registers that may be alive after I execution;
- I.successors : a set of instructions S that might immediately
follow I for some program execution;
- associate separate empty sets 'I.in' and 'I.out' with each instruction;
- visit each instruction in a postorder and update corresponding
'I.in' and 'I.out' sets as follows:
I.out = U [S.in for S in I.successors]
I.in = (I.out / I.def) U I.use
(where U stands for set union, / stands for set difference)
- repeat the computation while I.{in,out} changes for any instruction.
On implementation side keep things as simple, as possible:
- check_cfg() already marks instructions EXPLORED in post-order,
modify it to save the index of each EXPLORED instruction in a vector;
- represent I.{in,out,use,def} as bitmasks;
- don't split the program into basic blocks and don't maintain the
work queue, instead:
- do fixed-point computation by visiting each instruction;
- maintain a simple 'changed' flag if I.{in,out} for any instruction
change;
Measurements show that even such simplistic implementation does not
add measurable verification time overhead (for selftests, at-least).
Note on check_cfg() ex_insn_beg/ex_done change:
To avoid out of bounds access to env->cfg.insn_postorder array,
it should be guaranteed that instruction transitions to EXPLORED state
only once. Previously this was not the fact for incorrect programs
with direct calls to exception callbacks.
The 'align' selftest needs adjustment to skip computed insn/live
registers printout. Otherwise it matches lines from the live registers
printout.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-variable_analysis
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304195024.2478889-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The verifier currently does not permit global subprog calls when a lock
is held, preemption is disabled, or when IRQs are disabled. This is
because we don't know whether the global subprog calls sleepable
functions or not.
In case of locks, there's an additional reason: functions called by the
global subprog may hold additional locks etc. The verifier won't know
while verifying the global subprog whether it was called in context
where a spin lock is already held by the program.
Perform summarization of the sleepable nature of a global subprog just
like changes_pkt_data and then allow calls to global subprogs for
non-sleepable ones from atomic context.
While making this change, I noticed that RCU read sections had no
protection against sleepable global subprog calls, include it in the
checks and fix this while we're at it.
Care needs to be taken to not allow global subprog calls when regular
bpf_spin_lock is held. When resilient spin locks is held, we want to
potentially have this check relaxed, but not for now.
Also make sure extensions freplacing global functions cannot do so
in case the target is non-sleepable, but the extension is. The other
combination is ok.
Tests are included in the next patch to handle all special conditions.
Fixes: 9bb00b2895 ("bpf: Add kfunc bpf_rcu_read_lock/unlock()")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250301151846.1552362-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Compute env->peak_states as a maximum value of sum of
env->explored_states and env->free_list size.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-11-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When fixes from patches 1 and 3 are applied, Patrick Somaru reported
an increase in memory consumption for sched_ext iterator-based
programs hitting 1M instructions limit. For example, 2Gb VMs ran out
of memory while verifying a program. Similar behaviour could be
reproduced on current bpf-next master.
Here is an example of such program:
/* verification completes if given 16G or RAM,
* final env->free_list size is 369,960 entries.
*/
SEC("raw_tp")
__flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ)
__success
int free_list_bomb(const void *ctx)
{
volatile char buf[48] = {};
unsigned i, j;
j = 0;
bpf_for(i, 0, 10) {
/* this forks verifier state:
* - verification of current path continues and
* creates a checkpoint after 'if';
* - verification of forked path hits the
* checkpoint and marks it as loop_entry.
*/
if (bpf_get_prandom_u32())
asm volatile ("");
/* this marks 'j' as precise, thus any checkpoint
* created on current iteration would not be matched
* on the next iteration.
*/
buf[j++] = 42;
j %= ARRAY_SIZE(buf);
}
asm volatile (""::"r"(buf));
return 0;
}
Memory consumption increased due to more states being marked as loop
entries and eventually added to env->free_list.
This commit introduces logic to free states from env->free_list during
verification. A state in env->free_list can be freed if:
- it has no child states;
- it is not used as a loop_entry.
This commit:
- updates bpf_verifier_state->used_as_loop_entry to be a counter
that tracks how many states use this one as a loop entry;
- adds a function maybe_free_verifier_state(), which:
- frees a state if its ->branches and ->used_as_loop_entry counters
are both zero;
- if the state is freed, state->loop_entry->used_as_loop_entry is
decremented, and an attempt is made to free state->loop_entry.
In the example above, this approach reduces the maximum number of
states in the free list from 369,960 to 16,223.
However, this approach has its limitations. If the buf size in the
example above is modified to 64, state caching overflows: the state
for j=0 is evicted from the cache before it can be used to stop
traversal. As a result, states in the free list accumulate because
their branch counters do not reach zero.
The effect of this patch on the selftests looks as follows:
File Program Max free list (A) Max free list (B) Max free list (DIFF)
-------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------- --------------------
arena_list.bpf.o arena_list_add 17 3 -14 (-82.35%)
bpf_iter_task_stack.bpf.o dump_task_stack 39 9 -30 (-76.92%)
iters.bpf.o checkpoint_states_deletion 265 89 -176 (-66.42%)
iters.bpf.o clean_live_states 19 0 -19 (-100.00%)
profiler2.bpf.o tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill 102 1 -101 (-99.02%)
profiler3.bpf.o tracepoint__syscalls__sys_enter_kill 144 0 -144 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_iter.bpf.o on_event 15 0 -15 (-100.00%)
pyperf600_nounroll.bpf.o on_event 1170 1158 -12 (-1.03%)
setget_sockopt.bpf.o skops_sockopt 18 0 -18 (-100.00%)
strobemeta_nounroll1.bpf.o on_event 147 83 -64 (-43.54%)
strobemeta_nounroll2.bpf.o on_event 312 209 -103 (-33.01%)
strobemeta_subprogs.bpf.o on_event 124 86 -38 (-30.65%)
test_cls_redirect_subprogs.bpf.o cls_redirect 15 0 -15 (-100.00%)
timer.bpf.o test1 30 15 -15 (-50.00%)
Measured using "do-not-submit" patches from here:
https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup
Reported-by: Patrick Somaru <patsomaru@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-10-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The next patch in the set needs the ability to remove individual
states from env->free_list while only holding a pointer to the state.
Which requires env->free_list to be a doubly linked list.
This patch converts env->free_list and struct bpf_verifier_state_list
to use struct list_head for this purpose. The change to
env->explored_states is collateral.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-9-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When processing calls to certain helpers, verifier invalidates all
packet pointers in a current state. For example, consider the
following program:
__attribute__((__noinline__))
long skb_pull_data(struct __sk_buff *sk, __u32 len)
{
return bpf_skb_pull_data(sk, len);
}
SEC("tc")
int test_invalidate_checks(struct __sk_buff *sk)
{
int *p = (void *)(long)sk->data;
if ((void *)(p + 1) > (void *)(long)sk->data_end) return TCX_DROP;
skb_pull_data(sk, 0);
*p = 42;
return TCX_PASS;
}
After a call to bpf_skb_pull_data() the pointer 'p' can't be used
safely. See function filter.c:bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data() for a list
of such helpers.
At the moment verifier invalidates packet pointers when processing
helper function calls, and does not traverse global sub-programs when
processing calls to global sub-programs. This means that calls to
helpers done from global sub-programs do not invalidate pointers in
the caller state. E.g. the program above is unsafe, but is not
rejected by verifier.
This commit fixes the omission by computing field
bpf_subprog_info->changes_pkt_data for each sub-program before main
verification pass.
changes_pkt_data should be set if:
- subprogram calls helper for which bpf_helper_changes_pkt_data
returns true;
- subprogram calls a global function,
for which bpf_subprog_info->changes_pkt_data should be set.
The verifier.c:check_cfg() pass is modified to compute this
information. The commit relies on depth first instruction traversal
done by check_cfg() and absence of recursive function calls:
- check_cfg() would eventually visit every call to subprogram S in a
state when S is fully explored;
- when S is fully explored:
- every direct helper call within S is explored
(and thus changes_pkt_data is set if needed);
- every call to subprogram S1 called by S was visited with S1 fully
explored (and thus S inherits changes_pkt_data from S1).
The downside of such approach is that dead code elimination is not
taken into account: if a helper call inside global function is dead
because of current configuration, verifier would conservatively assume
that the call occurs for the purpose of the changes_pkt_data
computation.
Reported-by: Nick Zavaritsky <mejedi@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0498CA22-5779-4767-9C0C-A9515CEA711F@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210041100.1898468-4-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Teach the verifier about IRQ-disabled sections through the introduction
of two new kfuncs, bpf_local_irq_save, to save IRQ state and disable
them, and bpf_local_irq_restore, to restore IRQ state and enable them
back again.
For the purposes of tracking the saved IRQ state, the verifier is taught
about a new special object on the stack of type STACK_IRQ_FLAG. This is
a 8 byte value which saves the IRQ flags which are to be passed back to
the IRQ restore kfunc.
Renumber the enums for REF_TYPE_* to simplify the check in
find_lock_state, filtering out non-lock types as they grow will become
cumbersome and is unecessary.
To track a dynamic number of IRQ-disabled regions and their associated
saved states, a new resource type RES_TYPE_IRQ is introduced, which its
state management functions: acquire_irq_state and release_irq_state,
taking advantage of the refactoring and clean ups made in earlier
commits.
One notable requirement of the kernel's IRQ save and restore API is that
they cannot happen out of order. For this purpose, when releasing reference
we keep track of the prev_id we saw with REF_TYPE_IRQ. Since reference
states are inserted in increasing order of the index, this is used to
remember the ordering of acquisitions of IRQ saved states, so that we
maintain a logical stack in acquisition order of resource identities,
and can enforce LIFO ordering when restoring IRQ state. The top of the
stack is maintained using bpf_verifier_state's active_irq_id.
To maintain the stack property when releasing reference states, we need
to modify release_reference_state to instead shift the remaining array
left using memmove instead of swapping deleted element with last that
might break the ordering. A selftest to test this subtle behavior is
added in late patches.
The logic to detect initialized and unitialized irq flag slots, marking
and unmarking is similar to how it's done for iterators. No additional
checks are needed in refsafe for REF_TYPE_IRQ, apart from the usual
check_id satisfiability check on the ref[i].id. We have to perform the
same check_ids check on state->active_irq_id as well.
To ensure we don't get assigned REF_TYPE_PTR by default after
acquire_reference_state, if someone forgets to assign the type, let's
also renumber the enum ref_state_type. This way any unassigned types
get caught by refsafe's default switch statement, don't assume
REF_TYPE_PTR by default.
The kfuncs themselves are plain wrappers over local_irq_save and
local_irq_restore macros.
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Currently, state for RCU read locks and preemption is in
bpf_verifier_state, while locks and pointer reference state remains in
bpf_func_state. There is no particular reason to keep the latter in
bpf_func_state. Additionally, it is copied into a new frame's state and
copied back to the caller frame's state everytime the verifier processes
a pseudo call instruction. This is a bit wasteful, given this state is
global for a given verification state / path.
Move all resource and reference related state in bpf_verifier_state
structure in this patch, in preparation for introducing new reference
state types in the future.
Since we switch print_verifier_state and friends to print using vstate,
we now need to explicitly pass in the verifier state from the caller
along with the bpf_func_state, so modify the prototype and callers to do
so. To ensure func state matches the verifier state when we're printing
data, take in frame number instead of bpf_func_state pointer instead and
avoid inconsistencies induced by the caller.
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204030400.208005-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Instead of allocating and copying instruction history each time we
enqueue child verifier state, switch to a model where we use one common
dynamically sized array of instruction history entries across all states.
The key observation for proving this is correct is that instruction
history is only relevant while state is active, which means it either is
a current state (and thus we are actively modifying instruction history
and no other state can interfere with us) or we are checkpointed state
with some children still active (either enqueued or being current).
In the latter case our portion of instruction history is finalized and
won't change or grow, so as long as we keep it immutable until the state
is finalized, we are good.
Now, when state is finalized and is put into state hash for potentially
future pruning lookups, instruction history is not used anymore. This is
because instruction history is only used by precision marking logic, and
we never modify precision markings for finalized states.
So, instead of each state having its own small instruction history, we
keep a global dynamically-sized instruction history, where each state in
current DFS path from root to active state remembers its portion of
instruction history. Current state can append to this history, but
cannot modify any of its parent histories.
Async callback state enqueueing, while logically detached from parent
state, still is part of verification backtracking tree, so has to follow
the same schema as normal state checkpoints.
Because the insn_hist array can be grown through realloc, states don't
keep pointers, they instead maintain two indices, [start, end), into
global instruction history array. End is exclusive index, so
`start == end` means there is no relevant instruction history.
This eliminates a lot of allocations and minimizes overall memory usage.
For instance, running a worst-case test from [0] (but without the
heuristics-based fix [1]), it took 12.5 minutes until we get -ENOMEM.
With the changes in this patch the whole test succeeds in 10 minutes
(very slow, so heuristics from [1] is important, of course).
To further validate correctness, veristat-based comparison was performed for
Meta production BPF objects and BPF selftests objects. In both cases there
were no differences *at all* in terms of verdict or instruction and state
counts, providing a good confidence in the change.
Having this low-memory-overhead solution of keeping dynamic
per-instruction history cheaply opens up some new possibilities, like
keeping extra information for literally every single validated
instruction. This will be used for simplifying precision backpropagation
logic in follow up patches.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241029172641.1042523-2-eddyz87@gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241029172641.1042523-1-eddyz87@gmail.com/
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241115001303.277272-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
For struct_ops progs, whether a particular prog uses private stack
depends on prog->aux->priv_stack_requested setting before actual
insn-level verification for that prog. One particular implementation
is to piggyback on struct_ops->check_member(). The next patch has
an example for this. The struct_ops->check_member() sets
prog->aux->priv_stack_requested to be true which enables private stack
usage.
The struct_ops prog follows the same rule as kprobe/tracing progs after
function bpf_enable_priv_stack(). For example, even a struct_ops prog
requests private stack, it could still use normal kernel stack if
the stack size is small (< 64 bytes).
Similar to tracing progs, nested same cpu same prog run will be skipped.
A field (recursion_detected()) is added to bpf_prog_aux structure.
If bpf_prog->aux->recursion_detected is implemented by the struct_ops
subsystem and nested same cpu/prog happens, the function will be
triggered to report an error, collect related info, etc.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112163933.2224962-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Private stack will be allocated with percpu allocator in jit time.
To avoid complexity at runtime, only one copy of private stack is
available per cpu per prog. So runtime recursion check is necessary
to avoid stack corruption.
Current private stack only supports kprobe/perf_event/tp/raw_tp
which has recursion check in the kernel, and prog types that use
bpf trampoline recursion check. For trampoline related prog types,
currently only tracing progs have recursion checking.
To avoid complexity, all async_cb subprogs use normal kernel stack
including those subprogs used by both main prog subtree and async_cb
subtree. Any prog having tail call also uses kernel stack.
To avoid jit penalty with private stack support, a subprog stack
size threshold is set such that only if the stack size is no less
than the threshold, private stack is supported. The current threshold
is 64 bytes. This avoids jit penality if the stack usage is small.
A useless 'continue' is also removed from a loop in func
check_max_stack_depth().
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112163907.2223839-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Logic to prevent callbacks from acquiring new references for the program
(i.e. leaving acquired references), and releasing caller references
(i.e. those acquired in parent frames) was introduced in commit
9d9d00ac29 ("bpf: Fix reference state management for synchronous callbacks").
This was necessary because back then, the verifier simulated each
callback once (that could potentially be executed N times, where N can
be zero). This meant that callbacks that left lingering resources or
cleared caller resources could do it more than once, operating on
undefined state or leaking memory.
With the fixes to callback verification in commit
ab5cfac139 ("bpf: verify callbacks as if they are called unknown number of times"),
all of this extra logic is no longer necessary. Hence, drop it as part
of this commit.
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241109231430.2475236-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
When bpf_spin_lock was introduced originally, there was deliberation on
whether to use an array of lock IDs, but since bpf_spin_lock is limited
to holding a single lock at any given time, we've been using a single ID
to identify the held lock.
In preparation for introducing spin locks that can be taken multiple
times, introduce support for acquiring multiple lock IDs. For this
purpose, reuse the acquired_refs array and store both lock and pointer
references. We tag the entry with REF_TYPE_PTR or REF_TYPE_LOCK to
disambiguate and find the relevant entry. The ptr field is used to track
the map_ptr or btf (for bpf_obj_new allocations) to ensure locks can be
matched with protected fields within the same "allocation", i.e.
bpf_obj_new object or map value.
The struct active_lock is changed to an int as the state is part of the
acquired_refs array, and we only need active_lock as a cheap way of
detecting lock presence.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241109231430.2475236-2-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Commit 980ca8ceea ("bpf: check bpf_dummy_struct_ops program params for
test runs") does bitwise AND between reg_type and PTR_MAYBE_NULL, which
is correct, but due to type difference the compiler complains:
net/bpf/bpf_dummy_struct_ops.c:118:31: warning: bitwise operation between different enumeration types ('const enum bpf_reg_type' and 'enum bpf_type_flag') [-Wenum-enum-conversion]
118 | if (info && (info->reg_type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL))
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Workaround the warning by moving the type_may_be_null() helper from
verifier.c into bpf_verifier.h, and reuse it here to check whether param
is nullable.
Fixes: 980ca8ceea ("bpf: check bpf_dummy_struct_ops program params for test runs")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202404241956.HEiRYwWq-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905055233.70203-1-shung-hsi.yu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch removes the insn_buf array stack usage from the
inline_bpf_loop(). Instead, the env->insn_buf is used. The
usage in inline_bpf_loop() needs more than 16 insn, so the
INSN_BUF_SIZE needs to be increased from 16 to 32.
The compiler stack size warning on the verifier is gone
after this change.
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904180847.56947-2-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch adds a .gen_epilogue to the bpf_verifier_ops. It is similar
to the existing .gen_prologue. Instead of allowing a subsystem
to run code at the beginning of a bpf prog, it allows the subsystem
to run code just before the bpf prog exit.
One of the use case is to allow the upcoming bpf qdisc to ensure that
the skb->dev is the same as the qdisc->dev_queue->dev. The bpf qdisc
struct_ops implementation could either fix it up or drop the skb.
Another use case could be in bpf_tcp_ca.c to enforce snd_cwnd
has sane value (e.g. non zero).
The epilogue can do the useful thing (like checking skb->dev) if it
can access the bpf prog's ctx. Unlike prologue, r1 may not hold the
ctx pointer. This patch saves the r1 in the stack if the .gen_epilogue
has returned some instructions in the "epilogue_buf".
The existing .gen_prologue is done in convert_ctx_accesses().
The new .gen_epilogue is done in the convert_ctx_accesses() also.
When it sees the (BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT) instruction, it will be patched
with the earlier generated "epilogue_buf". The epilogue patching is
only done for the main prog.
Only one epilogue will be patched to the main program. When the
bpf prog has multiple BPF_EXIT instructions, a BPF_JA is used
to goto the earlier patched epilogue. Majority of the archs
support (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA): x86, arm, s390, risv64, loongarch,
powerpc and arc. This patch keeps it simple and always
use (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA). A new macro BPF_JMP32_A is added to
generate the (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA) insn.
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829210833.388152-4-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch moves the 'struct bpf_insn insn_buf[16]' stack usage
to the bpf_verifier_env. A '#define INSN_BUF_SIZE 16' is also added
to replace the ARRAY_SIZE(insn_buf) usages.
Both convert_ctx_accesses() and do_misc_fixup() are changed
to use the env->insn_buf.
It is a refactoring work for adding the epilogue_buf[16] in a later patch.
With this patch, the stack size usage decreased.
Before:
./kernel/bpf/verifier.c:22133:5: warning: stack frame size (2584)
After:
./kernel/bpf/verifier.c:22184:5: warning: stack frame size (2264)
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829210833.388152-2-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Attribute used by LLVM implementation of the feature had been changed
from no_caller_saved_registers to bpf_fastcall (see [1]).
This commit replaces references to nocsr by references to bpf_fastcall
to keep LLVM and Kernel parts in sync.
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/105417
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240822084112.3257995-2-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The commit f7866c3587 ("bpf: Fix null pointer dereference in resolve_prog_type() for BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT")
fixed a NULL pointer dereference panic, but didn't fix the issue that
fails to update attached freplace prog to prog_array map.
Since commit 1c123c567f ("bpf: Resolve fext program type when checking map compatibility"),
freplace prog and its target prog are able to tail call each other.
And the commit 3aac1ead5e ("bpf: Move prog->aux->linked_prog and trampoline into bpf_link on attach")
sets prog->aux->dst_prog as NULL after attaching freplace prog to its
target prog.
After loading freplace the prog_array's owner type is BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS.
Then, after attaching freplace its prog->aux->dst_prog is NULL.
Then, while updating freplace in prog_array the bpf_prog_map_compatible()
incorrectly returns false because resolve_prog_type() returns
BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT instead of BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS.
After this patch the resolve_prog_type() returns BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS
and update to prog_array can succeed.
Fixes: f7866c3587 ("bpf: Fix null pointer dereference in resolve_prog_type() for BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT")
Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240728114612.48486-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
GCC and LLVM define a no_caller_saved_registers function attribute.
This attribute means that function scratches only some of
the caller saved registers defined by ABI.
For BPF the set of such registers could be defined as follows:
- R0 is scratched only if function is non-void;
- R1-R5 are scratched only if corresponding parameter type is defined
in the function prototype.
This commit introduces flag bpf_func_prot->allow_nocsr.
If this flag is set for some helper function, verifier assumes that
it follows no_caller_saved_registers calling convention.
The contract between kernel and clang allows to simultaneously use
such functions and maintain backwards compatibility with old
kernels that don't understand no_caller_saved_registers calls
(nocsr for short):
- clang generates a simple pattern for nocsr calls, e.g.:
r1 = 1;
r2 = 2;
*(u64 *)(r10 - 8) = r1;
*(u64 *)(r10 - 16) = r2;
call %[to_be_inlined]
r2 = *(u64 *)(r10 - 16);
r1 = *(u64 *)(r10 - 8);
r0 = r1;
r0 += r2;
exit;
- kernel removes unnecessary spills and fills, if called function is
inlined by verifier or current JIT (with assumption that patch
inserted by verifier or JIT honors nocsr contract, e.g. does not
scratch r3-r5 for the example above), e.g. the code above would be
transformed to:
r1 = 1;
r2 = 2;
call %[to_be_inlined]
r0 = r1;
r0 += r2;
exit;
Technically, the transformation is split into the following phases:
- function mark_nocsr_patterns(), called from bpf_check()
searches and marks potential patterns in instruction auxiliary data;
- upon stack read or write access,
function check_nocsr_stack_contract() is used to verify if
stack offsets, presumably reserved for nocsr patterns, are used
only from those patterns;
- function remove_nocsr_spills_fills(), called from bpf_check(),
applies the rewrite for valid patterns.
See comment in mark_nocsr_pattern_for_call() for more details.
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240722233844.1406874-3-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
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