Slightly change BPF verifier logic around eagerness and order of global
subprog validation. Instead of going over every global subprog eagerly
and validating it before main (entry) BPF program is verified, turn it
around. Validate main program first, mark subprogs that were called from
main program for later verification, but otherwise assume it is valid.
Afterwards, go over marked global subprogs and validate those,
potentially marking some more global functions as being called. Continue
this process until all (transitively) callable global subprogs are
validated. It's a BFS traversal at its heart and will always converge.
This is an important change because it allows to feature-gate some
subprograms that might not be verifiable on some older kernel, depending
on supported set of features.
E.g., at some point, global functions were allowed to accept a pointer
to memory, which size is identified by user-provided type.
Unfortunately, older kernels don't support this feature. With BPF CO-RE
approach, the natural way would be to still compile BPF object file once
and guard calls to this global subprog with some CO-RE check or using
.rodata variables. That's what people do to guard usage of new helpers
or kfuncs, and any other new BPF-side feature that might be missing on
old kernels.
That's currently impossible to do with global subprogs, unfortunately,
because they are eagerly and unconditionally validated. This patch set
aims to change this, so that in the future when global funcs gain new
features, those can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques in the same
fashion as any other new kernel feature.
Two selftests had to be adjusted in sync with these changes.
test_global_func12 relied on eager global subprog validation failing
before main program failure is detected (unknown return value). Fix by
making sure that main program is always valid.
verifier_subprog_precision's parent_stack_slot_precise subtest relied on
verifier checkpointing heuristic to do a checkpoint at instruction #5,
but that's no longer true because we don't have enough jumps validated
before reaching insn #5 due to global subprogs being validated later.
Other than that, no changes, as one would expect.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231124035937.403208-3-andrii@kernel.org
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