Skip to content

L
linux
Switch branch/tag
  1. 26 Mar, 2023 38 commits
  3. 25 Mar, 2023 2 commits
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      Merge branch 'Don't invoke KPTR_REF destructor on NULL xchg' · 496f4f1b
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      David Vernet says:

====================

When a map value is being freed, we loop over all of the fields of the
corresponding BPF object and issue the appropriate cleanup calls
corresponding to the field's type. If the field is a referenced kptr, we
atomically xchg the value out of the map, and invoke the kptr's
destructor on whatever was there before.

Currently, we always invoke the destructor (or bpf_obj_drop() for a
local kptr) on any kptr, including if no value was xchg'd out of the
map. This means that any function serving as the kptr's KF_RELEASE
destructor must always treat the argument as possibly NULL, and we
invoke unnecessary (and seemingly unsafe) cleanup logic for the local
kptr path as well.

This is an odd requirement -- KF_RELEASE kfuncs that are invoked by BPF
programs do not have this restriction, and the verifier will fail to
load the program if the register containing the to-be-released type has
any untrusted modifiers (e.g. PTR_UNTRUSTED or PTR_MAYBE_NULL). So as to
simplify the expectations required for a KF_RELEASE kfunc, this patch
set updates the KPTR_REF destructor logic to only be invoked when a
non-NULL value is xchg'd out of the map.

Additionally, the patch removes now-unnecessary KF_RELEASE calls from
several kfuncs, and finally, updates the verifier to have KF_RELEASE
automatically imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS. This restriction was already
implicitly happening because of the aforementioned logic in the verifier
to reject any regs with untrusted modifiers, and to enforce that
KF_RELEASE args are passed with a 0 offset. This change just updates the
behavior to match that of other trusted args. This patch is left to the
end of the series in case it happens to be controversial, as it arguably
is slightly orthogonal to the purpose of the rest of the series.
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      496f4f1b
    • David Vernet's avatar
      bpf: Treat KF_RELEASE kfuncs as KF_TRUSTED_ARGS · 6c831c46
      David Vernet authored 
      KF_RELEASE kfuncs are not currently treated as having KF_TRUSTED_ARGS,
even though they have a superset of the requirements of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS.
Like KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, KF_RELEASE kfuncs require a 0-offset argument, and
don't allow NULL-able arguments. Unlike KF_TRUSTED_ARGS which require
_either_ an argument with ref_obj_id > 0, _or_ (ref->type &
BPF_REG_TRUSTED_MODIFIERS) (and no unsafe modifiers allowed), KF_RELEASE
only allows for ref_obj_id > 0.  Because KF_RELEASE today doesn't
automatically imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS, some of these requirements are
enforced in different ways that can make the behavior of the verifier
feel unpredictable. For example, a KF_RELEASE kfunc with a NULL-able
argument will currently fail in the verifier with a message like, "arg#0
is ptr_or_null_ expected ptr_ or socket" rather than "Possibly NULL
pointer passed to trusted arg0". Our intention is the same, but the
semantics are different due to implemenetation details that kfunc authors
and BPF program writers should not need to care about.

Let's make the behavior of the verifier more consistent and intuitive by
having KF_RELEASE kfuncs imply the presence of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS. Our
eventual goal is to have all kfuncs assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS by default
anyways, so this takes us a step in that direction.

Note that it does not make sense to assume KF_TRUSTED_ARGS for all
KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs. KF_ACQUIRE kfuncs can have looser semantics than
KF_RELEASE, with e.g. KF_RCU | KF_RET_NULL. We may want to have
KF_ACQUIRE imply KF_TRUSTED_ARGS _unless_ KF_RCU is specified, but that
can be left to another patch set, and there are no such subtleties to
address for KF_RELEASE.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230325213144.486885-4-void@manifault.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      6c831c46
GitLab Nexedi Edition | About GitLab | About Nexedi | 沪ICP备2021021310号-2 | 沪ICP备2021021310号-7