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  1. 15 Nov, 2022 4 commits
    • Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi's avatar
      bpf: Support bpf_list_head in map values · f0c5941f
      Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi authored 
      Add the support on the map side to parse, recognize, verify, and build
metadata table for a new special field of the type struct bpf_list_head.
To parameterize the bpf_list_head for a certain value type and the
list_node member it will accept in that value type, we use BTF
declaration tags.

The definition of bpf_list_head in a map value will be done as follows:

struct foo {
	struct bpf_list_node node;
	int data;
};

struct map_value {
	struct bpf_list_head head __contains(foo, node);
};

Then, the bpf_list_head only allows adding to the list 'head' using the
bpf_list_node 'node' for the type struct foo.

The 'contains' annotation is a BTF declaration tag composed of four
parts, "contains:name:node" where the name is then used to look up the
type in the map BTF, with its kind hardcoded to BTF_KIND_STRUCT during
the lookup. The node defines name of the member in this type that has
the type struct bpf_list_node, which is actually used for linking into
the linked list. For now, 'kind' part is hardcoded as struct.

This allows building intrusive linked lists in BPF, using container_of
to obtain pointer to entry, while being completely type safe from the
perspective of the verifier. The verifier knows exactly the type of the
nodes, and knows that list helpers return that type at some fixed offset
where the bpf_list_node member used for this list exists. The verifier
also uses this information to disallow adding types that are not
accepted by a certain list.

For now, no elements can be added to such lists. Support for that is
coming in future patches, hence draining and freeing items is done with
a TODO that will be resolved in a future patch.

Note that the bpf_list_head_free function moves the list out to a local
variable under the lock and releases it, doing the actual draining of
the list items outside the lock. While this helps with not holding the
lock for too long pessimizing other concurrent list operations, it is
also necessary for deadlock prevention: unless every function called in
the critical section would be notrace, a fentry/fexit program could
attach and call bpf_map_update_elem again on the map, leading to the
same lock being acquired if the key matches and lead to a deadlock.
While this requires some special effort on part of the BPF programmer to
trigger and is highly unlikely to occur in practice, it is always better
if we can avoid such a condition.

While notrace would prevent this, doing the draining outside the lock
has advantages of its own, hence it is used to also fix the deadlock
related problem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114191547.1694267-5-memxor@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      f0c5941f
    • Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi's avatar
      bpf: Fix copy_map_value, zero_map_value · e5feed0f
      Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi authored 
      The current offset needs to also skip over the already copied region in
addition to the size of the next field. This case manifests where there
are gaps between adjacent special fields.

It was observed that for a map value with size 48, having fields at:
off:  0, 16, 32
size: 4, 16, 16

The current code does:

memcpy(dst + 0, src + 0, 0)
memcpy(dst + 4, src + 4, 12)
memcpy(dst + 20, src + 20, 12)
memcpy(dst + 36, src + 36, 12)

With the fix, it is done correctly as:

memcpy(dst + 0, src + 0, 0)
memcpy(dst + 4, src + 4, 12)
memcpy(dst + 32, src + 32, 0)
memcpy(dst + 48, src + 48, 0)

Fixes: 4d7d7f69 ("bpf: Adapt copy_map_value for multiple offset case")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114191547.1694267-4-memxor@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      e5feed0f
    • Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi's avatar
      bpf: Remove BPF_MAP_OFF_ARR_MAX · 2d577252
      Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi authored 
      In f71b2f64 ("bpf: Refactor map->off_arr handling"), map->off_arr
was refactored to be btf_field_offs. The number of field offsets is
equal to maximum possible fields limited by BTF_FIELDS_MAX. Hence, reuse
BTF_FIELDS_MAX as spin_lock and timer no longer are to be handled
specially for offset sorting, fix the comment, and remove incorrect
WARN_ON as its rec->cnt can never exceed this value. The reason to keep
separate constant was the it was always more 2 more than total kptrs.
This is no longer the case.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114191547.1694267-3-memxor@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      2d577252
    • Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi's avatar
      bpf: Remove local kptr references in documentation · 1f6d52f1
      Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi authored 
      We don't want to commit to a specific name for these. Simply call them
allocated objects coming from bpf_obj_new, which is completely clear in
itself.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114191547.1694267-2-memxor@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      1f6d52f1
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