linux/kernel/bpf/verifier.c, branch v6.8

bpf: check bpf_func_state->callback_depth when pruning states

2024-03-06T00:15:56Z

When comparing current and cached states verifier should consider bpf_func_state->callback_depth. Current state cannot be pruned against cached state, when current states has more iterations left compared to cached state. Current state has more iterations left when it's callback_depth is smaller. Below is an example illustrating this bug, minimized from mailing list discussion [0] (assume that BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ is set). The example is not a safe program: if loop_cb point (1) is followed by loop_cb point (2), then division by zero is possible at point (4). struct ctx { __u64 a; __u64 b; __u64 c; }; static void loop_cb(int i, struct ctx *ctx) { /* assume that generated code is "fallthrough-first": * if ... == 1 goto * if ... == 2 goto * */ switch (bpf_get_prandom_u32()) { case 1: /* 1 */ ctx->a = 42; return 0; break; case 2: /* 2 */ ctx->b = 42; return 0; break; default: /* 3 */ ctx->c = 42; return 0; break; } } SEC("tc") __failure __flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ) int test(struct __sk_buff *skb) { struct ctx ctx = { 7, 7, 7 }; bpf_loop(2, loop_cb, &ctx, 0); /* 0 */ /* assume generated checks are in-order: .a first */ if (ctx.a == 42 && ctx.b == 42 && ctx.c == 7) asm volatile("r0 /= 0;":::"r0"); /* 4 */ return 0; } Prior to this commit verifier built the following checkpoint tree for this example: .------------------------------------- Checkpoint / State name | .-------------------------------- Code point number | | .---------------------------- Stack state {ctx.a,ctx.b,ctx.c} | | | .------------------- Callback depth in frame #0 v v v v - (0) {7P,7P,7},depth=0 - (3) {7P,7P,7},depth=1 - (0) {7P,7P,42},depth=1 - (3) {7P,7,42},depth=2 - (0) {7P,7,42},depth=2 loop terminates because of depth limit - (4) {7P,7,42},depth=0 predicted false, ctx.a marked precise - (6) exit (a) - (2) {7P,7,42},depth=2 - (0) {7P,42,42},depth=2 loop terminates because of depth limit - (4) {7P,42,42},depth=0 predicted false, ctx.a marked precise - (6) exit (b) - (1) {7P,7P,42},depth=2 - (0) {42P,7P,42},depth=2 loop terminates because of depth limit - (4) {42P,7P,42},depth=0 predicted false, ctx.{a,b} marked precise - (6) exit - (2) {7P,7,7},depth=1 considered safe, pruned using checkpoint (a) (c) - (1) {7P,7P,7},depth=1 considered safe, pruned using checkpoint (b) Here checkpoint (b) has callback_depth of 2, meaning that it would never reach state {42,42,7}. While checkpoint (c) has callback_depth of 1, and thus could yet explore the state {42,42,7} if not pruned prematurely. This commit makes forbids such premature pruning, allowing verifier to explore states sub-tree starting at (c): (c) - (1) {7,7,7P},depth=1 - (0) {42P,7,7P},depth=1 ... - (2) {42,7,7},depth=2 - (0) {42,42,7},depth=2 loop terminates because of depth limit - (4) {42,42,7},depth=0 predicted true, ctx.{a,b,c} marked precise - (5) division by zero [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/9b251840-7cb8-4d17-bd23-1fc8071d8eef@linux.dev/ Fixes: bb124da69c47 ("bpf: keep track of max number of bpf_loop callback iterations") Suggested-by: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman Acked-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222154121.6991-2-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Fix warning for bpf_cpumask in verifier

2024-02-13T19:13:39Z

Compiling with CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL & !CONFIG_BPF_JIT throws the below warning: "WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol bpf_cpumask" Fix it by adding the appropriate #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev Acked-by: David Vernet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240208100115.602172-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com

bpf: Reject variable offset alu on PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS

2024-01-16T16:12:29Z

For PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS, check_flow_keys_access() only uses fixed off for validation. However, variable offset ptr alu is not prohibited for this ptr kind. So the variable offset is not checked. The following prog is accepted: func#0 @0 0: R1=ctx() R10=fp0 0: (bf) r6 = r1 ; R1=ctx() R6_w=ctx() 1: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r6 +144) ; R6_w=ctx() R7_w=flow_keys() 2: (b7) r8 = 1024 ; R8_w=1024 3: (37) r8 /= 1 ; R8_w=scalar() 4: (57) r8 &= 1024 ; R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0, smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off=(0x0; 0x400)) 5: (0f) r7 += r8 mark_precise: frame0: last_idx 5 first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1 mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 4: (57) r8 &= 1024 mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 3: (37) r8 /= 1 mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 2: (b7) r8 = 1024 6: R7_w=flow_keys(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off =(0x0; 0x400)) R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024, var_off=(0x0; 0x400)) 6: (79) r0 = *(u64 *)(r7 +0) ; R0_w=scalar() 7: (95) exit This prog loads flow_keys to r7, and adds the variable offset r8 to r7, and finally causes out-of-bounds access: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90014c80038 [...] Call Trace: bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1231 [inline] __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:651 [inline] bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:658 [inline] bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu include/linux/filter.h:675 [inline] bpf_flow_dissect+0x15f/0x350 net/core/flow_dissector.c:991 bpf_prog_test_run_flow_dissector+0x39d/0x620 net/bpf/test_run.c:1359 bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4107 [inline] __sys_bpf+0xf8f/0x4560 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5475 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5561 [inline] __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559 [inline] __x64_sys_bpf+0x73/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b Fix this by rejecting ptr alu with variable offset on flow_keys. Applying the patch rejects the program with "R7 pointer arithmetic on flow_keys prohibited". Fixes: d58e468b1112 ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook") Signed-off-by: Hao Sun Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240115082028.9992-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com

bpf: Relax tracing prog recursive attach rules

2024-01-05T04:31:34Z

Currently, it's not allowed to attach an fentry/fexit prog to another one fentry/fexit. At the same time it's not uncommon to see a tracing program with lots of logic in use, and the attachment limitation prevents usage of fentry/fexit for performance analysis (e.g. with "bpftool prog profile" command) in this case. An example could be falcosecurity libs project that uses tp_btf tracing programs. Following the corresponding discussion [1], the reason for that is to avoid tracing progs call cycles without introducing more complex solutions. But currently it seems impossible to load and attach tracing programs in a way that will form such a cycle. The limitation is coming from the fact that attach_prog_fd is specified at the prog load (thus making it impossible to attach to a program loaded after it in this way), as well as tracing progs not implementing link_detach. Replace "no same type" requirement with verification that no more than one level of attachment nesting is allowed. In this way only one fentry/fexit program could be attached to another fentry/fexit to cover profiling use case, and still no cycle could be formed. To implement, add a new field into bpf_prog_aux to track nested attachment for tracing programs. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191108064039.2041889-16-ast@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240103190559.14750-2-9erthalion6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Limit up to 512 bytes for bpf_global_percpu_ma allocation

2024-01-04T05:08:26Z

For percpu data structure allocation with bpf_global_percpu_ma, the maximum data size is 4K. But for a system with large number of cpus, bigger data size (e.g., 2K, 4K) might consume a lot of memory. For example, the percpu memory consumption with unit size 2K and 1024 cpus will be 2K * 1K * 1k = 2GB memory. We should discourage such usage. Let us limit the maximum data size to be 512 for bpf_global_percpu_ma allocation. Acked-by: Hou Tao Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231222031801.1290841-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Allow per unit prefill for non-fix-size percpu memory allocator

2024-01-04T05:08:25Z

Commit 41a5db8d8161 ("Add support for non-fix-size percpu mem allocation") added support for non-fix-size percpu memory allocation. Such allocation will allocate percpu memory for all buckets on all cpus and the memory consumption is in the order to quadratic. For example, let us say, 4 cpus, unit size 16 bytes, so each cpu has 16 * 4 = 64 bytes, with 4 cpus, total will be 64 * 4 = 256 bytes. Then let us say, 8 cpus with the same unit size, each cpu has 16 * 8 = 128 bytes, with 8 cpus, total will be 128 * 8 = 1024 bytes. So if the number of cpus doubles, the number of memory consumption will be 4 times. So for a system with large number of cpus, the memory consumption goes up quickly with quadratic order. For example, for 4KB percpu allocation, 128 cpus. The total memory consumption will 4KB * 128 * 128 = 64MB. Things will become worse if the number of cpus is bigger (e.g., 512, 1024, etc.) In Commit 41a5db8d8161, the non-fix-size percpu memory allocation is done in boot time, so for system with large number of cpus, the initial percpu memory consumption is very visible. For example, for 128 cpu system, the total percpu memory allocation will be at least (16 + 32 + 64 + 96 + 128 + 196 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4096) * 128 * 128 = ~138MB. which is pretty big. It will be even bigger for larger number of cpus. Note that the current prefill also allocates 4 entries if the unit size is less than 256. So on top of 138MB memory consumption, this will add more consumption with 3 * (16 + 32 + 64 + 96 + 128 + 196 + 256) * 128 * 128 = ~38MB. Next patch will try to reduce this memory consumption. Later on, Commit 1fda5bb66ad8 ("bpf: Do not allocate percpu memory at init stage") moved the non-fix-size percpu memory allocation to bpf verificaiton stage. Once a particular bpf_percpu_obj_new() is called by bpf program, the memory allocator will try to fill in the cache with all sizes, causing the same amount of percpu memory consumption as in the boot stage. To reduce the initial percpu memory consumption for non-fix-size percpu memory allocation, instead of filling the cache with all supported allocation sizes, this patch intends to fill the cache only for the requested size. As typically users will not use large percpu data structure, this can save memory significantly. For example, the allocation size is 64 bytes with 128 cpus. Then total percpu memory amount will be 64 * 128 * 128 = 1MB, much less than previous 138MB. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song Acked-by: Hou Tao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231222031745.1289082-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: Simplify checking size of helper accesses

2024-01-03T18:37:56Z

This patch simplifies the verification of size arguments associated to pointer arguments to helpers and kfuncs. Many helpers take a pointer argument followed by the size of the memory access performed to be performed through that pointer. Before this patch, the handling of the size argument in check_mem_size_reg() was confusing and wasteful: if the size register's lower bound was 0, then the verification was done twice: once considering the size of the access to be the lower-bound of the respective argument, and once considering the upper bound (even if the two are the same). The upper bound checking is a super-set of the lower-bound checking(*), except: the only point of the lower-bound check is to handle the case where zero-sized-accesses are explicitly not allowed and the lower-bound is zero. This static condition is now checked explicitly, replacing a much more complex, expensive and confusing verification call to check_helper_mem_access(). Error messages change in this patch. Before, messages about illegal zero-size accesses depended on the type of the pointer and on other conditions, and sometimes the message was plain wrong: in some tests that changed you'll see that the old message was something like "R1 min value is outside of the allowed memory range", where R1 is the pointer register; the error was wrongly claiming that the pointer was bad instead of the size being bad. Other times the information that the size came for a register with a possible range of values was wrong, and the error presented the size as a fixed zero. Now the errors refer to the right register. However, the old error messages did contain useful information about the pointer register which is now lost; recovering this information was deemed not important enough. (*) Besides standing to reason that the checks for a bigger size access are a super-set of the checks for a smaller size access, I have also mechanically verified this by reading the code for all types of pointers. I could convince myself that it's true for all but PTR_TO_BTF_ID (check_ptr_to_btf_access). There, simply looking line-by-line does not immediately prove what we want. If anyone has any qualms, let me know. Signed-off-by: Andrei Matei Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231221232225.568730-2-andreimatei1@gmail.com

bpf: Avoid unnecessary use of comma operator in verifier

2023-12-21T21:40:25Z

Although it does not seem to have any untoward side-effects, the use of ';' to separate to assignments seems more appropriate than ','. Flagged by clang-17 -Wcomma No functional change intended. Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Reviewed-by: Dave Marchevsky Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231221-bpf-verifier-comma-v1-1-cde2530912e9@kernel.org

bpf: add support for passing dynptr pointer to global subprog

2023-12-20T02:06:46Z

Add ability to pass a pointer to dynptr into global functions. This allows to have global subprogs that accept and work with generic dynptrs that are created by caller. Dynptr argument is detected based on the name of a struct type, if it's "bpf_dynptr", it's assumed to be a proper dynptr pointer. Both actual struct and forward struct declaration types are supported. This is conceptually exactly the same semantics as bpf_user_ringbuf_drain()'s use of dynptr to pass a variable-sized pointer to ringbuf record. So we heavily rely on CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR bits of already existing logic in the verifier. During global subprog validation, we mark such CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR as having LOCAL type, as that's the most unassuming type of dynptr and it doesn't have any special helpers that can try to free or acquire extra references (unlike skb, xdp, or ringbuf dynptr). So that seems like a safe "choice" to make from correctness standpoint. It's still possible to pass any type of dynptr to such subprog, though, because generic dynptr helpers, like getting data/slice pointers, read/write memory copying routines, dynptr adjustment and getter routines all work correctly with any type of dynptr. Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215011334.2307144-8-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

bpf: support 'arg:xxx' btf_decl_tag-based hints for global subprog args

2023-12-20T02:06:46Z

Add support for annotating global BPF subprog arguments to provide more information about expected semantics of the argument. Currently, verifier relies purely on argument's BTF type information, and supports three general use cases: scalar, pointer-to-context, and pointer-to-fixed-size-memory. Scalar and pointer-to-fixed-mem work well in practice and are quite natural to use. But pointer-to-context is a bit problematic, as typical BPF users don't realize that they need to use a special type name to signal to verifier that argument is not just some pointer, but actually a PTR_TO_CTX. Further, even if users do know which type to use, it is limiting in situations where the same BPF program logic is used across few different program types. Common case is kprobes, tracepoints, and perf_event programs having a helper to send some data over BPF perf buffer. bpf_perf_event_output() requires `ctx` argument, and so it's quite cumbersome to share such global subprog across few BPF programs of different types, necessitating extra static subprog that is context type-agnostic. Long story short, there is a need to go beyond types and allow users to add hints to global subprog arguments to define expectations. This patch adds such support for two initial special tags: - pointer to context; - non-null qualifier for generic pointer arguments. All of the above came up in practice already and seem generally useful additions. Non-null qualifier is an often requested feature, which currently has to be worked around by having unnecessary NULL checks inside subprogs even if we know that arguments are never NULL. Pointer to context was discussed earlier. As for implementation, we utilize btf_decl_tag attribute and set up an "arg:xxx" convention to specify argument hint. As such: - btf_decl_tag("arg:ctx") is a PTR_TO_CTX hint; - btf_decl_tag("arg:nonnull") marks pointer argument as not allowed to be NULL, making NULL check inside global subprog unnecessary. Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215011334.2307144-7-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov