Currently, our only way of writing dynamically-sized data into a ring
buffer is through bpf_ringbuf_output but this incurs an extra memcpy
cost. bpf_ringbuf_reserve + bpf_ringbuf_commit avoids this extra
memcpy, but it can only safely support reservation sizes that are
statically known since the verifier cannot guarantee that the bpf
program won’t access memory outside the reserved space.
The bpf_dynptr abstraction allows for dynamically-sized ring buffer
reservations without the extra memcpy.
There are 3 new APIs:
long bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(void *ringbuf, u32 size, u64 flags, struct bpf_dynptr *ptr);
void bpf_ringbuf_submit_dynptr(struct bpf_dynptr *ptr, u64 flags);
void bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr(struct bpf_dynptr *ptr, u64 flags);
These closely follow the functionalities of the original ringbuf APIs.
For example, all ringbuffer dynptrs that have been reserved must be
either submitted or discarded before the program exits.
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523210712.3641569-4-joannelkoong@gmail.com
This patch adds a new api bpf_dynptr_from_mem:
long bpf_dynptr_from_mem(void *data, u32 size, u64 flags, struct bpf_dynptr *ptr);
which initializes a dynptr to point to a bpf program's local memory. For now
only local memory that is of reg type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE is supported.
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523210712.3641569-3-joannelkoong@gmail.com
This patch adds the bulk of the verifier work for supporting dynamic
pointers (dynptrs) in bpf.
A bpf_dynptr is opaque to the bpf program. It is a 16-byte structure
defined internally as:
struct bpf_dynptr_kern {
void *data;
u32 size;
u32 offset;
} __aligned(8);
The upper 8 bits of *size* is reserved (it contains extra metadata about
read-only status and dynptr type). Consequently, a dynptr only supports
memory less than 16 MB.
There are different types of dynptrs (eg malloc, ringbuf, ...). In this
patchset, the most basic one, dynptrs to a bpf program's local memory,
is added. For now only local memory that is of reg type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE
is supported.
In the verifier, dynptr state information will be tracked in stack
slots. When the program passes in an uninitialized dynptr
(ARG_PTR_TO_DYNPTR | MEM_UNINIT), the stack slots corresponding
to the frame pointer where the dynptr resides at are marked
STACK_DYNPTR. For helper functions that take in initialized dynptrs (eg
bpf_dynptr_read + bpf_dynptr_write which are added later in this
patchset), the verifier enforces that the dynptr has been initialized
properly by checking that their corresponding stack slots have been
marked as STACK_DYNPTR.
The 6th patch in this patchset adds test cases that the verifier should
successfully reject, such as for example attempting to use a dynptr
after doing a direct write into it inside the bpf program.
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523210712.3641569-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Joanne Koong