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| author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2024-03-05 19:19:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> | 2024-03-06 15:17:31 -0800 |
| commit | 011832b97b311bb9e3c27945bc0d1089a14209c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 895a1b974a1b6edcd101286dcf3436fffad046b2 /kernel/bpf/core.c | |
| parent | 9a9d1d36050e486822dc54990c896761b04e7446 (diff) | |
bpf: Introduce may_goto instruction
Introduce may_goto instruction that from the verifier pov is similar to
open coded iterators bpf_for()/bpf_repeat() and bpf_loop() helper, but it
doesn't iterate any objects.
In assembly 'may_goto' is a nop most of the time until bpf runtime has to
terminate the program for whatever reason. In the current implementation
may_goto has a hidden counter, but other mechanisms can be used.
For programs written in C the later patch introduces 'cond_break' macro
that combines 'may_goto' with 'break' statement and has similar semantics:
cond_break is a nop until bpf runtime has to break out of this loop.
It can be used in any normal "for" or "while" loop, like
for (i = zero; i < cnt; cond_break, i++) {
The verifier recognizes that may_goto is used in the program, reserves
additional 8 bytes of stack, initializes them in subprog prologue, and
replaces may_goto instruction with:
aux_reg = *(u64 *)(fp - 40)
if aux_reg == 0 goto pc+off
aux_reg -= 1
*(u64 *)(fp - 40) = aux_reg
may_goto instruction can be used by LLVM to implement __builtin_memcpy,
__builtin_strcmp.
may_goto is not a full substitute for bpf_for() macro.
bpf_for() doesn't have induction variable that verifiers sees,
so 'i' in bpf_for(i, 0, 100) is seen as imprecise and bounded.
But when the code is written as:
for (i = 0; i < 100; cond_break, i++)
the verifier see 'i' as precise constant zero,
hence cond_break (aka may_goto) doesn't help to converge the loop.
A static or global variable can be used as a workaround:
static int zero = 0;
for (i = zero; i < 100; cond_break, i++) // works!
may_goto works well with arena pointers that don't need to be bounds
checked on access. Load/store from arena returns imprecise unbounded
scalar and loops with may_goto pass the verifier.
Reserve new opcode BPF_JMP | BPF_JCOND for may_goto insn.
JCOND stands for conditional pseudo jump.
Since goto_or_nop insn was proposed, it may use the same opcode.
may_goto vs goto_or_nop can be distinguished by src_reg:
code = BPF_JMP | BPF_JCOND
src_reg = 0 - may_goto
src_reg = 1 - goto_or_nop
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Tested-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240306031929.42666-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/bpf/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/bpf/core.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c index 71c459a51d9e..9ee4536d0a09 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/core.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c @@ -1675,6 +1675,7 @@ bool bpf_opcode_in_insntable(u8 code) [BPF_LD | BPF_IND | BPF_B] = true, [BPF_LD | BPF_IND | BPF_H] = true, [BPF_LD | BPF_IND | BPF_W] = true, + [BPF_JMP | BPF_JCOND] = true, }; #undef BPF_INSN_3_TBL #undef BPF_INSN_2_TBL |