History log of /linux-master/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_global_func12.c
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# 2afae08c 23-Nov-2023 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

bpf: Validate global subprogs lazily

Slightly change BPF verifier logic around eagerness and order of global
subprog validation. Instead of going over every global subprog eagerly
and validating it before main (entry) BPF program is verified, turn it
around. Validate main program first, mark subprogs that were called from
main program for later verification, but otherwise assume it is valid.
Afterwards, go over marked global subprogs and validate those,
potentially marking some more global functions as being called. Continue
this process until all (transitively) callable global subprogs are
validated. It's a BFS traversal at its heart and will always converge.

This is an important change because it allows to feature-gate some
subprograms that might not be verifiable on some older kernel, depending
on supported set of features.

E.g., at some point, global functions were allowed to accept a pointer
to memory, which size is identified by user-provided type.
Unfortunately, older kernels don't support this feature. With BPF CO-RE
approach, the natural way would be to still compile BPF object file once
and guard calls to this global subprog with some CO-RE check or using
.rodata variables. That's what people do to guard usage of new helpers
or kfuncs, and any other new BPF-side feature that might be missing on
old kernels.

That's currently impossible to do with global subprogs, unfortunately,
because they are eagerly and unconditionally validated. This patch set
aims to change this, so that in the future when global funcs gain new
features, those can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques in the same
fashion as any other new kernel feature.

Two selftests had to be adjusted in sync with these changes.

test_global_func12 relied on eager global subprog validation failing
before main program failure is detected (unknown return value). Fix by
making sure that main program is always valid.

verifier_subprog_precision's parent_stack_slot_precise subtest relied on
verifier checkpointing heuristic to do a checkpoint at instruction #5,
but that's no longer true because we don't have enough jumps validated
before reaching insn #5 due to global subprogs being validated later.

Other than that, no changes, as one would expect.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231124035937.403208-3-andrii@kernel.org


# 95ebb376 15-Feb-2023 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

selftests/bpf: Convert test_global_funcs test to test_loader framework

Convert 17 test_global_funcs subtests into test_loader framework for
easier maintenance and more declarative way to define expected
failures/successes.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230216045954.3002473-3-andrii@kernel.org


# 8b08807d 12-Feb-2021 Dmitrii Banshchikov <me@ubique.spb.ru>

selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for pointers in global functions

test_global_func9 - check valid pointer's scenarios
test_global_func10 - check that a smaller type cannot be passed as a
larger one
test_global_func11 - check that CTX pointer cannot be passed
test_global_func12 - check access to a null pointer
test_global_func13 - check access to an arbitrary pointer value
test_global_func14 - check that an opaque pointer cannot be passed
test_global_func15 - check that a variable has an unknown value after
it was passed to a global function by pointer
test_global_func16 - check access to uninitialized stack memory

test_global_func_args - check read and write operations through a pointer

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Banshchikov <me@ubique.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210212205642.620788-5-me@ubique.spb.ru