Subject: [PATCH net 4/4] bpf: change bpf_perf_event_output arg5 type to ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO

From: Gianluca Borello <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:32:56 +0000

Commit 9fd29c08e520 ("bpf: improve verifier ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO
semantics") relaxed the treatment of ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO due to the way
the compiler generates optimized BPF code when checking boundaries of an
argument from C code. A typical example of this optimized code can be
generated using the bpf_perf_event_output helper when operating on variable
memory:

/* len is a generic scalar */
if (len > 0 && len <= 0x7fff)
        bpf_perf_event_output(ctx, &perf_map, 0, buf, len);

110: (79) r5 = *(u64 *)(r10 -40)
111: (bf) r1 = r5
112: (07) r1 += -1
113: (25) if r1 > 0x7ffe goto pc+6
114: (bf) r1 = r6
115: (18) r2 = 0xffff94e5f166c200
117: (b7) r3 = 0
118: (bf) r4 = r7
119: (85) call bpf_perf_event_output#25
R5 min value is negative, either use unsigned or 'var &= const'

With this code, the verifier loses track of the variable.

Replacing arg5 with ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO is thus desirable since it
avoids this quite common case which leads to usability issues, and the
compiler generates code that the verifier can more easily test:

if (len <= 0x7fff)
        bpf_perf_event_output(ctx, &perf_map, 0, buf, len);

or

bpf_perf_event_output(ctx, &perf_map, 0, buf, len & 0x7fff);

No changes to the bpf_perf_event_output helper are necessary since it can
handle a case where size is 0, and an empty frame is pushed.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Gianluca Borello <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
---
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index ed8601a1a861..27d1f4ffa3de 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto = {
 	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_ANYTHING,
 	.arg4_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
-	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 };

 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs, bpf_pt_regs);
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto_tp = {
 	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_ANYTHING,
 	.arg4_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
-	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 };

 BPF_CALL_3(bpf_get_stackid_tp, void *, tp_buff, struct bpf_map *, map,