Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v5 1/2] bpf: allow map helpers access to map values directly

From: Paul Chaignon via iovisor-dev <iovisor-dev-9jONkmmOlFHEE9lA1F8Ukti2O/[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:07:54 +0200

Helpers that expect ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY and ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE can only
access stack and packet memory.  Allow these helpers to directly access
map values by passing registers of type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE.

This change removes the need for an extra copy to the stack when using a
map value to perform a second map lookup, as in the following:

struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") infobyreq = {
    .type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASHMAP,
    .key_size = sizeof(struct request *),
    .value_size = sizeof(struct info_t),
    .max_entries = 1024,
};
struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") counts = {
    .type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASHMAP,
    .key_size = sizeof(struct info_t),
    .value_size = sizeof(u64),
    .max_entries = 1024,
};
SEC("kprobe/blk_account_io_start")
int bpf_blk_account_io_start(struct pt_regs *ctx)
{
    struct info_t *info = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&infobyreq, &ctx->di);
    u64 *count = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&counts, info);
    (*count)++;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <[email-masked]>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 24 +++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 5dd1dcb..eb1a596 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -1914,7 +1914,7 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
 	if (arg_type == ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY ||
 	    arg_type == ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE) {
 		expected_type = PTR_TO_STACK;
-		if (!type_is_pkt_pointer(type) &&
+		if (!type_is_pkt_pointer(type) && type != PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE &&
 		    type != expected_type)
 			goto err_type;
 	} else if (arg_type == ARG_CONST_SIZE ||
@@ -1966,14 +1966,9 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
 			verbose(env, "invalid map_ptr to access map->key\n");
 			return -EACCES;
 		}
-		if (type_is_pkt_pointer(type))
-			err = check_packet_access(env, regno, reg->off,
-						  meta->map_ptr->key_size,
-						  false);
-		else
-			err = check_stack_boundary(env, regno,
-						   meta->map_ptr->key_size,
-						   false, NULL);
+		err = check_helper_mem_access(env, regno,
+					      meta->map_ptr->key_size, false,
+					      NULL);
 	} else if (arg_type == ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE) {
 		/* bpf_map_xxx(..., map_ptr, ..., value) call:
 		 * check [value, value + map->value_size) validity
@@ -1983,14 +1978,9 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
 			verbose(env, "invalid map_ptr to access map->value\n");
 			return -EACCES;
 		}
-		if (type_is_pkt_pointer(type))
-			err = check_packet_access(env, regno, reg->off,
-						  meta->map_ptr->value_size,
-						  false);
-		else
-			err = check_stack_boundary(env, regno,
-						   meta->map_ptr->value_size,
-						   false, NULL);
+		err = check_helper_mem_access(env, regno,
+					      meta->map_ptr->value_size, false,
+					      NULL);
 	} else if (arg_type_is_mem_size(arg_type)) {
 		bool zero_size_allowed = (arg_type == ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO);
 
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