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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, ast@kernel•org, kubakici@wp•pl
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 net-next 04/15] bpf: don't (ab)use instructions to store state
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:55:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57E05EE5.9050607@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160919224812.7a4b90b8@jkicinski-Precision-T1700>

On 09/19/2016 11:48 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:44:50 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 09/19/2016 11:36 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:03:17 +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>>> On 09/18/2016 05:09 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>>>> Storing state in reserved fields of instructions makes
>>>>> it impossible to run verifier on programs already
>>>>> marked as read-only. Allocate and use an array of
>>>>> per-instruction state instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> While touching the error path rename and move existing
>>>>> jump target.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel•org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>
>>>>> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel•org>
>>>>> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
>>>>
>>>> I believe there's still an issue here. Could you please double check
>>>> and confirm?
>>>>
>>>> I rebased my locally pending stuff on top of your set and suddenly my
>>>> test case breaks. So I did a bisect and it pointed me to this commit
>>>> eventually.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>> @@ -2697,11 +2706,8 @@ static int convert_ctx_accesses(struct verifier_env *env)
>>>>>     		else
>>>>>     			continue;
>>>>>
>>>>> -		if (insn->imm != PTR_TO_CTX) {
>>>>> -			/* clear internal mark */
>>>>> -			insn->imm = 0;
>>>>> +		if (env->insn_aux_data[i].ptr_type != PTR_TO_CTX)
>>>>>     			continue;
>>>>> -		}
>>>>>
>>>>>     		cnt = env->prog->aux->ops->
>>>>>     			convert_ctx_access(type, insn->dst_reg, insn->src_reg,
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the code, I believe the issue is in above snippet. In the
>>>> convert_ctx_accesses() rewrite loop, each time we bpf_patch_insn_single()
>>>> a program, the program can grow in size (due to __sk_buff access rewrite,
>>>> for example). After rewrite, we do 'i += insn_delta' for adjustment to
>>>> process next insn.
>>>>
>>>> However, env->insn_aux_data is alloced under the assumption that the
>>>> very initial, pre-verification prog->len doesn't change, right? So in
>>>> the above conversion access to env->insn_aux_data[i].ptr_type is off,
>>>> since after rewrites, corresponding mappings to ptr_type might not be
>>>> related anymore.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed this with direct packet access where suddenly the data vs
>>>> data_end test failed and contained some "semi-random" value always
>>>> bailing out for me.
>>>
>>> You are correct.  Should I respin or would you like to post your set? :)
>>
>> Heh, if you don't mind I would go ahead tonight, the conflict at two spots
>> when exposing verifier is really minor turns out. Are you okay with this?
>
> Yes, please go ahead :)

Ok, thanks!

>> What's the plan wrt env->insn_aux_data? Realloc plus rewrite of the array,
>> or do you see a more straight forward solution?
>
> I was thinking about something like this: (untested)

Yep, much better. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-18 15:09 [PATCHv6 net-next 00/15] BPF hardware offload (cls_bpf for now) Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 01/15] net: cls_bpf: add hardware offload Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 02/15] net: cls_bpf: limit hardware offload by software-only flag Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 03/15] net: cls_bpf: add support for marking filters as hardware-only Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 04/15] bpf: don't (ab)use instructions to store state Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-19 21:03   ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-09-19 21:36     ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-19 21:44       ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-09-19 21:48         ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-19 21:55           ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 05/15] bpf: expose internal verfier structures Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 06/15] bpf: enable non-core use of the verfier Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 07/15] bpf: recognize 64bit immediate loads as consts Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 08/15] nfp: add BPF to NFP code translator Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:44   ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 09/15] nfp: bpf: add hardware bpf offload Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 10/15] net: cls_bpf: allow offloaded filters to update stats Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 11/15] nfp: bpf: " Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 12/15] nfp: bpf: add packet marking support Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 13/15] net: act_mirred: allow statistic updates from offloaded actions Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 14/15] nfp: bpf: add support for legacy redirect action Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-18 15:09 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 15/15] nfp: bpf: add offload of TC direct action mode Jakub Kicinski
2016-09-20  2:08 ` [PATCHv6 net-next 00/15] BPF hardware offload (cls_bpf for now) David Miller

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