[RFC PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Relax tracing prog recursive attach rules

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Currently, it's not allowed to attach an fentry/fexit prog to another
one of the same type. At the same time it's not uncommon to see a
tracing program with lots of logic in use, and the attachment limitation
prevents usage of fentry/fexit for performance analysis (e.g. with
"bpftool prog profile" command) in this case. An example could be
falcosecurity libs project that uses tp_btf tracing programs.

Following the corresponding discussion [1], the reason for that is to
avoid tracing progs call cycles without introducing more complex
solutions. Relax "no same type" requirement to "no progs that are
already an attach target themselves" for the tracing type. In this way
only a standalone tracing program (without any other progs attached to
it) could be attached to another one, and no cycle could be formed. To
implement, add a new field into bpf_prog_aux to track the fact of
attachment in the target prog.

As a side effect of this change alone, one could create an unbounded
chain of tracing progs attached to each other. Similar issues between
fentry/fexit and extend progs are addressed via forbidding certain
combinations that could lead to similar chains. Introduce an
attach_depth field to limit the attachment chain, and display it in
bpftool.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191108064039.2041889-16-ast@xxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/bpf.h            |  2 ++
 include/uapi/linux/bpf.h       |  1 +
 kernel/bpf/syscall.c           |  8 +++++++-
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c          | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c       |  2 ++
 tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h |  1 +
 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index 4001d11be151..9fddb420cfe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_aux {
 	u32 real_func_cnt; /* includes hidden progs, only used for JIT and freeing progs */
 	u32 func_idx; /* 0 for non-func prog, the index in func array for func prog */
 	u32 attach_btf_id; /* in-kernel BTF type id to attach to */
+	u32 attach_depth; /* position of the prog in the attachment chain */
 	u32 ctx_arg_info_size;
 	u32 max_rdonly_access;
 	u32 max_rdwr_access;
@@ -1414,6 +1415,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_aux {
 	bool xdp_has_frags;
 	bool exception_cb;
 	bool exception_boundary;
+	bool followed; /* Another program is attached to it. */
 	/* BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO for valid attach_btf_id */
 	const struct btf_type *attach_func_proto;
 	/* function name for valid attach_btf_id */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 7cf8bcf9f6a2..aa6614547ef6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -6465,6 +6465,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_info {
 	__u32 verified_insns;
 	__u32 attach_btf_obj_id;
 	__u32 attach_btf_id;
+	__u32 attach_depth;
 } __attribute__((aligned(8)));
 
 struct bpf_map_info {
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 0ed286b8a0f0..fe2b4ef82623 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -3038,9 +3038,12 @@ static void bpf_tracing_link_release(struct bpf_link *link)
 
 	bpf_trampoline_put(tr_link->trampoline);
 
+	link->prog->aux->attach_depth--;
 	/* tgt_prog is NULL if target is a kernel function */
-	if (tr_link->tgt_prog)
+	if (tr_link->tgt_prog) {
+		tr_link->tgt_prog->aux->followed = false;
 		bpf_prog_put(tr_link->tgt_prog);
+	}
 }
 
 static void bpf_tracing_link_dealloc(struct bpf_link *link)
@@ -3235,6 +3238,8 @@ static int bpf_tracing_prog_attach(struct bpf_prog *prog,
 	if (err)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	tgt_prog->aux->followed = true;
+	prog->aux->attach_depth = tgt_prog->aux->attach_depth + 1;
 	err = bpf_trampoline_link_prog(&link->link, tr);
 	if (err) {
 		bpf_link_cleanup(&link_primer);
@@ -4509,6 +4514,7 @@ static int bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd(struct file *file,
 	if (prog->aux->btf)
 		info.btf_id = btf_obj_id(prog->aux->btf);
 	info.attach_btf_id = prog->aux->attach_btf_id;
+	info.attach_depth = prog->aux->attach_depth;
 	if (attach_btf)
 		info.attach_btf_obj_id = btf_obj_id(attach_btf);
 
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 9ae6eae13471..2c569083874f 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -20329,6 +20329,12 @@ int bpf_check_attach_target(struct bpf_verifier_log *log,
 	if (tgt_prog) {
 		struct bpf_prog_aux *aux = tgt_prog->aux;
 
+		if (aux->attach_depth >= 32) {
+			bpf_log(log, "Target program attach depth is %d. Too large\n",
+					aux->attach_depth);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
 		if (bpf_prog_is_dev_bound(prog->aux) &&
 		    !bpf_prog_dev_bound_match(prog, tgt_prog)) {
 			bpf_log(log, "Target program bound device mismatch");
@@ -20367,9 +20373,16 @@ int bpf_check_attach_target(struct bpf_verifier_log *log,
 			bpf_log(log, "Can attach to only JITed progs\n");
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
-		if (tgt_prog->type == prog->type) {
-			/* Cannot fentry/fexit another fentry/fexit program.
-			 * Cannot attach program extension to another extension.
+		if (tgt_prog->type == prog->type &&
+			(prog_extension || prog->aux->followed)) {
+			/*
+			 * To avoid potential call chain cycles, prevent attaching programs
+			 * of the same type. The only exception is standalone fentry/fexit
+			 * programs that themselves are not attachment targets.
+			 * That means:
+			 *  - Cannot attach followed fentry/fexit to another
+			 *    fentry/fexit program.
+			 *  - Cannot attach program extension to another extension.
 			 * It's ok to attach fentry/fexit to extension program.
 			 */
 			bpf_log(log, "Cannot recursively attach\n");
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
index 7ec4f5671e7a..24565e8bb825 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
@@ -554,6 +554,8 @@ static void print_prog_plain(struct bpf_prog_info *info, int fd)
 		printf("  memlock %sB", memlock);
 	free(memlock);
 
+	printf("  attach depth %d", info->attach_depth);
+
 	if (info->nr_map_ids)
 		show_prog_maps(fd, info->nr_map_ids);
 
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 7cf8bcf9f6a2..aa6614547ef6 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -6465,6 +6465,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_info {
 	__u32 verified_insns;
 	__u32 attach_btf_obj_id;
 	__u32 attach_btf_id;
+	__u32 attach_depth;
 } __attribute__((aligned(8)));
 
 struct bpf_map_info {

base-commit: 100888fb6d8a185866b1520031ee7e3182b173de
-- 
2.41.0





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