Allow transferring an imbalanced RCU lock state between subprog calls
during verification. This allows patterns where a subprog call returns
with an RCU lock held, or a subprog call releases an RCU lock held by
the caller. Currently, the verifier would end up complaining if the RCU
lock is not released when processing an exit from a subprog, which is
non-ideal if its execution is supposed to be enclosed in an RCU read
section of the caller.
Instead, simply only check whether we are processing exit for frame#0
and do not complain on an active RCU lock otherwise. We only need to
update the check when processing BPF_EXIT insn, as copy_verifier_state
is already set up to do the right thing.
Suggested-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 64fa188d00ad..993712b9996b 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -17698,8 +17698,7 @@ static int do_check(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
return -EINVAL;
}
- if (env->cur_state->active_rcu_lock &&
- !in_rbtree_lock_required_cb(env)) {
+ if (env->cur_state->active_rcu_lock && !env->cur_state->curframe) {
verbose(env, "bpf_rcu_read_unlock is missing\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
--
2.40.1
