On 6/30/20 9:18 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:46 AM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote:Wenbo reported an issue in [1] where a checking of null pointer is evaluated as always false. In this particular case, the program type is tp_btf and the pointer to compare is a PTR_TO_BTF_ID. The current verifier considers PTR_TO_BTF_ID always reprents a non-null pointer, hence all PTR_TO_BTF_ID compares to 0 will be evaluated as always not-equal, which resulted in the branch elimination. For example, struct bpf_fentry_test_t { struct bpf_fentry_test_t *a; }; int BPF_PROG(test7, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg) { if (arg == 0) test7_result = 1; return 0; } int BPF_PROG(test8, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg) { if (arg->a == 0) test8_result = 1; return 0; } In above bpf programs, both branch arg == 0 and arg->a == 0 are removed. This may not be what developer expected. The bug is introduced by Commit cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ"), where PTR_TO_BTF_ID is considered to be non-null when evaluting pointer vs. scalar comparison. This may be added considering we have PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL in the verifier as well. PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL is added to explicitly requires a non-NULL testing in selective cases. The current generic pointer tracing framework in verifier always assigns PTR_TO_BTF_ID so users does not need to check NULL pointer at every pointer level like a->b->c->d. We may not want to assign every PTR_TO_BTF_ID as PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL as this will require a null test before pointer dereference which may cause inconvenience for developers. But we could avoid branch elimination to preserve original code intention. This patch simply removed PTR_TO_BTD_ID from reg_type_not_null() in verifier, which prevented the above branches from being eliminated. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/79dbb7c0-449d-83eb-5f4f-7af0cc269168@xxxxxx/T/ Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ") Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wenbo Zhang <ethercflow@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> ---You missed Reported-by: tag, please add.
Agree, fixed up manually (and also pulled in your ACKs, Andrii). Thanks, Daniel
