Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 2/5] bpf: Introduce sleepable BPF programs

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Em Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:21:13AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +1, I think augmenting mid-term would be the best given check_sleepable_blacklist()
> > is rather a very fragile workaround^hack and it's also a generic lsm/sec hooks issue
> 
> I tried to make that crystal clear back in march during bpf virtual conference.
> imo whitelist is just as fragile as blacklist. Underlying
> implementation can change.
> 
> > (at least for BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM type & for the sake of documenting it for other LSMs).
> > Perhaps there are function attributes that could be used and later retrieved via BTF?
> 
> Even if we convince gcc folks to add another function attribute it
> won't appear in dwarf.

Warning, hack ahead!

Perhaps we could do that with some sort of convention, i.e. define some
type and make a function returning that type to have the desired
attribute?

I.e.

typedef __attribute__foo__int int;

__attribute__foo__int function_bla(...)
{
}

?

> So we won't be able to convert it to BTF in pahole.
> Looking at how we failed to extend address_space() attribute to
> support existing __rcu
> and __user annotations I don't have high hopes of achieving annotations
> via compiler (either gcc or clang). So plan B is to engage with sparse folks and
> make it emit BTF with __rcu, __user and other annotations.

-- 

- Arnaldo



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