There are some common properties shared between bpf reg, ret and arg
values. For instance, a value may be a NULL pointer, or a pointer to
a read-only memory. Previously, to express these properties, enumeration
was used. For example, in order to test whether a reg value can be NULL,
reg_type_may_be_null() simply enumerates all types that are possibly
NULL. The problem of this approach is that it's not scalable and causes
a lot of duplication. These properties can be combined, for example, a
type could be either MAYBE_NULL or RDONLY, or both.
This patch series rewrites the layout of reg_type, arg_type and
ret_type, so that common properties can be extracted and represented as
composable flag. For example, one can write
ARG_PTR_TO_MEM | PTR_MAYBE_NULL
which is equivalent to the previous
ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL
The type ARG_PTR_TO_MEM are called "base types" in this patch. Base
types can be extended with flags. A flag occupies the higher bits while
base types sits in the lower bits.
This patch in particular sets up a set of macro for this purpose. The
followed patches rewrites arg_types, ret_types and reg_types
respectively.
Signed-off-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/bpf.h | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index cc7a0c36e7df..b592b3f7d223 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -297,6 +297,37 @@ bool bpf_map_meta_equal(const struct bpf_map *meta0,
extern const struct bpf_map_ops bpf_map_offload_ops;
+/* bpf_type_flag contains a set of flags that are applicable to the values of
+ * arg_type, ret_type and reg_type. For example, a pointer value may be null,
+ * or a memory is read-only. We classify types into two categories: base types
+ * and extended types. Extended types are base types combined with a type flag.
+ *
+ * Currently there are no more than 32 base types in arg_type, ret_type and
+ * reg_types.
+ */
+#define BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS 8
+
+enum bpf_type_flag {
+ /* PTR may be NULL. */
+ PTR_MAYBE_NULL = BIT(0 + BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS),
+
+ __BPF_TYPE_LAST_FLAG = PTR_MAYBE_NULL,
+};
+
+#define BPF_BASE_TYPE_MASK GENMASK(BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS, 0)
+
+/* Max number of base types. */
+#define BPF_BASE_TYPE_LIMIT (1UL << BPF_BASE_TYPE_BITS)
+
+/* Max number of all types. */
+#define BPF_TYPE_LIMIT (__BPF_TYPE_LAST_FLAG | (__BPF_TYPE_LAST_FLAG - 1))
+
+/* extract base type. */
+#define BPF_BASE_TYPE(x) ((x) & BPF_BASE_TYPE_MASK)
+
+/* extract flags from an extended type. */
+#define BPF_TYPE_FLAG(x) ((enum bpf_type_flag)((x) & ~BPF_BASE_TYPE_MASK))
+
/* function argument constraints */
enum bpf_arg_type {
ARG_DONTCARE = 0, /* unused argument in helper function */
@@ -343,7 +374,13 @@ enum bpf_arg_type {
ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR, /* pointer to a null terminated read-only string */
ARG_PTR_TO_TIMER, /* pointer to bpf_timer */
__BPF_ARG_TYPE_MAX,
+
+ /* This must be the last entry. Its purpose is to ensure the enum is
+ * wide enough to hold the higher bits reserved for bpf_type_flag.
+ */
+ __BPF_ARG_TYPE_LIMIT = BPF_TYPE_LIMIT,
};
+static_assert(__BPF_ARG_TYPE_MAX <= BPF_BASE_TYPE_LIMIT);
/* type of values returned from helper functions */
enum bpf_return_type {
@@ -359,7 +396,14 @@ enum bpf_return_type {
RET_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_BTF_ID_OR_NULL, /* returns a pointer to a valid memory or a btf_id or NULL */
RET_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_BTF_ID, /* returns a pointer to a valid memory or a btf_id */
RET_PTR_TO_BTF_ID, /* returns a pointer to a btf_id */
+ __BPF_RET_TYPE_MAX,
+
+ /* This must be the last entry. Its purpose is to ensure the enum is
+ * wide enough to hold the higher bits reserved for bpf_type_flag.
+ */
+ __BPF_RET_TYPE_LIMIT = BPF_TYPE_LIMIT,
};
+static_assert(__BPF_RET_TYPE_MAX <= BPF_BASE_TYPE_LIMIT);
/* eBPF function prototype used by verifier to allow BPF_CALLs from eBPF programs
* to in-kernel helper functions and for adjusting imm32 field in BPF_CALL
@@ -461,7 +505,13 @@ enum bpf_reg_type {
PTR_TO_FUNC, /* reg points to a bpf program function */
PTR_TO_MAP_KEY, /* reg points to a map element key */
__BPF_REG_TYPE_MAX,
+
+ /* This must be the last entry. Its purpose is to ensure the enum is
+ * wide enough to hold the higher bits reserved for bpf_type_flag.
+ */
+ __BPF_REG_TYPE_LIMIT = BPF_TYPE_LIMIT,
};
+static_assert(__BPF_REG_TYPE_MAX <= BPF_BASE_TYPE_LIMIT);
/* The information passed from prog-specific *_is_valid_access
* back to the verifier.
--
2.34.0.384.gca35af8252-goog
