On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 3:43 PM Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the next patch, we will introduce a new helper 'bpf_packet_pointer'
> that takes offset and len and returns a packet pointer. There we want to
> statically enforce offset is in range [0, 0xffff], and that len is a
> constant value, in range [1, 0xffff]. This also helps us avoid a
> pointless runtime check. To make these checks possible, we need to
> ensure we only get a scalar type. Although a lot of other argument types
> take scalars, their intent is different. Hence add general ARG_SCALAR
> and ARG_CONSTANT types, where the latter is also checked to be constant
> in addition to being scalar.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/bpf.h | 2 ++
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
> index 88449fbbe063..7841d90b83df 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bpf.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
> @@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ enum bpf_arg_type {
> ARG_PTR_TO_STACK, /* pointer to stack */
> ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR, /* pointer to a null terminated read-only string */
> ARG_PTR_TO_TIMER, /* pointer to bpf_timer */
> + ARG_SCALAR, /* a scalar with any value(s) */
What's the difference between ARG_ANYTHING and ARG_SCALAR?
> + ARG_CONSTANT, /* a scalar with constant value */
This ARG_CONSTANT serves a very similar purpose as
ARG_CONST_ALLOC_SIZE_OR_ZERO, tbh. The only difference is that one is
used to set meta->mem_size and this one is used (through extra func_id
special handling) to set meta->ret_pkt_len. But meta->mem_size and
meta->ret_pkt_len mean the same thing: how many bytes are directly
accessible through a pointer returned from the helper. So I feel like
there is some opportunity to unify and generalize, instead of adding
more custom variants of constants. WDYT?
> __BPF_ARG_TYPE_MAX,
>
> /* Extended arg_types. */
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index ec3a7b6c9515..0373d5bd240f 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -5163,6 +5163,12 @@ static bool arg_type_is_int_ptr(enum bpf_arg_type type)
> type == ARG_PTR_TO_LONG;
> }
>
> +static bool arg_type_is_scalar(enum bpf_arg_type type)
> +{
> + return type == ARG_SCALAR ||
> + type == ARG_CONSTANT;
> +}
> +
> static int int_ptr_type_to_size(enum bpf_arg_type type)
> {
> if (type == ARG_PTR_TO_INT)
> @@ -5302,6 +5308,8 @@ static const struct bpf_reg_types *compatible_reg_types[__BPF_ARG_TYPE_MAX] = {
> [ARG_PTR_TO_STACK] = &stack_ptr_types,
> [ARG_PTR_TO_CONST_STR] = &const_str_ptr_types,
> [ARG_PTR_TO_TIMER] = &timer_types,
> + [ARG_SCALAR] = &scalar_types,
> + [ARG_CONSTANT] = &scalar_types,
> };
>
> static int check_reg_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
> @@ -5635,6 +5643,11 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 arg,
> verbose(env, "string is not zero-terminated\n");
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> + } else if (arg_type_is_scalar(arg_type)) {
> + if (arg_type == ARG_CONSTANT && !tnum_is_const(reg->var_off)) {
> + verbose(env, "R%d is not a known constant\n", regno);
> + return -EACCES;
> + }
> }
>
> return err;
> --
> 2.35.1
>
