Re: [PATCH 0/3] fixes for concurrent htab updates

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Oops, forget to add bpf prefix for the patchset.

On 8/21/2022 11:32 AM, Hou Tao wrote:
> From: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> The patchset aims to fix the issues found during investigating the
> syzkaller problem reported in [0]. It seems that the normally concurrent
> updates in the same hash-table are disallowed as shown in patch 1.
>
> Patch 1 uses preempt_disable() to fix the problem to !PREEMPT_RT case.
>
> Patch 2 introduces an extra bpf_map_busy bit in task_struct to
> detect the re-entrancy of htab_lock_bucket() and allow concurrent map
> updates due to preemption in PREEMPT_RT case. It is coarse-grained
> compared with map_locked in !PREEMPT_RT case, because if two different
> maps are manipulated the re-entrancy is still be rejected. But
> considering Alexei is working on "BPF specific memory allocator" [1],
> and the !htab_use_raw_lock() case can be removed after the patchset is
> landed, so I think may be it is fine and hope to get some more feedback
> about the proposed fix in patch 2.
>
> Patch 3 just fixes the out-of-bound memory read problem reported in [0].
> Once patch 1 & patch 2 are merged, htab_lock_bucket() will always
> succeed for userspace process, but it is better to handle it gracefully.
>
> Selftests will be added after getting more feedback about the patchset
> and comments are always welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Tao
>
> [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACkBjsbuxaR6cv0kXJoVnBfL9ZJXjjoUcMpw_Ogc313jSrg14A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220819214232.18784-1-alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Hou Tao (3):
>   bpf: Disable preemption when increasing per-cpu map_locked
>   bpf: Allow normally concurrent map updates for !htab_use_raw_lock()
>     case
>   bpf: Propagate error from htab_lock_bucket() to userspace
>
>  include/linux/sched.h |  3 +++
>  kernel/bpf/hashtab.c  | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>




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