Re: [RFCv2 PATCH bpf-next 01/18] bpf: Add verifier support for custom callback return range

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On 9/6/22 9:53 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 9/6/22 4:42 PM, Dave Marchevsky wrote:
>> On 9/1/22 5:01 PM, Joanne Koong wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:03 AM Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Verifier logic to confirm that a callback function returns 0 or 1 was
>>>> added in commit 69c087ba6225b ("bpf: Add bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper").
>>>> At the time, callback return value was only used to continue or stop
>>>> iteration.
>>>>
>>>> In order to support callbacks with a broader return value range, such as
>>>> those added further in this series, add a callback_ret_range to
>>>> bpf_func_state. Verifier's helpers which set in_callback_fn will also
>>>> set the new field, which the verifier will later use to check return
>>>> value bounds.
>>>>
>>>> Default to tnum_range(0, 1) instead of using tnum_unknown as a sentinel
>>>> value as the latter would prevent the valid range (0, U64_MAX) being
>>>> used.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@xxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>   include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 1 +
>>>>   kernel/bpf/verifier.c        | 4 +++-
>>>>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
>>>> index 2e3bad8640dc..9c017575c034 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
>>>> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ struct bpf_func_state {
>>>>           */
>>>>          u32 async_entry_cnt;
>>>>          bool in_callback_fn;
>>>> +       struct tnum callback_ret_range;
>>>>          bool in_async_callback_fn;
>>>>
>>>>          /* The following fields should be last. See copy_func_state() */
>>>> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
>>>> index 9bef8b41e737..68bfa7c28048 100644
>>>> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
>>>> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
>>>> @@ -1745,6 +1745,7 @@ static void init_func_state(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
>>>>          state->callsite = callsite;
>>>>          state->frameno = frameno;
>>>>          state->subprogno = subprogno;
>>>> +       state->callback_ret_range = tnum_range(0, 1);
>>>>          init_reg_state(env, state);
>>>>          mark_verifier_state_scratched(env);
>>>>   }
>>>> @@ -6879,6 +6880,7 @@ static int set_find_vma_callback_state(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
>>>>          __mark_reg_not_init(env, &callee->regs[BPF_REG_4]);
>>>>          __mark_reg_not_init(env, &callee->regs[BPF_REG_5]);
>>>>          callee->in_callback_fn = true;
>>>> +       callee->callback_ret_range = tnum_range(0, 1);
>>>
>>> Thanks for removing this restriction for callback functions!
>>>
>>> One quick question: is this line above needed? I think in
>>> __check_func_call, we always call init_func_state() first before
>>> calling set_find_vma_callback_state(), so after the init_func_state()
>>> call, the callee->callback_ret_range will already be set to
>>> tnum_range(0,1).
>>>
>>
>> You're right, it's not strictly necessary. I think that the default range being
>> tnum_range(0, 1) - although necessary for backwards compat - is unintuitive. So
>> decided to be explicit with existing callbacks so folks didn't have to go
>> searching for the default to understand what the ret_range is, and it's more
>> obvious that callback_ret_range should be changed if existing helper code is
>> reused.
> 
> Maybe then it's better to keep callback_ret_range as range(0,0)
> in init_func_state() to nudge/force other places to set it explicitly ?

tnum_range(0, 0) sounds good to me.

Would you like me to send this separately with that change, so it can be applied
independently of rest of these changes?



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