Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/4] bpf: Improve verifier JEQ/JNE insn branch taken checking

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On 4/6/23 12:44 PM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Currently, for BPF_JEQ/BPF_JNE insn, verifier determines
> whether the branch is taken or not only if both operands
> are constants. Therefore, for the following code snippet,
>   0: (85) call bpf_ktime_get_ns#5       ; R0_w=scalar()
>   1: (a5) if r0 < 0x3 goto pc+2         ; R0_w=scalar(umin=3)
>   2: (b7) r2 = 2                        ; R2_w=2
>   3: (1d) if r0 == r2 goto pc+2 6
> 
> At insn 3, since r0 is not a constant, verifier assumes both branch
> can be taken which may lead inproper verification failure.
> 
> Add comparing umin/umax value and the constant. If the umin value
> is greater than the constant, or umax value is smaller than the constant,
> for JEQ the branch must be not-taken, and for JNE the branch must be taken.
> The jmp32 mode JEQ/JNE branch taken checking is also handled similarly.
> 
> The following lists the veristat result w.r.t. changed number
> of processes insns during verification:
> 
> File                                                   Program                                               Insns (A)  Insns (B)  Insns    (DIFF)
> -----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------  ---------  ---------  ---------------
> test_cls_redirect.bpf.linked3.o                        cls_redirect                                              64980      73472  +8492 (+13.07%)
> test_seg6_loop.bpf.linked3.o                           __add_egr_x                                               12425      12423      -2 (-0.02%)
> test_tcp_hdr_options.bpf.linked3.o                     estab                                                      2634       2558     -76 (-2.89%)
> test_parse_tcp_hdr_opt.bpf.linked3.o                   xdp_ingress_v6                                             1421       1420      -1 (-0.07%)
> test_parse_tcp_hdr_opt_dynptr.bpf.linked3.o            xdp_ingress_v6                                             1238       1237      -1 (-0.08%)
> test_tc_dtime.bpf.linked3.o                            egress_fwdns_prio100                                        414        411      -3 (-0.72%)
> 
> Mostly a small improvement but test_cls_redirect.bpf.linked3.o has a 13% regression.
> I checked with verifier log and found it this is due to pruning.
> For some JEQ/JNE branches impacted by this patch,
> one branch is explored and the other has state equivalence and
> pruned.

Can you elaborate a bit on this insn increase caused by pruning?

My naive reading of this: there was some state exploration that was
previously pruned due to is_branch_taken returning indeterminate
value (-1), and now that it can concretely say branch is/isn't taken,
states which would've been considered equivalent no longer are.
Is that accurate?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> ---

Regardless,

Acked-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@xxxxxx>



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