Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Test __ksym externs with BTF

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>
> This should ideally look like a real global variable extern:
>
> extern const struct rq runqueues __ksym;
>
>
> But that's the case for non-per-cpu variables. You didn't seem to
> address per-CPU variables in this patch set. How did you intend to
> handle that? We should look at a possible BPF helper to access such
> variables as well and how the verifier will prevent direct memory
> accesses for such variables.
>
> We should have some BPF helper that accepts per-CPU PTR_TO_BTF_ID, and
> returns PTR_TO_BTF_ID, but adjusted to desired CPU. And verifier
> ideally would allow direct memory access on that resulting
> PTR_TO_BTF_ID, but not on per-CPU one. Not sure yet how this should
> look like, but the verifier probably needs to know that variable
> itself is per-cpu, no?
>

Yes, that's what I was unclear about, so I don't have that part in
this patchset. But your explanation helped me organize my thoughts. :)

Actually, the verifier can tell whether a var is percpu from the
DATASEC, since we have encoded "percpu" DATASEC in btf. I think the
following should work:

We may introduce a new PTR_TO_BTF_VAR_ID. In ld_imm, libbpf replaces
ksyms with btf_id. The btf id points to a KIND_VAR. If the pointed VAR
is found in the "percpu" DATASEC, dst_reg is set to PTR_TO_BTF_VAR_ID;
otherwise, it will be a PTR_TO_BTF_ID. For PTR_TO_BTF_VAR_ID,
reg->btf_id is the id of the VAR. For PTR_TO_BTF_ID, reg->btf_id is
the id of the actual kernel type. The verifier would reject direct
memory access on PTR_TO_BTF_VAR_ID, but the new BPF helper can convert
a PTR_TO_BTF_VAR_ID to PTR_TO_BTF_ID.

Hao



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