This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bpf: don't infer PTR_TO_CTX for programs with unnamed context type
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bpf-don-t-infer-ptr_to_ctx-for-programs-with-unnamed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8e930f866ee3073886b5076e3eb35547c7566789
Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 12 15:32:20 2024 -0800
bpf: don't infer PTR_TO_CTX for programs with unnamed context type
[ Upstream commit 879bbe7aa4afa80acf72a1cad7f52416ea78c52d ]
For program types that don't have named context type name (e.g., BPF
iterator programs or tracepoint programs), ctx_tname will be a non-NULL
empty string. For such programs it shouldn't be possible to have
PTR_TO_CTX argument for global subprogs based on type name alone.
arg:ctx tag is the only way to have PTR_TO_CTX passed into global
subprog for such program types.
Fix this loophole, which currently would assume PTR_TO_CTX whenever
user uses a pointer to anonymous struct as an argument to their global
subprogs. This happens in practice with the following (quite common, in
practice) approach:
typedef struct { /* anonymous */
int x;
} my_type_t;
int my_subprog(my_type_t *arg) { ... }
User's intent is to have PTR_TO_MEM argument for `arg`, but verifier
will complain about expecting PTR_TO_CTX.
This fix also closes unintended s390x-specific KPROBE handling of
PTR_TO_CTX case. Selftest change is necessary to accommodate this.
Fixes: 91cc1a99740e ("bpf: Annotate context types")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240212233221.2575350-4-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
index 7582ec4fd4131..73c36ff758b5e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
@@ -5135,6 +5135,9 @@ btf_get_prog_ctx_type(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, const struct btf *btf,
bpf_log(log, "Please fix kernel include/linux/bpf_types.h\n");
return NULL;
}
+ /* program types without named context types work only with arg:ctx tag */
+ if (ctx_tname[0] == '\0')
+ return false;
/* only compare that prog's ctx type name is the same as
* kernel expects. No need to compare field by field.
* It's ok for bpf prog to do:
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_global_func_ctx_args.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_global_func_ctx_args.c
index 7faa8eef0598b..144d30e654ad2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_global_func_ctx_args.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_global_func_ctx_args.c
@@ -26,6 +26,23 @@ int kprobe_typedef_ctx(void *ctx)
return kprobe_typedef_ctx_subprog(ctx);
}
+/* s390x defines:
+ *
+ * typedef user_pt_regs bpf_user_pt_regs_t;
+ * typedef struct { ... } user_pt_regs;
+ *
+ * And so "canonical" underlying struct type is anonymous.
+ * So on s390x only valid ways to have PTR_TO_CTX argument in global subprogs
+ * are:
+ * - bpf_user_pt_regs_t *ctx (typedef);
+ * - struct bpf_user_pt_regs_t *ctx (backwards compatible struct hack);
+ * - void *ctx __arg_ctx (arg:ctx tag)
+ *
+ * Other architectures also allow using underlying struct types (e.g.,
+ * `struct pt_regs *ctx` for x86-64)
+ */
+#ifndef bpf_target_s390
+
#define pt_regs_struct_t typeof(*(__PT_REGS_CAST((struct pt_regs *)NULL)))
__weak int kprobe_struct_ctx_subprog(pt_regs_struct_t *ctx)
@@ -40,6 +57,8 @@ int kprobe_resolved_ctx(void *ctx)
return kprobe_struct_ctx_subprog(ctx);
}
+#endif
+
/* this is current hack to make this work on old kernels */
struct bpf_user_pt_regs_t {};
