Merge branch 'bpf-fix-null-arg-semantics'

Gianluca Borello says:

====================
This set includes some fixes in semantics and usability issues that emerged
recently, and would be good to have them in net before the next release.

In particular, ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO semantics was recently changed in
commit 9fd29c08e520 ("bpf: improve verifier ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO
semantics") with the goal of letting the compiler generate simpler code
that the verifier can more easily accept.

To handle this change in semantics, a few checks in some helpers were
added, like in commit 9c019e2bc4b2 ("bpf: change helper bpf_probe_read arg2
type to ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO"), and those checks are less than ideal
because once they make it into a released kernel bpf programs can start
relying on them, preventing the possibility of being removed later on.

This patch tries to fix the issue by introducing a new argument type
ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL that can be used for helpers that can receive a
<NULL, 0> tuple. By doing so, we can fix the semantics of the other helpers
that don't need <NULL, 0> and can just handle <!NULL, 0>, allowing the code
to get rid of those checks.
====================

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index a5580c670866..27d1f4ffa3de 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -78,16 +78,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_call_bpf);
 
 BPF_CALL_3(bpf_probe_read, void *, dst, u32, size, const void *, unsafe_ptr)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	if (unlikely(size == 0))
-		goto out;
+	int ret;
 
 	ret = probe_kernel_read(dst, unsafe_ptr, size);
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0))
 		memset(dst, 0, size);
 
- out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -407,7 +403,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto = {
 	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_ANYTHING,
 	.arg4_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
-	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 };
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs, bpf_pt_regs);
@@ -498,7 +494,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_probe_read_str_proto = {
 	.gpl_only	= true,
 	.ret_type	= RET_INTEGER,
 	.arg1_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM,
-	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_ANYTHING,
 };
 
@@ -609,7 +605,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto_tp = {
 	.arg2_type	= ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR,
 	.arg3_type	= ARG_ANYTHING,
 	.arg4_type	= ARG_PTR_TO_MEM,
-	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+	.arg5_type	= ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
 };
 
 BPF_CALL_3(bpf_get_stackid_tp, void *, tp_buff, struct bpf_map *, map,