bpf: Add 'release on unlock' logic for bpf_list_push_{front,back}

This commit implements the delayed release logic for bpf_list_push_front
and bpf_list_push_back.

Once a node has been added to the list, it's pointer changes to
PTR_UNTRUSTED. However, it is only released once the lock protecting the
list is unlocked. For such PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC with PTR_UNTRUSTED
set but an active ref_obj_id, it is still permitted to read them as long
as the lock is held. Writing to them is not allowed.

This allows having read access to push items we no longer own until we
release the lock guarding the list, allowing a little more flexibility
when working with these APIs.

Note that enabling write support has fairly tricky interactions with
what happens inside the critical section. Just as an example, currently,
bpf_obj_drop is not permitted, but if it were, being able to write to
the PTR_UNTRUSTED pointer while the object gets released back to the
memory allocator would violate safety properties we wish to guarantee
(i.e. not crashing the kernel). The memory could be reused for a
different type in the BPF program or even in the kernel as it gets
eventually kfree'd.

Not enabling bpf_obj_drop inside the critical section would appear to
prevent all of the above, but that is more of an artifical limitation
right now. Since the write support is tangled with how we handle
potential aliasing of nodes inside the critical section that may or may
not be part of the list anymore, it has been deferred to a future patch.

Acked-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118015614.2013203-18-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
index 3dc72d396dfc..23f30c685f28 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ struct bpf_reference_state {
 	 * exiting a callback function.
 	 */
 	int callback_ref;
+	/* Mark the reference state to release the registers sharing the same id
+	 * on bpf_spin_unlock (for nodes that we will lose ownership to but are
+	 * safe to access inside the critical section).
+	 */
+	bool release_on_unlock;
 };
 
 /* state of the program: