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authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2023-04-03 21:50:28 -0700
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2023-04-04 16:57:24 -0700
commitafeebf9f57a4965e0be90e4dc87f8f3a1417376d (patch)
tree679061f4657f58b3e59255e932f081f25d4018d5 /kernel/bpf
parent30ee9821f9430c34a6254134a5f0e8db227510be (diff)
bpf: Undo strict enforcement for walking untagged fields.
The commit 6fcd486b3a0a ("bpf: Refactor RCU enforcement in the verifier.") broke several tracing bpf programs. Even in clang compiled kernels there are many fields that are not marked with __rcu that are safe to read and pass into helpers, but the verifier doesn't know that they're safe. Aggressively marking them as PTR_UNTRUSTED was premature. Fixes: 6fcd486b3a0a ("bpf: Refactor RCU enforcement in the verifier.") Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230404045029.82870-8-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/bpf')
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/verifier.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index fd90ba498ccc..56f569811f70 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -4974,6 +4974,11 @@ static bool is_rcu_reg(const struct bpf_reg_state *reg)
return reg->type & MEM_RCU;
}
+static void clear_trusted_flags(enum bpf_type_flag *flag)
+{
+ *flag &= ~(BPF_REG_TRUSTED_MODIFIERS | MEM_RCU);
+}
+
static int check_pkt_ptr_alignment(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
const struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
int off, int size, bool strict)
@@ -5602,8 +5607,8 @@ static int check_ptr_to_btf_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
} else if (flag & (MEM_PERCPU | MEM_USER)) {
/* keep as-is */
} else {
- /* walking unknown pointers yields untrusted pointer */
- flag = PTR_UNTRUSTED;
+ /* walking unknown pointers yields old deprecated PTR_TO_BTF_ID */
+ clear_trusted_flags(&flag);
}
} else {
/*
@@ -5617,7 +5622,7 @@ static int check_ptr_to_btf_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
}
} else {
/* Old compat. Deprecated */
- flag &= ~PTR_TRUSTED;
+ clear_trusted_flags(&flag);
}
if (atype == BPF_READ && value_regno >= 0)