From 19bfcdf9498aa968ea293417fbbc39e523527ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 20:05:44 +0100 Subject: bpf: Relax tracing prog recursive attach rules Currently, it's not allowed to attach an fentry/fexit prog to another one fentry/fexit. At the same time it's not uncommon to see a tracing program with lots of logic in use, and the attachment limitation prevents usage of fentry/fexit for performance analysis (e.g. with "bpftool prog profile" command) in this case. An example could be falcosecurity libs project that uses tp_btf tracing programs. Following the corresponding discussion [1], the reason for that is to avoid tracing progs call cycles without introducing more complex solutions. But currently it seems impossible to load and attach tracing programs in a way that will form such a cycle. The limitation is coming from the fact that attach_prog_fd is specified at the prog load (thus making it impossible to attach to a program loaded after it in this way), as well as tracing progs not implementing link_detach. Replace "no same type" requirement with verification that no more than one level of attachment nesting is allowed. In this way only one fentry/fexit program could be attached to another fentry/fexit to cover profiling use case, and still no cycle could be formed. To implement, add a new field into bpf_prog_aux to track nested attachment for tracing programs. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191108064039.2041889-16-ast@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240103190559.14750-2-9erthalion6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/bpf/verifier.c') diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index d5f4ff1eb235..adbf330d364b 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -20317,6 +20317,7 @@ int bpf_check_attach_target(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, struct bpf_attach_target_info *tgt_info) { bool prog_extension = prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT; + bool prog_tracing = prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING; const char prefix[] = "btf_trace_"; int ret = 0, subprog = -1, i; const struct btf_type *t; @@ -20387,10 +20388,21 @@ int bpf_check_attach_target(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, bpf_log(log, "Can attach to only JITed progs\n"); return -EINVAL; } - if (tgt_prog->type == prog->type) { - /* Cannot fentry/fexit another fentry/fexit program. - * Cannot attach program extension to another extension. - * It's ok to attach fentry/fexit to extension program. + if (prog_tracing) { + if (aux->attach_tracing_prog) { + /* + * Target program is an fentry/fexit which is already attached + * to another tracing program. More levels of nesting + * attachment are not allowed. + */ + bpf_log(log, "Cannot nest tracing program attach more than once\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + } else if (tgt_prog->type == prog->type) { + /* + * To avoid potential call chain cycles, prevent attaching of a + * program extension to another extension. It's ok to attach + * fentry/fexit to extension program. */ bpf_log(log, "Cannot recursively attach\n"); return -EINVAL; @@ -20403,16 +20415,15 @@ int bpf_check_attach_target(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, * except fentry/fexit. The reason is the following. * The fentry/fexit programs are used for performance * analysis, stats and can be attached to any program - * type except themselves. When extension program is - * replacing XDP function it is necessary to allow - * performance analysis of all functions. Both original - * XDP program and its program extension. Hence - * attaching fentry/fexit to BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT is - * allowed. If extending of fentry/fexit was allowed it - * would be possible to create long call chain - * fentry->extension->fentry->extension beyond - * reasonable stack size. Hence extending fentry is not - * allowed. + * type. When extension program is replacing XDP function + * it is necessary to allow performance analysis of all + * functions. Both original XDP program and its program + * extension. Hence attaching fentry/fexit to + * BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT is allowed. If extending of + * fentry/fexit was allowed it would be possible to create + * long call chain fentry->extension->fentry->extension + * beyond reasonable stack size. Hence extending fentry + * is not allowed. */ bpf_log(log, "Cannot extend fentry/fexit\n"); return -EINVAL; -- cgit