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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2020-10-29T09:08:24Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Limit caller's stack depth 256 for subprogs with tailcalls</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T09:08:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej Fijalkowski</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T21:10:07Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7f6e4312e15a5c370e84eaa685879b6bdcc717e4 ]

Protect against potential stack overflow that might happen when bpf2bpf
calls get combined with tailcalls. Limit the caller's stack depth for
such case down to 256 so that the worst case scenario would result in 8k
stack size (32 which is tailcall limit * 256 = 8k).

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski &lt;maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: disallow attaching modify_return tracing functions to other BPF programs</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T09:07:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-25T21:25:00Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1af9270e908cd50a4f5d815c9b6f794c7d57ed07 ]

From the checks and commit messages for modify_return, it seems it was
never the intention that it should be possible to attach a tracing program
with expected_attach_type == BPF_MODIFY_RETURN to another BPF program.
However, check_attach_modify_return() will only look at the function name,
so if the target function starts with "security_", the attach will be
allowed even for bpf2bpf attachment.

Fix this oversight by also blocking the modification if a target program is
supplied.

Fixes: 18644cec714a ("bpf: Fix use-after-free in fmod_ret check")
Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix scalar32_min_max_or bounds tracking</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T09:55:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-07T13:48:58Z</published>
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commit 5b9fbeb75b6a98955f628e205ac26689bcb1383e upstream.

Simon reported an issue with the current scalar32_min_max_or() implementation.
That is, compared to the other 32 bit subreg tracking functions, the code in
scalar32_min_max_or() stands out that it's using the 64 bit registers instead
of 32 bit ones. This leads to bounds tracking issues, for example:

  [...]
  8: R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  8: (79) r1 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0)
   R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  9: R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R1_w=inv(id=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  9: (b7) r0 = 1
  10: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  10: (18) r2 = 0x600000002
  12: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  12: (ad) if r1 &lt; r2 goto pc+1
   R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=25769803778) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  13: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=25769803778) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  13: (95) exit
  14: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=25769803777,var_off=(0x0; 0x7ffffffff)) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  14: (25) if r1 &gt; 0x0 goto pc+1
   R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=0,var_off=(0x0; 0x7fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  15: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=0,var_off=(0x0; 0x7fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  15: (95) exit
  16: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=1,umax_value=25769803777,var_off=(0x0; 0x77fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  16: (47) r1 |= 0
  17: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=1,umax_value=32212254719,var_off=(0x1; 0x700000000),s32_max_value=1,u32_max_value=1) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  [...]

The bound tests on the map value force the upper unsigned bound to be 25769803777
in 64 bit (0b11000000000000000000000000000000001) and then lower one to be 1. By
using OR they are truncated and thus result in the range [1,1] for the 32 bit reg
tracker. This is incorrect given the only thing we know is that the value must be
positive and thus 2147483647 (0b1111111111111111111111111111111) at max for the
subregs. Fix it by using the {u,s}32_{min,max}_value vars instead. This also makes
sense, for example, for the case where we update dst_reg-&gt;s32_{min,max}_value in
the else branch we need to use the newly computed dst_reg-&gt;u32_{min,max}_value as
we know that these are positive. Previously, in the else branch the 64 bit values
of umin_value=1 and umax_value=32212254719 were used and latter got truncated to
be 1 as upper bound there. After the fix the subreg range is now correct:

  [...]
  8: R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  8: (79) r1 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0)
   R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  9: R0=map_value(id=0,off=0,ks=4,vs=48,imm=0) R1_w=inv(id=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  9: (b7) r0 = 1
  10: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0) R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  10: (18) r2 = 0x600000002
  12: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  12: (ad) if r1 &lt; r2 goto pc+1
   R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=25769803778) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  13: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=25769803778) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  13: (95) exit
  14: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=25769803777,var_off=(0x0; 0x7ffffffff)) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  14: (25) if r1 &gt; 0x0 goto pc+1
   R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=0,var_off=(0x0; 0x7fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  15: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umax_value=0,var_off=(0x0; 0x7fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  15: (95) exit
  16: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=1,umax_value=25769803777,var_off=(0x0; 0x77fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  16: (47) r1 |= 0
  17: R0_w=inv1 R1_w=inv(id=0,umin_value=1,umax_value=32212254719,var_off=(0x0; 0x77fffffff),u32_max_value=2147483647) R2_w=inv25769803778 R10=fp0 fp-8=mmmmmmmm
  [...]

Fixes: 3f50f132d840 ("bpf: Verifier, do explicit ALU32 bounds tracking")
Reported-by: Simon Scannell &lt;scannell.smn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix an incorrect branch elimination by verifier</title>
<updated>2020-06-30T20:21:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T17:12:40Z</published>
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Wenbo reported an issue in [1] where a checking of null
pointer is evaluated as always false. In this particular
case, the program type is tp_btf and the pointer to
compare is a PTR_TO_BTF_ID.

The current verifier considers PTR_TO_BTF_ID always
reprents a non-null pointer, hence all PTR_TO_BTF_ID compares
to 0 will be evaluated as always not-equal, which resulted
in the branch elimination.

For example,
 struct bpf_fentry_test_t {
     struct bpf_fentry_test_t *a;
 };
 int BPF_PROG(test7, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg)
 {
     if (arg == 0)
         test7_result = 1;
     return 0;
 }
 int BPF_PROG(test8, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg)
 {
     if (arg-&gt;a == 0)
         test8_result = 1;
     return 0;
 }

In above bpf programs, both branch arg == 0 and arg-&gt;a == 0
are removed. This may not be what developer expected.

The bug is introduced by Commit cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier
track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ"),
where PTR_TO_BTF_ID is considered to be non-null when evaluting
pointer vs. scalar comparison. This may be added
considering we have PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL in the verifier
as well.

PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL is added to explicitly requires
a non-NULL testing in selective cases. The current generic
pointer tracing framework in verifier always
assigns PTR_TO_BTF_ID so users does not need to
check NULL pointer at every pointer level like a-&gt;b-&gt;c-&gt;d.

We may not want to assign every PTR_TO_BTF_ID as
PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL as this will require a null test
before pointer dereference which may cause inconvenience
for developers. But we could avoid branch elimination
to preserve original code intention.

This patch simply removed PTR_TO_BTD_ID from reg_type_not_null()
in verifier, which prevented the above branches from being eliminated.

 [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/79dbb7c0-449d-83eb-5f4f-7af0cc269168@fb.com/T/

Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ")
Reported-by: Wenbo Zhang &lt;ethercflow@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200630171240.2523722-1-yhs@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Set the number of exception entries properly for subprograms</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T00:27:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-24T00:10:54Z</published>
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Currently, if a bpf program has more than one subprograms, each program will be
jitted separately. For programs with bpf-to-bpf calls the
prog-&gt;aux-&gt;num_exentries is not setup properly. For example, with
bpf_iter_netlink.c modified to force one function to be not inlined and with
CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON the following error is seen:
   $ ./test_progs -n 3/3
   ...
   libbpf: failed to load program 'iter/netlink'
   libbpf: failed to load object 'bpf_iter_netlink'
   libbpf: failed to load BPF skeleton 'bpf_iter_netlink': -4007
   test_netlink:FAIL:bpf_iter_netlink__open_and_load skeleton open_and_load failed
   #3/3 netlink:FAIL
The dmesg shows the following errors:
   ex gen bug
which is triggered by the following code in arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:
   if (excnt &gt;= bpf_prog-&gt;aux-&gt;num_exentries) {
     pr_err("ex gen bug\n");
     return -EFAULT;
   }

This patch fixes the issue by computing proper num_exentries for each
subprogram before calling JIT.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix an error code in check_btf_func()</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T21:38:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T08:54:36Z</published>
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This code returns success if the "info_aux" allocation fails but it
should return -ENOMEM.

Fixes: 8c1b6e69dcc1 ("bpf: Compare BTF types of functions arguments with actual types")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200604085436.GA943001@mwanda
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement BPF ring buffer and verifier support for it</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T21:38:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-29T07:54:20Z</published>
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This commit adds a new MPSC ring buffer implementation into BPF ecosystem,
which allows multiple CPUs to submit data to a single shared ring buffer. On
the consumption side, only single consumer is assumed.

Motivation
----------
There are two distinctive motivators for this work, which are not satisfied by
existing perf buffer, which prompted creation of a new ring buffer
implementation.
  - more efficient memory utilization by sharing ring buffer across CPUs;
  - preserving ordering of events that happen sequentially in time, even
  across multiple CPUs (e.g., fork/exec/exit events for a task).

These two problems are independent, but perf buffer fails to satisfy both.
Both are a result of a choice to have per-CPU perf ring buffer.  Both can be
also solved by having an MPSC implementation of ring buffer. The ordering
problem could technically be solved for perf buffer with some in-kernel
counting, but given the first one requires an MPSC buffer, the same solution
would solve the second problem automatically.

Semantics and APIs
------------------
Single ring buffer is presented to BPF programs as an instance of BPF map of
type BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF. Two other alternatives considered, but ultimately
rejected.

One way would be to, similar to BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY, make
BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF could represent an array of ring buffers, but not enforce
"same CPU only" rule. This would be more familiar interface compatible with
existing perf buffer use in BPF, but would fail if application needed more
advanced logic to lookup ring buffer by arbitrary key. HASH_OF_MAPS addresses
this with current approach. Additionally, given the performance of BPF
ringbuf, many use cases would just opt into a simple single ring buffer shared
among all CPUs, for which current approach would be an overkill.

Another approach could introduce a new concept, alongside BPF map, to
represent generic "container" object, which doesn't necessarily have key/value
interface with lookup/update/delete operations. This approach would add a lot
of extra infrastructure that has to be built for observability and verifier
support. It would also add another concept that BPF developers would have to
familiarize themselves with, new syntax in libbpf, etc. But then would really
provide no additional benefits over the approach of using a map.
BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF doesn't support lookup/update/delete operations, but so
doesn't few other map types (e.g., queue and stack; array doesn't support
delete, etc).

The approach chosen has an advantage of re-using existing BPF map
infrastructure (introspection APIs in kernel, libbpf support, etc), being
familiar concept (no need to teach users a new type of object in BPF program),
and utilizing existing tooling (bpftool). For common scenario of using
a single ring buffer for all CPUs, it's as simple and straightforward, as
would be with a dedicated "container" object. On the other hand, by being
a map, it can be combined with ARRAY_OF_MAPS and HASH_OF_MAPS map-in-maps to
implement a wide variety of topologies, from one ring buffer for each CPU
(e.g., as a replacement for perf buffer use cases), to a complicated
application hashing/sharding of ring buffers (e.g., having a small pool of
ring buffers with hashed task's tgid being a look up key to preserve order,
but reduce contention).

Key and value sizes are enforced to be zero. max_entries is used to specify
the size of ring buffer and has to be a power of 2 value.

There are a bunch of similarities between perf buffer
(BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY) and new BPF ring buffer semantics:
  - variable-length records;
  - if there is no more space left in ring buffer, reservation fails, no
    blocking;
  - memory-mappable data area for user-space applications for ease of
    consumption and high performance;
  - epoll notifications for new incoming data;
  - but still the ability to do busy polling for new data to achieve the
    lowest latency, if necessary.

BPF ringbuf provides two sets of APIs to BPF programs:
  - bpf_ringbuf_output() allows to *copy* data from one place to a ring
    buffer, similarly to bpf_perf_event_output();
  - bpf_ringbuf_reserve()/bpf_ringbuf_commit()/bpf_ringbuf_discard() APIs
    split the whole process into two steps. First, a fixed amount of space is
    reserved. If successful, a pointer to a data inside ring buffer data area
    is returned, which BPF programs can use similarly to a data inside
    array/hash maps. Once ready, this piece of memory is either committed or
    discarded. Discard is similar to commit, but makes consumer ignore the
    record.

bpf_ringbuf_output() has disadvantage of incurring extra memory copy, because
record has to be prepared in some other place first. But it allows to submit
records of the length that's not known to verifier beforehand. It also closely
matches bpf_perf_event_output(), so will simplify migration significantly.

bpf_ringbuf_reserve() avoids the extra copy of memory by providing a memory
pointer directly to ring buffer memory. In a lot of cases records are larger
than BPF stack space allows, so many programs have use extra per-CPU array as
a temporary heap for preparing sample. bpf_ringbuf_reserve() avoid this needs
completely. But in exchange, it only allows a known constant size of memory to
be reserved, such that verifier can verify that BPF program can't access
memory outside its reserved record space. bpf_ringbuf_output(), while slightly
slower due to extra memory copy, covers some use cases that are not suitable
for bpf_ringbuf_reserve().

The difference between commit and discard is very small. Discard just marks
a record as discarded, and such records are supposed to be ignored by consumer
code. Discard is useful for some advanced use-cases, such as ensuring
all-or-nothing multi-record submission, or emulating temporary malloc()/free()
within single BPF program invocation.

Each reserved record is tracked by verifier through existing
reference-tracking logic, similar to socket ref-tracking. It is thus
impossible to reserve a record, but forget to submit (or discard) it.

bpf_ringbuf_query() helper allows to query various properties of ring buffer.
Currently 4 are supported:
  - BPF_RB_AVAIL_DATA returns amount of unconsumed data in ring buffer;
  - BPF_RB_RING_SIZE returns the size of ring buffer;
  - BPF_RB_CONS_POS/BPF_RB_PROD_POS returns current logical possition of
    consumer/producer, respectively.
Returned values are momentarily snapshots of ring buffer state and could be
off by the time helper returns, so this should be used only for
debugging/reporting reasons or for implementing various heuristics, that take
into account highly-changeable nature of some of those characteristics.

One such heuristic might involve more fine-grained control over poll/epoll
notifications about new data availability in ring buffer. Together with
BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP/BPF_RB_FORCE_WAKEUP flags for output/commit/discard helpers,
it allows BPF program a high degree of control and, e.g., more efficient
batched notifications. Default self-balancing strategy, though, should be
adequate for most applications and will work reliable and efficiently already.

Design and implementation
-------------------------
This reserve/commit schema allows a natural way for multiple producers, either
on different CPUs or even on the same CPU/in the same BPF program, to reserve
independent records and work with them without blocking other producers. This
means that if BPF program was interruped by another BPF program sharing the
same ring buffer, they will both get a record reserved (provided there is
enough space left) and can work with it and submit it independently. This
applies to NMI context as well, except that due to using a spinlock during
reservation, in NMI context, bpf_ringbuf_reserve() might fail to get a lock,
in which case reservation will fail even if ring buffer is not full.

The ring buffer itself internally is implemented as a power-of-2 sized
circular buffer, with two logical and ever-increasing counters (which might
wrap around on 32-bit architectures, that's not a problem):
  - consumer counter shows up to which logical position consumer consumed the
    data;
  - producer counter denotes amount of data reserved by all producers.

Each time a record is reserved, producer that "owns" the record will
successfully advance producer counter. At that point, data is still not yet
ready to be consumed, though. Each record has 8 byte header, which contains
the length of reserved record, as well as two extra bits: busy bit to denote
that record is still being worked on, and discard bit, which might be set at
commit time if record is discarded. In the latter case, consumer is supposed
to skip the record and move on to the next one. Record header also encodes
record's relative offset from the beginning of ring buffer data area (in
pages). This allows bpf_ringbuf_commit()/bpf_ringbuf_discard() to accept only
the pointer to the record itself, without requiring also the pointer to ring
buffer itself. Ring buffer memory location will be restored from record
metadata header. This significantly simplifies verifier, as well as improving
API usability.

Producer counter increments are serialized under spinlock, so there is
a strict ordering between reservations. Commits, on the other hand, are
completely lockless and independent. All records become available to consumer
in the order of reservations, but only after all previous records where
already committed. It is thus possible for slow producers to temporarily hold
off submitted records, that were reserved later.

Reservation/commit/consumer protocol is verified by litmus tests in
Documentation/litmus-test/bpf-rb.

One interesting implementation bit, that significantly simplifies (and thus
speeds up as well) implementation of both producers and consumers is how data
area is mapped twice contiguously back-to-back in the virtual memory. This
allows to not take any special measures for samples that have to wrap around
at the end of the circular buffer data area, because the next page after the
last data page would be first data page again, and thus the sample will still
appear completely contiguous in virtual memory. See comment and a simple ASCII
diagram showing this visually in bpf_ringbuf_area_alloc().

Another feature that distinguishes BPF ringbuf from perf ring buffer is
a self-pacing notifications of new data being availability.
bpf_ringbuf_commit() implementation will send a notification of new record
being available after commit only if consumer has already caught up right up
to the record being committed. If not, consumer still has to catch up and thus
will see new data anyways without needing an extra poll notification.
Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbuf.c) show that
this allows to achieve a very high throughput without having to resort to
tricks like "notify only every Nth sample", which are necessary with perf
buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of
notifications, commit/discard/output helpers accept BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP and
BPF_RB_FORCE_WAKEUP flags, which give full control over notifications of data
availability, but require extra caution and diligence in using this API.

Comparison to alternatives
--------------------------
Before considering implementing BPF ring buffer from scratch existing
alternatives in kernel were evaluated, but didn't seem to meet the needs. They
largely fell into few categores:
  - per-CPU buffers (perf, ftrace, etc), which don't satisfy two motivations
    outlined above (ordering and memory consumption);
  - linked list-based implementations; while some were multi-producer designs,
    consuming these from user-space would be very complicated and most
    probably not performant; memory-mapping contiguous piece of memory is
    simpler and more performant for user-space consumers;
  - io_uring is SPSC, but also requires fixed-sized elements. Naively turning
    SPSC queue into MPSC w/ lock would have subpar performance compared to
    locked reserve + lockless commit, as with BPF ring buffer. Fixed sized
    elements would be too limiting for BPF programs, given existing BPF
    programs heavily rely on variable-sized perf buffer already;
  - specialized implementations (like a new printk ring buffer, [0]) with lots
    of printk-specific limitations and implications, that didn't seem to fit
    well for intended use with BPF programs.

  [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/779550/

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200529075424.3139988-2-andriin@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T00:48:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-01T00:48:46Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
xdp_umem.c had overlapping changes between the 64-bit math fix
for the calculation of npgs and the removal of the zerocopy
memory type which got rid of the chunk_size_nohdr member.

The mlx5 Kconfig conflict is a case where we just take the
net-next copy of the Kconfig entry dependency as it takes on
the ESWITCH dependency by one level of indirection which is
what the 'net' conflicting change is trying to ensure.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix a verifier issue when assigning 32bit reg states to 64bit ones</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T20:34:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Fastabend</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-29T17:28:40Z</published>
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With the latest trunk llvm (llvm 11), I hit a verifier issue for
test_prog subtest test_verif_scale1.

The following simplified example illustrate the issue:
    w9 = 0  /* R9_w=inv0 */
    r8 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 80)  /* __sk_buff-&gt;data_end */
    r7 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 76)  /* __sk_buff-&gt;data */
    ......
    w2 = w9 /* R2_w=inv0 */
    r6 = r7 /* R6_w=pkt(id=0,off=0,r=0,imm=0) */
    r6 += r2 /* R6_w=inv(id=0) */
    r3 = r6 /* R3_w=inv(id=0) */
    r3 += 14 /* R3_w=inv(id=0) */
    if r3 &gt; r8 goto end
    r5 = *(u32 *)(r6 + 0) /* R6_w=inv(id=0) */
       &lt;== error here: R6 invalid mem access 'inv'
    ...
  end:

In real test_verif_scale1 code, "w9 = 0" and "w2 = w9" are in
different basic blocks.

In the above, after "r6 += r2", r6 becomes a scalar, which eventually
caused the memory access error. The correct register state should be
a pkt pointer.

The inprecise register state starts at "w2 = w9".
The 32bit register w9 is 0, in __reg_assign_32_into_64(),
the 64bit reg-&gt;smax_value is assigned to be U32_MAX.
The 64bit reg-&gt;smin_value is 0 and the 64bit register
itself remains constant based on reg-&gt;var_off.

In adjust_ptr_min_max_vals(), the verifier checks for a known constant,
smin_val must be equal to smax_val. Since they are not equal,
the verifier decides r6 is a unknown scalar, which caused later failure.

The llvm10 does not have this issue as it generates different code:
    w9 = 0  /* R9_w=inv0 */
    r8 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 80)  /* __sk_buff-&gt;data_end */
    r7 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 76)  /* __sk_buff-&gt;data */
    ......
    r6 = r7 /* R6_w=pkt(id=0,off=0,r=0,imm=0) */
    r6 += r9 /* R6_w=pkt(id=0,off=0,r=0,imm=0) */
    r3 = r6 /* R3_w=pkt(id=0,off=0,r=0,imm=0) */
    r3 += 14 /* R3_w=pkt(id=0,off=14,r=0,imm=0) */
    if r3 &gt; r8 goto end
    ...

To fix the above issue, we can include zero in the test condition for
assigning the s32_max_value and s32_min_value to their 64-bit equivalents
smax_value and smin_value.

Further, fix the condition to avoid doing zero extension bounds checks
when s32_min_value &lt;= 0. This could allow for the case where bounds
32-bit bounds (-1,1) get incorrectly translated to (0,1) 64-bit bounds.
When in-fact the -1 min value needs to force U32_MAX bound.

Fixes: 3f50f132d840 ("bpf: Verifier, do explicit ALU32 bounds tracking")
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/159077331983.6014.5758956193749002737.stgit@john-Precision-5820-Tower
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix use-after-free in fmod_ret check</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T20:25:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-29T04:38:36Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix the following issue:
[  436.749342] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bpf_trampoline_put+0x39/0x2a0
[  436.749995] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881ef38b8a0 by task kworker/3:5/2243
[  436.750712]
[  436.752677] Workqueue: events bpf_prog_free_deferred
[  436.753183] Call Trace:
[  436.756483]  bpf_trampoline_put+0x39/0x2a0
[  436.756904]  bpf_prog_free_deferred+0x16d/0x3d0
[  436.757377]  process_one_work+0x94a/0x15b0
[  436.761969]
[  436.762130] Allocated by task 2529:
[  436.763323]  bpf_trampoline_lookup+0x136/0x540
[  436.763776]  bpf_check+0x2872/0xa0a8
[  436.764144]  bpf_prog_load+0xb6f/0x1350
[  436.764539]  __do_sys_bpf+0x16d7/0x3720
[  436.765825]
[  436.765988] Freed by task 2529:
[  436.767084]  kfree+0xc6/0x280
[  436.767397]  bpf_trampoline_put+0x1fd/0x2a0
[  436.767826]  bpf_check+0x6832/0xa0a8
[  436.768197]  bpf_prog_load+0xb6f/0x1350
[  436.768594]  __do_sys_bpf+0x16d7/0x3720

prog-&gt;aux-&gt;trampoline = tr should be set only when prog is valid.
Otherwise prog freeing will try to put trampoline via prog-&gt;aux-&gt;trampoline,
but it may not point to a valid trampoline.

Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200529043839.15824-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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