bpf: Add helper to retrieve socket in BPF

This patch adds new BPF helper functions, bpf_sk_lookup_tcp() and
bpf_sk_lookup_udp() which allows BPF programs to find out if there is a
socket listening on this host, and returns a socket pointer which the
BPF program can then access to determine, for instance, whether to
forward or drop traffic. bpf_sk_lookup_xxx() may take a reference on the
socket, so when a BPF program makes use of this function, it must
subsequently pass the returned pointer into the newly added sk_release()
to return the reference.

By way of example, the following pseudocode would filter inbound
connections at XDP if there is no corresponding service listening for
the traffic:

  struct bpf_sock_tuple tuple;
  struct bpf_sock_ops *sk;

  populate_tuple(ctx, &tuple); // Extract the 5tuple from the packet
  sk = bpf_sk_lookup_tcp(ctx, &tuple, sizeof tuple, netns, 0);
  if (!sk) {
    // Couldn't find a socket listening for this traffic. Drop.
    return TC_ACT_SHOT;
  }
  bpf_sk_release(sk, 0);
  return TC_ACT_OK;

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index cd0d8bc00bd1..73c81bef6ae8 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ static const struct bpf_verifier_ops * const bpf_verifier_ops[] = {
  * PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE, PTR_TO_SOCKET_OR_NULL becomes PTR_TO_SOCKET when the type
  * passes through a NULL-check conditional. For the branch wherein the state is
  * changed to CONST_IMM, the verifier releases the reference.
+ *
+ * For each helper function that allocates a reference, such as
+ * bpf_sk_lookup_tcp(), there is a corresponding release function, such as
+ * bpf_sk_release(). When a reference type passes into the release function,
+ * the verifier also releases the reference. If any unchecked or unreleased
+ * reference remains at the end of the program, the verifier rejects it.
  */
 
 /* verifier_state + insn_idx are pushed to stack when branch is encountered */
@@ -300,7 +306,7 @@ static bool arg_type_is_refcounted(enum bpf_arg_type type)
  */
 static bool is_release_function(enum bpf_func_id func_id)
 {
-	return false;
+	return func_id == BPF_FUNC_sk_release;
 }
 
 /* string representation of 'enum bpf_reg_type' */