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authorGianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>2017-11-22 19:32:55 +0100
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2017-11-22 21:40:54 +0100
commit5c4e1201740ceae9bd6f622851a9bf7c66debe3a (patch)
tree242f6c483a4b6260b5f69f6b8efa63aaa77857e8 /kernel
parentbpf: remove explicit handling of 0 for arg2 in bpf_probe_read (diff)
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bpf: change bpf_probe_read_str arg2 type to ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO
Commit 9fd29c08e520 ("bpf: improve verifier ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO semantics") relaxed the treatment of ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO due to the way the compiler generates optimized BPF code when checking boundaries of an argument from C code. A typical example of this optimized code can be generated using the bpf_probe_read_str helper when operating on variable memory: /* len is a generic scalar */ if (len > 0 && len <= 0x7fff) bpf_probe_read_str(p, len, s); 251: (79) r1 = *(u64 *)(r10 -88) 252: (07) r1 += -1 253: (25) if r1 > 0x7ffe goto pc-42 254: (bf) r1 = r7 255: (79) r2 = *(u64 *)(r10 -88) 256: (bf) r8 = r4 257: (85) call bpf_probe_read_str#45 R2 min value is negative, either use unsigned or 'var &= const' With this code, the verifier loses track of the variable. Replacing arg2 with ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO is thus desirable since it avoids this quite common case which leads to usability issues, and the compiler generates code that the verifier can more easily test: if (len <= 0x7fff) bpf_probe_read_str(p, len, s); or bpf_probe_read_str(p, len & 0x7fff, s); No changes to the bpf_probe_read_str helper are necessary since strncpy_from_unsafe itself immediately returns if the size passed is 0. Signed-off-by: Gianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 728909f7951c..ed8601a1a861 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_probe_read_str_proto = {
.gpl_only = true,
.ret_type = RET_INTEGER,
.arg1_type = ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM,
- .arg2_type = ARG_CONST_SIZE,
+ .arg2_type = ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO,
.arg3_type = ARG_ANYTHING,
};