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<title>bpf: fix branch offset adjustment on backjumps after patching ctx expansion</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
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<published>2016-02-10T15:47:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a1b14d27ed0965838350f1377ff97c93ee383492 ]

When ctx access is used, the kernel often needs to expand/rewrite
instructions, so after that patching, branch offsets have to be
adjusted for both forward and backward jumps in the new eBPF program,
but for backward jumps it fails to account the delta. Meaning, for
example, if the expansion happens exactly on the insn that sits at
the jump target, it doesn't fix up the back jump offset.

Analysis on what the check in adjust_branches() is currently doing:

  /* adjust offset of jmps if necessary */
  if (i &lt; pos &amp;&amp; i + insn-&gt;off + 1 &gt; pos)
    insn-&gt;off += delta;
  else if (i &gt; pos &amp;&amp; i + insn-&gt;off + 1 &lt; pos)
    insn-&gt;off -= delta;

First condition (forward jumps):

  Before:                         After:

  insns[0]                        insns[0]
  insns[1] &lt;--- i/insn            insns[1] &lt;--- i/insn
  insns[2] &lt;--- pos               insns[P] &lt;--- pos
  insns[3]                        insns[P]  `------| delta
  insns[4] &lt;--- target_X          insns[P]   `-----|
  insns[5]                        insns[3]
                                  insns[4] &lt;--- target_X
                                  insns[5]

First case is if we cross pos-boundary and the jump instruction was
before pos. This is handeled correctly. I.e. if i == pos, then this
would mean our jump that we currently check was the patchlet itself
that we just injected. Since such patchlets are self-contained and
have no awareness of any insns before or after the patched one, the
delta is correctly not adjusted. Also, for the second condition in
case of i + insn-&gt;off + 1 == pos, means we jump to that newly patched
instruction, so no offset adjustment are needed. That part is correct.

Second condition (backward jumps):

  Before:                         After:

  insns[0]                        insns[0]
  insns[1] &lt;--- target_X          insns[1] &lt;--- target_X
  insns[2] &lt;--- pos &lt;-- target_Y  insns[P] &lt;--- pos &lt;-- target_Y
  insns[3]                        insns[P]  `------| delta
  insns[4] &lt;--- i/insn            insns[P]   `-----|
  insns[5]                        insns[3]
                                  insns[4] &lt;--- i/insn
                                  insns[5]

Second interesting case is where we cross pos-boundary and the jump
instruction was after pos. Backward jump with i == pos would be
impossible and pose a bug somewhere in the patchlet, so the first
condition checking i &gt; pos is okay only by itself. However, i +
insn-&gt;off + 1 &lt; pos does not always work as intended to trigger the
adjustment. It works when jump targets would be far off where the
delta wouldn't matter. But, for example, where the fixed insn-&gt;off
before pointed to pos (target_Y), it now points to pos + delta, so
that additional room needs to be taken into account for the check.
This means that i) both tests here need to be adjusted into pos + delta,
and ii) for the second condition, the test needs to be &lt;= as pos
itself can be a target in the backjump, too.

Fixes: 9bac3d6d548e ("bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fields")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a1b14d27ed0965838350f1377ff97c93ee383492 ]

When ctx access is used, the kernel often needs to expand/rewrite
instructions, so after that patching, branch offsets have to be
adjusted for both forward and backward jumps in the new eBPF program,
but for backward jumps it fails to account the delta. Meaning, for
example, if the expansion happens exactly on the insn that sits at
the jump target, it doesn't fix up the back jump offset.

Analysis on what the check in adjust_branches() is currently doing:

  /* adjust offset of jmps if necessary */
  if (i &lt; pos &amp;&amp; i + insn-&gt;off + 1 &gt; pos)
    insn-&gt;off += delta;
  else if (i &gt; pos &amp;&amp; i + insn-&gt;off + 1 &lt; pos)
    insn-&gt;off -= delta;

First condition (forward jumps):

  Before:                         After:

  insns[0]                        insns[0]
  insns[1] &lt;--- i/insn            insns[1] &lt;--- i/insn
  insns[2] &lt;--- pos               insns[P] &lt;--- pos
  insns[3]                        insns[P]  `------| delta
  insns[4] &lt;--- target_X          insns[P]   `-----|
  insns[5]                        insns[3]
                                  insns[4] &lt;--- target_X
                                  insns[5]

First case is if we cross pos-boundary and the jump instruction was
before pos. This is handeled correctly. I.e. if i == pos, then this
would mean our jump that we currently check was the patchlet itself
that we just injected. Since such patchlets are self-contained and
have no awareness of any insns before or after the patched one, the
delta is correctly not adjusted. Also, for the second condition in
case of i + insn-&gt;off + 1 == pos, means we jump to that newly patched
instruction, so no offset adjustment are needed. That part is correct.

Second condition (backward jumps):

  Before:                         After:

  insns[0]                        insns[0]
  insns[1] &lt;--- target_X          insns[1] &lt;--- target_X
  insns[2] &lt;--- pos &lt;-- target_Y  insns[P] &lt;--- pos &lt;-- target_Y
  insns[3]                        insns[P]  `------| delta
  insns[4] &lt;--- i/insn            insns[P]   `-----|
  insns[5]                        insns[3]
                                  insns[4] &lt;--- i/insn
                                  insns[5]

Second interesting case is where we cross pos-boundary and the jump
instruction was after pos. Backward jump with i == pos would be
impossible and pose a bug somewhere in the patchlet, so the first
condition checking i &gt; pos is okay only by itself. However, i +
insn-&gt;off + 1 &lt; pos does not always work as intended to trigger the
adjustment. It works when jump targets would be far off where the
delta wouldn't matter. But, for example, where the fixed insn-&gt;off
before pointed to pos (target_Y), it now points to pos + delta, so
that additional room needs to be taken into account for the check.
This means that i) both tests here need to be adjusted into pos + delta,
and ii) for the second condition, the test needs to be &lt;= as pos
itself can be a target in the backjump, too.

Fixes: 9bac3d6d548e ("bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fields")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bpf: reject invalid shifts</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T19:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T19:17:08+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 229394e8e62a4191d592842cf67e80c62a492937 ]

On ARM64, a BUG() is triggered in the eBPF JIT if a filter with a
constant shift that can't be encoded in the immediate field of the
UBFM/SBFM instructions is passed to the JIT.  Since these shifts
amounts, which are negative or &gt;= regsize, are invalid, reject them in
the eBPF verifier and the classic BPF filter checker, for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 229394e8e62a4191d592842cf67e80c62a492937 ]

On ARM64, a BUG() is triggered in the eBPF JIT if a filter with a
constant shift that can't be encoded in the immediate field of the
UBFM/SBFM instructions is passed to the JIT.  Since these shifts
amounts, which are negative or &gt;= regsize, are invalid, reject them in
the eBPF verifier and the classic BPF filter checker, for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: fix two bugs in verification logic when accessing 'ctx' pointer</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T18:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:19:33+00:00</published>
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1.
first bug is a silly mistake. It broke tracing examples and prevented
simple bpf programs from loading.

In the following code:
if (insn-&gt;imm == 0 &amp;&amp; BPF_SIZE(insn-&gt;code) == BPF_W) {
} else if (...) {
  // this part should have been executed when
  // insn-&gt;code == BPF_W and insn-&gt;imm != 0
}

Obviously it's not doing that. So simple instructions like:
r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 8)
will be rejected. Note the comments in the code around these branches
were and still valid and indicate the true intent.

Replace it with:
if (BPF_SIZE(insn-&gt;code) != BPF_W)
  continue;

if (insn-&gt;imm == 0) {
} else if (...) {
  // now this code will be executed when
  // insn-&gt;code == BPF_W and insn-&gt;imm != 0
}

2.
second bug is more subtle.
If malicious code is using the same dest register as source register,
the checks designed to prevent the same instruction to be used with different
pointer types will fail to trigger, since we were assigning src_reg_type
when it was already overwritten by check_mem_access().
The fix is trivial. Just move line:
src_reg_type = regs[insn-&gt;src_reg].type;
before check_mem_access().
Add new 'access skb fields bad4' test to check this case.

Fixes: 9bac3d6d548e ("bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fields")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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1.
first bug is a silly mistake. It broke tracing examples and prevented
simple bpf programs from loading.

In the following code:
if (insn-&gt;imm == 0 &amp;&amp; BPF_SIZE(insn-&gt;code) == BPF_W) {
} else if (...) {
  // this part should have been executed when
  // insn-&gt;code == BPF_W and insn-&gt;imm != 0
}

Obviously it's not doing that. So simple instructions like:
r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 8)
will be rejected. Note the comments in the code around these branches
were and still valid and indicate the true intent.

Replace it with:
if (BPF_SIZE(insn-&gt;code) != BPF_W)
  continue;

if (insn-&gt;imm == 0) {
} else if (...) {
  // now this code will be executed when
  // insn-&gt;code == BPF_W and insn-&gt;imm != 0
}

2.
second bug is more subtle.
If malicious code is using the same dest register as source register,
the checks designed to prevent the same instruction to be used with different
pointer types will fail to trigger, since we were assigning src_reg_type
when it was already overwritten by check_mem_access().
The fix is trivial. Just move line:
src_reg_type = regs[insn-&gt;src_reg].type;
before check_mem_access().
Add new 'access skb fields bad4' test to check this case.

Fixes: 9bac3d6d548e ("bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fields")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: fix verifier memory corruption</title>
<updated>2015-04-16T16:06:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T22:57:13+00:00</published>
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Due to missing bounds check the DAG pass of the BPF verifier can corrupt
the memory which can cause random crashes during program loading:

[8.449451] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
[8.451293] IP: [&lt;ffffffff811de33d&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x8d/0x2f0
[8.452329] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[8.452329] Call Trace:
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116cc82&gt;] bpf_check+0x852/0x2000
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116b7e4&gt;] bpf_prog_load+0x1e4/0x310
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff811b190f&gt;] ? might_fault+0x5f/0xb0
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116c206&gt;] SyS_bpf+0x806/0xa30

Fixes: f1bca824dabb ("bpf: add search pruning optimization to verifier")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Due to missing bounds check the DAG pass of the BPF verifier can corrupt
the memory which can cause random crashes during program loading:

[8.449451] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
[8.451293] IP: [&lt;ffffffff811de33d&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x8d/0x2f0
[8.452329] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[8.452329] Call Trace:
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116cc82&gt;] bpf_check+0x852/0x2000
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116b7e4&gt;] bpf_prog_load+0x1e4/0x310
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff811b190f&gt;] ? might_fault+0x5f/0xb0
[8.452329]  [&lt;ffffffff8116c206&gt;] SyS_bpf+0x806/0xa30

Fixes: f1bca824dabb ("bpf: add search pruning optimization to verifier")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tc: bpf: generalize pedit action</title>
<updated>2015-03-29T20:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-27T02:53:57+00:00</published>
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existing TC action 'pedit' can munge any bits of the packet.
Generalize it for use in bpf programs attached as cls_bpf and act_bpf via
bpf_skb_store_bytes() helper function.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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existing TC action 'pedit' can munge any bits of the packet.
Generalize it for use in bpf programs attached as cls_bpf and act_bpf via
bpf_skb_store_bytes() helper function.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ebpf: add sched_act_type and map it to sk_filter's verifier ops</title>
<updated>2015-03-20T23:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-20T14:11:11+00:00</published>
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In order to prepare eBPF support for tc action, we need to add
sched_act_type, so that the eBPF verifier is aware of what helper
function act_bpf may use, that it can load skb data and read out
currently available skb fields.

This is bascially analogous to 96be4325f443 ("ebpf: add sched_cls_type
and map it to sk_filter's verifier ops").

BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS and BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT need to be
separate since both will have a different set of functionality in
future (classifier vs action), thus we won't run into ABI troubles
when the point in time comes to diverge functionality from the
classifier.

The future plan for act_bpf would be that it will be able to write
into skb-&gt;data and alter selected fields mirrored in struct __sk_buff.

For an initial support, it's sufficient to map it to sk_filter_ops.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In order to prepare eBPF support for tc action, we need to add
sched_act_type, so that the eBPF verifier is aware of what helper
function act_bpf may use, that it can load skb data and read out
currently available skb fields.

This is bascially analogous to 96be4325f443 ("ebpf: add sched_cls_type
and map it to sk_filter's verifier ops").

BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS and BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT need to be
separate since both will have a different set of functionality in
future (classifier vs action), thus we won't run into ABI troubles
when the point in time comes to diverge functionality from the
classifier.

The future plan for act_bpf would be that it will be able to write
into skb-&gt;data and alter selected fields mirrored in struct __sk_buff.

For an initial support, it's sufficient to map it to sk_filter_ops.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fields</title>
<updated>2015-03-16T02:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T18:57:42+00:00</published>
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introduce user accessible mirror of in-kernel 'struct sk_buff':
struct __sk_buff {
    __u32 len;
    __u32 pkt_type;
    __u32 mark;
    __u32 queue_mapping;
};

bpf programs can do:

int bpf_prog(struct __sk_buff *skb)
{
    __u32 var = skb-&gt;pkt_type;

which will be compiled to bpf assembler as:

dst_reg = *(u32 *)(src_reg + 4) // 4 == offsetof(struct __sk_buff, pkt_type)

bpf verifier will check validity of access and will convert it to:

dst_reg = *(u8 *)(src_reg + offsetof(struct sk_buff, __pkt_type_offset))
dst_reg &amp;= 7

since skb-&gt;pkt_type is a bitfield.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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introduce user accessible mirror of in-kernel 'struct sk_buff':
struct __sk_buff {
    __u32 len;
    __u32 pkt_type;
    __u32 mark;
    __u32 queue_mapping;
};

bpf programs can do:

int bpf_prog(struct __sk_buff *skb)
{
    __u32 var = skb-&gt;pkt_type;

which will be compiled to bpf assembler as:

dst_reg = *(u32 *)(src_reg + 4) // 4 == offsetof(struct __sk_buff, pkt_type)

bpf verifier will check validity of access and will convert it to:

dst_reg = *(u8 *)(src_reg + offsetof(struct sk_buff, __pkt_type_offset))
dst_reg &amp;= 7

since skb-&gt;pkt_type is a bitfield.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ebpf: verifier: check that call reg with ARG_ANYTHING is initialized</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T19:29:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T16:21:42+00:00</published>
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I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does
not need to have an initialized value (register).

This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future
helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended
application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful
enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API.

The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split
into two different semantics:

  1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function
     does not care about (in other words: the default for unused
     function arguments), and

  2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a
     helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register.

The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags'
argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict
checking.

Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does
not need to have an initialized value (register).

This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future
helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended
application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful
enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API.

The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split
into two different semantics:

  1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function
     does not care about (in other words: the default for unused
     function arguments), and

  2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a
     helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register.

The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags'
argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict
checking.

Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ebpf: move read-only fields to bpf_prog and shrink bpf_prog_aux</title>
<updated>2015-03-01T19:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-01T11:31:47+00:00</published>
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is_gpl_compatible and prog_type should be moved directly into bpf_prog
as they stay immutable during bpf_prog's lifetime, are core attributes
and they can be locked as read-only later on via bpf_prog_select_runtime().

With a bit of rearranging, this also allows us to shrink bpf_prog_aux
to exactly 1 cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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is_gpl_compatible and prog_type should be moved directly into bpf_prog
as they stay immutable during bpf_prog's lifetime, are core attributes
and they can be locked as read-only later on via bpf_prog_select_runtime().

With a bit of rearranging, this also allows us to shrink bpf_prog_aux
to exactly 1 cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ebpf: add sched_cls_type and map it to sk_filter's verifier ops</title>
<updated>2015-03-01T19:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-01T11:31:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=96be4325f443dbbfeb37d2a157675ac0736531a1'/>
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As discussed recently and at netconf/netdev01, we want to prevent making
bpf_verifier_ops registration available for modules, but have them at a
controlled place inside the kernel instead.

The reason for this is, that out-of-tree modules can go crazy and define
and register any verfifier ops they want, doing all sorts of crap, even
bypassing available GPLed eBPF helper functions. We don't want to offer
such a shiny playground, of course, but keep strict control to ourselves
inside the core kernel.

This also encourages us to design eBPF user helpers carefully and
generically, so they can be shared among various subsystems using eBPF.

For the eBPF traffic classifier (cls_bpf), it's a good start to share
the same helper facilities as we currently do in eBPF for socket filters.

That way, we have BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS look like it's own type, thus
one day if there's a good reason to diverge the set of helper functions
from the set available to socket filters, we keep ABI compatibility.

In future, we could place all bpf_prog_type_list at a central place,
perhaps.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As discussed recently and at netconf/netdev01, we want to prevent making
bpf_verifier_ops registration available for modules, but have them at a
controlled place inside the kernel instead.

The reason for this is, that out-of-tree modules can go crazy and define
and register any verfifier ops they want, doing all sorts of crap, even
bypassing available GPLed eBPF helper functions. We don't want to offer
such a shiny playground, of course, but keep strict control to ourselves
inside the core kernel.

This also encourages us to design eBPF user helpers carefully and
generically, so they can be shared among various subsystems using eBPF.

For the eBPF traffic classifier (cls_bpf), it's a good start to share
the same helper facilities as we currently do in eBPF for socket filters.

That way, we have BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS look like it's own type, thus
one day if there's a good reason to diverge the set of helper functions
from the set available to socket filters, we keep ABI compatibility.

In future, we could place all bpf_prog_type_list at a central place,
perhaps.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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