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2025-11-21bpf: correct stack liveness for tail callsEduard Zingerman
This updates bpf_insn_successors() reflecting that control flow might jump over the instructions between tail call and function exit, verifier might assume that some writes to parent stack always happen, which is not the case. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Teichmann <martin.teichmann@xfel.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119160355.1160932-4-martin.teichmann@xfel.eu Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-05bpf, x86: add support for indirect jumpsAnton Protopopov
Add support for a new instruction BPF_JMP|BPF_X|BPF_JA, SRC=0, DST=Rx, off=0, imm=0 which does an indirect jump to a location stored in Rx. The register Rx should have type PTR_TO_INSN. This new type assures that the Rx register contains a value (or a range of values) loaded from a correct jump table – map of type instruction array. For example, for a C switch LLVM will generate the following code: 0: r3 = r1 # "switch (r3)" 1: if r3 > 0x13 goto +0x666 # check r3 boundaries 2: r3 <<= 0x3 # adjust to an index in array of addresses 3: r1 = 0xbeef ll # r1 is PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE, r1->map_ptr=M 5: r1 += r3 # r1 inherits boundaries from r3 6: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0x0) # r1 now has type INSN_TO_PTR 7: gotox r1 # jit will generate proper code Here the gotox instruction corresponds to one particular map. This is possible however to have a gotox instruction which can be loaded from different maps, e.g. 0: r1 &= 0x1 1: r2 <<= 0x3 2: r3 = 0x0 ll # load from map M_1 4: r3 += r2 5: if r1 == 0x0 goto +0x4 6: r1 <<= 0x3 7: r3 = 0x0 ll # load from map M_2 9: r3 += r1 A: r1 = *(u64 *)(r3 + 0x0) B: gotox r1 # jump to target loaded from M_1 or M_2 During check_cfg stage the verifier will collect all the maps which point to inside the subprog being verified. When building the config, the high 16 bytes of the insn_state are used, so this patch (theoretically) supports jump tables of up to 2^16 slots. During the later stage, in check_indirect_jump, it is checked that the register Rx was loaded from a particular instruction array. Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251105090410.1250500-9-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-10-21bpf: make bpf_insn_successors to return a pointerAnton Protopopov
The bpf_insn_successors() function is used to return successors to a BPF instruction. So far, an instruction could have 0, 1 or 2 successors. Prepare the verifier code to introduction of instructions with more than 2 successors (namely, indirect jumps). To do this, introduce a new struct, struct bpf_iarray, containing an array of bpf instruction indexes and make bpf_insn_successors to return a pointer of that type. The storage for all instructions is allocated in the env->succ, which holds an array of size 2, to be used for all instructions. Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251019202145.3944697-10-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-10-21bpf: Clarify get_outer_instance() handling in propagate_to_outer_instance()Shardul Bankar
propagate_to_outer_instance() calls get_outer_instance() and uses the returned pointer to reset and commit stack write marks. Under normal conditions, update_instance() guarantees that an outer instance exists, so get_outer_instance() cannot return an ERR_PTR. However, explicitly checking for IS_ERR(outer_instance) makes this code more robust and self-documenting. It reduces cognitive load when reading the control flow and silences potential false-positive reports from static analysis or automated tooling. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251021080849.860072-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-10-16bpf: Fix memory leak in __lookup_instance error pathShardul Bankar
When __lookup_instance() allocates a func_instance structure but fails to allocate the must_write_set array, it returns an error without freeing the previously allocated func_instance. This causes a memory leak of 192 bytes (sizeof(struct func_instance)) each time this error path is triggered. Fix by freeing 'result' on must_write_set allocation failure. Fixes: b3698c356ad9 ("bpf: callchain sensitive stack liveness tracking using CFG") Reported-by: BPF Runtime Fuzzer (BRF) Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016063330.4107547-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com
2025-09-19bpf: table based bpf_insn_successors()Eduard Zingerman
Converting bpf_insn_successors() to use lookup table makes it ~1.5 times faster. Also remove unnecessary conditionals: - `idx + 1 < prog->len` is unnecessary because after check_cfg() all jump targets are guaranteed to be within a program; - `i == 0 || succ[0] != dst` is unnecessary because any client of bpf_insn_successors() can handle duplicate edges: - compute_live_registers() - compute_scc() Moving bpf_insn_successors() to liveness.c allows its inlining in liveness.c:__update_stack_liveness(). Such inlining speeds up __update_stack_liveness() by ~40%. bpf_insn_successors() is used in both verifier.c and liveness.c. perf shows such move does not negatively impact users in verifier.c, as these are executed only once before main varification pass. Unlike __update_stack_liveness() which can be triggered multiple times. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-10-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-19bpf: callchain sensitive stack liveness tracking using CFGEduard Zingerman
This commit adds a flow-sensitive, context-sensitive, path-insensitive data flow analysis for live stack slots: - flow-sensitive: uses program control flow graph to compute data flow values; - context-sensitive: collects data flow values for each possible call chain in a program; - path-insensitive: does not distinguish between separate control flow graph paths reaching the same instruction. Compared to the current path-sensitive analysis, this approach trades some precision for not having to enumerate every path in the program. This gives a theoretical capability to run the analysis before main verification pass. See cover letter for motivation. The basic idea is as follows: - Data flow values indicate stack slots that might be read and stack slots that are definitely written. - Data flow values are collected for each (call chain, instruction number) combination in the program. - Within a subprogram, data flow values are propagated using control flow graph. - Data flow values are transferred from entry instructions of callee subprograms to call sites in caller subprograms. In other words, a tree of all possible call chains is constructed. Each node of this tree represents a subprogram. Read and write marks are collected for each instruction of each node. Live stack slots are first computed for lower level nodes. Then, information about outer stack slots that might be read or are definitely written by a subprogram is propagated one level up, to the corresponding call instructions of the upper nodes. Procedure repeats until root node is processed. In the absence of value range analysis, stack read/write marks are collected during main verification pass, and data flow computation is triggered each time verifier.c:states_equal() needs to query the information. Implementation details are documented in kernel/bpf/liveness.c. Quantitative data about verification performance changes and memory consumption is in the cover letter. Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250918-callchain-sensitive-liveness-v3-6-c3cd27bacc60@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>