netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/3] bpf/verifier: subprog/func

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Date:   Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:20:15 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/3] bpf/verifier: subprog/func_call
 simplifications

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:50:03PM +0100, Jiong Wang wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 02:08, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > Combining subprog pass with do_check is going into opposite direction
> > of this long term work. Divide and conquer. Combining more things into
> > do_check is the opposite of this programming principle.
> 
> Agree. And for the redundant insn traversal issue in check_subprogs that
> Edward trying to fix, I am thinking we could do it by utilizing the
> existing DFS traversal in check_cfg.
> 
> The current DFS probably could be improved into an generic instruction
> information collection pass.
> 
> This won't make the existing DFS complexer as it only does information
> collection as a side job during traversal. These collected information
> then could be used to build any other information to be consumed later,
> for example subprog, basic blocks etc.
> 
> For the redundant insn traversal issue during subprog detection, the
> Like how we mark STATE_LIST_MARK in DFS, we could just call add_subprog
> for BPF_PSEUDO_CALL insn during DFS.
> 
> i.e we change the code logic of check_cfg into:
> 
> check_cfg
> {
>   * DFS traversal:
>     - detect back-edge.
>     - collect STATE_LIST_MARK.
>     - collect subprog destination.
> 
>   * check all insns are reachable.
>   * check_subprogs (insn traversal removed).
> }

I don't think that will work.
Functions are independent from CFG.
With bpf libraries we will have disjoint functions sitting in the kernel
and check_cfg would need to be done separately from function boundaries.