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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:44:24 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau
<martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>,
Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: verifier: allow arrays of progs to be used in
sleepable context
On 4/22/24 9:16 AM, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Arrays of progs are underlying using regular arrays, but they can only
> be updated from a syscall.
> Therefore, they should be safe to use while in a sleepable context.
>
> This is required to be able to call bpf_tail_call() from a sleepable
> tracing bpf program.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> a small patch to allow to have:
>
> ```
> SEC("fmod_ret.s/__hid_bpf_tail_call_sleepable")
> int BPF_PROG(hid_tail_call_sleepable, struct hid_bpf_ctx *hctx)
> {
> bpf_tail_call(ctx, &hid_jmp_table, hctx->index);
>
> return 0;
> }
> ```
>
> This should allow me to add bpf hooks to functions that communicate with
> the hardware.
Could you also add selftests to it? In particular, I'm thinking that this is not
sufficient given also bpf_prog_map_compatible() needs to be extended to check on
prog->sleepable. For example we would need to disallow calling sleepable programs
in that map from non-sleepable context.
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index 68cfd6fc6ad4..880b32795136 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -18171,6 +18171,7 @@ static int check_map_prog_compatibility(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
> case BPF_MAP_TYPE_QUEUE:
> case BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK:
> case BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARENA:
> + case BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY:
> break;
> default:
> verbose(env,
>
> ---
> base-commit: 735f5b8a7ccf383e50d76f7d1c25769eee474812
> change-id: 20240422-sleepable_array_progs-e0c07b17cabb
>
> Best regards,
>
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