Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:52:21 -0800
From:	"Shi, Yang" <yang.shi@...aro.org>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	ast@...nel.org, holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, zlim.lnx@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] bpf: move clearing of A/X into classic to
 eBPF migration prologue

On 12/17/2015 2:51 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Back in the days where eBPF (or back then "internal BPF" ;->) was not
> exposed to user space, and only the classic BPF programs internally
> translated into eBPF programs, we missed the fact that for classic BPF
> A and X needed to be cleared. It was fixed back then via 83d5b7ef99c9
> ("net: filter: initialize A and X registers"), and thus classic BPF
> specifics were added to the eBPF interpreter core to work around it.
>
> This added some confusion for JIT developers later on that take the
> eBPF interpreter code as an example for deriving their JIT. F.e. in
> f75298f5c3fe ("s390/bpf: clear correct BPF accumulator register"), at
> least X could leak stack memory. Furthermore, since this is only needed
> for classic BPF translations and not for eBPF (verifier takes care
> that read access to regs cannot be done uninitialized), more complexity
> is added to JITs as they need to determine whether they deal with
> migrations or native eBPF where they can just omit clearing A/X in
> their prologue and thus reduce image size a bit, see f.e. cde66c2d88da
> ("s390/bpf: Only clear A and X for converted BPF programs"). In other
> cases (x86, arm64), A and X is being cleared in the prologue also for
> eBPF case, which is unnecessary.
>
> Lets move this into the BPF migration in bpf_convert_filter() where it
> actually belongs as long as the number of eBPF JITs are still few. It
> can thus be done generically; allowing us to remove the quirk from
> __bpf_prog_run() and to slightly reduce JIT image size in case of eBPF,
> while reducing code duplication on this matter in current(/future) eBPF
> JITs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@...il.com>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>

Acked by me on the arm64 part.

Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>

Thanks,
Yang

> ---
>   arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c |  6 ------
>   arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c  | 13 ++-----------
>   arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c   | 14 +++++++++-----
>   kernel/bpf/core.c             |  4 ----
>   net/core/filter.c             | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
>   5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> index b162ad7..7658612 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> @@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ static void build_prologue(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
>   	const u8 r8 = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_8];
>   	const u8 r9 = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_9];
>   	const u8 fp = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_FP];
> -	const u8 ra = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_A];
> -	const u8 rx = bpf2a64[BPF_REG_X];
>   	const u8 tmp1 = bpf2a64[TMP_REG_1];
>   	const u8 tmp2 = bpf2a64[TMP_REG_2];
>
> @@ -200,10 +198,6 @@ static void build_prologue(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
>
>   	/* Set up function call stack */
>   	emit(A64_SUB_I(1, A64_SP, A64_SP, STACK_SIZE), ctx);
> -
> -	/* Clear registers A and X */
> -	emit_a64_mov_i64(ra, 0, ctx);
> -	emit_a64_mov_i64(rx, 0, ctx);
>   }
>
>   static void build_epilogue(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
> diff --git a/arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> index 9a0c4c2..3c0bfc1 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void emit_load_skb_data_hlen(struct bpf_jit *jit)
>    * Save registers and create stack frame if necessary.
>    * See stack frame layout desription in "bpf_jit.h"!
>    */
> -static void bpf_jit_prologue(struct bpf_jit *jit, bool is_classic)
> +static void bpf_jit_prologue(struct bpf_jit *jit)
>   {
>   	if (jit->seen & SEEN_TAIL_CALL) {
>   		/* xc STK_OFF_TCCNT(4,%r15),STK_OFF_TCCNT(%r15) */
> @@ -448,15 +448,6 @@ static void bpf_jit_prologue(struct bpf_jit *jit, bool is_classic)
>   		/* stg %b1,ST_OFF_SKBP(%r0,%r15) */
>   		EMIT6_DISP_LH(0xe3000000, 0x0024, REG_W1, REG_0, REG_15,
>   			      STK_OFF_SKBP);
> -	/* Clear A (%b0) and X (%b7) registers for converted BPF programs */
> -	if (is_classic) {
> -		if (REG_SEEN(BPF_REG_A))
> -			/* lghi %ba,0 */
> -			EMIT4_IMM(0xa7090000, BPF_REG_A, 0);
> -		if (REG_SEEN(BPF_REG_X))
> -			/* lghi %bx,0 */
> -			EMIT4_IMM(0xa7090000, BPF_REG_X, 0);
> -	}
>   }
>
>   /*
> @@ -1245,7 +1236,7 @@ static int bpf_jit_prog(struct bpf_jit *jit, struct bpf_prog *fp)
>   	jit->lit = jit->lit_start;
>   	jit->prg = 0;
>
> -	bpf_jit_prologue(jit, bpf_prog_was_classic(fp));
> +	bpf_jit_prologue(jit);
>   	for (i = 0; i < fp->len; i += insn_count) {
>   		insn_count = bpf_jit_insn(jit, fp, i);
>   		if (insn_count < 0)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> index 7599197..c080e81 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ struct jit_context {
>   	 32 /* space for rbx, r13, r14, r15 */ + \
>   	 8 /* space for skb_copy_bits() buffer */)
>
> -#define PROLOGUE_SIZE 51
> +#define PROLOGUE_SIZE 48
>
>   /* emit x64 prologue code for BPF program and check it's size.
>    * bpf_tail_call helper will skip it while jumping into another program
> @@ -229,11 +229,15 @@ static void emit_prologue(u8 **pprog)
>   	/* mov qword ptr [rbp-X],r15 */
>   	EMIT3_off32(0x4C, 0x89, 0xBD, -STACKSIZE + 24);
>
> -	/* clear A and X registers */
> -	EMIT2(0x31, 0xc0); /* xor eax, eax */
> -	EMIT3(0x4D, 0x31, 0xED); /* xor r13, r13 */
> +	/* Clear the tail call counter (tail_call_cnt): for eBPF tail calls
> +	 * we need to reset the counter to 0. It's done in two instructions,
> +	 * resetting rax register to 0 (xor on eax gets 0 extended), and
> +	 * moving it to the counter location.
> +	 */
>
> -	/* clear tail_cnt: mov qword ptr [rbp-X], rax */
> +	/* xor eax, eax */
> +	EMIT2(0x31, 0xc0);
> +	/* mov qword ptr [rbp-X], rax */
>   	EMIT3_off32(0x48, 0x89, 0x85, -STACKSIZE + 32);
>
>   	BUILD_BUG_ON(cnt != PROLOGUE_SIZE);
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> index 334b1bd..972d9a8 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> @@ -306,10 +306,6 @@ static unsigned int __bpf_prog_run(void *ctx, const struct bpf_insn *insn)
>   	FP = (u64) (unsigned long) &stack[ARRAY_SIZE(stack)];
>   	ARG1 = (u64) (unsigned long) ctx;
>
> -	/* Registers used in classic BPF programs need to be reset first. */
> -	regs[BPF_REG_A] = 0;
> -	regs[BPF_REG_X] = 0;
> -
>   select_insn:
>   	goto *jumptable[insn->code];
>
> diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
> index 34bf6fc..b513eb8 100644
> --- a/net/core/filter.c
> +++ b/net/core/filter.c
> @@ -381,9 +381,22 @@ do_pass:
>   	new_insn = new_prog;
>   	fp = prog;
>
> -	if (new_insn)
> -		*new_insn = BPF_MOV64_REG(BPF_REG_CTX, BPF_REG_ARG1);
> -	new_insn++;
> +	/* Classic BPF related prologue emission. */
> +	if (new_insn) {
> +		/* Classic BPF expects A and X to be reset first. These need
> +		 * to be guaranteed to be the first two instructions.
> +		 */
> +		*new_insn++ = BPF_ALU64_REG(BPF_XOR, BPF_REG_A, BPF_REG_A);
> +		*new_insn++ = BPF_ALU64_REG(BPF_XOR, BPF_REG_X, BPF_REG_X);
> +
> +		/* All programs must keep CTX in callee saved BPF_REG_CTX.
> +		 * In eBPF case it's done by the compiler, here we need to
> +		 * do this ourself. Initial CTX is present in BPF_REG_ARG1.
> +		 */
> +		*new_insn++ = BPF_MOV64_REG(BPF_REG_CTX, BPF_REG_ARG1);
> +	} else {
> +		new_insn += 3;
> +	}
>
>   	for (i = 0; i < len; fp++, i++) {
>   		struct bpf_insn tmp_insns[6] = { };
>

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