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Date:   Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:36:20 +0200
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin Lau <kafai@...com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: next-20190723: bpf/seccomp - systemd/journald issue?

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 4:24 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:19 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:10 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/26/19 2:02 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:38 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi Yonghong Song,
> > > >>
> > > >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 5:45 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On 7/26/19 1:26 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > >>>> Hi,
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I have opened a new issue in the ClangBuiltLinux issue tracker.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Glad to know clang 9 has asm goto support and now It can compile
> > > >>> kernel again.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yupp.
> > > >>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I am seeing a problem in the area bpf/seccomp causing
> > > >>>> systemd/journald/udevd services to fail.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> [Fri Jul 26 08:08:43 2019] systemd[453]: systemd-udevd.service: Failed
> > > >>>> to connect stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Connection refused
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> This happens when I use the (LLVM) LLD ld.lld-9 linker but not with
> > > >>>> BFD linker ld.bfd on Debian/buster AMD64.
> > > >>>> In both cases I use clang-9 (prerelease).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Looks like it is a lld bug.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I see the stack trace has __bpf_prog_run32() which is used by
> > > >>> kernel bpf interpreter. Could you try to enable bpf jit
> > > >>>     sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable = 1
> > > >>> If this passed, it will prove it is interpreter related.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> After...
> > > >>
> > > >> sysctl -w net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1
> > > >>
> > > >> I can start all failed systemd services.
> > > >>
> > > >> systemd-journald.service
> > > >> systemd-udevd.service
> > > >> haveged.service
> > > >>
> > > >> This is in maintenance mode.
> > > >>
> > > >> What is next: Do set a permanent sysctl setting for net.core.bpf_jit_enable?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > This is what I did:
> > >
> > > I probably won't have cycles to debug this potential lld issue.
> > > Maybe you already did, I suggest you put enough reproducible
> > > details in the bug you filed against lld so they can take a look.
> > >
> >
> > I understand and will put the journalctl-log into the CBL issue
> > tracker and update informations.
> >
> > Thanks for your help understanding the BPF correlations.
> >
> > Is setting 'net.core.bpf_jit_enable = 2' helpful here?
>
> jit_enable=1 is enough.
> Or use CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON to workaround.
>
> It sounds like clang miscompiles interpreter.
> modprobe test_bpf
> should be able to point out which part of interpreter is broken.

Maybe we need something like...

"bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()"

...for clang?

- Sedat -

[1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/3193c0836f203a91bef96d88c64cccf0be090d9c