netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 00/10] bpf: Support multi-attach for freplace programs

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:26:04 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 00/10] bpf: Support multi-attach for freplace programs

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 4:50 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> This series adds support attaching freplace BPF programs to multiple targets.
> This is needed to support incremental attachment of multiple XDP programs using
> the libxdp dispatcher model.
>
> The first patch fixes an issue that came up in review: The verifier will
> currently allow MODIFY_RETURN tracing functions to attach to other BPF programs,
> even though it is pretty clear from the commit messages introducing the
> functionality that this was not the intention. This patch is included in the
> serise because the subsequent refactoring patches touch the same code.
>
> The next three patches are refactoring patches: Patch 2 is a trivial change to
> the logging in the verifier, split out to make the subsequent refactor easier to
> read. Patch 3 refactors check_attach_btf_id() so that the checks on program and
> target compatibility can be reused when attaching to a secondary location.
>
> Patch 4 moves prog_aux->linked_prog and the trampoline to be embedded in
> bpf_tracing_link on attach, and freed by the link release logic, and introduces
> a mutex to protect the writing of the pointers in prog->aux.
>
> Based on these refactorings, it becomes pretty straight-forward to support
> multiple-attach for freplace programs (patch 5). This is simply a matter of
> creating a second bpf_tracing_link if a target is supplied. However, for API
> consistency with other types of link attach, this option is added to the
> BPF_LINK_CREATE API instead of extending bpf_raw_tracepoint_open().
>
> Patch 6 is a port of Jiri Olsa's patch to support fentry/fexit on freplace
> programs. His approach of getting the target type from the target program
> reference no longer works after we've gotten rid of linked_prog (because the
> bpf_tracing_link reference disappears on attach). Instead, we used the saved
> reference to the target prog type that is also used to verify compatibility on
> secondary freplace attachment.
>
> Patches 7 is the accompanying libbpf update, and patches 8-10 are selftests:
> patch 8 tests for the multi-freplace functionality itself, patch 9 is Jiri's
> previous selftest for the fentry-to-freplace fix, and patch 10 is a test for
> the change introduced in patch 1, blocking MODIFY_RETURN functions from
> attaching to other BPF programs.
>
> With this series, libxdp and xdp-tools can successfully attach multiple programs
> one at a time. To play with this, use the 'freplace-multi-attach' branch of
> xdp-tools:
>
> $ git clone --recurse-submodules --branch freplace-multi-attach https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools
> $ cd xdp-tools/xdp-loader
> $ make
> $ sudo ./xdp-loader load veth0 ../lib/testing/xdp_drop.o
> $ sudo ./xdp-loader load veth0 ../lib/testing/xdp_pass.o
> $ sudo ./xdp-loader status
>
> The series is also available here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/toke/linux.git/log/?h=bpf-freplace-multi-attach-alt-07
>
> Changelog:
>
> v7:
>   - Add back missing ptype == prog->type check in link_create()
>   - Use tracing_bpf_link_attach() instead of separate freplace_bpf_link_attach()
>   - Don't break attachment of bpf_iters in libbpf

What was specifically the issue and the fix for bpf_iters?


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