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Message-ID: <bf8a6fb9-40fd-7037-dcfd-24595b691c8f@fb.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:25:17 -0800
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
CC:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 5/7] bpf: support BPF ksym variables in kernel
 modules



On 1/11/21 1:29 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:13 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/21 2:09 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>>> Add support for directly accessing kernel module variables from BPF programs
>>> using special ldimm64 instructions. This functionality builds upon vmlinux
>>> ksym support, but extends ldimm64 with src_reg=BPF_PSEUDO_BTF_ID to allow
>>> specifying kernel module BTF's FD in insn[1].imm field.
>>>
>>> During BPF program load time, verifier will resolve FD to BTF object and will
>>> take reference on BTF object itself and, for module BTFs, corresponding module
>>> as well, to make sure it won't be unloaded from under running BPF program. The
>>> mechanism used is similar to how bpf_prog keeps track of used bpf_maps.
>>>
>>> One interesting change is also in how per-CPU variable is determined. The
>>> logic is to find .data..percpu data section in provided BTF, but both vmlinux
>>> and module each have their own .data..percpu entries in BTF. So for module's
>>> case, the search for DATASEC record needs to look at only module's added BTF
>>> types. This is implemented with custom search function.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
>>
>> Ack with a minor nit below.
>>
>> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
>>
>>> ---
>>>    include/linux/bpf.h          |  10 +++
>>>    include/linux/bpf_verifier.h |   3 +
>>>    include/linux/btf.h          |   3 +
>>>    kernel/bpf/btf.c             |  31 +++++++-
>>>    kernel/bpf/core.c            |  23 ++++++
>>>    kernel/bpf/verifier.c        | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>>    6 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>>
>> [...]
>>>    /* replace pseudo btf_id with kernel symbol address */
>>>    static int check_pseudo_btf_id(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
>>>                               struct bpf_insn *insn,
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>        } else {
>>>                aux->btf_var.reg_type = PTR_TO_BTF_ID;
>>> -             aux->btf_var.btf = btf_vmlinux;
>>> +             aux->btf_var.btf = btf;
>>>                aux->btf_var.btf_id = type;
>>>        }
>>> +
>>> +     /* check whether we recorded this BTF (and maybe module) already */
>>> +     for (i = 0; i < env->used_btf_cnt; i++) {
>>> +             if (env->used_btfs[i].btf == btf) {
>>> +                     btf_put(btf);
>>> +                     return 0;
>>
>> An alternative way is to change the above code as
>>                          err = 0;
>>                          goto err_put;
> 
> I didn't do it, because it's not really an error case, which err_put
> implies. If in the future we'll have some more clean up to do, it
> might make sense, I suppose.

You can change label err_put to btf_put, so this way, btf_put() will
only show up in one place. But I won't insist on this.

> 
>>
>>> +             }
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     if (env->used_btf_cnt >= MAX_USED_BTFS) {
>>> +             err = -E2BIG;
>>> +             goto err_put;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     btf_mod = &env->used_btfs[env->used_btf_cnt];
>>> +     btf_mod->btf = btf;
>>> +     btf_mod->module = NULL;
>>> +
>>> +     /* if we reference variables from kernel module, bump its refcount */
>>> +     if (btf_is_module(btf)) {
>>> +             btf_mod->module = btf_try_get_module(btf);
>>> +             if (!btf_mod->module) {
>>> +                     err = -ENXIO;
>>> +                     goto err_put;
>>> +             }
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     env->used_btf_cnt++;
>>> +
>>>        return 0;
>>> +err_put:
>>> +     btf_put(btf);
>>> +     return err;
>>>    }
>>>
>> [...]

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