netdev - [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] bpf: Teach the verifier to recognize rdonly

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Message-Id: <20230321051951.58223-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:19:49 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     daniel@...earbox.net, andrii@...nel.org, martin.lau@...nel.org,
        void@...ifault.com, davemarchevsky@...a.com, tj@...nel.org,
        memxor@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] bpf: Teach the verifier to recognize rdonly_mem as not null.

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

Teach the verifier to recognize PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_RDONLY as not NULL
otherwise if (!bpf_ksym_exists(known_kfunc)) doesn't go through
dead code elimination.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 8bc44f5dc5b6..5693e4a92752 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -486,8 +486,17 @@ static bool type_is_sk_pointer(enum bpf_reg_type type)
 		type == PTR_TO_XDP_SOCK;
 }
 
+static bool type_may_be_null(u32 type)
+{
+	return type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
+}
+
 static bool reg_type_not_null(enum bpf_reg_type type)
 {
+	if (type_may_be_null(type))
+		return false;
+
+	type = base_type(type);
 	return type == PTR_TO_SOCKET ||
 		type == PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK ||
 		type == PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE ||
@@ -531,11 +540,6 @@ static bool type_is_rdonly_mem(u32 type)
 	return type & MEM_RDONLY;
 }
 
-static bool type_may_be_null(u32 type)
-{
-	return type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
-}
-
 static bool is_acquire_function(enum bpf_func_id func_id,
 				const struct bpf_map *map)
 {
-- 
2.34.1