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Slightly change BPF verifier logic around eagerness and order of global subprog validation. Instead of going over every global subprog eagerly and validating it before main (entry) BPF program is verified, turn it around. Validate main program first, mark subprogs that were called from main program for later verification, but otherwise assume it is valid. Afterwards, go over marked global subprogs and validate those, potentially marking some more global functions as being called. Continue this process until all (transitively) callable global subprogs are validated. It's a BFS traversal at its heart and will always converge. This is an important change because it allows to feature-gate some subprograms that might not be verifiable on some older kernel, depending on supported set of features. E.g., at some point, global functions were allowed to accept a pointer to memory, which size is identified by user-provided type. Unfortunately, older kernels don't support this feature. With BPF CO-RE approach, the natural way would be to still compile BPF object file once and guard calls to this global subprog with some CO-RE check or using .rodata variables. That's what people do to guard usage of new helpers or kfuncs, and any other new BPF-side feature that might be missing on old kernels. That's currently impossible to do with global subprogs, unfortunately, because they are eagerly and unconditionally validated. This patch set aims to change this, so that in the future when global funcs gain new features, those can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques in the same fashion as any other new kernel feature. Two selftests had to be adjusted in sync with these changes. test_global_func12 relied on eager global subprog validation failing before main program failure is detected (unknown return value). Fix by making sure that main program is always valid. verifier_subprog_precision's parent_stack_slot_precise subtest relied on verifier checkpointing heuristic to do a checkpoint at instruction #5, but that's no longer true because we don't have enough jumps validated before reaching insn #5 due to global subprogs being validated later. Other than that, no changes, as one would expect. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231124035937.403208-3-andrii@kernel.org |
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