Extend original variable-length tests with a case to catch a common
existing pattern of testing for < 0 for errors. Note because
verifier also tracks upper bounds and we know it can not be greater
than MAX_LEN here we can skip upper bound check.
In ALU64 enabled compilation converting from long->int return types
in probe helpers results in extra instruction pattern, <<= 32, s >>= 32.
The trade-off is the non-ALU64 case works. If you really care about
every extra insn (XDP case?) then you probably should be using original
int type.
In addition adding a sext insn to bpf might help the verifier in the
general case to avoid these types of tricks.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200623032224.4020118-3-andriin@fb.com
Add selftest that validates variable-length data reading and concatentation
with one big shared data array. This is a common pattern in production use for
monitoring and tracing applications, that potentially can read a lot of data,
but overall read much less. Such pattern allows to determine precisely what
amount of data needs to be sent over perfbuf/ringbuf and maximize efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200623032224.4020118-2-andriin@fb.com
