JITed BPF programs are dynamically attached to the LSM hooks
using BPF trampolines. The trampoline prologue generates code to handle
conversion of the signature of the hook to the appropriate BPF context.
The allocated trampoline programs are attached to the nop functions
initialized as LSM hooks.
BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM programs must have a GPL compatible license and
and need CAP_SYS_ADMIN (required for loading eBPF programs).
Upon attachment:
* A BPF fexit trampoline is used for LSM hooks with a void return type.
* A BPF fmod_ret trampoline is used for LSM hooks which return an
int. The attached programs can override the return value of the
bpf LSM hook to indicate a MAC Policy decision.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200329004356.27286-5-kpsingh@chromium.org
Sparse reports a warning at __bpf_prog_enter() and __bpf_prog_exit()
warning: context imbalance in __bpf_prog_enter() - wrong count at exit
warning: context imbalance in __bpf_prog_exit() - unexpected unlock
The root cause is the missing annotation at __bpf_prog_enter()
and __bpf_prog_exit()
Add the missing __acquires(RCU) annotation
Add the missing __releases(RCU) annotation
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200311010908.42366-2-jbi.octave@gmail.com
Now that we have all the objects (bpf_prog, bpf_trampoline,
bpf_dispatcher) linked in bpf_tree, there's no need to have
separate bpf_image tree for images.
Reverting the bpf_image tree together with struct bpf_image,
because it's no longer needed.
Also removing bpf_image_alloc function and adding the original
bpf_jit_alloc_exec_page interface instead.
The kernel_text_address function can now rely only on is_bpf_text_address,
because it checks the bpf_tree that contains all the objects.
Keeping bpf_image_ksym_add and bpf_image_ksym_del because they are
useful wrappers with perf's ksymbol interface calls.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-13-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Adding trampolines to kallsyms. It's displayed as
bpf_trampoline_<ID> [bpf]
where ID is the BTF id of the trampoline function.
Adding bpf_image_ksym_add/del functions that setup
the start/end values and call KSYMBOL perf events
handlers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200312195610.346362-11-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When multiple programs are attached, each program receives the return
value from the previous program on the stack and the last program
provides the return value to the attached function.
The fmod_ret bpf programs are run after the fentry programs and before
the fexit programs. The original function is only called if all the
fmod_ret programs return 0 to avoid any unintended side-effects. The
success value, i.e. 0 is not currently configurable but can be made so
where user-space can specify it at load time.
For example:
int func_to_be_attached(int a, int b)
{ <--- do_fentry
do_fmod_ret:
<update ret by calling fmod_ret>
if (ret != 0)
goto do_fexit;
original_function:
<side_effects_happen_here>
} <--- do_fexit
The fmod_ret program attached to this function can be defined as:
SEC("fmod_ret/func_to_be_attached")
int BPF_PROG(func_name, int a, int b, int ret)
{
// This will skip the original function logic.
return 1;
}
The first fmod_ret program is passed 0 in its return argument.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200304191853.1529-4-kpsingh@chromium.org
As we need to introduce a third type of attachment for trampolines, the
flattened signature of arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline gets even more
complicated.
Refactor the prog and count argument to arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline to
use bpf_tramp_progs to simplify the addition and accounting for new
attachment types.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200304191853.1529-2-kpsingh@chromium.org
Instead of preemption disable/enable to reflect the purpose. This allows
PREEMPT_RT to substitute it with an actual migration disable
implementation. On non RT kernels this is still mapped to
preempt_disable/enable().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.891428873@linutronix.de
When unwinding the stack we need to identify each address
to successfully continue. Adding latch tree to keep trampolines
for quick lookup during the unwind.
The patch uses first 48 bytes for latch tree node, leaving 4048
bytes from the rest of the page for trampoline or dispatcher
generated code.
It's still enough not to affect trampoline and dispatcher progs
maximum counts.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200123161508.915203-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Introduce dynamic program extensions. The users can load additional BPF
functions and replace global functions in previously loaded BPF programs while
these programs are executing.
Global functions are verified individually by the verifier based on their types only.
Hence the global function in the new program which types match older function can
safely replace that corresponding function.
This new function/program is called 'an extension' of old program. At load time
the verifier uses (attach_prog_fd, attach_btf_id) pair to identify the function
to be replaced. The BPF program type is derived from the target program into
extension program. Technically bpf_verifier_ops is copied from target program.
The BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT program type is a placeholder. It has empty verifier_ops.
The extension program can call the same bpf helper functions as target program.
Single BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT type is used to extend XDP, SKB and all other program
types. The verifier allows only one level of replacement. Meaning that the
extension program cannot recursively extend an extension. That also means that
the maximum stack size is increasing from 512 to 1024 bytes and maximum
function nesting level from 8 to 16. The programs don't always consume that
much. The stack usage is determined by the number of on-stack variables used by
the program. The verifier could have enforced 512 limit for combined original
plus extension program, but it makes for difficult user experience. The main
use case for extensions is to provide generic mechanism to plug external
programs into policy program or function call chaining.
BPF trampoline is used to track both fentry/fexit and program extensions
because both are using the same nop slot at the beginning of every BPF
function. Attaching fentry/fexit to a function that was replaced is not
allowed. The opposite is true as well. Replacing a function that currently
being analyzed with fentry/fexit is not allowed. The executable page allocated
by BPF trampoline is not used by program extensions. This inefficiency will be
optimized in future patches.
Function by function verification of global function supports scalars and
pointer to context only. Hence program extensions are supported for such class
of global functions only. In the future the verifier will be extended with
support to pointers to structures, arrays with sizes, etc.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200121005348.2769920-2-ast@kernel.org
Though the second half of trampoline page is unused a task could be
preempted in the middle of the first half of trampoline and two
updates to trampoline would change the code from underneath the
preempted task. Hence wait for tasks to voluntarily schedule or go
to userspace. Add similar wait before freeing the trampoline.
Fixes: fec56f5890 ("bpf: Introduce BPF trampoline")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200121032231.3292185-1-ast@kernel.org
The patch introduces BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS. The map value
is a kernel struct with its func ptr implemented in bpf prog.
This new map is the interface to register/unregister/introspect
a bpf implemented kernel struct.
The kernel struct is actually embedded inside another new struct
(or called the "value" struct in the code). For example,
"struct tcp_congestion_ops" is embbeded in:
struct bpf_struct_ops_tcp_congestion_ops {
refcount_t refcnt;
enum bpf_struct_ops_state state;
struct tcp_congestion_ops data; /* <-- kernel subsystem struct here */
}
The map value is "struct bpf_struct_ops_tcp_congestion_ops".
The "bpftool map dump" will then be able to show the
state ("inuse"/"tobefree") and the number of subsystem's refcnt (e.g.
number of tcp_sock in the tcp_congestion_ops case). This "value" struct
is created automatically by a macro. Having a separate "value" struct
will also make extending "struct bpf_struct_ops_XYZ" easier (e.g. adding
"void (*init)(void)" to "struct bpf_struct_ops_XYZ" to do some
initialization works before registering the struct_ops to the kernel
subsystem). The libbpf will take care of finding and populating the
"struct bpf_struct_ops_XYZ" from "struct XYZ".
Register a struct_ops to a kernel subsystem:
1. Load all needed BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS prog(s)
2. Create a BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS with attr->btf_vmlinux_value_type_id
set to the btf id "struct bpf_struct_ops_tcp_congestion_ops" of the
running kernel.
Instead of reusing the attr->btf_value_type_id,
btf_vmlinux_value_type_id s added such that attr->btf_fd can still be
used as the "user" btf which could store other useful sysadmin/debug
info that may be introduced in the furture,
e.g. creation-date/compiler-details/map-creator...etc.
3. Create a "struct bpf_struct_ops_tcp_congestion_ops" object as described
in the running kernel btf. Populate the value of this object.
The function ptr should be populated with the prog fds.
4. Call BPF_MAP_UPDATE with the object created in (3) as
the map value. The key is always "0".
During BPF_MAP_UPDATE, the code that saves the kernel-func-ptr's
args as an array of u64 is generated. BPF_MAP_UPDATE also allows
the specific struct_ops to do some final checks in "st_ops->init_member()"
(e.g. ensure all mandatory func ptrs are implemented).
If everything looks good, it will register this kernel struct
to the kernel subsystem. The map will not allow further update
from this point.
Unregister a struct_ops from the kernel subsystem:
BPF_MAP_DELETE with key "0".
Introspect a struct_ops:
BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM with key "0". The map value returned will
have the prog _id_ populated as the func ptr.
The map value state (enum bpf_struct_ops_state) will transit from:
INIT (map created) =>
INUSE (map updated, i.e. reg) =>
TOBEFREE (map value deleted, i.e. unreg)
The kernel subsystem needs to call bpf_struct_ops_get() and
bpf_struct_ops_put() to manage the "refcnt" in the
"struct bpf_struct_ops_XYZ". This patch uses a separate refcnt
for the purose of tracking the subsystem usage. Another approach
is to reuse the map->refcnt and then "show" (i.e. during map_lookup)
the subsystem's usage by doing map->refcnt - map->usercnt to filter out
the map-fd/pinned-map usage. However, that will also tie down the
future semantics of map->refcnt and map->usercnt.
The very first subsystem's refcnt (during reg()) holds one
count to map->refcnt. When the very last subsystem's refcnt
is gone, it will also release the map->refcnt. All bpf_prog will be
freed when the map->refcnt reaches 0 (i.e. during map_free()).
Here is how the bpftool map command will look like:
[root@arch-fb-vm1 bpf]# bpftool map show
6: struct_ops name dctcp flags 0x0
key 4B value 256B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B
btf_id 6
[root@arch-fb-vm1 bpf]# bpftool map dump id 6
[{
"value": {
"refcnt": {
"refs": {
"counter": 1
}
},
"state": 1,
"data": {
"list": {
"next": 0,
"prev": 0
},
"key": 0,
"flags": 2,
"init": 24,
"release": 0,
"ssthresh": 25,
"cong_avoid": 30,
"set_state": 27,
"cwnd_event": 28,
"in_ack_event": 26,
"undo_cwnd": 29,
"pkts_acked": 0,
"min_tso_segs": 0,
"sndbuf_expand": 0,
"cong_control": 0,
"get_info": 0,
"name": [98,112,102,95,100,99,116,99,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
],
"owner": 0
}
}
}
]
Misc Notes:
* bpf_struct_ops_map_sys_lookup_elem() is added for syscall lookup.
It does an inplace update on "*value" instead returning a pointer
to syscall.c. Otherwise, it needs a separate copy of "zero" value
for the BPF_STRUCT_OPS_STATE_INIT to avoid races.
* The bpf_struct_ops_map_delete_elem() is also called without
preempt_disable() from map_delete_elem(). It is because
the "->unreg()" may requires sleepable context, e.g.
the "tcp_unregister_congestion_control()".
* "const" is added to some of the existing "struct btf_func_model *"
function arg to avoid a compiler warning caused by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200109003505.3855919-1-kafai@fb.com
Daniel Borkmann says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2019-12-27
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
We've added 127 non-merge commits during the last 17 day(s) which contain
a total of 110 files changed, 6901 insertions(+), 2721 deletions(-).
There are three merge conflicts. Conflicts and resolution looks as follows:
1) Merge conflict in net/bpf/test_run.c:
There was a tree-wide cleanup c593642c8b ("treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro")
which gets in the way with b590cb5f80 ("bpf: Switch to offsetofend in
BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"):
<<<<<<< HEAD
if (!range_is_zero(__skb, offsetof(struct __sk_buff, priority) +
sizeof_field(struct __sk_buff, priority),
=======
if (!range_is_zero(__skb, offsetofend(struct __sk_buff, priority),
>>>>>>> 7c8dce4b16
There are a few occasions that look similar to this. Always take the chunk with
offsetofend(). Note that there is one where the fields differ in here:
<<<<<<< HEAD
if (!range_is_zero(__skb, offsetof(struct __sk_buff, tstamp) +
sizeof_field(struct __sk_buff, tstamp),
=======
if (!range_is_zero(__skb, offsetofend(struct __sk_buff, gso_segs),
>>>>>>> 7c8dce4b16
Just take the one with offsetofend() /and/ gso_segs. Latter is correct due to
850a88cc40 ("bpf: Expose __sk_buff wire_len/gso_segs to BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN").
2) Merge conflict in arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:
(I'm keeping Bjorn in Cc here for a double-check in case I got it wrong.)
<<<<<<< HEAD
if (is_13b_check(off, insn))
return -1;
emit(rv_blt(tcc, RV_REG_ZERO, off >> 1), ctx);
=======
emit_branch(BPF_JSLT, RV_REG_T1, RV_REG_ZERO, off, ctx);
>>>>>>> 7c8dce4b16
Result should look like:
emit_branch(BPF_JSLT, tcc, RV_REG_ZERO, off, ctx);
3) Merge conflict in arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h:
<<<<<<< HEAD
=======
#define VMALLOC_SIZE (KERN_VIRT_SIZE >> 1)
#define VMALLOC_END (PAGE_OFFSET - 1)
#define VMALLOC_START (PAGE_OFFSET - VMALLOC_SIZE)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE (SZ_128M)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_START (PAGE_OFFSET - BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_END (VMALLOC_END)
/*
* Roughly size the vmemmap space to be large enough to fit enough
* struct pages to map half the virtual address space. Then
* position vmemmap directly below the VMALLOC region.
*/
#define VMEMMAP_SHIFT \
(CONFIG_VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1 + STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT)
#define VMEMMAP_SIZE BIT(VMEMMAP_SHIFT)
#define VMEMMAP_END (VMALLOC_START - 1)
#define VMEMMAP_START (VMALLOC_START - VMEMMAP_SIZE)
#define vmemmap ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START)
>>>>>>> 7c8dce4b16
Only take the BPF_* defines from there and move them higher up in the
same file. Remove the rest from the chunk. The VMALLOC_* etc defines
got moved via 01f52e16b8 ("riscv: define vmemmap before pfn_to_page
calls"). Result:
[...]
#define __S101 PAGE_READ_EXEC
#define __S110 PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
#define __S111 PAGE_SHARED_EXEC
#define VMALLOC_SIZE (KERN_VIRT_SIZE >> 1)
#define VMALLOC_END (PAGE_OFFSET - 1)
#define VMALLOC_START (PAGE_OFFSET - VMALLOC_SIZE)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE (SZ_128M)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_START (PAGE_OFFSET - BPF_JIT_REGION_SIZE)
#define BPF_JIT_REGION_END (VMALLOC_END)
/*
* Roughly size the vmemmap space to be large enough to fit enough
* struct pages to map half the virtual address space. Then
* position vmemmap directly below the VMALLOC region.
*/
#define VMEMMAP_SHIFT \
(CONFIG_VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1 + STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT)
#define VMEMMAP_SIZE BIT(VMEMMAP_SHIFT)
#define VMEMMAP_END (VMALLOC_START - 1)
#define VMEMMAP_START (VMALLOC_START - VMEMMAP_SIZE)
[...]
Let me know if there are any other issues.
Anyway, the main changes are:
1) Extend bpftool to produce a struct (aka "skeleton") tailored and specific
to a provided BPF object file. This provides an alternative, simplified API
compared to standard libbpf interaction. Also, add libbpf extern variable
resolution for .kconfig section to import Kconfig data, from Andrii Nakryiko.
2) Add BPF dispatcher for XDP which is a mechanism to avoid indirect calls by
generating a branch funnel as discussed back in bpfconf'19 at LSF/MM. Also,
add various BPF riscv JIT improvements, from Björn Töpel.
3) Extend bpftool to allow matching BPF programs and maps by name,
from Paul Chaignon.
4) Support for replacing cgroup BPF programs attached with BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI
flag for allowing updates without service interruption, from Andrey Ignatov.
5) Cleanup and simplification of ring access functions for AF_XDP with a
bonus of 0-5% performance improvement, from Magnus Karlsson.
6) Enable BPF JITs for x86-64 and arm64 by default. Also, final version of
audit support for BPF, from Daniel Borkmann and latter with Jiri Olsa.
7) Move and extend test_select_reuseport into BPF program tests under
BPF selftests, from Jakub Sitnicki.
8) Various BPF sample improvements for xdpsock for customizing parameters
to set up and benchmark AF_XDP, from Jay Jayatheerthan.
9) Improve libbpf to provide a ulimit hint on permission denied errors.
Also change XDP sample programs to attach in driver mode by default,
from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.
10) Extend BPF test infrastructure to allow changing skb mark from tc BPF
programs, from Nikita V. Shirokov.
11) Optimize prologue code sequence in BPF arm32 JIT, from Russell King.
12) Fix xdp_redirect_cpu BPF sample to manually attach to tracepoints after
libbpf conversion, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
13) Minor misc improvements from various others.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Refactor the image allocation in the BPF trampoline code into a
separate function, so it can be shared with the BPF dispatcher in
upcoming commits.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191213175112.30208-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
Make BPF trampoline attach its generated assembly code to kernel functions via
register_ftrace_direct() API. It helps ftrace-based tracers co-exist with BPF
trampoline on the same kernel function. It also switches attaching logic from
arch specific text_poke to generic ftrace that is available on many
architectures. text_poke is still necessary for bpf-to-bpf attach and for
bpf_tail_call optimization.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191209000114.1876138-3-ast@kernel.org
Given that we have BPF_MOD_NOP_TO_{CALL,JUMP}, BPF_MOD_{CALL,JUMP}_TO_NOP
and BPF_MOD_{CALL,JUMP}_TO_{CALL,JUMP} poke types and that we also pass in
old_addr as well as new_addr, it's a bit redundant and unnecessarily
complicates __bpf_arch_text_poke() itself since we can derive the same from
the *_addr that were passed in. Hence simplify and use BPF_MOD_{CALL,JUMP}
as types which also allows to clean up call-sites.
In addition to that, __bpf_arch_text_poke() currently verifies that text
matches expected old_insn before we invoke text_poke_bp(). Also add a check
on new_insn and skip rewrite if it already matches. Reason why this is rather
useful is that it avoids making any special casing in prog_array_map_poke_run()
when old and new prog were NULL and has the benefit that also for this case
we perform a check on text whether it really matches our expectations.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/fcb00a2b0b288d6c73de4ef58116a821c8fe8f2f.1574555798.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Introduce BPF trampoline concept to allow kernel code to call into BPF programs
with practically zero overhead. The trampoline generation logic is
architecture dependent. It's converting native calling convention into BPF
calling convention. BPF ISA is 64-bit (even on 32-bit architectures). The
registers R1 to R5 are used to pass arguments into BPF functions. The main BPF
program accepts only single argument "ctx" in R1. Whereas CPU native calling
convention is different. x86-64 is passing first 6 arguments in registers
and the rest on the stack. x86-32 is passing first 3 arguments in registers.
sparc64 is passing first 6 in registers. And so on.
The trampolines between BPF and kernel already exist. BPF_CALL_x macros in
include/linux/filter.h statically compile trampolines from BPF into kernel
helpers. They convert up to five u64 arguments into kernel C pointers and
integers. On 64-bit architectures this BPF_to_kernel trampolines are nops. On
32-bit architecture they're meaningful.
The opposite job kernel_to_BPF trampolines is done by CAST_TO_U64 macros and
__bpf_trace_##call() shim functions in include/trace/bpf_probe.h. They convert
kernel function arguments into array of u64s that BPF program consumes via
R1=ctx pointer.
This patch set is doing the same job as __bpf_trace_##call() static
trampolines, but dynamically for any kernel function. There are ~22k global
kernel functions that are attachable via nop at function entry. The function
arguments and types are described in BTF. The job of btf_distill_func_proto()
function is to extract useful information from BTF into "function model" that
architecture dependent trampoline generators will use to generate assembly code
to cast kernel function arguments into array of u64s. For example the kernel
function eth_type_trans has two pointers. They will be casted to u64 and stored
into stack of generated trampoline. The pointer to that stack space will be
passed into BPF program in R1. On x86-64 such generated trampoline will consume
16 bytes of stack and two stores of %rdi and %rsi into stack. The verifier will
make sure that only two u64 are accessed read-only by BPF program. The verifier
will also recognize the precise type of the pointers being accessed and will
not allow typecasting of the pointer to a different type within BPF program.
The tracing use case in the datacenter demonstrated that certain key kernel
functions have (like tcp_retransmit_skb) have 2 or more kprobes that are always
active. Other functions have both kprobe and kretprobe. So it is essential to
keep both kernel code and BPF programs executing at maximum speed. Hence
generated BPF trampoline is re-generated every time new program is attached or
detached to maintain maximum performance.
To avoid the high cost of retpoline the attached BPF programs are called
directly. __bpf_prog_enter/exit() are used to support per-program execution
stats. In the future this logic will be optimized further by adding support
for bpf_stats_enabled_key inside generated assembly code. Introduction of
preemptible and sleepable BPF programs will completely remove the need to call
to __bpf_prog_enter/exit().
Detach of a BPF program from the trampoline should not fail. To avoid memory
allocation in detach path the half of the page is used as a reserve and flipped
after each attach/detach. 2k bytes is enough to call 40+ BPF programs directly
which is enough for BPF tracing use cases. This limit can be increased in the
future.
BPF_TRACE_FENTRY programs have access to raw kernel function arguments while
BPF_TRACE_FEXIT programs have access to kernel return value as well. Often
kprobe BPF program remembers function arguments in a map while kretprobe
fetches arguments from a map and analyzes them together with return value.
BPF_TRACE_FEXIT accelerates this typical use case.
Recursion prevention for kprobe BPF programs is done via per-cpu
bpf_prog_active counter. In practice that turned out to be a mistake. It
caused programs to randomly skip execution. The tracing tools missed results
they were looking for. Hence BPF trampoline doesn't provide builtin recursion
prevention. It's a job of BPF program itself and will be addressed in the
follow up patches.
BPF trampoline is intended to be used beyond tracing and fentry/fexit use cases
in the future. For example to remove retpoline cost from XDP programs.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191114185720.1641606-5-ast@kernel.org
