New llvm and old llvm with libbpf help produce BTF that distinguish global and
static functions. Unlike arguments of static function the arguments of global
functions cannot be removed or optimized away by llvm. The compiler has to use
exactly the arguments specified in a function prototype. The argument type
information allows the verifier validate each global function independently.
For now only supported argument types are pointer to context and scalars. In
the future pointers to structures, sizes, pointer to packet data can be
supported as well. Consider the following example:
static int f1(int ...)
{
...
}
int f3(int b);
int f2(int a)
{
f1(a) + f3(a);
}
int f3(int b)
{
...
}
int main(...)
{
f1(...) + f2(...) + f3(...);
}
The verifier will start its safety checks from the first global function f2().
It will recursively descend into f1() because it's static. Then it will check
that arguments match for the f3() invocation inside f2(). It will not descend
into f3(). It will finish f2() that has to be successfully verified for all
possible values of 'a'. Then it will proceed with f3(). That function also has
to be safe for all possible values of 'b'. Then it will start subprog 0 (which
is main() function). It will recursively descend into f1() and will skip full
check of f2() and f3(), since they are global. The order of processing global
functions doesn't affect safety, since all global functions must be proven safe
based on their arguments only.
Such function by function verification can drastically improve speed of the
verification and reduce complexity.
Note that the stack limit of 512 still applies to the call chain regardless whether
functions were static or global. The nested level of 8 also still applies. The
same recursion prevention checks are in place as well.
The type information and static/global kind is preserved after the verification
hence in the above example global function f2() and f3() can be replaced later
by equivalent functions with the same types that are loaded and verified later
without affecting safety of this main() program. Such replacement (re-linking)
of global functions is a subject of future patches.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200110064124.1760511-3-ast@kernel.org
Add support for extern variables, provided to BPF program by libbpf. Currently
the following extern variables are supported:
- LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION; version of a kernel in which BPF program is
executing, follows KERNEL_VERSION() macro convention, can be 4- and 8-byte
long;
- CONFIG_xxx values; a set of values of actual kernel config. Tristate,
boolean, strings, and integer values are supported.
Set of possible values is determined by declared type of extern variable.
Supported types of variables are:
- Tristate values. Are represented as `enum libbpf_tristate`. Accepted values
are **strictly** 'y', 'n', or 'm', which are represented as TRI_YES, TRI_NO,
or TRI_MODULE, respectively.
- Boolean values. Are represented as bool (_Bool) types. Accepted values are
'y' and 'n' only, turning into true/false values, respectively.
- Single-character values. Can be used both as a substritute for
bool/tristate, or as a small-range integer:
- 'y'/'n'/'m' are represented as is, as characters 'y', 'n', or 'm';
- integers in a range [-128, 127] or [0, 255] (depending on signedness of
char in target architecture) are recognized and represented with
respective values of char type.
- Strings. String values are declared as fixed-length char arrays. String of
up to that length will be accepted and put in first N bytes of char array,
with the rest of bytes zeroed out. If config string value is longer than
space alloted, it will be truncated and warning message emitted. Char array
is always zero terminated. String literals in config have to be enclosed in
double quotes, just like C-style string literals.
- Integers. 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-bit integers are supported, both signed and
unsigned variants. Libbpf enforces parsed config value to be in the
supported range of corresponding integer type. Integers values in config can
be:
- decimal integers, with optional + and - signs;
- hexadecimal integers, prefixed with 0x or 0X;
- octal integers, starting with 0.
Config file itself is searched in /boot/config-$(uname -r) location with
fallback to /proc/config.gz, unless config path is specified explicitly
through bpf_object_open_opts' kernel_config_path option. Both gzipped and
plain text formats are supported. Libbpf adds explicit dependency on zlib
because of this, but this shouldn't be a problem, given libelf already depends
on zlib.
All detected extern variables, are put into a separate .extern internal map.
It, similarly to .rodata map, is marked as read-only from BPF program side, as
well as is frozen on load. This allows BPF verifier to track extern values as
constants and perform enhanced branch prediction and dead code elimination.
This can be relied upon for doing kernel version/feature detection and using
potentially unsupported field relocations or BPF helpers in a CO-RE-based BPF
program, while still having a single version of BPF program running on old and
new kernels. Selftests are validating this explicitly for unexisting BPF
helper.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-3-andriin@fb.com
vmlinux BTF has more than 64k types.
Its string section is also at the offset larger than 64k.
Adjust both limits to make in-kernel BTF verifier successfully parse in-kernel BTF.
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
'VAL' should be protected by the brackets.
v2:
* Squash the fix for Documentation/bpf/btf.rst
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Signed-off-by: Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This adds the BTF specification and UAPI bits for supporting BTF Var
and DataSec kinds. This is following LLVM upstream commit ac4082b77e07
("[BPF] Add BTF Var and DataSec Support") which has been merged recently.
Var itself is for describing a global variable and DataSec to describe
ELF sections e.g. data/bss/rodata sections that hold one or multiple
global variables.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch fixed two issues with BTF. One is related to
struct/union bitfield encoding and the other is related to
forward type.
Issue #1 and solution:
======================
Current btf encoding of bitfield follows what pahole generates.
For each bitfield, pahole will duplicate the type chain and
put the bitfield size at the final int or enum type.
Since the BTF enum type cannot encode bit size,
pahole workarounds the issue by generating
an int type whenever the enum bit size is not 32.
For example,
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
typedef int ___int;
enum A { A1, A2, A3 };
struct t {
int a[5];
___int b:4;
volatile enum A c:4;
} g;
-bash-4.4$ gcc -c -O2 -g t.c
The current kernel supports the following BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bits_offset=0
b type_id=9 bits_offset=160
c type_id=11 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
[8] INT int size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=(none)
[9] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=8
[10] INT (anon) size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=SIGNED
[11] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=10
Two issues are in the above:
. by changing enum type to int, we lost the original
type information and this will not be ideal later
when we try to convert BTF to a header file.
. the type duplication for bitfields will cause
BTF bloat. Duplicated types cannot be deduplicated
later if the bitfield size is different.
To fix this issue, this patch implemented a compatible
change for BTF struct type encoding:
. the bit 31 of struct_type->info, previously reserved,
now is used to indicate whether bitfield_size is
encoded in btf_member or not.
. if bit 31 of struct_type->info is set,
btf_member->offset will encode like:
bit 0 - 23: bit offset
bit 24 - 31: bitfield size
if bit 31 is not set, the old behavior is preserved:
bit 0 - 31: bit offset
So if the struct contains a bit field, the maximum bit offset
will be reduced to (2^24 - 1) instead of MAX_UINT. The maximum
bitfield size will be 256 which is enough for today as maximum
bitfield in compiler can be 128 where int128 type is supported.
This kernel patch intends to support the new BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t kind_flag=1 size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bitfield_size=0 bits_offset=0
b type_id=1 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=160
c type_id=7 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
Issue #2 and solution:
======================
Current forward type in BTF does not specify whether the original
type is struct or union. This will not work for type pretty print
and BTF-to-header-file conversion as struct/union must be specified.
$ cat tt.c
struct t;
union u;
int foo(struct t *t, union u *u) { return 0; }
$ gcc -c -g -O2 tt.c
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) type_id=2
[4] FWD u type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) type_id=4
To fix this issue, similar to issue #1, type->info bit 31
is used. If the bit is set, it is union type. Otherwise, it is
a struct type.
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t kind_flag=0 type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=2
[4] FWD u kind_flag=1 type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=4
Pahole/LLVM change:
===================
The new kind_flag functionality has been implemented in pahole
and llvm:
https://github.com/yonghong-song/pahole/tree/bitfieldhttps://github.com/yonghong-song/llvm/tree/bitfield
Note that pahole hasn't implemented func/func_proto kind
and .BTF.ext. So to print function signature with bpftool,
the llvm compiler should be used.
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch adds BTF_KIND_FUNC and BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO
to support the function debug info.
BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO must not have a name (i.e. !t->name_off)
and it is followed by >= 0 'struct bpf_param' objects to
describe the function arguments.
The BTF_KIND_FUNC must have a valid name and it must
refer back to a BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO.
The above is the conclusion after the discussion between
Edward Cree, Alexei, Daniel, Yonghong and Martin.
By combining BTF_KIND_FUNC and BTF_LIND_FUNC_PROTO,
a complete function signature can be obtained. It will be
used in the later patches to learn the function signature of
a running bpf program.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch shrinks the BTF_INT_BITS() mask. The current
btf_int_check_meta() ensures the nr_bits of an integer
cannot exceed 64. Hence, it is mostly an uapi cleanup.
The actual btf usage (i.e. seq_show()) is also modified
to use u8 instead of u16. The verification (e.g. btf_int_check_meta())
path stays as is to deal with invalid BTF situation.
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch does the followings:
1. Limit BTF_MAX_TYPES and BTF_MAX_NAME_OFFSET to 64k. We can
raise it later.
2. Remove the BTF_TYPE_PARENT and BTF_STR_TBL_ELF_ID. They are
currently encoded at the highest bit of a u32.
It is because the current use case does not require supporting
parent type (i.e type_id referring to a type in another BTF file).
It also does not support referring to a string in ELF.
The BTF_TYPE_PARENT and BTF_STR_TBL_ELF_ID checks are replaced
by BTF_TYPE_ID_CHECK and BTF_STR_OFFSET_CHECK which are
defined in btf.c instead of uapi/linux/btf.h.
3. Limit the BTF_INFO_KIND from 5 bits to 4 bits which is enough.
There is unused bits headroom if we ever needed it later.
4. The root bit in BTF_INFO is also removed because it is not
used in the current use case.
5. Remove BTF_INT_VARARGS since func type is not supported now.
The BTF_INT_ENCODING is limited to 4 bits instead of 8 bits.
The above can be added back later because the verifier
ensures the unused bits are zeros.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
There are currently unused section descriptions in the btf_header. Those
sections are here to support future BTF use cases. For example, the
func section (func_off) is to support function signature (e.g. the BPF
prog function signature).
Instead of spelling out all potential sections up-front in the btf_header.
This patch makes changes to btf_header such that extending it (e.g. adding
a section) is possible later. The unused ones can be removed for now and
they can be added back later.
This patch:
1. adds a hdr_len to the btf_header. It will allow adding
sections (and other info like parent_label and parent_name)
later. The check is similar to the existing bpf_attr.
If a user passes in a longer hdr_len, the kernel
ensures the extra tailing bytes are 0.
2. allows the section order in the BTF object to be
different from its sec_off order in btf_header.
3. each sec_off is followed by a sec_len. It must not have gap or
overlapping among sections.
The string section is ensured to be at the end due to the 4 bytes
alignment requirement of the type section.
The above changes will allow enough flexibility to
add new sections (and other info) to the btf_header later.
This patch also removes an unnecessary !err check
at the end of btf_parse().
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch cleans up btf.h in uapi:
1) Rename "name" to "name_off" to better reflect it is an offset to the
string section instead of a char array.
2) Remove unused value BTF_FLAGS_COMPR and BTF_MAGIC_SWAP
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch introduces BPF type Format (BTF).
BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
the data types of BPF program/map. Hence, it basically focus
on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
using. The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
capability for a BPF map.
BTF has its root from CTF (Compact C-Type format). To simplify
the handling of BTF data, BTF removes the differences between
small and big type/struct-member. Hence, BTF consistently uses u32
instead of supporting both "one u16" and "two u32 (+padding)" in
describing type and struct-member.
It also raises the number of types (and functions) limit
from 0x7fff to 0x7fffffff.
Due to the above changes, the format is not compatible to CTF.
Hence, BTF starts with a new BTF_MAGIC and version number.
This patch does the first verification pass to the BTF. The first
pass checks:
1. meta-data size (e.g. It does not go beyond the total btf's size)
2. name_offset is valid
3. Each BTF_KIND (e.g. int, enum, struct....) does its
own check of its meta-data.
Some other checks, like checking a struct's member is referring
to a valid type, can only be done in the second pass. The second
verification pass will be implemented in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
