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Compilers often spill induction variables into the stack,
hence it is necessary for the verifier to track scalar values
of the registers through stack slots.
Also few bpf programs were incorrectly rejected in the past,
since the verifier was not able to track such constants while
they were used to compute offsets into packet headers.
Tracking constants through the stack significantly decreases
the chances of state pruning, since two different constants
are considered to be different by state equivalency.
End result that cilium tests suffer serious degradation in the number
of states processed and corresponding verification time increase.
before after
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o 1838 6441
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o 3218 5908
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o 1064 1064
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o 26935 93790
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o 34439 123886
bpf_netdev.o 9721 31413
bpf_overlay.o 6184 18561
bpf_lxc_jit.o 39389 359445
After further debugging turned out that cillium progs are
getting hurt by clang due to the same constant tracking issue.
Newer clang generates better code by spilling less to the stack.
Instead it keeps more constants in the registers which
hurts state pruning since the verifier already tracks constants
in the registers:
old clang new clang
(no spill/fill tracking introduced by this patch)
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o 1838 1923
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o 3218 3077
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o 1064 1062
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o 26935 166729
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o 34439 174607
bpf_netdev.o 9721 8407
bpf_overlay.o 6184 5420
bpf_lcx_jit.o 39389 39389
The final table is depressing:
old clang old clang new clang new clang
const spill/fill const spill/fill
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o 1838 6441 1923 8128
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o 3218 5908 3077 6707
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o 1064 1064 1062 1062
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o 26935 93790 166729 380712
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o 34439 123886 174607 440652
bpf_netdev.o 9721 31413 8407 31904
bpf_overlay.o 6184 18561 5420 23569
bpf_lxc_jit.o 39389 359445 39389 359445
Tracking constants in the registers hurts state pruning already.
Adding tracking of constants through stack hurts pruning even more.
The later patch address this general constant tracking issue
with coarse/precise logic.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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