From: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>, <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 08/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:25:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6d1763a-9674-9af3-51c5-c1467332c22b@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201127175738.1085417-9-jackmanb@google.com>
On 11/27/20 9:57 AM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> This adds two atomic opcodes, both of which include the BPF_FETCH
> flag. XCHG without the BPF_FETCh flag would naturally encode
BPF_FETCH
> atomic_set. This is not supported because it would be of limited
> value to userspace (it doesn't imply any barriers). CMPXCHG without
> BPF_FETCH woulud be an atomic compare-and-write. We don't have such
> an operation in the kernel so it isn't provided to BPF either.
>
> There are two significant design decisions made for the CMPXCHG
> instruction:
>
> - To solve the issue that this operation fundamentally has 3
> operands, but we only have two register fields. Therefore the
> operand we compare against (the kernel's API calls it 'old') is
> hard-coded to be R0. x86 has similar design (and A64 doesn't
> have this problem).
>
> A potential alternative might be to encode the other operand's
> register number in the immediate field.
>
> - The kernel's atomic_cmpxchg returns the old value, while the C11
> userspace APIs return a boolean indicating the comparison
> result. Which should BPF do? A64 returns the old value. x86 returns
> the old value in the hard-coded register (and also sets a
> flag). That means return-old-value is easier to JIT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 8 ++++++++
> include/linux/filter.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 4 +++-
> kernel/bpf/core.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/bpf/disasm.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> tools/include/linux/filter.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 4 +++-
> 8 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
[...]
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index cd4c03b25573..c8311cc114ec 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -3601,10 +3601,13 @@ static int check_mem_access(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, u32 regn
> static int check_atomic(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_insn *insn)
> {
> int err;
> + int load_reg;
>
> switch (insn->imm) {
> case BPF_ADD:
> case BPF_ADD | BPF_FETCH:
> + case BPF_XCHG:
> + case BPF_CMPXCHG:
> break;
> default:
> verbose(env, "BPF_ATOMIC uses invalid atomic opcode %02x\n", insn->imm);
> @@ -3626,6 +3629,13 @@ static int check_atomic(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_i
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> + if (insn->imm == BPF_CMPXCHG) {
> + /* check src3 operand */
better comment about what src3 means here?
> + err = check_reg_arg(env, BPF_REG_0, SRC_OP);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> + }
> +
> if (is_pointer_value(env, insn->src_reg)) {
> verbose(env, "R%d leaks addr into mem\n", insn->src_reg);
> return -EACCES;
> @@ -3656,8 +3666,13 @@ static int check_atomic(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx, struct bpf_i
> if (!(insn->imm & BPF_FETCH))
> return 0;
>
> - /* check and record load of old value into src reg */
> - err = check_reg_arg(env, insn->src_reg, DST_OP);
> + if (insn->imm == BPF_CMPXCHG)
> + load_reg = BPF_REG_0;
> + else
> + load_reg = insn->src_reg;
> +
> + /* check and record load of old value */
> + err = check_reg_arg(env, load_reg, DST_OP);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-28 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-27 17:57 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 01/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of ModR/M for *(reg + off) Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:14 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:52 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 17:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 02/13] bpf: x86: Factor out emission of REX byte Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:12 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 10:54 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 03/13] bpf: x86: Factor out function to emit NEG Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 04/13] bpf: x86: Factor out a lookup table for some ALU opcodes Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 05/13] bpf: Rename BPF_XADD and prepare to encode other atomics in .imm Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 3:43 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:17 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 06/13] bpf: Move BPF_STX reserved field check into BPF_STX verifier code Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 07/13] bpf: Add BPF_FETCH field / create atomic_fetch_add instruction Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 4:15 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:22 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 08/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:25 ` Yonghong Song [this message]
2020-12-01 12:27 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-29 1:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-01 12:32 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 09/13] bpf: Pull out a macro for interpreting atomic ALU operations Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 21:39 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-27 21:39 ` [RFC PATCH] bpf: bpf_atomic_alu_string[] can be static kernel test robot
2020-11-28 5:35 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Add instructions for atomic[64]_[fetch_]sub Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:18 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:38 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-02 5:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-02 11:19 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 11/13] bpf: Add bitwise atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:39 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:20 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 12/13] bpf: Add tests for new BPF atomic operations Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01 3:55 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 12:56 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-12-01 17:24 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 2:22 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 12:26 ` Brendan Jackman
2020-11-27 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 13/13] bpf: Document new atomic instructions Brendan Jackman
2020-11-28 5:53 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 00/13] Atomics for eBPF Yonghong Song
2020-11-29 1:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-30 17:22 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-01 3:48 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 2:00 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 5:05 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-02 5:53 ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02 5:59 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-02 6:27 ` John Fastabend
2020-12-02 8:03 ` Yonghong Song
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