Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 04/13] bpf: Add support for forcing kfunc args to be trusted

[Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 06:11, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 03:42:36PM +0200, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:
> > +/* Trusted arguments are those which are meant to be referenced arguments with
> > + * unchanged offset. It is used to enforce that pointers obtained from acquire
> > + * kfuncs remain unmodified when being passed to helpers taking trusted args.
> > + *
> > + * Consider
> > + *   struct foo {
> > + *           int data;
> > + *           struct foo *next;
> > + *   };
> > + *
> > + *   struct bar {
> > + *           int data;
> > + *           struct foo f;
> > + *   };
> > + *
> > + *   struct foo *f = alloc_foo(); // Acquire kfunc
> > + *   struct bar *b = alloc_bar(); // Acquire kfunc
> > + *
> > + * If a kfunc set_foo_data() wants to operate only on the allocated object, it
> > + * will set the KF_TRUSTED_ARGS flag, which will prevent unsafe usage like:
> > + *
> > + *   set_foo_data(f, 42);       // Allowed
> > + *   set_foo_data(f->next, 42); // Rejected, non-referenced pointer
> > + *   set_foo_data(&f->next, 42);// Rejected, referenced, but bad offset
> > + *   set_foo_data(&b->f, 42);   // Rejected, referenced, but wrong type
>
> I think you meant to swap above two comments ?
> That's what I did while applying.
>
> Also fixed typo in Fixes tag in patch 13. It was missing a letter in sha.
>
> Since there are 3 other pending patchsets in patchwork that add new kfuncs
> this cleanup of kfunc registration couldn't have come at better time.
>
> Thank you for doing this work.

Thank you for doing the fixups!