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authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2023-03-02 20:14:43 -0800
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2023-03-03 17:42:20 +0100
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bpf: Introduce kptr_rcu.
The life time of certain kernel structures like 'struct cgroup' is protected by RCU. Hence it's safe to dereference them directly from __kptr tagged pointers in bpf maps. The resulting pointer is MEM_RCU and can be passed to kfuncs that expect KF_RCU. Derefrence of other kptr-s returns PTR_UNTRUSTED. For example: struct map_value { struct cgroup __kptr *cgrp; }; SEC("tp_btf/cgroup_mkdir") int BPF_PROG(test_cgrp_get_ancestors, struct cgroup *cgrp_arg, const char *path) { struct cgroup *cg, *cg2; cg = bpf_cgroup_acquire(cgrp_arg); // cg is PTR_TRUSTED and ref_obj_id > 0 bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->cgrp, cg); cg2 = v->cgrp; // This is new feature introduced by this patch. // cg2 is PTR_MAYBE_NULL | MEM_RCU. // When cg2 != NULL, it's a valid cgroup, but its percpu_ref could be zero if (cg2) bpf_cgroup_ancestor(cg2, level); // safe to do. } Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230303041446.3630-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/bpf/helpers.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/helpers.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index 12f12e879bcf..637ac4e92e75 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -2163,8 +2163,10 @@ __bpf_kfunc struct cgroup *bpf_cgroup_ancestor(struct cgroup *cgrp, int level)
if (level > cgrp->level || level < 0)
return NULL;
+ /* cgrp's refcnt could be 0 here, but ancestors can still be accessed */
ancestor = cgrp->ancestors[level];
- cgroup_get(ancestor);
+ if (!cgroup_tryget(ancestor))
+ return NULL;
return ancestor;
}
@@ -2382,7 +2384,7 @@ BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_rbtree_first, KF_RET_NULL)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_acquire, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_TRUSTED_ARGS)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_kptr_get, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_KPTR_GET | KF_RET_NULL)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_release, KF_RELEASE)
-BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_ancestor, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_TRUSTED_ARGS | KF_RET_NULL)
+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_ancestor, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_RCU | KF_RET_NULL)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_cgroup_from_id, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_RET_NULL)
#endif
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, bpf_task_from_pid, KF_ACQUIRE | KF_RET_NULL)