bpf: Introduce ARG_PTR_TO_{INT,LONG} arg types
Currently the way to pass result from BPF helper to BPF program is to
provide memory area defined by pointer and size: func(void *, size_t).
It works great for generic use-case, but for simple types, such as int,
it's overkill and consumes two arguments when it could use just one.
Introduce new argument types ARG_PTR_TO_INT and ARG_PTR_TO_LONG to be
able to pass result from helper to program via pointer to int and long
correspondingly: func(int *) or func(long *).
New argument types are similar to ARG_PTR_TO_MEM with the following
differences:
* they don't require corresponding ARG_CONST_SIZE argument, predefined
access sizes are used instead (32bit for int, 64bit for long);
* it's possible to use more than one such an argument in a helper;
* provided pointers have to be aligned.
It's easy to introduce similar ARG_PTR_TO_CHAR and ARG_PTR_TO_SHORT
argument types. It's not done due to lack of use-case though.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 20808e3..15ab6fa 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -2462,6 +2462,22 @@ static bool arg_type_is_mem_size(enum bpf_arg_type type)
type == ARG_CONST_SIZE_OR_ZERO;
}
+static bool arg_type_is_int_ptr(enum bpf_arg_type type)
+{
+ return type == ARG_PTR_TO_INT ||
+ type == ARG_PTR_TO_LONG;
+}
+
+static int int_ptr_type_to_size(enum bpf_arg_type type)
+{
+ if (type == ARG_PTR_TO_INT)
+ return sizeof(u32);
+ else if (type == ARG_PTR_TO_LONG)
+ return sizeof(u64);
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
enum bpf_arg_type arg_type,
struct bpf_call_arg_meta *meta)
@@ -2554,6 +2570,12 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
type != expected_type)
goto err_type;
meta->raw_mode = arg_type == ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM;
+ } else if (arg_type_is_int_ptr(arg_type)) {
+ expected_type = PTR_TO_STACK;
+ if (!type_is_pkt_pointer(type) &&
+ type != PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE &&
+ type != expected_type)
+ goto err_type;
} else {
verbose(env, "unsupported arg_type %d\n", arg_type);
return -EFAULT;
@@ -2635,6 +2657,13 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 regno,
err = check_helper_mem_access(env, regno - 1,
reg->umax_value,
zero_size_allowed, meta);
+ } else if (arg_type_is_int_ptr(arg_type)) {
+ int size = int_ptr_type_to_size(arg_type);
+
+ err = check_helper_mem_access(env, regno, size, false, meta);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ err = check_ptr_alignment(env, reg, 0, size, true);
}
return err;
