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Alexei Starovoitov cc2b14d510 bpf: teach verifier to recognize zero initialized stack
programs with function calls are often passing various
pointers via stack. When all calls are inlined llvm
flattens stack accesses and optimizes away extra branches.
When functions are not inlined it becomes the job of
the verifier to recognize zero initialized stack to avoid
exploring paths that program will not take.
The following program would fail otherwise:

ptr = &buffer_on_stack;
*ptr = 0;
...
func_call(.., ptr, ...) {
  if (..)
    *ptr = bpf_map_lookup();
}
...
if (*ptr != 0) {
  // Access (*ptr)->field is valid.
  // Without stack_zero tracking such (*ptr)->field access
  // will be rejected
}

since stack slots are no longer uniform invalid | spill | misc
add liveness marking to all slots, but do it in 8 byte chunks.
So if nothing was read or written in [fp-16, fp-9] range
it will be marked as LIVE_NONE.
If any byte in that range was read, it will be marked LIVE_READ
and stacksafe() check will perform byte-by-byte verification.
If all bytes in the range were written the slot will be
marked as LIVE_WRITTEN.
This significantly speeds up state equality comparison
and reduces total number of states processed.

                    before   after
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o       2051    2003
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o       3287    3164
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o     1080    1080
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o   24980   12361
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o    34308   16605
bpf_netdev.o          15404   10962
bpf_overlay.o         7191    6679

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2017-12-17 20:34:35 +01:00
arch bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper 2017-12-12 09:02:34 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-28 16:22:10 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2017-12-08 10:48:25 -05:00
drivers nfp: bpf: correct printk formats for size_t 2017-12-15 22:01:05 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs btrfs: allow us to inject errors at io_ctl_init 2017-12-12 09:02:40 -08:00
include bpf: teach verifier to recognize zero initialized stack 2017-12-17 20:34:35 +01:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel bpf: teach verifier to recognize zero initialized stack 2017-12-17 20:34:35 +01:00
lib RISC-V Cleanups and ABI Fixes for 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 19:39:12 -05:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2017-12-08 10:48:25 -05:00
samples samples/bpf: add a test for bpf_override_return 2017-12-12 09:02:40 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-29 19:12:44 -08:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-05 10:44:19 -05:00
sound Revert "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential zero-division at parsing FU" 2017-11-28 09:34:36 -08:00
tools selftests/bpf: add verifier tests for bpf_call 2017-12-17 20:34:35 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt * x86 bugfixes: APIC, nested virtualization, IOAPIC 2017-11-30 08:15:19 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2017-12-08 10:48:25 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 11:01:47 -05:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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