Message ID | 20240728030115.3970543-1-amery.hung@bytedance.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Support bpf_kptr_xchg into local kptr | expand |
On 7/27/24 8:01 PM, Amery Hung wrote: > This series allows stashing kptr into local kptr. Currently, kptrs are > only allowed to be stashed into map value with bpf_kptr_xchg(). A > motivating use case of this series is to enable adding referenced kptr to > bpf_rbtree or bpf_list by using allocated object as graph node and the > storage of referenced kptr. For example, a bpf qdisc [0] enqueuing a > referenced kptr to a struct sk_buff* to a bpf_list serving as a fifo: > > struct skb_node { > struct sk_buff __kptr *skb; > struct bpf_list_node node; > }; > > private(A) struct bpf_spin_lock fifo_lock; > private(A) struct bpf_list_head fifo __contains(skb_node, node); > > /* In Qdisc_ops.enqueue */ > struct skb_node *skbn; > > skbn = bpf_obj_new(typeof(*skbn)); > if (!skbn) > goto drop; > > /* skb is a referenced kptr to struct sk_buff acquired earilier > * but not shown in this code snippet. > */ > skb = bpf_kptr_xchg(&skbn->skb, skb); > if (skb) > /* should not happen; do something below releasing skb to > * satisfy the verifier */ > ... > > bpf_spin_lock(&fifo_lock); > bpf_list_push_back(&fifo, &skbn->node); > bpf_spin_unlock(&fifo_lock); > > The implementation first searches for BPF_KPTR when generating program > BTF. Then, we teach the verifier that the detination argument of > bpf_kptr_xchg() can be local kptr, and use the btf_record in program BTF > to check against the source argument. > > This series is mostly developed by Dave, who kindly helped and sent me > the patchset. The selftests in bpf qdisc (WIP) relies on this series to > work. The set lgtm. With the doc fix in the bpf_kptr_xchg, you can carry my Ack. Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>