bpf: Augment raw_tp arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL

Arguments to a raw tracepoint are tagged as trusted, which carries the
semantics that the pointer will be non-NULL.  However, in certain cases,
a raw tracepoint argument may end up being NULL. More context about this
issue is available in [0].

Thus, there is a discrepancy between the reality, that raw_tp arguments can
actually be NULL, and the verifier's knowledge, that they are never NULL,
causing explicit NULL check branch to be dead code eliminated.

A previous attempt [1], i.e. the second fixed commit, was made to
simulate symbolic execution as if in most accesses, the argument is a
non-NULL raw_tp, except for conditional jumps.  This tried to suppress
branch prediction while preserving compatibility, but surfaced issues
with production programs that were difficult to solve without increasing
verifier complexity. A more complete discussion of issues and fixes is
available at [2].

Fix this by maintaining an explicit list of tracepoints where the
arguments are known to be NULL, and mark the positional arguments as
PTR_MAYBE_NULL. Additionally, capture the tracepoints where arguments
are known to be ERR_PTR, and mark these arguments as scalar values to
prevent potential dereference.

Each hex digit is used to encode NULL-ness (0x1) or ERR_PTR-ness (0x2),
shifted by the zero-indexed argument number x 4. This can be represented
as follows:
1st arg: 0x1
2nd arg: 0x10
3rd arg: 0x100
... and so on (likewise for ERR_PTR case).

In the future, an automated pass will be used to produce such a list, or
insert __nullable annotations automatically for tracepoints. Each
compilation unit will be analyzed and results will be collated to find
whether a tracepoint pointer is definitely not null, maybe null, or an
unknown state where verifier conservatively marks it PTR_MAYBE_NULL.
A proof of concept of this tool from Eduard is available at [3].

Note that in case we don't find a specification in the raw_tp_null_args
array and the tracepoint belongs to a kernel module, we will
conservatively mark the arguments as PTR_MAYBE_NULL. This is because
unlike for in-tree modules, out-of-tree module tracepoints may pass NULL
freely to the tracepoint. We don't protect against such tracepoints
passing ERR_PTR (which is uncommon anyway), lest we mark all such
arguments as SCALAR_VALUE.

While we are it, let's adjust the test raw_tp_null to not perform
dereference of the skb->mark, as that won't be allowed anymore, and make
it more robust by using inline assembly to test the dead code
elimination behavior, which should still stay the same.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZrCZS6nisraEqehw@jlelli-thinkpadt14gen4.remote.csb
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241104171959.2938862-1-memxor@gmail.com
  [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241206161053.809580-1-memxor@gmail.com
  [3]: https://github.com/eddyz87/llvm-project/tree/nullness-for-tracepoint-params

Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> # original bug
Reported-by: Manu Bretelle <chantra@meta.com> # bugs in masking fix
Fixes: 3f00c52393 ("bpf: Allow trusted pointers to be passed to KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfuncs")
Fixes: cb4158ce8e ("bpf: Mark raw_tp arguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL")
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213221929.3495062-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

kernel/bpf/btf.c

@@ -6439,6 +6439,101 @@ int btf_ctx_arg_offset(const struct btf *btf, const struct btf_type *func_proto,
 	return off;
 }
 
+struct bpf_raw_tp_null_args {
+	const char *func;
+	u64 mask;
+};
+
+static const struct bpf_raw_tp_null_args raw_tp_null_args[] = {
+	/* sched */
+	{ "sched_pi_setprio", 0x10 },
+	/* ... from sched_numa_pair_template event class */
+	{ "sched_stick_numa", 0x100 },
+	{ "sched_swap_numa", 0x100 },
+	/* afs */
+	{ "afs_make_fs_call", 0x10 },
+	{ "afs_make_fs_calli", 0x10 },
+	{ "afs_make_fs_call1", 0x10 },
+	{ "afs_make_fs_call2", 0x10 },
+	{ "afs_protocol_error", 0x1 },
+	{ "afs_flock_ev", 0x10 },
+	/* cachefiles */
+	{ "cachefiles_lookup", 0x1 | 0x200 },
+	{ "cachefiles_unlink", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_rename", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_prep_read", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_mark_active", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_mark_failed", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_mark_inactive", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_vfs_error", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_io_error", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_open", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_copen", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_close", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_read", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_cread", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_fd_write", 0x1 },
+	{ "cachefiles_ondemand_fd_release", 0x1 },
+	/* ext4, from ext4__mballoc event class */
+	{ "ext4_mballoc_discard", 0x10 },
+	{ "ext4_mballoc_free", 0x10 },
+	/* fib */
+	{ "fib_table_lookup", 0x100 },
+	/* filelock */
+	/* ... from filelock_lock event class */
+	{ "posix_lock_inode", 0x10 },
+	{ "fcntl_setlk", 0x10 },
+	{ "locks_remove_posix", 0x10 },
+	{ "flock_lock_inode", 0x10 },
+	/* ... from filelock_lease event class */
+	{ "break_lease_noblock", 0x10 },
+	{ "break_lease_block", 0x10 },
+	{ "break_lease_unblock", 0x10 },
+	{ "generic_delete_lease", 0x10 },
+	{ "time_out_leases", 0x10 },
+	/* host1x */
+	{ "host1x_cdma_push_gather", 0x10000 },
+	/* huge_memory */
+	{ "mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd", 0x10 },
+	{ "mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate", 0x1 },
+	{ "mm_khugepaged_scan_file", 0x10 },
+	{ "mm_khugepaged_collapse_file", 0x10 },
+	/* kmem */
+	{ "mm_page_alloc", 0x1 },
+	{ "mm_page_pcpu_drain", 0x1 },
+	/* .. from mm_page event class */
+	{ "mm_page_alloc_zone_locked", 0x1 },
+	/* netfs */
+	{ "netfs_failure", 0x10 },
+	/* power */
+	{ "device_pm_callback_start", 0x10 },
+	/* qdisc */
+	{ "qdisc_dequeue", 0x1000 },
+	/* rxrpc */
+	{ "rxrpc_recvdata", 0x1 },
+	{ "rxrpc_resend", 0x10 },
+	/* sunrpc */
+	{ "xs_stream_read_data", 0x1 },
+	/* ... from xprt_cong_event event class */
+	{ "xprt_reserve_cong", 0x10 },
+	{ "xprt_release_cong", 0x10 },
+	{ "xprt_get_cong", 0x10 },
+	{ "xprt_put_cong", 0x10 },
+	/* tcp */
+	{ "tcp_send_reset", 0x11 },
+	/* tegra_apb_dma */
+	{ "tegra_dma_tx_status", 0x100 },
+	/* timer_migration */
+	{ "tmigr_update_events", 0x1 },
+	/* writeback, from writeback_folio_template event class */
+	{ "writeback_dirty_folio", 0x10 },
+	{ "folio_wait_writeback", 0x10 },
+	/* rdma */
+	{ "mr_integ_alloc", 0x2000 },
+	/* bpf_testmod */
+	{ "bpf_testmod_test_read", 0x0 },
+};
+
 bool btf_ctx_access(int off, int size, enum bpf_access_type type,
 		    const struct bpf_prog *prog,
 		    struct bpf_insn_access_aux *info)
@@ -6449,6 +6544,7 @@ bool btf_ctx_access(int off, int size, enum bpf_access_type type,
 	const char *tname = prog->aux->attach_func_name;
 	struct bpf_verifier_log *log = info->log;
 	const struct btf_param *args;
+	bool ptr_err_raw_tp = false;
 	const char *tag_value;
 	u32 nr_args, arg;
 	int i, ret;
@@ -6597,6 +6693,39 @@ bool btf_ctx_access(int off, int size, enum bpf_access_type type,
 	if (btf_param_match_suffix(btf, &args[arg], "__nullable"))
 		info->reg_type |= PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
 
+	if (prog->expected_attach_type == BPF_TRACE_RAW_TP) {
+		struct btf *btf = prog->aux->attach_btf;
+		const struct btf_type *t;
+		const char *tname;
+
+		/* BTF lookups cannot fail, return false on error */
+		t = btf_type_by_id(btf, prog->aux->attach_btf_id);
+		if (!t)
+			return false;
+		tname = btf_name_by_offset(btf, t->name_off);
+		if (!tname)
+			return false;
+		/* Checked by bpf_check_attach_target */
+		tname += sizeof("btf_trace_") - 1;
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(raw_tp_null_args); i++) {
+			/* Is this a func with potential NULL args? */
+			if (strcmp(tname, raw_tp_null_args[i].func))
+				continue;
+			if (raw_tp_null_args[i].mask & (0x1 << (arg * 4)))
+				info->reg_type |= PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
+			/* Is the current arg IS_ERR? */
+			if (raw_tp_null_args[i].mask & (0x2 << (arg * 4)))
+				ptr_err_raw_tp = true;
+			break;
+		}
+		/* If we don't know NULL-ness specification and the tracepoint
+		 * is coming from a loadable module, be conservative and mark
+		 * argument as PTR_MAYBE_NULL.
+		 */
+		if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(raw_tp_null_args) && btf_is_module(btf))
+			info->reg_type |= PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
+	}
+
 	if (tgt_prog) {
 		enum bpf_prog_type tgt_type;
 
@@ -6641,6 +6770,15 @@ bool btf_ctx_access(int off, int size, enum bpf_access_type type,
 	bpf_log(log, "func '%s' arg%d has btf_id %d type %s '%s'\n",
 		tname, arg, info->btf_id, btf_type_str(t),
 		__btf_name_by_offset(btf, t->name_off));
+
+	/* Perform all checks on the validity of type for this argument, but if
+	 * we know it can be IS_ERR at runtime, scrub pointer type and mark as
+	 * scalar.
+	 */
+	if (ptr_err_raw_tp) {
+		bpf_log(log, "marking pointer arg%d as scalar as it may encode error", arg);
+		info->reg_type = SCALAR_VALUE;
+	}
 	return true;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(btf_ctx_access);

tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/raw_tp_null.c

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <vmlinux.h>
 #include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h>
+#include "bpf_misc.h"
 
 char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
 
@@ -17,16 +18,14 @@ int BPF_PROG(test_raw_tp_null, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (task->pid != tid)
 		return 0;
 
-	i = i + skb->mark + 1;
-	/* The compiler may move the NULL check before this deref, which causes
-	 * the load to fail as deref of scalar. Prevent that by using a barrier.
+	/* If dead code elimination kicks in, the increment +=2 will be
+	 * removed. For raw_tp programs attaching to tracepoints in kernel
+	 * modules, we mark input arguments as PTR_MAYBE_NULL, so branch
+	 * prediction should never kick in.
 	 */
-	barrier();
-	/* If dead code elimination kicks in, the increment below will
-	 * be removed. For raw_tp programs, we mark input arguments as
-	 * PTR_MAYBE_NULL, so branch prediction should never kick in.
-	 */
-	if (!skb)
-		i += 2;
+	asm volatile ("%[i] += 1; if %[ctx] != 0 goto +1; %[i] += 2;"
+			: [i]"+r"(i)
+			: [ctx]"r"(skb)
+			: "memory");
 	return 0;
 }