linux/kernel
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi f18b03faba bpf: Implement BPF exceptions
This patch implements BPF exceptions, and introduces a bpf_throw kfunc
to allow programs to throw exceptions during their execution at runtime.
A bpf_throw invocation is treated as an immediate termination of the
program, returning back to its caller within the kernel, unwinding all
stack frames.

This allows the program to simplify its implementation, by testing for
runtime conditions which the verifier has no visibility into, and assert
that they are true. In case they are not, the program can simply throw
an exception from the other branch.

BPF exceptions are explicitly *NOT* an unlikely slowpath error handling
primitive, and this objective has guided design choices of the
implementation of the them within the kernel (with the bulk of the cost
for unwinding the stack offloaded to the bpf_throw kfunc).

The implementation of this mechanism requires use of add_hidden_subprog
mechanism introduced in the previous patch, which generates a couple of
instructions to move R1 to R0 and exit. The JIT then rewrites the
prologue of this subprog to take the stack pointer and frame pointer as
inputs and reset the stack frame, popping all callee-saved registers
saved by the main subprog. The bpf_throw function then walks the stack
at runtime, and invokes this exception subprog with the stack and frame
pointers as parameters.

Reviewers must take note that currently the main program is made to save
all callee-saved registers on x86_64 during entry into the program. This
is because we must do an equivalent of a lightweight context switch when
unwinding the stack, therefore we need the callee-saved registers of the
caller of the BPF program to be able to return with a sane state.

Note that we have to additionally handle r12, even though it is not used
by the program, because when throwing the exception the program makes an
entry into the kernel which could clobber r12 after saving it on the
stack. To be able to preserve the value we received on program entry, we
push r12 and restore it from the generated subprogram when unwinding the
stack.

For now, bpf_throw invocation fails when lingering resources or locks
exist in that path of the program. In a future followup, bpf_throw will
be extended to perform frame-by-frame unwinding to release lingering
resources for each stack frame, removing this limitation.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912233214.1518551-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2023-09-16 09:34:21 -07:00
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bpf bpf: Implement BPF exceptions 2023-09-16 09:34:21 -07:00
cgroup cgroup: fix build when CGROUP_SCHED is not enabled 2023-09-02 08:27:17 -07:00
configs Kbuild updates for v6.6 2023-09-05 11:01:47 -07:00
debug printk changes for 6.6 2023-09-04 13:20:19 -07:00
dma swiotlb: optimize get_max_slots() 2023-08-08 10:29:21 -07:00
entry entry: Remove empty addr_limit_user_check() 2023-08-23 10:32:39 +02:00
events powerpc updates for 6.6 2023-08-31 12:43:10 -07:00
futex mm/mm_init.c: remove obsolete macro HASH_SMALL 2023-08-18 10:12:07 -07:00
gcov gcov: shut up missing prototype warnings for internal stubs 2023-08-18 10:18:58 -07:00
irq Boring updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2023-08-28 14:33:11 -07:00
kcsan kcsan: Don't expect 64 bits atomic builtins from 32 bits architectures 2023-06-09 23:29:50 +10:00
livepatch livepatch: Make 'klp_stack_entries' static 2023-06-05 13:56:52 +02:00
locking - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
module module/decompress: use vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace 2023-08-29 09:39:08 -07:00
power TTY/Serial driver changes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-01 09:38:00 -07:00
printk printk changes for 6.6 2023-09-04 13:20:19 -07:00
rcu TTY/Serial driver changes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-01 09:38:00 -07:00
sched sched/fair: Make update_entity_lag() static 2023-08-29 21:05:28 +02:00
time Fix false positive "softirq work is pending" messages on -rt 2023-09-02 09:01:48 -07:00
trace Probes updates for v6.6: 2023-09-02 11:10:50 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c audit/stable-6.6 PR 20230829 2023-08-30 08:17:35 -07:00
async.c
audit.c audit: move trailing statements to next line 2023-08-15 18:16:14 -04:00
audit.h audit: correct audit_filter_inodes() definition 2023-07-21 12:17:25 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c audit: move trailing statements to next line 2023-08-15 18:16:14 -04:00
auditsc.c Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-09-07 18:33:07 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c lsm: constify the 'target' parameter in security_capget() 2023-08-08 16:48:47 -04:00
cfi.c
compat.c sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized 2023-03-14 19:32:38 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>() 2023-06-05 09:57:20 +02:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Prevent self deadlock on CPU hot-unplug 2023-08-30 12:24:22 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: convert printks to pr_<level> 2023-08-18 10:18:49 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ 2023-04-18 16:39:34 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression 2023-06-01 17:15:33 -04:00
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c percpu: changes for v6.6 2023-09-01 15:44:45 -07:00
freezer.c
gen_kheaders.sh Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" 2023-05-28 16:20:21 +09:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: set some hung_task.c variables storage-class-specifier to static 2023-04-08 13:45:37 -07:00
iomem.c kernel/iomem.c: remove __weak ioremap_cache helper 2023-08-21 13:37:28 -07:00
irq_work.c trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu() 2023-03-24 11:01:29 +01:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Change func signature for cleanup_symbol_name() 2023-08-25 15:00:36 -07:00
kallsyms_internal.h
kallsyms_selftest.c Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.kexec crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() 2023-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: add prototypes for helper functions 2023-06-09 17:44:17 -07:00
kexec.c crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() 2023-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
kexec_core.c crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support 2023-08-24 16:25:13 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c integrity-v6.6 2023-08-30 09:16:56 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kheaders.c kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char 2023-03-24 20:10:59 -07:00
kprobes.c kernel: kprobes: Use struct_size() 2023-08-23 09:38:17 +09:00
ksyms_common.c kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function 2023-06-08 12:27:20 -07:00
ksysfs.c crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() 2023-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: unexport __kthread_should_park() 2023-08-18 10:18:59 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile v6.5-rc1-modules-next 2023-06-28 15:51:08 -07:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifiers: add tracepoints to the notifiers infrastructure 2023-04-08 13:45:38 -07:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t 2023-08-21 11:29:12 -07:00
padata.c padata: use alignment when calculating the number of worker threads 2023-03-14 17:06:44 +08:00
panic.c mm: remove arguments of show_mem() 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
params.c kernel: params: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err 2023-07-10 12:47:01 -07:00
pid.c memfd: replace ratcheting feature from vm.memfd_noexec with hierarchy 2023-08-21 13:37:59 -07:00
pid_namespace.c memfd: replace ratcheting feature from vm.memfd_noexec with hierarchy 2023-08-21 13:37:59 -07:00
pid_sysctl.h memfd: replace ratcheting feature from vm.memfd_noexec with hierarchy 2023-08-21 13:37:59 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: Provide set/get interface for syscall user dispatch 2023-04-16 14:23:07 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c
regset.c
relay.c kernel: relay: remove unnecessary NULL values from relay_open_buf 2023-08-18 10:18:55 -07:00
resource.c
resource_kunit.c
rseq.c
scftorture.c scftorture: Pause testing after memory-allocation failure 2023-07-14 15:02:57 -07:00
scs.c
seccomp.c seccomp: Add missing kerndoc notations 2023-08-17 12:32:15 -07:00
signal.c signal: print comm and exe name on fatal signals 2023-08-18 10:18:50 -07:00
smp.c smp: Reduce NMI traffic from CSD waiters to CSD destination 2023-07-10 14:19:04 -07:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions 2023-05-15 13:45:00 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c sched/core: introduce sched_core_idle_cpu() 2023-07-13 15:21:50 +02:00
stackleak.c stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function 2023-04-20 11:36:35 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call.c
static_call_inline.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c prctl: move PR_GET_AUXV out of PR_MCE_KILL 2023-07-17 12:53:21 -07:00
sys_ni.c x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall 2023-08-02 15:01:51 -07:00
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next 2023-06-28 16:05:21 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
torture.c torture: Stop right-shifting torture_random() return values 2023-08-14 15:01:08 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl 2023-08-15 15:26:17 -07:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c sysctl: fix unused proc_cap_handler() function warning 2023-06-29 15:19:43 -07:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
usermode_driver.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
vhost_task.c vhost: Fix worker hangs due to missed wake up calls 2023-06-08 15:43:09 -04:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer 2023-06-06 10:47:04 +02:00
watchdog.c watchdog/hardlockup: avoid large stack frames in watchdog_hardlockup_check() 2023-08-18 10:19:00 -07:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code 2023-06-19 16:25:28 -07:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/perf: add a weak function for an arch to detect if perf can use NMIs 2023-06-09 17:44:21 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment 2023-08-29 09:52:16 -10:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Drop the special locking rule for worker->flags and worker_pool->flags 2023-08-07 15:57:22 -10:00