Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf/verifier: track liveness for pruning

From: Edward Cree
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 14:06:54 EST


On 15/08/17 17:33, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 08/15/2017 03:53 PM, Edward Cree wrote:
>> State of a register doesn't matter if it wasn't read in reaching an exit;
>> a write screens off all reads downstream of it from all explored_states
>> upstream of it.
>> This allows us to prune many more branches; here are some processed insn
>> counts for some Cilium programs:
>> Program before after
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o 6515 3361
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o 8976 5176
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 2960 1137
>> bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o 95412 48537
>> bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 141706 78718
>> bpf_netdev.o 24251 17995
>> bpf_overlay.o 10999 9385
>>
>> The runtime is also improved; here are 'time' results in ms:
>> Program before after
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o 24 6
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o 26 11
>> bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 11 2
>> bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o 1288 139
>> bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o 1768 234
>> bpf_netdev.o 62 31
>> bpf_overlay.o 15 13
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
>> @@ -1639,10 +1675,13 @@ static int check_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int func_id, int insn_idx)
>> }
>>
>> /* reset caller saved regs */
>> - for (i = 0; i < CALLER_SAVED_REGS; i++)
>> + for (i = 0; i < CALLER_SAVED_REGS; i++) {
>> mark_reg_not_init(regs, caller_saved[i]);
>> + check_reg_arg(env, i, DST_OP_NO_MARK);
>
> Ah, I oversaw that earlier, this needs to be: s/i/caller_saved[i]/
So it does. Of course testing didn't spot this, because
caller_saved[i] == i currently.
>> + }
>>
>> /* update return register */
>> + check_reg_arg(env, BPF_REG_0, DST_OP_NO_MARK);
>
> We could leave this for clarity, but ...
Yeah, I'll replace it with a comment, like the other one.
Thanks for review :)

-Ed