Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 4/6] bpf/helpers: mark the callback of bpf_timer_set_sleepable_cb() as sleepable

From: Eduard Zingerman
Date: Mon Mar 18 2024 - 19:54:56 EST


On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 15:29 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
[...]

> @@ -5279,7 +5281,8 @@ static int map_kptr_match_type(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
>
> static bool in_sleepable(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
> {
> - return env->prog->sleepable;
> + return env->prog->sleepable ||
> + (env->cur_state && env->cur_state->in_sleepable);
> }

I was curious why 'env->cur_state &&' check was needed and found that
removing it caused an error in the following fragment:

static int do_misc_fixups(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
{
...
if (is_storage_get_function(insn->imm)) {
if (!in_sleepable(env) ||
env->insn_aux_data[i + delta].storage_get_func_atomic)
insn_buf[0] = BPF_MOV64_IMM(BPF_REG_5, (__force __s32)GFP_ATOMIC);
else
insn_buf[0] = BPF_MOV64_IMM(BPF_REG_5, (__force __s32)GFP_KERNEL);
...
}
...
}

When do_misc_fixups() is done env->cur_state is NULL.
Current implementation would use GFP_ATOMIC allocation even for
sleepable callbacks, where GFP_KERNEL is sufficient.
Is this is something we want to address?

>
> /* The non-sleepable programs and sleepable programs with explicit bpf_rcu_read_lock()