Re: [PATCH] bpf: do not inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() with CONFIG_SMP disabled

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Mon Dec 16 2024 - 13:34:21 EST


On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 18:24 +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 05:16:33PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> > > On 12/16/24 11:46 AM, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > > > Calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP disabled
> > > > can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable:
> > > >
> > > > [ 8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c
> > > > [ 8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > > > [ 8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> > > >
> > > > Fix by preventing the inlining of bpf_get_smp_processor_id() when
> > > > CONFIG_SMP disabled.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 1ae6921009e5 ("bpf: inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() helper")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > lgtm, but can't we instead do sth like this :
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > > index f7f892a52a37..761c70899754 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > > @@ -21281,11 +21281,15 @@ static int do_misc_fixups(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
> > > * changed in some incompatible and hard to support
> > > * way, it's fine to back out this inlining logic
> > > */
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > insn_buf[0] = BPF_MOV32_IMM(BPF_REG_0, (u32)(unsigned long)&pcpu_hot.cpu_number);
> > > insn_buf[1] = BPF_MOV64_PERCPU_REG(BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_0);
> > > insn_buf[2] = BPF_LDX_MEM(BPF_W, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_0, 0);
> > > cnt = 3;
> > > -
> > > +#else
> > > + BPF_ALU32_REG(BPF_XOR, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_0),
> > > + cnt = 1;
> > > +#endif
> > > new_prog = bpf_patch_insn_data(env, i + delta, insn_buf, cnt);
> > > if (!new_prog)
> > > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > That works as well (just tested) and it's probably better since we're
> > basically inlining the return 0. Do you want me to send a v2 with this?
>
> I think both Andrea's and Daniel's versions of the fix are good.
> Note, however, that I missed one more configuration variable when
> making bpf_get_smp_processor_id() inlinable: CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT.
>
> Helper body:
>
> BPF_CALL_0(bpf_get_smp_processor_id)
> {
> return smp_processor_id();
> }
>
> smp_processor_id definition:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
> extern unsigned int debug_smp_processor_id(void);
> # define smp_processor_id() debug_smp_processor_id()
> #else
> # define smp_processor_id() __smp_processor_id()
> #endif

No. It's fine as-is.
We inline raw_smp_processor_id().