Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/8] bpf: Introduce load-acquire and store-release instructions

[Peilin Ye]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 04:19:25PM -0800, Eduard Zingerman wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-01-25 at 02:18 +0000, Peilin Ye wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> I think bpf_jit_supports_insn() in arch/{x86,s390}/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
> need an update, as both would accept BPF_LOAD_ACQ/BPF_STORE_REL at the
> moment.

Got it - I will move is_atomic_load_store() into <linux/bpf.h> for that.

> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> > +static int check_atomic_load(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx,
> > +			     struct bpf_insn *insn)
> > +{
> > +	struct bpf_reg_state *regs = cur_regs(env);
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	err = check_reg_arg(env, insn->src_reg, SRC_OP);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	err = check_reg_arg(env, insn->dst_reg, DST_OP_NO_MARK);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	if (!atomic_ptr_type_ok(env, insn->src_reg, insn)) {
> > +		verbose(env, "BPF_ATOMIC loads from R%d %s is not allowed\n",
> > +			insn->src_reg,
> > +			reg_type_str(env, reg_state(env, insn->src_reg)->type));
> > +		return -EACCES;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	if (is_arena_reg(env, insn->src_reg)) {
> > +		err = save_aux_ptr_type(env, PTR_TO_ARENA, false);
> > +		if (err)
> > +			return err;
> 
> Nit: this and the next function look very similar to processing of
>      generic load and store in do_check(). Maybe extract that code
>      as an auxiliary function and call it in both places?

Sure, I agree that they look a bit repetitive.

>      The only major difference is is_arena_reg() check guarding
>      save_aux_ptr_type(), but I think it is ok to do save_aux_ptr_type
>      unconditionally. Fwiw, the code would be a bit simpler,
>      just spent half an hour convincing myself that such conditional handling
>      is not an error. Wdyt?

:-O

Thanks a lot for that; would you mind sharing a bit more on how you
reasoned about it (i.e., why is it OK to save_aux_ptr_type()
unconditionally) ?

> > +	}
> > +
> > +	/* Check whether we can read the memory. */
> > +	err = check_mem_access(env, insn_idx, insn->src_reg, insn->off,
> > +			       BPF_SIZE(insn->code), BPF_READ, insn->dst_reg,
> > +			       true, false);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	err = reg_bounds_sanity_check(env, &regs[insn->dst_reg], "atomic_load");
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int check_atomic_store(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int insn_idx,
> > +			      struct bpf_insn *insn)

Thanks,
Peilin Ye