From 3bda08b63670c39be390fcb00e7718775508e673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Rosenberg Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 18:31:30 -0700 Subject: bpf: Allow NULL buffers in bpf_dynptr_slice(_rw) bpf_dynptr_slice(_rw) uses a user provided buffer if it can not provide a pointer to a block of contiguous memory. This buffer is unused in the case of local dynptrs, and may be unused in other cases as well. There is no need to require the buffer, as the kfunc can just return NULL if it was needed and not provided. This adds another kfunc annotation, __opt, which combines with __sz and __szk to allow the buffer associated with the size to be NULL. If the buffer is NULL, the verifier does not check that the buffer is of sufficient size. Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230506013134.2492210-2-drosen@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/bpf') diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst index ea2516374d92..7a3d9de5f315 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Hence, whenever a constant scalar argument is accepted by a kfunc which is not a size parameter, and the value of the constant matters for program safety, __k suffix should be used. -2.2.2 __uninit Annotation +2.2.3 __uninit Annotation ------------------------- This annotation is used to indicate that the argument will be treated as @@ -117,6 +117,27 @@ Here, the dynptr will be treated as an uninitialized dynptr. Without this annotation, the verifier will reject the program if the dynptr passed in is not initialized. +2.2.4 __opt Annotation +------------------------- + +This annotation is used to indicate that the buffer associated with an __sz or __szk +argument may be null. If the function is passed a nullptr in place of the buffer, +the verifier will not check that length is appropriate for the buffer. The kfunc is +responsible for checking if this buffer is null before using it. + +An example is given below:: + + __bpf_kfunc void *bpf_dynptr_slice(..., void *buffer__opt, u32 buffer__szk) + { + ... + } + +Here, the buffer may be null. If buffer is not null, it at least of size buffer_szk. +Either way, the returned buffer is either NULL, or of size buffer_szk. Without this +annotation, the verifier will reject the program if a null pointer is passed in with +a nonzero size. + + .. _BPF_kfunc_nodef: 2.3 Using an existing kernel function -- cgit v1.2.1