linux/kernel
Alexei Starovoitov 317460317a bpf: Introduce bpf_arena.
Introduce bpf_arena, which is a sparse shared memory region between the bpf
program and user space.

Use cases:
1. User space mmap-s bpf_arena and uses it as a traditional mmap-ed
   anonymous region, like memcached or any key/value storage. The bpf
   program implements an in-kernel accelerator. XDP prog can search for
   a key in bpf_arena and return a value without going to user space.
2. The bpf program builds arbitrary data structures in bpf_arena (hash
   tables, rb-trees, sparse arrays), while user space consumes it.
3. bpf_arena is a "heap" of memory from the bpf program's point of view.
   The user space may mmap it, but bpf program will not convert pointers
   to user base at run-time to improve bpf program speed.

Initially, the kernel vm_area and user vma are not populated. User space
can fault in pages within the range. While servicing a page fault,
bpf_arena logic will insert a new page into the kernel and user vmas. The
bpf program can allocate pages from that region via
bpf_arena_alloc_pages(). This kernel function will insert pages into the
kernel vm_area. The subsequent fault-in from user space will populate that
page into the user vma. The BPF_F_SEGV_ON_FAULT flag at arena creation time
can be used to prevent fault-in from user space. In such a case, if a page
is not allocated by the bpf program and not present in the kernel vm_area,
the user process will segfault. This is useful for use cases 2 and 3 above.

bpf_arena_alloc_pages() is similar to user space mmap(). It allocates pages
either at a specific address within the arena or allocates a range with the
maple tree. bpf_arena_free_pages() is analogous to munmap(), which frees
pages and removes the range from the kernel vm_area and from user process
vmas.

bpf_arena can be used as a bpf program "heap" of up to 4GB. The speed of
bpf program is more important than ease of sharing with user space. This is
use case 3. In such a case, the BPF_F_NO_USER_CONV flag is recommended.
It will tell the verifier to treat the rX = bpf_arena_cast_user(rY)
instruction as a 32-bit move wX = wY, which will improve bpf prog
performance. Otherwise, bpf_arena_cast_user is translated by JIT to
conditionally add the upper 32 bits of user vm_start (if the pointer is not
NULL) to arena pointers before they are stored into memory. This way, user
space sees them as valid 64-bit pointers.

Diff https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/84410 enables LLVM BPF
backend generate the bpf_addr_space_cast() instruction to cast pointers
between address_space(1) which is reserved for bpf_arena pointers and
default address space zero. All arena pointers in a bpf program written in
C language are tagged as __attribute__((address_space(1))). Hence, clang
provides helpful diagnostics when pointers cross address space. Libbpf and
the kernel support only address_space == 1. All other address space
identifiers are reserved.

rX = bpf_addr_space_cast(rY, /* dst_as */ 1, /* src_as */ 0) tells the
verifier that rX->type = PTR_TO_ARENA. Any further operations on
PTR_TO_ARENA register have to be in the 32-bit domain. The verifier will
mark load/store through PTR_TO_ARENA with PROBE_MEM32. JIT will generate
them as kern_vm_start + 32bit_addr memory accesses. The behavior is similar
to copy_from_kernel_nofault() except that no address checks are necessary.
The address is guaranteed to be in the 4GB range. If the page is not
present, the destination register is zeroed on read, and the operation is
ignored on write.

rX = bpf_addr_space_cast(rY, 0, 1) tells the verifier that rX->type =
unknown scalar. If arena->map_flags has BPF_F_NO_USER_CONV set, then the
verifier converts such cast instructions to mov32. Otherwise, JIT will emit
native code equivalent to:
rX = (u32)rY;
if (rY)
  rX |= clear_lo32_bits(arena->user_vm_start); /* replace hi32 bits in rX */

After such conversion, the pointer becomes a valid user pointer within
bpf_arena range. The user process can access data structures created in
bpf_arena without any additional computations. For example, a linked list
built by a bpf program can be walked natively by user space.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240308010812.89848-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
2024-03-11 15:37:23 -07:00
..
bpf bpf: Introduce bpf_arena. 2024-03-11 15:37:23 -07:00
cgroup bpf: treewide: Annotate BPF kfuncs in BTF 2024-01-31 20:40:56 -08:00
configs configs/debug: add NET debug config 2024-02-15 17:46:53 -08:00
debug kdb: Fix a potential buffer overflow in kdb_local() 2024-01-17 17:19:06 +00:00
dma dma-mapping fixes for Linux 6.8 2024-01-18 16:49:34 -08:00
entry entry: Move syscall_enter_from_user_mode() to header file 2023-12-21 23:12:18 +01:00
events bpf-next-for-netdev 2024-03-02 20:50:59 -08:00
futex futex: Prevent the reuse of stale pi_state 2024-01-19 12:58:17 +01:00
gcov gcov: annotate struct gcov_iterator with __counted_by 2023-10-18 14:43:22 -07:00
irq genirq: Initialize resend_node hlist for all interrupt descriptors 2024-01-24 14:15:41 +01:00
kcsan mm: delete checks for xor_unlock_is_negative_byte() 2023-10-18 14:34:17 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols() 2023-09-20 11:24:18 +02:00
locking RCU pull request for v6.8 2024-01-12 16:35:58 -08:00
module Modules changes for v6.8-rc1 2024-01-10 18:00:18 -08:00
power PM: hibernate: Repair excess function parameter description warning 2023-12-20 19:19:26 +01:00
printk TTY/Serial changes for 6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 15:44:25 -10:00
rcu rcu: Defer RCU kthreads wakeup when CPU is dying 2024-01-24 22:46:17 +05:30
sched sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier 2024-02-20 09:38:05 -08:00
time hrtimer: Report offline hrtimer enqueue 2024-02-06 10:56:35 +01:00
trace bpf-next-for-netdev 2024-03-02 20:50:59 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c fs: rename __mnt_{want,drop}_write*() helpers 2023-09-11 15:05:50 +02:00
async.c header cleanups for 6.8 2024-01-10 16:43:55 -08:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark 2022-08-22 18:50:06 -04:00
audit_tree.c As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
audit_watch.c audit: don't WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->mm) in audit_exe_compare() 2023-11-14 17:34:27 -05:00
audit.c audit: Send netlink ACK before setting connection in auditd_set 2023-11-12 22:33:49 -05:00
audit.h audit: correct audit_filter_inodes() definition 2023-07-21 12:17:25 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: move trailing statements to next line 2023-08-15 18:16:14 -04:00
auditsc.c audit,io_uring: io_uring openat triggers audit reference count underflow 2023-10-13 18:34:46 +02:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
capability.c lsm: constify the 'target' parameter in security_capget() 2023-08-08 16:48:47 -04:00
cfi.c cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi 2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
compat.c sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized 2023-03-14 19:32:38 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>() 2023-06-05 09:57:20 +02:00
cpu_pm.c cpuidle, cpu_pm: Remove RCU fiddling from cpu_pm_{enter,exit}() 2023-01-13 11:48:15 +01:00
cpu.c slab updates for 6.8 2024-01-09 10:36:07 -08:00
crash_core.c kernel/crash_core.c: make __crash_hotplug_lock static 2024-01-12 15:20:47 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 2023-12-15 14:19:48 -08:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ 2023-04-18 16:39:34 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c exit: wait_task_zombie: kill the no longer necessary spin_lock_irq(siglock) 2024-02-07 21:20:33 -08:00
exit.h exit: add internal include file with helpers 2023-09-21 12:03:50 -06:00
extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 2023-02-08 13:36:22 +01:00
fork.c exec: Distinguish in_execve from in_exec 2024-01-24 11:48:52 -08:00
freezer.c Linux 6.7-rc6 2023-12-23 15:52:13 +01:00
gen_kheaders.sh Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" 2023-05-28 16:20:21 +09:00
groups.c groups: Convert group_info.usage to refcount_t 2023-09-29 11:28:39 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: set some hung_task.c variables storage-class-specifier to static 2023-04-08 13:45:37 -07:00
iomem.c kernel/iomem.c: remove __weak ioremap_cache helper 2023-08-21 13:37:28 -07:00
irq_work.c trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu() 2023-03-24 11:01:29 +01:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Prevent key->enabled int overflow 2022-12-01 15:53:05 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] 2022-11-12 18:47:36 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.c Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Change func signature for cleanup_symbol_name() 2023-08-25 15:00:36 -07:00
kcmp.c file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.kexec kexec: select CRYPTO from KEXEC_FILE instead of depending on it 2023-12-20 13:46:19 -08:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: add prototypes for helper functions 2023-06-09 17:44:17 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: do syscore_shutdown() in kernel_kexec 2024-01-12 15:20:47 -08:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kexec_file: fix incorrect temp_start value in locate_mem_hole_top_down() 2023-12-29 12:22:25 -08:00
kexec_internal.h panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kexec.c kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely 2023-10-09 16:59:47 +10:00
kheaders.c kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char 2023-03-24 20:10:59 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Remove unnecessary initial values of variables 2024-02-08 23:29:29 +09:00
ksyms_common.c kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function 2023-06-08 12:27:20 -07:00
ksysfs.c crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() 2023-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
kthread.c As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
latencytop.c latencytop: use the last element of latency_record of system 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
Makefile kernel/numa.c: Move logging out of numa.h 2023-12-20 19:26:30 -05:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifiers: add tracepoints to the notifiers infrastructure 2023-04-08 13:45:38 -07:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t 2023-08-21 11:29:12 -07:00
numa.c kernel/numa.c: Move logging out of numa.h 2023-12-20 19:26:30 -05:00
padata.c padata: Fix refcnt handling in padata_free_shell() 2023-10-27 18:04:24 +08:00
panic.c panic: use atomic_try_cmpxchg in panic() and nmi_panic() 2023-10-04 10:41:56 -07:00
params.c params: Fix multi-line comment style 2023-12-01 09:51:44 -08:00
pid_namespace.c wait: Remove uapi header file from main header file 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
pid_sysctl.h memfd: replace ratcheting feature from vm.memfd_noexec with hierarchy 2023-08-21 13:37:59 -07:00
pid.c file: remove __receive_fd() 2023-12-12 14:24:14 +01:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: simplify duplicated code in profile_setup() 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
ptrace.c Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
range.c
reboot.c Thermal control updates for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-09 16:20:17 -08:00
regset.c
relay.c kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work 2023-12-29 12:22:27 -08:00
resource_kunit.c
resource.c Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
rseq.c rseq: Extend struct rseq with per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:12 +01:00
scftorture.c scftorture: Pause testing after memory-allocation failure 2023-07-14 15:02:57 -07:00
scs.c scs: add support for dynamic shadow call stacks 2022-11-09 18:06:35 +00:00
seccomp.c file: remove __receive_fd() 2023-12-12 14:24:14 +01:00
signal.c kernel/signal.c: simplify force_sig_info_to_task(), kill recalc_sigpending_and_wake() 2023-12-10 17:21:32 -08:00
smp.c CSD lock commits for v6.7 2023-10-30 17:56:53 -10:00
smpboot.c kthread: add kthread_stop_put 2023-10-04 10:41:57 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c sched/core: introduce sched_core_idle_cpu() 2023-07-13 15:21:50 +02:00
stackleak.c stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function 2023-04-20 11:36:35 +02:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo 2023-12-29 12:22:29 -08:00
static_call_inline.c static_call: Add call depth tracking support 2022-10-17 16:41:16 +02:00
static_call.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c lsm/stable-6.8 PR 20240105 2024-01-09 12:57:46 -08:00
sys.c getrusage: use sig->stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand() 2024-02-07 21:20:32 -08:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: use SYSCTL_{ZERO/ONE_HUNDRED} instead of i_{zero/one_hundred} 2022-09-08 16:56:45 -07:00
sysctl.c asm-generic updates for v6.7 2023-11-01 15:28:33 -10:00
task_work.c task_work: add kerneldoc annotation for 'data' argument 2023-09-19 13:21:32 -07:00
taskstats.c taskstats: fill_stats_for_tgid: use for_each_thread() 2023-10-04 10:41:57 -07:00
torture.c torture: Print out torture module parameters 2023-09-24 17:24:01 +02:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event 2023-02-18 14:34:36 -05:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl 2023-08-15 15:26:17 -07:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c sysctl: fix unused proc_cap_handler() function warning 2023-06-29 15:19:43 -07:00
up.c smp: Change function signatures to use call_single_data_t 2023-09-13 14:59:24 +02:00
user_namespace.c mnt_idmapping: decouple from namespaces 2023-11-28 14:08:47 +01:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts 2023-10-11 08:46:01 -07:00
usermode_driver.c
utsname_sysctl.c utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
utsname.c
vhost_task.c vhost: Fix worker hangs due to missed wake up calls 2023-06-08 15:43:09 -04:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order 2023-12-21 13:17:54 +01:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code 2023-06-19 16:25:28 -07:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/perf: add a weak function for an arch to detect if perf can use NMIs 2023-06-09 17:44:21 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping 2023-12-29 12:22:30 -08:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Drop the special locking rule for worker->flags and worker_pool->flags 2023-08-07 15:57:22 -10:00
workqueue.c Revert "workqueue: Override implicit ordered attribute in workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask()" 2024-02-05 15:49:06 -10:00