bpf: Teach the verifier to recognize rdonly_mem as not null.
authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:38:52 +0000 (13:38 -0700)
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:31:05 +0000 (09:31 -0700)
Teach the verifier to recognize PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_RDONLY as not NULL
otherwise if (!bpf_ksym_exists(known_kfunc)) doesn't go through
dead code elimination.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230321203854.3035-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
kernel/bpf/verifier.c

index 8bc44f5..5693e4a 100644 (file)
@@ -486,8 +486,17 @@ static bool type_is_sk_pointer(enum bpf_reg_type type)
                type == PTR_TO_XDP_SOCK;
 }
 
+static bool type_may_be_null(u32 type)
+{
+       return type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
+}
+
 static bool reg_type_not_null(enum bpf_reg_type type)
 {
+       if (type_may_be_null(type))
+               return false;
+
+       type = base_type(type);
        return type == PTR_TO_SOCKET ||
                type == PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK ||
                type == PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE ||
@@ -531,11 +540,6 @@ static bool type_is_rdonly_mem(u32 type)
        return type & MEM_RDONLY;
 }
 
-static bool type_may_be_null(u32 type)
-{
-       return type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL;
-}
-
 static bool is_acquire_function(enum bpf_func_id func_id,
                                const struct bpf_map *map)
 {