bpf: Fix an incorrect branch elimination by verifier

Wenbo reported an issue in [1] where a checking of null
pointer is evaluated as always false. In this particular
case, the program type is tp_btf and the pointer to
compare is a PTR_TO_BTF_ID.

The current verifier considers PTR_TO_BTF_ID always
reprents a non-null pointer, hence all PTR_TO_BTF_ID compares
to 0 will be evaluated as always not-equal, which resulted
in the branch elimination.

For example,
 struct bpf_fentry_test_t {
     struct bpf_fentry_test_t *a;
 };
 int BPF_PROG(test7, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg)
 {
     if (arg == 0)
         test7_result = 1;
     return 0;
 }
 int BPF_PROG(test8, struct bpf_fentry_test_t *arg)
 {
     if (arg->a == 0)
         test8_result = 1;
     return 0;
 }

In above bpf programs, both branch arg == 0 and arg->a == 0
are removed. This may not be what developer expected.

The bug is introduced by Commit cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier
track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ"),
where PTR_TO_BTF_ID is considered to be non-null when evaluting
pointer vs. scalar comparison. This may be added
considering we have PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL in the verifier
as well.

PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL is added to explicitly requires
a non-NULL testing in selective cases. The current generic
pointer tracing framework in verifier always
assigns PTR_TO_BTF_ID so users does not need to
check NULL pointer at every pointer level like a->b->c->d.

We may not want to assign every PTR_TO_BTF_ID as
PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL as this will require a null test
before pointer dereference which may cause inconvenience
for developers. But we could avoid branch elimination
to preserve original code intention.

This patch simply removed PTR_TO_BTD_ID from reg_type_not_null()
in verifier, which prevented the above branches from being eliminated.

 [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/79dbb7c0-449d-83eb-5f4f-7af0cc269168@fb.com/T/

Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ")
Reported-by: Wenbo Zhang <ethercflow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200630171240.2523722-1-yhs@fb.com

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 8911d05..94cead5 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -399,8 +399,7 @@ static bool reg_type_not_null(enum bpf_reg_type type)
        return type == PTR_TO_SOCKET ||
                type == PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK ||
                type == PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE ||
-               type == PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON ||
-               type == PTR_TO_BTF_ID;
+               type == PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON;
 }
 
 static bool reg_type_may_be_null(enum bpf_reg_type type)