bpf: Fix bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul helpers for 32bit

Browse source

The bpf_strtol() and bpf_strtoul() helpers are currently broken on 32bit:

The argument type ARG_PTR_TO_LONG is BPF-side "long", not kernel-side "long"
and therefore always considered fixed 64bit no matter if 64 or 32bit underlying
architecture.

This contract breaks in case of the two mentioned helpers since their BPF_CALL
definition for the helpers was added with {unsigned,}long *res. Meaning, the
transition from BPF-side "long" (BPF program) to kernel-side "long" (BPF helper)
breaks here.

Both helpers call __bpf_strtoll() with "long long" correctly, but later assigning
the result into 32-bit "*(long *)" on 32bit architectures. From a BPF program
point of view, this means upper bits will be seen as uninitialised.

Therefore, fix both BPF_CALL signatures to {s,u}64 types to fix this situation.

Now, changing also uapi/bpf.h helper documentation which generates bpf_helper_defs.h
for BPF programs is tricky: Changing signatures there to __{s,u}64 would trigger
compiler warnings (incompatible pointer types passing 'long *' to parameter of type
'__s64 *' (aka 'long long *')) for existing BPF programs.

Leaving the signatures as-is would be fine as from BPF program point of view it is
still BPF-side "long" and thus equivalent to __{s,u}64 on 64 or 32bit underlying
architectures.

Note that bpf_strtol() and bpf_strtoul() are the only helpers with this issue.

Fixes: d7a4cb9b67 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_strtol and bpf_strtoul helpers")
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/481fcec8-c12c-9abb-8ecb-76c71c009959@iogearbox.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913191754.13290-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

...

This commit is contained in:

Daniel Borkmann 2024-09-13 21:17:46 +02:00 • committed by Alexei Starovoitov

parent a18062d54a

commit cfe69c50b0

1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

4

kernel/bpf/helpers.c

View file