[PATCH] bpf: restore the ebpf audit UNLOAD id field

Stanislav Fomichev sdf at google.com
Thu Dec 22 21:27:52 UTC 2022


On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 12:07 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 2:59 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 2:40 PM <sdf at google.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/22, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 12:19 PM <sdf at google.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 12/21, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > > > When changing the ebpf program put() routines to support being called
> > > > > > from within IRQ context the program ID was reset to zero prior to
> > > > > > generating the audit UNLOAD record, which obviously rendered the ID
> > > > > > field bogus (always zero).  This patch resolves this by adding a new
> > > > > > field, bpf_prog_aux::id_audit, which is set when the ebpf program is
> > > > > > allocated an ID and never reset, ensuring a valid ID field,
> > > > > > regardless of the state of the original ID field, bpf_prox_aud::id.
> > > > >
> > > > > > I also modified the bpf_audit_prog() logic used to associate the
> > > > > > AUDIT_BPF record with other associated records, e.g. @ctx != NULL.
> > > > > > Instead of keying off the operation, it now keys off the execution
> > > > > > context, e.g. '!in_irg && !irqs_disabled()', which is much more
> > > > > > appropriate and should help better connect the UNLOAD operations with
> > > > > > the associated audit state (other audit records).
> > > > >
> > > > > [..]
> > > > >
> > > > > > As an note to future bug hunters, I did briefly consider removing the
> > > > > > ID reset in bpf_prog_free_id(), as it would seem that once the
> > > > > > program is removed from the idr pool it can no longer be found by its
> > > > > > ID value, but commit ad8ad79f4f60 ("bpf: offload: free program id
> > > > > > when device disappears") seems to imply that it is beneficial to
> > > > > > reset the ID value.  Perhaps as a secondary indicator that the ebpf
> > > > > > program is unbound/orphaned.
> > > > >
> > > > > That seems like the way to go imho. Can we have some extra 'invalid_id'
> > > > > bitfield in the bpf_prog so we can set it in bpf_prog_free_id and
> > > > > check in bpf_prog_free_id (for this offloaded use-case)? Because
> > > > > having two ids and then keeping track about which one to use, depending
> > > > > on the context, seems more fragile?
> > >
> > > > I would definitely prefer to keep just a single ID value, and that was
> > > > the first approach I took when drafting this patch, but when looking
> > > > through the git log it looked like there was some desire to reset the
> > > > ID to zero on free.  Not being an expert on the ebpf kernel code I
> > > > figured I would just write the patch up this way and make a comment
> > > > about not zero'ing out the ID in the commit description so we could
> > > > have a discussion about it.
> > >
> > > Yeah, the commit you reference is resetting the id for the offloaded
> > > progs. But it also mentions that even though we reset the id,
> > > it won't leak into the userspace:
> > >
> > >    Note that orphaned offload programs will return -ENODEV on
> > >    BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD so user will never see ID 0.
> > >
> > > It talks about the "if (!aux->offload)" check in bpf_prog_offload_info_fill.
> > > So I'm assuming that having some extra "this id is already free" signal
> > > in the bpf_prog shouldn't be a problem here.
> >
> > FWIW, the currently-work-in-progress v2 patch adds a getter for the ID
> > with a WARN() check to flag callers who are trying to access a
> > bad/free'd bpf_prog.  Unfortunately it touches a decent chunk of code,
> > but I think it might be a nice additional check at runtime.
> >
> > +u32 bpf_prog_get_id(const struct bpf_prog *prog)
> > +{
> > +       if (WARN(!prog->valid_id, "Attempting to use invalid eBPF program"))
> > +               return 0;
> > +       return prog->aux->__id;
> > +}
>
> I should add that the getter is currently a static inline in bpf.h.

I don't see why we need to WARN on !valid_id, but I might be missing something.
There are no places currently where we report 'id == 0' to the
userspace, so we only need to take care of the offloaded case that
resets id to zero early (instead of resetting it during regular
__bpf_prog_put path).

> > > > I'm not seeing any other comments, so I'll go ahead with putting
> > > > together a v2 that sets an invalid flag/bit and I'll post that for
> > > > further discussion/review.
>
> --
> paul-moore.com



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