bpf: teach verifier to recognize zero initialized stack
programs with function calls are often passing various pointers via stack. When all calls are inlined llvm flattens stack accesses and optimizes away extra branches. When functions are not inlined it becomes the job of the verifier to recognize zero initialized stack to avoid exploring paths that program will not take. The following program would fail otherwise: ptr = &buffer_on_stack; *ptr = 0; ... func_call(.., ptr, ...) { if (..) *ptr = bpf_map_lookup(); } ... if (*ptr != 0) { // Access (*ptr)->field is valid. // Without stack_zero tracking such (*ptr)->field access // will be rejected } since stack slots are no longer uniform invalid | spill | misc add liveness marking to all slots, but do it in 8 byte chunks. So if nothing was read or written in [fp-16, fp-9] range it will be marked as LIVE_NONE. If any byte in that range was read, it will be marked LIVE_READ and stacksafe() check will perform byte-by-byte verification. If all bytes in the range were written the slot will be marked as LIVE_WRITTEN. This significantly speeds up state equality comparison and reduces total number of states processed. before after bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o 2051 2003 bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o 3287 3164 bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o 1080 1080 bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o 24980 12361 bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o 34308 16605 bpf_netdev.o 15404 10962 bpf_overlay.o 7191 6679 Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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