From: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 06096d19ee3897a7e70922580159607fe315da7a ]
Libbpf has a somewhat obscure feature of automatically adjusting the "size" of LDX/STX/ST instruction (memory store and load instructions), based on originally recorded access size (u8, u16, u32, or u64) and the actual size of the field on target kernel. This is meant to facilitate using BPF CO-RE on 32-bit architectures (pointers are always 64-bit in BPF, but host kernel's BTF will have it as 32-bit type), as well as generally supporting safe type changes (unsigned integer type changes can be transparently "relocated").
One issue that surfaced only now, 5 years after this logic was implemented, is how this all works when dealing with fields that are arrays. This isn't all that easy and straightforward to hit (see selftests that reproduce this condition), but one of sched_ext BPF programs did hit it with innocent looking loop.
Long story short, libbpf used to calculate entire array size, instead of making sure to only calculate array's element size. But it's the element that is loaded by LDX/STX/ST instructions (1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes), so that's what libbpf should check. This patch adjusts the logic for arrays and fixed the issue.
Reported-by: Emil Tsalapatis emil@etsalapatis.com Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman eddyz87@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250207014809.1573841-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c b/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c index c4b0e81ae2931..84f26b36f664c 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int bpf_core_calc_field_relo(const char *prog_name, { const struct bpf_core_accessor *acc; const struct btf_type *t; - __u32 byte_off, byte_sz, bit_off, bit_sz, field_type_id; + __u32 byte_off, byte_sz, bit_off, bit_sz, field_type_id, elem_id; const struct btf_member *m; const struct btf_type *mt; bool bitfield; @@ -706,8 +706,14 @@ static int bpf_core_calc_field_relo(const char *prog_name, if (!acc->name) { if (relo->kind == BPF_CORE_FIELD_BYTE_OFFSET) { *val = spec->bit_offset / 8; - /* remember field size for load/store mem size */ - sz = btf__resolve_size(spec->btf, acc->type_id); + /* remember field size for load/store mem size; + * note, for arrays we care about individual element + * sizes, not the overall array size + */ + t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(spec->btf, acc->type_id, &elem_id); + while (btf_is_array(t)) + t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(spec->btf, btf_array(t)->type, &elem_id); + sz = btf__resolve_size(spec->btf, elem_id); if (sz < 0) return -EINVAL; *field_sz = sz; @@ -767,7 +773,17 @@ static int bpf_core_calc_field_relo(const char *prog_name, case BPF_CORE_FIELD_BYTE_OFFSET: *val = byte_off; if (!bitfield) { - *field_sz = byte_sz; + /* remember field size for load/store mem size; + * note, for arrays we care about individual element + * sizes, not the overall array size + */ + t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(spec->btf, field_type_id, &elem_id); + while (btf_is_array(t)) + t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(spec->btf, btf_array(t)->type, &elem_id); + sz = btf__resolve_size(spec->btf, elem_id); + if (sz < 0) + return -EINVAL; + *field_sz = sz; *type_id = field_type_id; } break;