bpf: Dynptr support for ring buffers

Currently, our only way of writing dynamically-sized data into a ring
buffer is through bpf_ringbuf_output but this incurs an extra memcpy
cost. bpf_ringbuf_reserve + bpf_ringbuf_commit avoids this extra
memcpy, but it can only safely support reservation sizes that are
statically known since the verifier cannot guarantee that the bpf
program won’t access memory outside the reserved space.

The bpf_dynptr abstraction allows for dynamically-sized ring buffer
reservations without the extra memcpy.

There are 3 new APIs:

long bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr(void *ringbuf, u32 size, u64 flags, struct bpf_dynptr *ptr);
void bpf_ringbuf_submit_dynptr(struct bpf_dynptr *ptr, u64 flags);
void bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr(struct bpf_dynptr *ptr, u64 flags);

These closely follow the functionalities of the original ringbuf APIs.
For example, all ringbuffer dynptrs that have been reserved must be
either submitted or discarded before the program exits.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220523210712.3641569-4-joannelkoong@gmail.com

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index d3e935c2e25e..abb08999ff56 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -1423,13 +1423,13 @@ static void bpf_dynptr_set_type(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr, enum bpf_dynptr_typ
 	ptr->size |= type << DYNPTR_TYPE_SHIFT;
 }
 
-static int bpf_dynptr_check_size(u32 size)
+int bpf_dynptr_check_size(u32 size)
 {
 	return size > DYNPTR_MAX_SIZE ? -E2BIG : 0;
 }
 
-static void bpf_dynptr_init(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr, void *data,
-			    enum bpf_dynptr_type type, u32 offset, u32 size)
+void bpf_dynptr_init(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr, void *data,
+		     enum bpf_dynptr_type type, u32 offset, u32 size)
 {
 	ptr->data = data;
 	ptr->offset = offset;
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ static void bpf_dynptr_init(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr, void *data,
 	bpf_dynptr_set_type(ptr, type);
 }
 
-static void bpf_dynptr_set_null(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr)
+void bpf_dynptr_set_null(struct bpf_dynptr_kern *ptr)
 {
 	memset(ptr, 0, sizeof(*ptr));
 }
@@ -1523,6 +1523,12 @@ bpf_base_func_proto(enum bpf_func_id func_id)
 		return &bpf_ringbuf_discard_proto;
 	case BPF_FUNC_ringbuf_query:
 		return &bpf_ringbuf_query_proto;
+	case BPF_FUNC_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr:
+		return &bpf_ringbuf_reserve_dynptr_proto;
+	case BPF_FUNC_ringbuf_submit_dynptr:
+		return &bpf_ringbuf_submit_dynptr_proto;
+	case BPF_FUNC_ringbuf_discard_dynptr:
+		return &bpf_ringbuf_discard_dynptr_proto;
 	case BPF_FUNC_for_each_map_elem:
 		return &bpf_for_each_map_elem_proto;
 	case BPF_FUNC_loop: