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Redefine dynptr mutability and fix inconsistency in the verifier and kfunc signatures. Dynptr mutability is at two levels. The first is the bpf_dynptr structure and the second is the memory the dynptr points to. The verifer currently tracks the mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct through helper and kfunc prototypes, where "const struct bpf_dynptr *" means the structure itself is immutable. The second level is tracked in upper bit of bpf_dynptr->size in runtime and is not changed in this patch. There are two type of inconsistency in the verfier regarding the mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct. First, there are many existing kfuncs whose prototypes are wrong. For example, bpf_dynptr_adjust() mutates a dynptr's start and offset but marks the argument as a const pointer. At the same time many other kfuncs that does not mutate the dynptr but mark themselves as mutable. Second, the verifier currently does not honor the const qualifier in kfunc prototypes as it determines whether tagging the arg_type with MEM_RDONLY or not based on the register state. Since all the verifier care is to prevent CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR from being destroyed in callback and global subprogram, redefine the mutability at the bpf_dynptr level to just bpf_dynptr_kern->data. Then, explicitly prohibit passing CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to an argument tagged with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. The mutability of a dynptr's view is not really interesting so drop MEM_RDONLY annotation for dynptr from the helpers and kfuncs. Plus, if the mutability of the entire bpf_dynptr were to be done correctly, it would kill the bpf_dynptr_adjust() usage in callback and global subporgram. Implementation wise - First, make sure all kfunc arg are correctly tagged: Tag the dynptr argument of bpf_dynptr_file_discard() with OBJ_RELEASE. - Then, in process_dynptr_func(), make sure CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR cannot be passed to argument tagged with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. For MEM_UNINIT, it is already checked by is_dynptr_reg_valid_uninit(). For OBJ_RELEASE, check against OBJ_RELEASE instead of MEM_RDONLY and drop a now identical check in unmark_stack_slots_dynptr(). - Remove the mutual exclusive check between MEM_UNINIT and MEM_RDONLY, but don't add a MEM_UNINIT and OBJ_RELEASE version as it is obviously wrong. Note that while this patch stops following the C semantic for the mutability of bpf_dynptr, the prototype of kfuncs are still fixed to maintain the correct C semantics in the implementation. Adding or removing the const qualifier does not break backward compatibility. In addition, fix kfuncs dropping the const qualifier when casting the opaque bpf_dynptr to bpf_dynptr_kern. In test_kfunc_dynptr_param.c, initialize dynptr to 0 to avoid -Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260414191014.1218567-1-ameryhung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
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