bpf: Enable annotating trusted nested pointers

In kfuncs, a "trusted" pointer is a pointer that the kfunc can assume is
safe, and which the verifier will allow to be passed to a
KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc. Currently, a KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc disallows any
pointer to be passed at a nonzero offset, but sometimes this is in fact
safe if the "nested" pointer's lifetime is inherited from its parent.
For example, the const cpumask_t *cpus_ptr field in a struct task_struct
will remain valid until the task itself is destroyed, and thus would
also be safe to pass to a KF_TRUSTED_ARGS kfunc.

While it would be conceptually simple to enable this by using BTF tags,
gcc unfortunately does not yet support this. In the interim, this patch
enables support for this by using a type-naming convention. A new
BTF_TYPE_SAFE_NESTED macro is defined in verifier.c which allows a
developer to specify the nested fields of a type which are considered
trusted if its parent is also trusted. The verifier is also updated to
account for this. A patch with selftests will be added in a follow-on
change, along with documentation for this feature.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120192523.3650503-2-void@manifault.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index ad4bb36d4c10..982213d97668 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -2187,6 +2187,10 @@ struct bpf_core_ctx {
 	const struct btf *btf;
 };
 
+bool btf_nested_type_is_trusted(struct bpf_verifier_log *log,
+				const struct bpf_reg_state *reg,
+				int off);
+
 int bpf_core_apply(struct bpf_core_ctx *ctx, const struct bpf_core_relo *relo,
 		   int relo_idx, void *insn);