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    • Jose E. Marchesi's avatar
      libbpf: Avoid casts from pointers to enums in bpf_tracing.h · a9e7715c
      Jose E. Marchesi authored 
      [Differences from V1:
  - Do not introduce a global typedef, as this is a public header.
  - Keep the void* casts in BPF_KPROBE_READ_RET_IP and
    BPF_KRETPROBE_READ_RET_IP, as these are necessary
    for converting to a const void* argument of
    bpf_probe_read_kernel.]

The BPF_PROG, BPF_KPROBE and BPF_KSYSCALL macros defined in
tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h use a clever hack in order to provide a
convenient way to define entry points for BPF programs as if they were
normal C functions that get typed actual arguments, instead of as
elements in a single "context" array argument.

For example, PPF_PROGS allows writing:

  SEC("struct_ops/cwnd_event")
  void BPF_PROG(cwnd_event, struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
  {
        bbr_cwnd_event(sk, event);
        dctcp_cwnd_event(sk, event);
        cubictcp_cwnd_event(sk, event);
  }

That expands into a pair of functions:

  void ____cwnd_event (unsigned long long *ctx, struct sock *sk, enum tcp_ca_event event)
  {
        bbr_cwnd_event(sk, event);
        dctcp_cwnd_event(sk, event);
        cubictcp_cwnd_event(sk, event);
  }

  void cwnd_event (unsigned long long *ctx)
  {
        _Pragma("GCC diagnostic push")
        _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wint-conversion\"")
        return ____cwnd_event(ctx, (void*)ctx[0], (void*)ctx[1]);
        _Pragma("GCC diagnostic pop")
  }

Note how the 64-bit unsigned integers in the incoming CTX get casted
to a void pointer, and then implicitly converted to whatever type of
the actual argument in the wrapped function.  In this case:

  Arg1: unsigned long long -> void * -> struct sock *
  Arg2: unsigned long long -> void * -> enum tcp_ca_event

The behavior of GCC and clang when facing such conversions differ:

  pointer -> pointer

    Allowed by the C standard.
    GCC: no warning nor error.
    clang: no warning nor error.

  pointer -> integer type

    [C standard says the result of this conversion is implementation
     defined, and it may lead to unaligned pointer etc.]

    GCC: error: integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
    clang: error: incompatible pointer to integer conversion [-Wint-conversion]

  pointer -> enumerated type

    GCC: error: incompatible types in assigment (*)
    clang: error: incompatible pointer to integer conversion [-Wint-conversion]

These macros work because converting pointers to pointers is allowed,
and converting pointers to integers also works provided a suitable
integer type even if it is implementation defined, much like casting a
pointer to uintptr_t is guaranteed to work by the C standard.  The
conversion errors emitted by both compilers by default are silenced by
the pragmas.

However, the GCC error marked with (*) above when assigning a pointer
to an enumerated value is not associated with the -Wint-conversion
warning, and it is not possible to turn it off.

This is preventing building the BPF kernel selftests with GCC.

This patch fixes this by avoiding intermediate casts to void*,
replaced with casts to `unsigned long long', which is an integer type
capable of safely store a BPF pointer, much like the standard
uintptr_t.

Testing performed in bpf-next master:
  - vmtest.sh -- ./test_verifier
  - vmtest.sh -- ./test_progs
  - make M=samples/bpf
No regressions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240502170925.3194-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com
      a9e7715c
    • Jose E. Marchesi's avatar
      libbpf: Fix bpf_ksym_exists() in GCC · cf9bea94
      Jose E. Marchesi authored 
      The macro bpf_ksym_exists is defined in bpf_helpers.h as:

  #define bpf_ksym_exists(sym) ({								\
  	_Static_assert(!__builtin_constant_p(!!sym), #sym " should be marked as __weak");	\
  	!!sym;											\
  })

The purpose of the macro is to determine whether a given symbol has
been defined, given the address of the object associated with the
symbol.  It also has a compile-time check to make sure the object
whose address is passed to the macro has been declared as weak, which
makes the check on `sym' meaningful.

As it happens, the check for weak doesn't work in GCC in all cases,
because __builtin_constant_p not always folds at parse time when
optimizing.  This is because optimizations that happen later in the
compilation process, like inlining, may make a previously non-constant
expression a constant.  This results in errors like the following when
building the selftests with GCC:

  bpf_helpers.h:190:24: error: expression in static assertion is not constant
  190 |         _Static_assert(!__builtin_constant_p(!!sym), #sym " should be marked as __weak");       \
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fortunately recent versions of GCC support a __builtin_has_attribute
that can be used to directly check for the __weak__ attribute.  This
patch changes bpf_helpers.h to use that builtin when building with a
recent enough GCC, and to omit the check if GCC is too old to support
the builtin.

The macro used for GCC becomes:

  #define bpf_ksym_exists(sym) ({									\
	_Static_assert(__builtin_has_attribute (*sym, __weak__), #sym " should be marked as __weak");	\
	!!sym;												\
  })

Note that since bpf_ksym_exists is designed to get the address of the
object associated with symbol SYM, we pass *sym to
__builtin_has_attribute instead of sym.  When an expression is passed
to __builtin_has_attribute then it is the type of the passed
expression that is checked for the specified attribute.  The
expression itself is not evaluated.  This accommodates well with the
existing usages of the macro:

- For function objects:

  struct task_struct *bpf_task_acquire(struct task_struct *p) __ksym __weak;
  [...]
  bpf_ksym_exists(bpf_task_acquire)

- For variable objects:

  extern const struct rq runqueues __ksym __weak; /* typed */
  [...]
  bpf_ksym_exists(&runqueues)

Note also that BPF support was added in GCC 10 and support for
__builtin_has_attribute in GCC 9.

Locally tested in bpf-next master branch.
No regressions.
Signed-of-by: default avatarJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240428112559.10518-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com
      cf9bea94
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