Re: [PATCH] bpf: restore the ebpf audit UNLOAD id field

Paul Moore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups com.redhat.linux-audit,org.kernel.vger.bpf
Message-ID <CAHC9VhR2Q1SiCFoJnqr--W-cuTwpreio0knYkRcHw2MEd06rHA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:37 AM Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 6:20 PM Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 02:03:41PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 12:19 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On 12/21, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > > When changing the ebpf program put() routines to support being called
> > > > > from within IRQ context the program ID was reset to zero prior to
> > > > > generating the audit UNLOAD record, which obviously rendered the ID
> > > > > field bogus (always zero).  This patch resolves this by adding a new
> > > > > field, bpf_prog_aux::id_audit, which is set when the ebpf program is
> > > > > allocated an ID and never reset, ensuring a valid ID field,
> > > > > regardless of the state of the original ID field, bpf_prox_aud::id.
> > > >
> > > > > I also modified the bpf_audit_prog() logic used to associate the
> > > > > AUDIT_BPF record with other associated records, e.g. @ctx != NULL.
> > > > > Instead of keying off the operation, it now keys off the execution
> > > > > context, e.g. '!in_irg && !irqs_disabled()', which is much more
> > > > > appropriate and should help better connect the UNLOAD operations with
> > > > > the associated audit state (other audit records).
> > > >
> > > > [..]
> > > >
> > > > > As an note to future bug hunters, I did briefly consider removing the
> > > > > ID reset in bpf_prog_free_id(), as it would seem that once the
> > > > > program is removed from the idr pool it can no longer be found by its
> > > > > ID value, but commit ad8ad79f4f60 ("bpf: offload: free program id
> > > > > when device disappears") seems to imply that it is beneficial to
> > > > > reset the ID value.  Perhaps as a secondary indicator that the ebpf
> > > > > program is unbound/orphaned.
> > > >
> > > > That seems like the way to go imho. Can we have some extra 'invalid_id'
> > > > bitfield in the bpf_prog so we can set it in bpf_prog_free_id and
> > > > check in bpf_prog_free_id (for this offloaded use-case)? Because
> > > > having two ids and then keeping track about which one to use, depending
> > > > on the context, seems more fragile?
> > >
> > > I would definitely prefer to keep just a single ID value, and that was
> > > the first approach I took when drafting this patch, but when looking
> > > through the git log it looked like there was some desire to reset the
> > > ID to zero on free.  Not being an expert on the ebpf kernel code I
> > > figured I would just write the patch up this way and make a comment
> > > about not zero'ing out the ID in the commit description so we could
> > > have a discussion about it.
> > >
> > > I'm not seeing any other comments, so I'll go ahead with putting
> > > together a v2 that sets an invalid flag/bit and I'll post that for
> > > further discussion/review.
> >
> > great, perf suffers the same issue:
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Y3SRWVoycV290S16@krava/
> >
> > any chance you could include it as well? I can send a patch
> > later if needed
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> I'm pretty sure the current approach recommended by Stanislav, to
> never reset/zero the ID and instead mark it as invalid via a flag in
> the bpf_prog struct, should resolve the perf problem as well.

I probably should elaborate on this a bit more, in the case of
perf_event_bpf_event() the getter which checks the valid_id flag isn't
used, rather a direct access of bpf_prog_aux::__id is done so that the
ID can be retrieved even after it is free'd/marked-invalid.  Here is
the relevant code snippet for the patch:

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index aefc1e08e015..c24e897d27f1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9001,7 +9001,11 @@ void perf_event_bpf_event(struct bpf_prog *prog,
                       },
                       .type = type,
                       .flags = flags,
-                       .id = prog->aux->id,
+                       /*
+                        * don't use bpf_prog_get_id() as the id may be marked
+                        * invalid on PERF_BPF_EVENT_PROG_UNLOAD events
+                        */
+                       .id = prog->aux->__id,
               },
       };

> My time
> is a little short at the moment due to the holidays, but perhaps with
> a little luck I'll get a new revision of the patch posted soon
> (today?) and you can take a look and give it a test.  Are you
> subscribed to the linux-audit and/or bpf mailing lists?  If not I can
> CC you directly on the next revision.

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