bpf: avoid UB in usages of the __imm_insn macro
authorJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Wed, 8 May 2024 10:35:51 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 May 2024 16:56:30 +0000 (09:56 -0700)
commit1209a523f6914404e8941d9e04caa42be7cab8d5
treec69b8da8a03710c98bf85ec6f9da01f214373ba0
parentcd3fc3b9782130a5bc1dc3dfccffbc1657637a93
bpf: avoid UB in usages of the __imm_insn macro

[Changes from V2:
 - no-strict-aliasing is only applied when building with GCC.
 - cpumask_failure.c is excluded, as it doesn't use __imm_insn.]

The __imm_insn macro is defined in bpf_misc.h as:

  #define __imm_insn(name, expr) [name]"i"(*(long *)&(expr))

This may lead to type-punning and strict aliasing rules violations in
it's typical usage where the address of a struct bpf_insn is passed as
expr, like in:

  __imm_insn(st_mem,
             BPF_ST_MEM(BPF_W, BPF_REG_1, offsetof(struct __sk_buff, mark), 42))

Where:

  #define BPF_ST_MEM(SIZE, DST, OFF, IMM) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code  = BPF_ST | BPF_SIZE(SIZE) | BPF_MEM, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = 0, \
.off   = OFF, \
.imm   = IMM })

In all the actual instances of this in the BPF selftests the value is
fed to a volatile asm statement as soon as it gets read from memory,
and thus it is unlikely anti-aliasing rules breakage may lead to
misguided optimizations.

However, GCC detects the potential problem (indirectly) by issuing a
warning stating that a temporary <Uxxxxxx> is used uninitialized,
where the temporary corresponds to the memory read by *(long *).

This patch adds -fno-strict-aliasing to the compilation flags of the
particular selftests that do type punning via __imm_insn, only for
GCC.

Tested in master bpf-next.
No regressions.

Signed-off-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Cc: david.faust@oracle.com
Cc: cupertino.miranda@oracle.com
Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508103551.14955-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile