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[RFC,9/9] bpf: Cut speculative path verification short

Message ID 20250224205556.608574-1-luis.gerhorst@fau.de (mailing list archive)
State RFC
Delegated to: BPF
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Series bpf: Mitigate Spectre v1 using speculation barriers | expand

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Commit Message

Luis Gerhorst Feb. 24, 2025, 8:55 p.m. UTC 
This trades verification complexity for runtime overheads due to the
nospec inserted because of the EINVAL.

With increased limits this allows applying mitigations to large BPF
progs such as the Parca Continuous Profiler's prog. However, this
requires a jump-seq limit of 256k. In any case, the same principle
should apply to smaller programs therefore include it even if the limit
stays at 8k for now. Most programs in "VeriFence: Lightweight and
Precise Spectre Defenses for Untrusted Linux Kernel
Extensions" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00078) only require a limit of
32k.

Signed-off-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>
Acked-by: Henriette Herzog <henriette.herzog@rub.de>
Cc: Maximilian Ott <ott@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Milan Stephan <milan.stephan@fau.de>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 033780578966..bde4ae1ea637 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@  struct bpf_verifier_stack_elem {
 };
 
 #define BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_JMP_SEQ	8192
+#define BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_SPEC_V1_VERIFICATION	(BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_JMP_SEQ / 2)
 #define BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_STATES	64
 
 #define BPF_MAP_KEY_POISON	(1ULL << 63)
@@ -1933,6 +1934,19 @@  static struct bpf_verifier_state *push_stack(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 	struct bpf_verifier_stack_elem *elem;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!env->bypass_spec_v1 &&
+	    cur->speculative &&
+	    env->stack_size > BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_SPEC_V1_VERIFICATION) {
+		/* Avoiding nested speculative path verification because we are
+		 * close to exceeding the jump sequence complexity limit. Will
+		 * instead insert a speculation barrier which will impact
+		 * performace. To improve performance, authors should reduce the
+		 * program's complexity. Barrier will be inserted in
+		 * do_check().
+		 */
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	}
+
 	elem = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bpf_verifier_stack_elem), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!elem) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;