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From: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
To: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@meta.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: Add -Wuninitialized flag to bpf prog flags
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 17:50:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAE2W68Iw74A0xpK@maniforge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e35323c-0383-4d5a-0027-83b9e7d1e57b@meta.com>

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 06:41:55PM -0500, Dave Marchevsky wrote:
> On 3/2/23 6:29 PM, David Vernet wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 03:23:22PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 3:19 PM Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/rbtree_fail.c
> >>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/rbtree_fail.c
> >>> @@ -232,8 +232,9 @@ long rbtree_api_first_release_unlock_escape(void *ctx)
> >>>
> >>>         bpf_spin_lock(&glock);
> >>>         res = bpf_rbtree_first(&groot);
> >>> -       if (res)
> >>> -               n = container_of(res, struct node_data, node);
> >>> +       if (!res)
> >>> +               return -1;
> >>
> >> The verifier cannot be ok with this return... I hope...
> > 
> > This is a negative testcase which correctly fails, though the error
> > message wasn't what I was expecting to see:
> > 
> > __failure __msg("rbtree_remove node input must be non-owning ref")
> > 
> > Something about the lock still being held seems much more intuitive.
> > 
> 
> It's necessary to call bpf_rbtree_remove w/ lock held. This test expects
> to fail because non-owning ref "n" is clobbered after the critical
> section where it's returned by bpf_rbtree_first ends.

Oh, I see. I think that would arguably be a bit more clear if we added a
bpf_spin_unlock() to that return case then. Ideally for a negative test
we can keep the number of bugs being tested to 1. I assume that was
Alexei's point, which clearly went over my head.

> 
> >>
> >>> +       n = container_of(res, struct node_data, node);
> >>>         bpf_spin_unlock(&glock);

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02 23:19 [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: Add -Wuninitialized flag to bpf prog flags Dave Marchevsky
2023-03-02 23:23 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-03-02 23:29   ` David Vernet
2023-03-02 23:41     ` Dave Marchevsky
2023-03-02 23:50       ` David Vernet [this message]
2023-03-02 23:37   ` Dave Marchevsky
2023-03-02 23:27 ` David Vernet

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