Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 101/252] bpf: Fix off-by-one in tail call count limiting

Johan Almbladh
2021-09-14T04:09:14Z

Sasha,

This patch should not be applied to any of the stable kernels. It was
reverted in f9dabe016b63 ("bpf: Undo off-by-one in interpreter tail
call count limit").

I don't think it will pass the CI selftests so maybe it wouldn't be
applied anyway, but nevertheless I want to inform you about it.

Johan

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:43 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Johan Almbladh <johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit b61a28cf11d61f512172e673b8f8c4a6c789b425 ]
>
> Before, the interpreter allowed up to MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT + 1 tail calls.
> Now precisely MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT is allowed, which is in line with the
> behavior of the x86 JITs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Almbladh <johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210728164741.350370-1-johan.almbladh@anyfinetworks.com
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> index 0a28a8095d3e..82af6279992d 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
> @@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ static u64 ___bpf_prog_run(u64 *regs, const struct bpf_insn *insn)
>
> if (unlikely(index >= array->map.max_entries))
> goto out;
> - if (unlikely(tail_call_cnt > MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT))
> + if (unlikely(tail_call_cnt >= MAX_TAIL_CALL_CNT))
> goto out;
>
> tail_call_cnt++;
> --
> 2.30.2
>