bpf: verifier: Support eliding map lookup nullness

This commit allows progs to elide a null check on statically known map
lookup keys. In other words, if the verifier can statically prove that
the lookup will be in-bounds, allow the prog to drop the null check.

This is useful for two reasons:

1. Large numbers of nullness checks (especially when they cannot fail)
   unnecessarily pushes prog towards BPF_COMPLEXITY_LIMIT_JMP_SEQ.
2. It forms a tighter contract between programmer and verifier.

For (1), bpftrace is starting to make heavier use of percpu scratch
maps. As a result, for user scripts with large number of unrolled loops,
we are starting to hit jump complexity verification errors.  These
percpu lookups cannot fail anyways, as we only use static key values.
Eliding nullness probably results in less work for verifier as well.

For (2), percpu scratch maps are often used as a larger stack, as the
currrent stack is limited to 512 bytes. In these situations, it is
desirable for the programmer to express: "this lookup should never fail,
and if it does, it means I messed up the code". By omitting the null
check, the programmer can "ask" the verifier to double check the logic.

Tests also have to be updated in sync with these changes, as the
verifier is more efficient with this change. Notable, iters.c tests had
to be changed to use a map type that still requires null checks, as it's
exercising verifier tracking logic w.r.t iterators.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/68f3ea96ff3809a87e502a11a4bd30177fc5823e.1736886479.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/iters.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/iters.c
index 7c969c127573..190822b2f08b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/iters.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/iters.c
@@ -524,11 +524,11 @@ int iter_subprog_iters(const void *ctx)
 }
 
 struct {
-	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY);
+	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH);
 	__type(key, int);
 	__type(value, int);
 	__uint(max_entries, 1000);
-} arr_map SEC(".maps");
+} hash_map SEC(".maps");
 
 SEC("?raw_tp")
 __failure __msg("invalid mem access 'scalar'")
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ int iter_err_too_permissive1(const void *ctx)
 
 	MY_PID_GUARD();
 
-	map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&arr_map, &key);
+	map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hash_map, &key);
 	if (!map_val)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -561,12 +561,12 @@ int iter_err_too_permissive2(const void *ctx)
 
 	MY_PID_GUARD();
 
-	map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&arr_map, &key);
+	map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hash_map, &key);
 	if (!map_val)
 		return 0;
 
 	bpf_repeat(1000000) {
-		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&arr_map, &key);
+		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hash_map, &key);
 	}
 
 	*map_val = 123;
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ int iter_err_too_permissive3(const void *ctx)
 	MY_PID_GUARD();
 
 	bpf_repeat(1000000) {
-		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&arr_map, &key);
+		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hash_map, &key);
 		found = true;
 	}
 
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ int iter_tricky_but_fine(const void *ctx)
 	MY_PID_GUARD();
 
 	bpf_repeat(1000000) {
-		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&arr_map, &key);
+		map_val = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&hash_map, &key);
 		if (map_val) {
 			found = true;
 			break;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_kptr_fail.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_kptr_fail.c
index c2a6bd392e48..4c0ff01f1a96 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_kptr_fail.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/map_kptr_fail.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ int reject_indirect_global_func_access(struct __sk_buff *ctx)
 }
 
 SEC("?tc")
-__failure __msg("Unreleased reference id=5 alloc_insn=")
+__failure __msg("Unreleased reference id=4 alloc_insn=")
 int kptr_xchg_ref_state(struct __sk_buff *ctx)
 {
 	struct prog_test_ref_kfunc *p;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_map_in_map.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_map_in_map.c
index 4eaab1468eb7..7d088ba99ea5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_map_in_map.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_map_in_map.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ l0_%=:	r0 = 0;						\
 
 SEC("xdp")
 __description("map in map state pruning")
-__success __msg("processed 26 insns")
+__success __msg("processed 15 insns")
 __log_level(2) __retval(0) __flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ)
 __naked void map_in_map_state_pruning(void)
 {
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/map_kptr.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/map_kptr.c
index f420c0312aa0..4b39f8472f9b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/map_kptr.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/map_kptr.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
 	.prog_type = BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS,
 	.fixup_map_kptr = { 1 },
 	.result = REJECT,
-	.errstr = "Unreleased reference id=5 alloc_insn=20",
+	.errstr = "Unreleased reference id=4 alloc_insn=20",
 	.fixup_kfunc_btf_id = {
 		{ "bpf_kfunc_call_test_acquire", 15 },
 	}