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This patch implements BPF exceptions, and introduces a bpf_throw kfunc to allow programs to throw exceptions during their execution at runtime. A bpf_throw invocation is treated as an immediate termination of the program, returning back to its caller within the kernel, unwinding all stack frames. This allows the program to simplify its implementation, by testing for runtime conditions which the verifier has no visibility into, and assert that they are true. In case they are not, the program can simply throw an exception from the other branch. BPF exceptions are explicitly *NOT* an unlikely slowpath error handling primitive, and this objective has guided design choices of the implementation of the them within the kernel (with the bulk of the cost for unwinding the stack offloaded to the bpf_throw kfunc). The implementation of this mechanism requires use of add_hidden_subprog mechanism introduced in the previous patch, which generates a couple of instructions to move R1 to R0 and exit. The JIT then rewrites the prologue of this subprog to take the stack pointer and frame pointer as inputs and reset the stack frame, popping all callee-saved registers saved by the main subprog. The bpf_throw function then walks the stack at runtime, and invokes this exception subprog with the stack and frame pointers as parameters. Reviewers must take note that currently the main program is made to save all callee-saved registers on x86_64 during entry into the program. This is because we must do an equivalent of a lightweight context switch when unwinding the stack, therefore we need the callee-saved registers of the caller of the BPF program to be able to return with a sane state. Note that we have to additionally handle r12, even though it is not used by the program, because when throwing the exception the program makes an entry into the kernel which could clobber r12 after saving it on the stack. To be able to preserve the value we received on program entry, we push r12 and restore it from the generated subprogram when unwinding the stack. For now, bpf_throw invocation fails when lingering resources or locks exist in that path of the program. In a future followup, bpf_throw will be extended to perform frame-by-frame unwinding to release lingering resources for each stack frame, removing this limitation. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912233214.1518551-5-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.