[PATCH bpf 1/2] riscv, bpf: Sign-extend return values

Björn Töpel bjorn at kernel.org
Wed Oct 4 05:07:05 PDT 2023


From: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>

The RISC-V architecture does not expose sub-registers, and hold all
32-bit values in a sign-extended format [1] [2]:

  | The compiler and calling convention maintain an invariant that all
  | 32-bit values are held in a sign-extended format in 64-bit
  | registers. Even 32-bit unsigned integers extend bit 31 into bits
  | 63 through 32. Consequently, conversion between unsigned and
  | signed 32-bit integers is a no-op, as is conversion from a signed
  | 32-bit integer to a signed 64-bit integer.

While BPF, on the other hand, exposes sub-registers, and use
zero-extension (similar to arm64/x86).

This has led to some subtle bugs, where a BPF JITted program has not
sign-extended the a0 register (return value in RISC-V land), passed
the return value up the kernel, e.g.:

  | int from_bpf(void);
  |
  | long foo(void)
  | {
  |    return from_bpf();
  | }

Here, a0 would be 0xffff_ffff, instead of the expected
0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff.

Internally, the RISC-V JIT uses a5 as a dedicated register for BPF
return values.

Keep a5 zero-extended, but explicitly sign-extend a0 (which is used
outside BPF land). Now that a0 (RISC-V ABI) and a5 (BPF ABI) differs,
a0 is only moved to a5 for non-BPF native calls (BPF_PSEUDO_CALL).

Link: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/releases/download/riscv-isa-release-056b6ff-2023-10-02/unpriv-isa-asciidoc.pdf # [2]
Link: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/releases/download/draft-20230929-e5c800e661a53efe3c2678d71a306323b60eb13b/riscv-abi.pdf # [2]
Fixes: 2353ecc6f91f ("bpf, riscv: add BPF JIT for RV64G")
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c b/arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c
index ecd3ae6f4116..de4c9957d223 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void __build_epilogue(bool is_tail_call, struct rv_jit_context *ctx)
 	emit_addi(RV_REG_SP, RV_REG_SP, stack_adjust, ctx);
 	/* Set return value. */
 	if (!is_tail_call)
-		emit_mv(RV_REG_A0, RV_REG_A5, ctx);
+		emit_addiw(RV_REG_A0, RV_REG_A5, 0, ctx);
 	emit_jalr(RV_REG_ZERO, is_tail_call ? RV_REG_T3 : RV_REG_RA,
 		  is_tail_call ? (RV_FENTRY_NINSNS + 1) * 4 : 0, /* skip reserved nops and TCC init */
 		  ctx);
@@ -1515,7 +1515,8 @@ int bpf_jit_emit_insn(const struct bpf_insn *insn, struct rv_jit_context *ctx,
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 
-		emit_mv(bpf_to_rv_reg(BPF_REG_0, ctx), RV_REG_A0, ctx);
+		if (insn->src_reg != BPF_PSEUDO_CALL)
+			emit_mv(bpf_to_rv_reg(BPF_REG_0, ctx), RV_REG_A0, ctx);
 		break;
 	}
 	/* tail call */
-- 
2.39.2




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