[PATCH bpf-next 2/5] bpf: bpf_csum_diff: optimize and homogenize for all archs

[Puranjay Mohan]

1. Optimization
   ------------

The current implementation copies the 'from' and 'to' buffers to a
scratchpad and it takes the bitwise NOT of 'from' buffer while copying.
In the next step csum_partial() is called with this scratchpad.

so, mathematically, the current implementation is doing:

	result = csum(to - from)

Here, 'to'  and '~ from' are copied in to the scratchpad buffer, we need
it in the scratchpad buffer because csum_partial() takes a single
contiguous buffer and not two disjoint buffers like 'to' and 'from'.

We can re write this equation to:

	result = csum(to) - csum(from)

using the distributive property of csum().

this allows 'to' and 'from' to be at different locations and therefore
this scratchpad and copying is not needed.

This in C code will look like:

result = csum_sub(csum_partial(to, to_size, seed),
                  csum_partial(from, from_size, 0));

2. Homogenization
   --------------

The bpf_csum_diff() helper calls csum_partial() which is implemented by
some architectures like arm and x86 but other architectures rely on the
generic implementation in lib/checksum.c

The generic implementation in lib/checksum.c returns a 16 bit value but
the arch specific implementations can return more than 16 bits, this
works out in most places because before the result is used, it is passed
through csum_fold() that turns it into a 16-bit value.

bpf_csum_diff() directly returns the value from csum_partial() and
therefore the returned values could be different on different
architectures. see discussion in [1]:

for the int value 28 the calculated checksums are:

x86                    :    -29 : 0xffffffe3
generic (arm64, riscv) :  65507 : 0x0000ffe3
arm                    : 131042 : 0x0001ffe2

Pass the result of bpf_csum_diff() through from32to16() before returning
to homogenize this result for all architectures.

NOTE: from32to16() is used instead of csum_fold() because csum_fold()
does from32to16() + bitwise NOT of the result, which is not what we want
to do here.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAJ+HfNiQbOcqCLxFUP2FMm5QrLXUUaj852Fxe3hn_2JNiucn6g@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay at kernel.org>
---
 net/core/filter.c | 37 +++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index bd0d08bf76bb8..e00bec7de9edd 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -1654,18 +1654,6 @@ void sk_reuseport_prog_free(struct bpf_prog *prog)
 		bpf_prog_destroy(prog);
 }
 
-struct bpf_scratchpad {
-	union {
-		__be32 diff[MAX_BPF_STACK / sizeof(__be32)];
-		u8     buff[MAX_BPF_STACK];
-	};
-	local_lock_t	bh_lock;
-};
-
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct bpf_scratchpad, bpf_sp) = {
-	.bh_lock	= INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(bh_lock),
-};
-
 static inline int __bpf_try_make_writable(struct sk_buff *skb,
 					  unsigned int write_len)
 {
@@ -2022,11 +2010,6 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_l4_csum_replace_proto = {
 BPF_CALL_5(bpf_csum_diff, __be32 *, from, u32, from_size,
 	   __be32 *, to, u32, to_size, __wsum, seed)
 {
-	struct bpf_scratchpad *sp = this_cpu_ptr(&bpf_sp);
-	u32 diff_size = from_size + to_size;
-	int i, j = 0;
-	__wsum ret;
-
 	/* This is quite flexible, some examples:
 	 *
 	 * from_size == 0, to_size > 0,  seed := csum --> pushing data
@@ -2035,19 +2018,17 @@ BPF_CALL_5(bpf_csum_diff, __be32 *, from, u32, from_size,
 	 *
 	 * Even for diffing, from_size and to_size don't need to be equal.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(((from_size | to_size) & (sizeof(__be32) - 1)) ||
-		     diff_size > sizeof(sp->diff)))
-		return -EINVAL;
 
-	local_lock_nested_bh(&bpf_sp.bh_lock);
-	for (i = 0; i < from_size / sizeof(__be32); i++, j++)
-		sp->diff[j] = ~from[i];
-	for (i = 0; i <   to_size / sizeof(__be32); i++, j++)
-		sp->diff[j] = to[i];
+	if (from_size && to_size)
+		return csum_from32to16(csum_sub(csum_partial(to, to_size, seed),
+						csum_partial(from, from_size, 0)));
+	if (to_size)
+		return csum_from32to16(csum_partial(to, to_size, seed));
 
-	ret = csum_partial(sp->diff, diff_size, seed);
-	local_unlock_nested_bh(&bpf_sp.bh_lock);
-	return ret;
+	if (from_size)
+		return csum_from32to16(~csum_partial(from, from_size, ~seed));
+
+	return seed;
 }
 
 static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_csum_diff_proto = {
-- 
2.40.1