[PATCH bpf] bpf, arm64: Fix BTI type used for freplace attached functions

Alexander Duyck alexander.duyck at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 09:49:31 PDT 2023


From: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck at fb.com>

When running an freplace attached bpf program on an arm64 system w were
seeing the following issue:
  Unhandled 64-bit el1h sync exception on CPU47, ESR 0x0000000036000003 -- BTI

After a bit of work to track it down I determined that what appeared to be
happening is that the 'bti c' at the start of the program was somehow being
reached after a 'br' instruction. Further digging pointed me toward the
fact that the function was attached via freplace. This in turn led me to
build_plt which I believe is invoking the long jump which is triggering
this error.

To resolve it we can replace the 'bti c' with 'bti jc' and add a comment
explaining why this has to be modified as such.

Fixes: b2ad54e1533e ("bpf, arm64: Implement bpf_arch_text_poke() for arm64")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck at fb.com>
---
 arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index 145b540ec34f..ec2174838f2a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -322,7 +322,13 @@ static int build_prologue(struct jit_ctx *ctx, bool ebpf_from_cbpf)
 	 *
 	 */
 
-	emit_bti(A64_BTI_C, ctx);
+	/* bpf function may be invoked by 3 instruction types:
+	 * 1. bl, attached via freplace to bpf prog via short jump
+	 * 2. br, attached via freplace to bpf prog via long jump
+	 * 3. blr, working as a function pointer, used by emit_call.
+	 * So BTI_JC should used here to support both br and blr.
+	 */
+	emit_bti(A64_BTI_JC, ctx);
 
 	emit(A64_MOV(1, A64_R(9), A64_LR), ctx);
 	emit(A64_NOP, ctx);





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