bpf: Add 'owner' field to bpf_{list,rb}_node
As described by Kumar in [0], in shared ownership scenarios it is necessary to do runtime tracking of {rb,list} node ownership - and synchronize updates using this ownership information - in order to prevent races. This patch adds an 'owner' field to struct bpf_list_node and bpf_rb_node to implement such runtime tracking. The owner field is a void * that describes the ownership state of a node. It can have the following values: NULL - the node is not owned by any data structure BPF_PTR_POISON - the node is in the process of being added to a data structure ptr_to_root - the pointee is a data structure 'root' (bpf_rb_root / bpf_list_head) which owns this node The field is initially NULL (set by bpf_obj_init_field default behavior) and transitions states in the following sequence: Insertion: NULL -> BPF_PTR_POISON -> ptr_to_root Removal: ptr_to_root -> NULL Before a node has been successfully inserted, it is not protected by any root's lock, and therefore two programs can attempt to add the same node to different roots simultaneously. For this reason the intermediate BPF_PTR_POISON state is necessary. For removal, the node is protected by some root's lock so this intermediate hop isn't necessary. Note that bpf_list_pop_{front,back} helpers don't need to check owner before removing as the node-to-be-removed is not passed in as input and is instead taken directly from the list. Do the check anyways and WARN_ON_ONCE in this unexpected scenario. Selftest changes in this patch are entirely mechanical: some BTF tests have hardcoded struct sizes for structs that contain bpf_{list,rb}_node fields, those were adjusted to account for the new sizes. Selftest additions to validate the owner field are added in a further patch in the series. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/d7hyspcow5wtjcmw4fugdgyp3fwhljwuscp3xyut5qnwivyeru@ysdq543otzv2Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com> Suggested-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230718083813.3416104-4-davemarchevsky@fb.comSigned-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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