bpf: Keep track of total log content size in both fixed and rolling modes
Change how we do accounting in BPF_LOG_FIXED mode and adopt log->end_pos as *logical* log position. This means that we can go beyond physical log buffer size now and be able to tell what log buffer size should be to fit entire log contents without -ENOSPC. To do this for BPF_LOG_FIXED mode, we need to remove a short-circuiting logic of not vsnprintf()'ing further log content once we filled up user-provided buffer, which is done by bpf_verifier_log_needed() checks. We modify these checks to always keep going if log->level is non-zero (i.e., log is requested), even if log->ubuf was NULL'ed out due to copying data to user-space, or if entire log buffer is physically full. We adopt bpf_verifier_vlog() routine to work correctly with log->ubuf == NULL condition, performing log formatting into temporary kernel buffer, doing all the necessary accounting, but just avoiding copying data out if buffer is full or NULL'ed out. With these changes, it's now possible to do this sort of determination of log contents size in both BPF_LOG_FIXED and default rolling log mode. We need to keep in mind bpf_vlog_reset(), though, which shrinks log contents after successful verification of a particular code path. This log reset means that log->end_pos isn't always increasing, so to return back to users what should be the log buffer size to fit all log content without causing -ENOSPC even in the presence of log resetting, we need to keep maximum over "lifetime" of logging. We do this accounting in bpf_vlog_update_len_max() helper. A related and subtle aspect is that with this logical log->end_pos even in BPF_LOG_FIXED mode we could temporary "overflow" buffer, but then reset it back with bpf_vlog_reset() to a position inside user-supplied log_buf. In such situation we still want to properly maintain terminating zero. We will eventually return -ENOSPC even if final log buffer is small (we detect this through log->len_max check). This behavior is simpler to reason about and is consistent with current behavior of verifier log. Handling of this required a small addition to bpf_vlog_reset() logic to avoid doing put_user() beyond physical log buffer dimensions. Another issue to keep in mind is that we limit log buffer size to 32-bit value and keep such log length as u32, but theoretically verifier could produce huge log stretching beyond 4GB. Instead of keeping (and later returning) 64-bit log length, we cap it at UINT_MAX. Current UAPI makes it impossible to specify log buffer size bigger than 4GB anyways, so we don't really loose anything here and keep everything consistently 32-bit in UAPI. This property will be utilized in next patch. Doing the same determination of maximum log buffer for rolling mode is trivial, as log->end_pos and log->start_pos are already logical positions, so there is nothing new there. These changes do incidentally fix one small issue with previous logging logic. Previously, if use provided log buffer of size N, and actual log output was exactly N-1 bytes + terminating \0, kernel logic coun't distinguish this condition from log truncation scenario which would end up with truncated log contents of N-1 bytes + terminating \0 as well. But now with log->end_pos being logical position that could go beyond actual log buffer size, we can distinguish these two conditions, which we do in this patch. This plays nicely with returning log_size_actual (implemented in UAPI in the next patch), as we can now guarantee that if user takes such log_size_actual and provides log buffer of that exact size, they will not get -ENOSPC in return. All in all, all these changes do conceptually unify fixed and rolling log modes much better, and allow a nice feature requested by users: knowing what should be the size of the buffer to avoid -ENOSPC. We'll plumb this through the UAPI and the code in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@isovalent.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230406234205.323208-12-andrii@kernel.org
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