selftests/bpf: Add rbtree test exercising race which 'owner' field prevents
This patch adds a runnable version of one of the races described by Kumar in [0]. Specifically, this interleaving: (rbtree1 and list head protected by lock1, rbtree2 protected by lock2) Prog A Prog B ====================================== n = bpf_obj_new(...) m = bpf_refcount_acquire(n) kptr_xchg(map, m) m = kptr_xchg(map, NULL) lock(lock2) bpf_rbtree_add(rbtree2, m->r, less) unlock(lock2) lock(lock1) bpf_list_push_back(head, n->l) /* make n non-owning ref */ bpf_rbtree_remove(rbtree1, n->r) unlock(lock1) The above interleaving, the node's struct bpf_rb_node *r can be used to add it to either rbtree1 or rbtree2, which are protected by different locks. If the node has been added to rbtree2, we should not be allowed to remove it while holding rbtree1's lock. Before changes in the previous patch in this series, the rbtree_remove in the second part of Prog A would succeed as the verifier has no way of knowing which tree owns a particular node at verification time. The addition of 'owner' field results in bpf_rbtree_remove correctly failing. The test added in this patch splits "Prog A" above into two separate BPF programs - A1 and A2 - and uses a second mapval + kptr_xchg to pass n from A1 to A2 similarly to the pass from A1 to B. If the test is run without the fix applied, the remove will succeed. Kumar's example had the two programs running on separate CPUs. This patch doesn't do this as it's not necessary to exercise the broken behavior / validate fixed behavior. [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/20230718083813.3416104-5-davemarchevsky@fb.comSigned-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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