Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] bpf, x86: allow function arguments up to 12 for TRACING

[Yonghong Song]

On 6/7/23 5:59 AM, menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For now, the BPF program of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING can only be used
> on the kernel functions whose arguments count less than 6. This is not
> friendly at all, as too many functions have arguments count more than 6.

Since you already have some statistics, maybe listed in the commit message.

> Therefore, let's enhance it by increasing the function arguments count
> allowed in arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline(), for now, only x86_64.
>
> For the case that we don't need to call origin function, which means
> without BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG, we need only copy the function arguments
> that stored in the frame of the caller to current frame. The arguments
> of arg6-argN are stored in "$rbp + 0x18", we need copy them to
> "$rbp - regs_off + (6 * 8)".

Maybe I missed something, could you explain why it is '$rbp + 0x18'?

In the current upstream code, we have

        /* Generated trampoline stack layout:
         *
         * RBP + 8         [ return address  ]
         * RBP + 0         [ RBP             ]
         *
         * RBP - 8         [ return value    ]  BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG or
         * 
BPF_TRAMP_F_RET_FENTRY_RET flags
         *
         *                 [ reg_argN        ]  always
         *                 [ ...             ]
         * RBP - regs_off  [ reg_arg1        ]  program's ctx pointer
         *
         * RBP - nregs_off [ regs count      ]  always
         *
         * RBP - ip_off    [ traced function ]  BPF_TRAMP_F_IP_ARG flag
         *
         * RBP - run_ctx_off [ bpf_tramp_run_ctx ]
         */

Next on-stack argument will be RBP + 16, right?

> For the case with BPF_TRAMP_F_CALL_ORIG, we need prepare the arguments
> in stack before call origin function, which means we need alloc extra
> "8 * (arg_count - 6)" memory in the top of the stack. Note, there should
> not be any data be pushed to the stack before call the origin function.
> Then, we have to store rbx with 'mov' instead of 'push'.
>
> We use EMIT3_off32() or EMIT4() for "lea" and "sub". The range of the
> imm in "lea" and "sub" is [-128, 127] if EMIT4() is used. Therefore,
> we use EMIT3_off32() instead if the imm out of the range.
>
> It works well for the FENTRY and FEXIT, I'm not sure if there are other
> complicated cases.

MODIFY_RETURN is also impacted by this patch.

> Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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