Re: [PATCH] bpf: Add support of skipping the current object for bpf_iter progs

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 01:13:23PM +0800, GONG, Ruiqi wrote:
> bpf_seq_read() can accept three different types of seq_ops->show()'s
> return value:
> 
>   err > 0: skip the obj and reuse seq_num
>   err < 0: abort the whole iter process
>   err == 0 (implicitly): continue
> 
> but bpf_iter_run_prog() is limited to the last two cases. Extend the
> legal return value of bpf_iter progs so that they can skip certain
> objects and then proceed to the followings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: GONG, Ruiqi <gongruiqi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c | 9 +++++----
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c b/kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c
> index 96856f130cbf..1c1d67ec466c 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/bpf_iter.c
> @@ -716,13 +716,14 @@ int bpf_iter_run_prog(struct bpf_prog *prog, void *ctx)
>  		rcu_read_unlock();
>  	}
>  
> -	/* bpf program can only return 0 or 1:
> -	 *  0 : okay
> -	 *  1 : retry the same object
> +	/* bpf program can return:
> +	 *  0 : has shown the object, go next
> +	 *  1 : has skipped the object, go next
> +	 * -1 : encountered error and should terminate
>  	 * The bpf_iter_run_prog() return value
>  	 * will be seq_ops->show() return value.
>  	 */
> -	return ret == 0 ? 0 : -EAGAIN;
> +	return ret == 0 ? 0 : (ret == 1 ? 1 : -EAGAIN);

This breaks existing progs as you can see in CI
and you surely would have noticed if you run the selftests.

We're going to start auto rejecting patches without selftests and
those that break CI.
It's your job to test your patches.