On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:14:12PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Michael and Sandipan report:
> 
>   Commit ede95a63b5 introduced a bpf_jit_limit tuneable to limit BPF
>   JIT allocations. At compile time it defaults to PAGE_SIZE * 40000,
>   and is adjusted again at init time if MODULES_VADDR is defined.
> 
>   For ppc64 kernels, MODULES_VADDR isn't defined, so we're stuck with
>   the compile-time default at boot-time, which is 0x9c400000 when
>   using 64K page size. This overflows the signed 32-bit bpf_jit_limit
>   value:
> 
>   root@ubuntu:/tmp# cat /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_limit
>   -1673527296
> 
>   and can cause various unexpected failures throughout the network
>   stack. In one case `strace dhclient eth0` reported:
> 
>   setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_FILTER, {len=11, filter=0x105dd27f8},
>              16) = -1 ENOTSUPP (Unknown error 524)
> 
>   and similar failures can be seen with tools like tcpdump. This doesn't
>   always reproduce however, and I'm not sure why. The more consistent
>   failure I've seen is an Ubuntu 18.04 KVM guest booted on a POWER9
>   host would time out on systemd/netplan configuring a virtio-net NIC
>   with no noticeable errors in the logs.
> 
> Given this and also given that in near future some architectures like
> arm64 will have a custom area for BPF JIT image allocations we should
> get rid of the BPF_JIT_LIMIT_DEFAULT fallback / default entirely. For
> 4.21, we have an overridable bpf_jit_alloc_exec(), bpf_jit_free_exec()
> so therefore add another overridable bpf_jit_alloc_exec_limit() helper
> function which returns the possible size of the memory area for deriving
> the default heuristic in bpf_jit_charge_init().
> 
> Like bpf_jit_alloc_exec() and bpf_jit_free_exec(), the new
> bpf_jit_alloc_exec_limit() assumes that module_alloc() is the default
> JIT memory provider, and therefore in case archs implement their custom
> module_alloc() we use MODULES_{END,_VADDR} for limits and otherwise for
> vmalloc_exec() cases like on ppc64 we use VMALLOC_{END,_START}.
> 
> Additionally, for archs supporting large page sizes, we should change
> the sysctl to be handled as long to not run into sysctl restrictions
> in future.
> 
> Fixes: ede95a63b5e8 ("bpf: add bpf_jit_limit knob to restrict unpriv 
> allocations")
> Reported-by: Sandipan Das <sandi...@linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>

Applied, Thanks

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