[PATCH bpf-next 13/14] bpf: export function to write into verifier log buffer

[Jakub Kicinski]

From: Quentin Monnet <quentin.mon...@netronome.com>

Rename the BPF verifier `verbose()` to `bpf_verifier_log_write()` and
export it, so that other components (in particular, drivers for BPF
offload) can reuse the user buffer log to dump error messages at
verification time.

Renaming `verbose()` was necessary in order to avoid a name so generic
to be exported to the global namespace. However to prevent too much pain
for backports, the calls to `verbose()` in the kernel BPF verifier were
not changed. Instead, add a `#define verbose bpf_verifier_log_write`.
Another solution could consist in making a wrapper around `verbose()`,
but since it is a variadic function, I don't see a clean way without
creating two identical wrappers, one for the verifier and one to export.
I opted for a simple #define for now.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.mon...@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
---
 include/linux/bpf_verifier.h |  3 +++
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c        | 14 ++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
index 2feb218c001d..6b66cd1aa0b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_verifier.h
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ struct bpf_verifier_env {
        u32 subprog_cnt;
 };
 
+__printf(2, 3) void bpf_verifier_log_write(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
+                                          const char *fmt, ...);
+
 static inline struct bpf_reg_state *cur_regs(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
 {
        struct bpf_verifier_state *cur = env->cur_state;
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index d921ab387b0b..e674944811d1 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ struct bpf_call_arg_meta {
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(bpf_verifier_lock);
 
 /* log_level controls verbosity level of eBPF verifier.
- * verbose() is used to dump the verification trace to the log, so the user
- * can figure out what's wrong with the program
+ * bpf_verifier_log_write() is used to dump the verification trace to the log,
+ * so the user can figure out what's wrong with the program
  */
-static __printf(2, 3) void verbose(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
-                                  const char *fmt, ...)
+__printf(2, 3) void bpf_verifier_log_write(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
+                                          const char *fmt, ...)
 {
        struct bpf_verifer_log *log = &env->log;
        unsigned int n;
@@ -197,6 +197,12 @@ static __printf(2, 3) void verbose(struct bpf_verifier_env 
*env,
        else
                log->ubuf = NULL;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bpf_verifier_log_write);
+/* Historically bpf_verifier_log_write was called verbose, but the name was too
+ * generic for symbol export. The function was renamed, but not the calls in
+ * the verifier to avoid complicating backports. Hence the #define below.
+ */
+#define verbose bpf_verifier_log_write
 
 static bool type_is_pkt_pointer(enum bpf_reg_type type)
 {
-- 
2.15.1