With the introduction of the struct_ops program type, it became possible to
implement kernel functionality in BPF, making it viable to use BPF in place
of a regular kernel module for these particular operations.
Thus far, the only user of this mechanism is for implementing TCP
congestion control algorithms. These are clearly marked as GPL-only when
implemented as modules (as seen by the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for
tcp_register_congestion_control()), so it seems like an oversight that this
was not carried over to BPF implementations. Since this is the only user
of the struct_ops mechanism, just enforcing GPL-only for the struct_ops
program type seems like the simplest way to fix this.
v3: No change
v2: Move check to the top of check_struct_ops_btf_id().
Fixes: 0baf26b0fcd7 ("bpf: tcp: Support tcp_congestion_ops in bpf")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 44e4ec1640f1..3a738724a380 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -12158,6 +12158,11 @@ static int check_struct_ops_btf_id(struct
bpf_verifier_env *env)
u32 btf_id, member_idx;
const char *mname;
+ if (!prog->gpl_compatible) {
+ verbose(env, "struct ops programs must have a GPL compatible
license\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
btf_id = prog->aux->attach_btf_id;
st_ops = bpf_struct_ops_find(btf_id);
if (!st_ops) {
--
2.31.0
