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Commit a033907e authored by Alexei Starovoitov's avatar Alexei Starovoitov
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Merge branch 'Enable RCU semantics for task kptrs'

David Vernet says:

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In commit 22df776a ("tasks: Extract rcu_users out of union"), the
'refcount_t rcu_users' field was extracted out of a union with the
'struct rcu_head rcu' field. This allows us to use the field for
refcounting struct task_struct with RCU protection, as the RCU callback
no longer flips rcu_users to be nonzero after the callback is scheduled.

This patch set leverages this to do a few things:

1. Marks struct task_struct as RCU safe in the verifier, allowing
   referenced kptr tasks stored in maps to be accessed in an RCU
   read region without acquiring a reference (with just a NULL check).
2. Makes bpf_task_acquire() a KF_ACQUIRE | KF_RCU | KF_RET_NULL kfunc.
3. Removes bpf_task_kptr_get() and bpf_task_acquire_not_zero(), as
   they're now redundant with the above two changes.
4. Updates selftests and documentation accordingly.
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Changelog:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230331005733.406202-1-void@manifault.com/


v1 -> v2:
- Remove testcases validating nested trust inheritance. The first
  version used 'struct task_struct __rcu *parent', but because that
  field has the __rcu tag it functions differently on gcc and llvm and
  causes gcc selftests to fail. Alexei is reworking nested trust,
  anyways so let's leave it off for now (Alexei).
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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parents 85850058 db9d479a
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