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Eduard Zingerman
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Tejun Heo reported an infinite loop in get_loop_entry(), when verifying a sched_ext program layered_dispatch in [1]. After some investigation I'm sure that root cause is fixed by patches 1,3 in this patch-set. To err on the safe side, this commit modifies get_loop_entry() to detect infinite loops and abort verification in such cases. The number of steps get_loop_entry(S) can make while moving along the bpf_verifier_state->loop_entry chain is bounded by the DFS depth of state S. This fact is exploited to implement the check. To avoid dealing with the potential error code returned from get_loop_entry() in update_loop_entry(), remove the get_loop_entry() calls there: - This change does not affect correctness. Loop entries would still be updated during the backward DFS move in update_branch_counts(). - This change does not affect performance. Measurements show that get_loop_entry() performs at most 1 step on selftests and at most 2 steps on sched_ext programs (1 step in 17 cases, 2 steps in 3 cases, measured using "do-not-submit" patches from [2]). [1] https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/ commit f0b27038ea10 ("XXX - kernel stall") [2] https://github.com/eddyz87/bpf/tree/get-loop-entry-hungup Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215110411.3236773-6-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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