bpf/verifier: introduce BPF_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE

BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE maps are special in a way
that the access from the bpf program side is lookup-free.
That means the result is guaranteed to be a valid
pointer to the cgroup storage; no NULL-check is required.

This patch introduces BPF_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE return type,
which is required to cause the verifier accept programs,
which are not checking the map value pointer for being NULL.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index 16be67888c30..ca4ac2a39def 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ enum bpf_arg_type {
 enum bpf_return_type {
         RET_INTEGER,                    /* function returns integer */
         RET_VOID,                       /* function doesn't return anything */
+        RET_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE,           /* returns a pointer to map elem value */
         RET_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_OR_NULL,   /* returns a pointer to map elem value or NULL */
 };