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Alexei Starovoitov committed 2589726d12a
bpf: introduce bounded loops Allow the verifier to validate the loops by simulating their execution. Exisiting programs have used '#pragma unroll' to unroll the loops by the compiler. Instead let the verifier simulate all iterations of the loop. In order to do that introduce parentage chain of bpf_verifier_state and 'branches' counter for the number of branches left to explore. See more detailed algorithm description in bpf_verifier.h This algorithm borrows the key idea from Edward Cree approach: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/877222/ Additional state pruning heuristics make such brute force loop walk practical even for large loops. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>