bpf: implement numbers iterator

Implement the first open-coded iterator type over a range of integers.

It's public API consists of:
  - bpf_iter_num_new() constructor, which accepts [start, end) range
    (that is, start is inclusive, end is exclusive).
  - bpf_iter_num_next() which will keep returning read-only pointer to int
    until the range is exhausted, at which point NULL will be returned.
    If bpf_iter_num_next() is kept calling after this, NULL will be
    persistently returned.
  - bpf_iter_num_destroy() destructor, which needs to be called at some
    point to clean up iterator state. BPF verifier enforces that iterator
    destructor is called at some point before BPF program exits.

Note that `start = end = X` is a valid combination to setup an empty
iterator. bpf_iter_num_new() will return 0 (success) for any such
combination.

If bpf_iter_num_new() detects invalid combination of input arguments, it
returns error, resets iterator state to, effectively, empty iterator, so
any subsequent call to bpf_iter_num_next() will keep returning NULL.

BPF verifier has no knowledge that returned integers are in the
[start, end) value range, as both `start` and `end` are not statically
known and enforced: they are runtime values.

While the implementation is pretty trivial, some care needs to be taken
to avoid overflows and underflows. Subsequent selftests will validate
correctness of [start, end) semantics, especially around extremes
(INT_MIN and INT_MAX).

Similarly to bpf_loop(), we enforce that no more than BPF_MAX_LOOPS can
be specified.

bpf_iter_num_{new,next,destroy}() is a logical evolution from bounded
BPF loops and bpf_loop() helper and is the basis for implementing
ergonomic BPF loops with no statically known or verified bounds.
Subsequent patches implement bpf_for() macro, demonstrating how this can
be wrapped into something that works and feels like a normal for() loop
in C language.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308184121.1165081-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 976b194eb775..4abddb668a10 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -7112,4 +7112,12 @@ enum {
 	BPF_F_TIMER_ABS = (1ULL << 0),
 };
 
+/* BPF numbers iterator state */
+struct bpf_iter_num {
+	/* opaque iterator state; having __u64 here allows to preserve correct
+	 * alignment requirements in vmlinux.h, generated from BTF
+	 */
+	__u64 __opaque[1];
+} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
+
 #endif /* _UAPI__LINUX_BPF_H__ */