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refactor: improve code readability of struct initialization #633

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🧪 Since the PR has been fully tested, please consider merging it.

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LGTM

@mzz2017 mzz2017 merged commit 8255400 into daeuniverse:main Sep 13, 2024
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其实在 bpf c 代码里结构体先零值初始化再逐字段赋值是最佳实践。考虑以下代码:

struct entry {
	__u8 ifindex;
	__u8 from_wan;
};

struct entry entry = { . from_wan = 1 };
bpf_map_delete_elem(&MAP, &entry);

就有可能被 verifier 拒绝,因为 clang 编译上面的代码发现 ifindex 字段没有被使用,索性不初始化那个字节的栈内存,留下一个空洞,但是 bpf verifier 检查 bpf_map_delete_elem 的时候会要求所有参数指针指向的内存必须被初始化,所以程序就挂了。

这个 PR 没有问题是因为那些结构体所有字段最终都被赋值了,没有空洞。

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mzz2017 commented Sep 14, 2024

@jschwinger233 解释非常清晰,先把这个 pr 回退,意下如何?
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Integral-Tech commented Sep 14, 2024

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其实在 bpf c 代码里结构体先零值初始化再逐字段赋值是最佳实践。考虑以下代码:

struct entry {
	__u8 ifindex;
	__u8 from_wan;
};

struct entry entry = { . from_wan = 1 };
bpf_map_delete_elem(&MAP, &entry);

就有可能被 verifier 拒绝,因为 clang 编译上面的代码发现 ifindex 字段没有被使用,索性不初始化那个字节的栈内存,留下一个空洞,但是 bpf verifier 检查 bpf_map_delete_elem 的时候会要求所有参数指针指向的内存必须被初始化,所以程序就挂了。

这个 PR 没有问题是因为那些结构体所有字段最终都被赋值了,没有空洞。

但是根据 cppreference:

All members that are not initialized explicitly are empty-initialized.

In some cases, an object is empty-initialized if it is not initialized explicitly, that is:
...
all elements of arrays, all members of structs, and the first members of unions are empty-initialized, recursively, plus all padding bits are initialized to zero

另外,在 eBPF 官网上,也有直接初始化的写法:

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@Integral-Tech 还有一种情况是结构体本身有空洞,比如

struct A {
    u8 a
    u32 b
}

为了内存对齐这个结构体会在两个字段之间插入 padding,这时候就算直接所有字段都直接赋值也会有空洞,verifier 会拒绝。

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还有一点是逐字段赋值能 CO-RE,但是直接初始化不能。

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