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Title: Synthesizing safe and efficient kernel extensions for packet processing
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) has emerged as a powerful method to extend packet-processing functionality in the Linux operating system. BPF allows users to write code in high-level languages (like C or Rust) and execute them at specific hooks in the kernel, such as the network device driver. To ensure safe execution of a user-developed BPF program in kernel context, Linux uses an in-kernel static checker. The checker allows a program to execute only if it can prove that the program is crash-free, always accesses memory within safe bounds, and avoids leaking kernel data. BPF programming is not easy. One, even modest-sized BPF programs are deemed too large to analyze and rejected by the kernel checker. Two, the kernel checker may incorrectly determine that a BPF program exhibits unsafe behaviors. Three, even small performance optimizations to BPF code (e.g., 5% gains) must be meticulously hand-crafted by expert developers. Traditional optimizing compilers for BPF are often inadequate since the kernel checker's safety constraints are incompatible with rule-based optimizations. We present K2, a program-synthesis-based compiler that automatically optimizes BPF bytecode with formal correctness and safety guarantees. K2 produces code with 6--26% reduced size, 1.36%--55.03% lower average packet-processing latency, and 0--4.75% higher throughput (packets per more » second per core) relative to the best clang-compiled program, across benchmarks drawn from Cilium, Facebook, and the Linux kernel. K2 incorporates several domain-specific techniques to make synthesis practical by accelerating equivalence-checking of BPF programs by 6 orders of magnitude. « less
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1910796 2008048
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10296555
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ACM SIGCOMM'21
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50 to 64
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National Science Foundation
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