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ADSWT518 and others added 6 commits March 10, 2026 11:46
When a register undergoes a BPF_END (byte swap) operation, its scalar
value is mutated in-place. If this register previously shared a scalar ID
with another register (e.g., after an `r1 = r0` assignment), this tie must
be broken.

Currently, the verifier misses resetting `dst_reg->id` to 0 for BPF_END.
Consequently, if a conditional jump checks the swapped register, the
verifier incorrectly propagates the learned bounds to the linked register,
leading to false confidence in the linked register's value and potentially
allowing out-of-bounds memory accesses.

Fix this by explicitly resetting `dst_reg->id` to 0 in the BPF_END case
to break the scalar tie, similar to how BPF_NEG handles it via
`__mark_reg_known`.

Fixes: 9d21199 ("bpf: Add bitwise tracking for BPF_END")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/AMBPR06MB108683CFEB1CB8D9E02FC95ECF17EA@AMBPR06MB10868.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/4be25f7442a52244d0dd1abb47bc6750e57984c9.camel@gmail.com/
Reported-by: Guillaume Laporte <glapt.pro@outlook.com>
Co-developed-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Co-developed-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Yazhou Tang <tangyazhou518@outlook.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260304083228.142016-2-tangyazhou@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add a test case to ensure that BPF_END operations correctly break
register's scalar ID ties.

The test creates a scenario where r1 is a copy of r0, r0 undergoes a
byte swap, and then r0 is checked against a constant.

- Without the fix in the verifier, the bounds learned from r0 are
  incorrectly propagated to r1, making the verifier believe r1 is
  bounded and wrongly allowing subsequent pointer arithmetic.

- With the fix, r1 remains an unbounded scalar, and the verifier
  correctly rejects the arithmetic operation between the frame pointer
  and the unbounded register.

Co-developed-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tianci Cao <ziye@zju.edu.cn>
Co-developed-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yuan <shenghaoyuan0928@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Yazhou Tang <tangyazhou518@outlook.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260304083228.142016-3-tangyazhou@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Yazhou Tang says:

====================
bpf: Reset register ID for BPF_END value tracking

This patchset fixes a register's scalar ID issue for BPF_END operations
reported by Guillaume Laporte. Please see commit log of 1/2 for more details.

Changes v1 => v2:

1. Reset register ID inside scalar_byte_swap() conditionally. (Eduard)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260303093956.395076-1-tangyazhou@zju.edu.cn/
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304083228.142016-1-tangyazhou@zju.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
BPF_ST | BPF_PROBE_MEM32 immediate stores are not handled by
bpf_jit_blind_insn(), allowing user-controlled 32-bit immediates to
survive unblinded into JIT-compiled native code when bpf_jit_harden >= 1.

The root cause is that convert_ctx_accesses() rewrites BPF_ST|BPF_MEM
to BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 for arena pointer stores during verification,
before bpf_jit_blind_constants() runs during JIT compilation. The
blinding switch only matches BPF_ST|BPF_MEM (mode 0x60), not
BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 (mode 0xa0). The instruction falls through
unblinded.

Add BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 cases to bpf_jit_blind_insn() alongside the
existing BPF_ST|BPF_MEM cases. The blinding transformation is identical:
load the blinded immediate into BPF_REG_AX via mov+xor, then convert
the immediate store to a register store (BPF_STX).

The rewritten STX instruction must preserve the BPF_PROBE_MEM32 mode so
the architecture JIT emits the correct arena addressing (R12-based on
x86-64). Cannot use the BPF_STX_MEM() macro here because it hardcodes
BPF_MEM mode; construct the instruction directly instead.

Fixes: 6082b6c ("bpf: Recognize addr_space_cast instruction in the verifier.")
Reviewed-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kumar <xcyfun@protonmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y6IT5VvNRchPBLI5D7JZHBzZrU9rb0ycRJPJzJSXGj7kJlX8RJwZFSM2YZjcDxoQKABkxt1T8Os2gi23PYyFuQe6KkZGWVyfz8K5afdy9ak=@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
For commit b0dcdcb ("resolve_btfids: Fix linker flags detection"),
I suggested setting HOSTPKG_CONFIG to $PKG_CONFIG when compiling
resolve_btfids, but I forgot the quotes around that variable.

As a result, when running vmtest.sh with static linking, it fails as
follows:

    $ LDLIBS=-static PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config --static' ./vmtest.sh
    [...]
    make: unrecognized option '--static'
    Usage: make [options] [target] ...
    [...]

This worked when I tested it because HOSTPKG_CONFIG didn't have a
default value in the resolve_btfids Makefile, but once it does, the
quotes aren't preserved and it fails on the next make call.

Fixes: b0dcdcb ("resolve_btfids: Fix linker flags detection")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/abADBwn_ykblpABE@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
@theihor theihor force-pushed the bpftool-helpers-fix branch from 8b6db30 to ecacb16 Compare March 12, 2026 23:46
@kernel-patches-daemon-bpf kernel-patches-daemon-bpf Bot force-pushed the bpf-next_base branch 6 times, most recently from 1e267ee to 52ba927 Compare March 17, 2026 04:06
@theihor theihor closed this Mar 17, 2026
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