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* [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/7] selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
@ 2026-10-28  0:04 Vineet Gupta
  2026-10-28  0:46 ` bot+bpf-ci
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Vineet Gupta @ 2026-10-28  0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bpf
  Cc: ast, daniel, andrii, eddyz87, memxor, martin.lau, song,
	yonghong.song, jolsa, emil, ihor.solodrai, john.fastabend, shuah,
	linux-kernel, linux-kselftest, jose.marchesi, david.faust,
	Vineet Gupta

Some arena tests put the __BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST guard inside the
function rather than around it, so without arena support the program
still exists, its body is empty, and __success __retval(0) is met by
doing nothing.  A reader sees

  #584/1	 verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep:OK

and concludes arena works.  That is worse than the tests which vanish
entirely, since nothing hints anything is missing.

The guard was never needed to compile those bodies: without the
feature __arena is still btf_type_tag("arena"), which every compiler
accepts.  What it avoided was the load failure that follows from no
addr_space_cast being emitted — but only for a body that dereferences
an arena pointer.  The arena kfuncs take one as a plain scalar:

  static const struct bpf_reg_types arena_types = {
	  .types = { PTR_TO_ARENA, SCALAR_VALUE }

so a test that only passes pointers to bpf_arena_{alloc,free,reserve}_pages()
needs no cast and runs fine.

test_loader checks skip_reason before it opens anything, so the body no
longer has to be empty to stay loadable: drop all 19 in-body guards.
They do not all need a tag in their place, which is why 19 guards go
and 7 tags arrive:

  6   dereference, so they get __skip_without_arena and report SKIP:
      basic_alloc1{,_nosleep}, basic_alloc2{,_nosleep}, big_alloc1,
      access_reserved
  11  never dereference, so they get no tag and run for real instead
      of reporting a vacuous OK
  2   big_alloc3 and big_alloc4, already inside the file's outer
      whole-program guard, so the in-body one was redundant

The 7th tag goes on check_arena_arg_ret(), which has no guard at all
and is the one verifier_arena subtest that really fails under a stock
GCC.

Measured on bpf-next with a stock bpf-gcc, test_progs before and after:

  verifier_arena/basic_alloc1            OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena/basic_alloc2            OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena/basic_alloc2_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena_large/big_alloc1        OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena_large/access_reserved   OK   -> SKIP
  verifier_arena/check_arena_arg_ret     FAIL -> SKIP

the six that dereference stop claiming to pass, and check_arena_arg_ret
stops failing.  The eleven that do not dereference stay OK, having gone
from an empty body to actually running.

Removing the guards exposes the arena_base() calls they were hiding.
The previous patch made that macro opaque to GCC's -Warray-bounds, so
nothing is needed here beyond the guards going away.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@linux.dev>
---
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c      | 31 +++----------------
 .../bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c          | 16 ++--------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c
index 3b3410802825..21b66d51c61e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena.c
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ struct {
 
 SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int basic_alloc1_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile int __arena *page1, *page2, *no_page;
 
 	page1 = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
@@ -52,15 +52,14 @@ int basic_alloc1_nosleep(void *ctx)
 		return 6;
 	if (*page2 != 0 && *page2 != 2) /* use-after-free should return 0 or the stored value */
 		return 7;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
 SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int basic_alloc1(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile int __arena *page1, *page2, *no_page, *page3;
 
 	page1 = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
@@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ int basic_alloc1(void *ctx)
 		return 9;
 	if (*page1 != 1)
 		return 10;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -125,9 +123,9 @@ int free_scalar_below_arena(void *ctx)
 
 SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int basic_alloc2_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile char __arena *page1, *page2, *page3, *page4;
 
 	page1 = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 2, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
@@ -157,15 +155,14 @@ int basic_alloc2_nosleep(void *ctx)
 		return 7;
 	if (*page4 != 0)
 		return 8;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
 SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int basic_alloc2(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile char __arena *page1, *page2, *page3, *page4;
 
 	page1 = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 2, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
@@ -195,7 +192,6 @@ int basic_alloc2(void *ctx)
 		return 7;
 	if (*page4 != 0)
 		return 8;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -233,7 +229,6 @@ SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
 int basic_reserve1_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -257,7 +252,6 @@ int basic_reserve1_nosleep(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if (page)
 		return 4;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -265,7 +259,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int basic_reserve1(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -289,7 +282,6 @@ int basic_reserve1(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if (page)
 		return 4;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -297,7 +289,6 @@ SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
 int basic_reserve2_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -309,7 +300,6 @@ int basic_reserve2_nosleep(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, page, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if ((u64)page)
 		return 2;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -317,7 +307,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int basic_reserve2(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -329,7 +318,6 @@ int basic_reserve2(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, page, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if ((u64)page)
 		return 2;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -338,7 +326,6 @@ SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
 int reserve_twice_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -351,7 +338,6 @@ int reserve_twice_nosleep(void *ctx)
 	ret = bpf_arena_reserve_pages(&arena, page, 1);
 	if (ret != -EBUSY)
 		return 2;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -359,7 +345,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int reserve_twice(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -372,7 +357,6 @@ int reserve_twice(void *ctx)
 	ret = bpf_arena_reserve_pages(&arena, page, 1);
 	if (ret != -EBUSY)
 		return 2;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -381,7 +365,6 @@ SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
 int reserve_invalid_region_nosleep(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -403,7 +386,6 @@ int reserve_invalid_region_nosleep(void *ctx)
 	ret = bpf_arena_reserve_pages(&arena, page, (1ULL << 32) - 1);
 	if (ret != -EINVAL)
 		return 4;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -411,7 +393,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int reserve_invalid_region(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -433,7 +414,6 @@ int reserve_invalid_region(void *ctx)
 	ret = bpf_arena_reserve_pages(&arena, page, (1ULL << 32) - 1);
 	if (ret != -EINVAL)
 		return 4;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -478,7 +458,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int arena_kfuncs_under_bpf_lock(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -503,7 +482,6 @@ int arena_kfuncs_under_bpf_lock(void *ctx)
 	bpf_arena_free_pages(&arena, page, 1);
 
 	bpf_spin_unlock(&arena_bpf_test_lock);
-#endif
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -765,6 +743,7 @@ u32 __arena volatile *check_arena_arg_quals2(u32 volatile __arena *arg1, u32 __a
 
 SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int check_arena_arg_ret(void *ctx)
 {
 	u32 __arena *page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, NULL, 1, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c
index 34f0a0f88e12..6ef99793cac1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_arena_large.c
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ struct {
 
 SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int big_alloc1(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile char __arena *page1, *page2, *no_page, *page3;
 	u64 base;
 
@@ -79,16 +79,15 @@ int big_alloc1(void *ctx)
 		return 13;
 	if (*(page2 - PAGE_SIZE) != 0)
 		return 14;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
 /* Try to access a reserved page. Behavior should be identical with accessing unallocated pages. */
 SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
+__skip_without_arena
 int access_reserved(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile char __arena *page;
 	char __arena *base;
 	const size_t len = 4;
@@ -118,7 +117,6 @@ int access_reserved(void *ctx)
 		if (*page)
 			return 2 + 2 * i + 1;
 	}
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -127,7 +125,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int request_partially_reserved(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	volatile char __arena *page;
 	char __arena *base;
 	int ret;
@@ -142,7 +139,6 @@ int request_partially_reserved(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, base, 5, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if ((u64)page != 0ULL)
 		return 2;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -150,7 +146,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int free_reserved(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *addr;
 	char __arena *page;
 	int ret;
@@ -177,7 +172,6 @@ int free_reserved(void *ctx)
 	page = bpf_arena_alloc_pages(&arena, addr + __PAGE_SIZE, 2, NUMA_NO_NODE, 0);
 	if (!page)
 		return 3;
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -292,7 +286,6 @@ SEC("socket")
 __success __retval(0)
 int big_alloc3(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *pages;
 	u64 i;
 	int err = 0;
@@ -314,8 +307,6 @@ int big_alloc3(void *ctx)
 
 	bpf_arena_free_pages(&arena, pages, LARGE_PAGE_CNT);
 	return err;
-#endif
-	return 0;
 }
 
 /* SYSCALL programs are always sleepable. */
@@ -323,7 +314,6 @@ SEC("syscall")
 __success __retval(0)
 int big_alloc4(void *ctx)
 {
-#if defined(__BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST)
 	char __arena *pages;
 	u64 i;
 	int err = 0;
@@ -345,8 +335,6 @@ int big_alloc4(void *ctx)
 
 	bpf_arena_free_pages(&arena, pages, LARGE_PAGE_CNT);
 	return err;
-#endif
-	return 0;
 }
 #else
 
-- 
2.53.0-Meta


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* Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/7] selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
  2026-10-28  0:04 [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/7] selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body Vineet Gupta
@ 2026-10-28  0:46 ` bot+bpf-ci
  2026-10-28 16:25   ` Vineet Gupta
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: bot+bpf-ci @ 2026-10-28  0:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: vineet.gupta, bpf
  Cc: ast, daniel, andrii, eddyz87, memxor, martin.lau, song,
	yonghong.song, jolsa, emil, ihor.solodrai, john.fastabend, shuah,
	linux-kernel, linux-kselftest, jose.marchesi, david.faust,
	vineet.gupta, ast, andrii, daniel, martin.lau, eddyz87,
	yonghong.song, mason, ihor.solodrai

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> selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body

TL;DR: Commit message only: it cites arena_types to justify running arena
kfunc tests without a cast, but the address args are __ign (ARG_IGNORE) and
never checked against it. Conclusion looks right; the explanation may need
rewording.

> selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
>
> Some arena tests put the __BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST guard inside the
> function rather than around it, so without arena support the program
> still exists, its body is empty, and __success __retval(0) is met by
> doing nothing.  A reader sees
>
>   #584/1	 verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep:OK
>
> and concludes arena works.  That is worse than the tests which vanish
> entirely, since nothing hints anything is missing.
>
> The guard was never needed to compile those bodies: without the
> feature __arena is still btf_type_tag("arena"), which every compiler
> accepts.  What it avoided was the load failure that follows from no
> addr_space_cast being emitted — but only for a body that dereferences
> an arena pointer.  The arena kfuncs take one as a plain scalar:
>
>   static const struct bpf_reg_types arena_types = {
> 	  .types = { PTR_TO_ARENA, SCALAR_VALUE }
>
> so a test that only passes pointers to bpf_arena_{alloc,free,reserve}_pages()
> needs no cast and runs fine.
>
> test_loader checks skip_reason before it opens anything, so the body no
> longer has to be empty to stay loadable: drop all 19 in-body guards.
> They do not all need a tag in their place, which is why 19 guards go
> and 7 tags arrive:
>
>   6   dereference, so they get __skip_without_arena and report SKIP:
>       basic_alloc1{,_nosleep}, basic_alloc2{,_nosleep}, big_alloc1,
>       access_reserved
>   11  never dereference, so they get no tag and run for real instead
>       of reporting a vacuous OK
>   2   big_alloc3 and big_alloc4, already inside the file's outer
>       whole-program guard, so the in-body one was redundant
>
> The 7th tag goes on check_arena_arg_ret(), which has no guard at all
> and is the one verifier_arena subtest that really fails under a stock
> GCC.
>
> Measured on bpf-next with a stock bpf-gcc, test_progs before and after:
>
>   verifier_arena/basic_alloc1            OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena/basic_alloc2            OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena/basic_alloc2_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena_large/big_alloc1        OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena_large/access_reserved   OK   -> SKIP
>   verifier_arena/check_arena_arg_ret     FAIL -> SKIP
>
> the six that dereference stop claiming to pass, and check_arena_arg_ret
> stops failing.  The eleven that do not dereference stay OK, having gone
> from an empty body to actually running.
>
> Removing the guards exposes the arena_base() calls they were hiding.
> The previous patch made that macro opaque to GCC's -Warray-bounds, so
> nothing is needed here beyond the guards going away.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@linux.dev>

The paragraph that says "The arena kfuncs take one as a plain scalar" and
quotes arena_types: is that the check that actually lets these tests run
without an addr_space_cast?

bpf_arena_alloc_pages(), bpf_arena_free_pages() and
bpf_arena_reserve_pages() declare their address argument with the __ign
suffix in kernel/bpf/arena.c:

  __bpf_kfunc void *bpf_arena_alloc_pages(void *p__map, void *addr__ign, ...)
  __bpf_kfunc void bpf_arena_free_pages(void *p__map, void *ptr__ign, ...)
  __bpf_kfunc int bpf_arena_reserve_pages(void *p__map, void *ptr__ign, ...)

get_kfunc_arg_type() tests the __ign suffix first and returns ARG_IGNORE:

  if (is_kfunc_arg_ignore(meta->btf, &args[arg]) || is_kfunc_arg_implicit(meta, arg))
          return ARG_IGNORE;

and check_func_arg() returns for that type before any register type check:

  if (arg_type == ARG_IGNORE)
          return 0;

arena_types is only reached through compatible_reg_types[ARG_PTR_TO_ARENA],
which applies to kfunc parameters named with __arena or __arena__nullable and
to arena-tagged global subprog arguments.  resolve_btfids adds the arena type
tag for KF_ARENA_ARG2 but keeps the parameter name, so the __ign rule still
applies.

So the conclusion that no cast is needed looks right, but the address
argument is not checked against { PTR_TO_ARENA, SCALAR_VALUE } at all.  The
same reasoning applies to the tests that no longer have a guard or a tag:
basic_reserve1, basic_reserve2, reserve_twice, reserve_invalid_region and
arena_kfuncs_under_bpf_lock in verifier_arena.c, and
request_partially_reserved and free_reserved in verifier_arena_large.c.

Could the paragraph cite the addr__ign/ptr__ign parameters
(is_kfunc_arg_ignore() -> ARG_IGNORE) instead of arena_types?


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* Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 5/7] selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
  2026-10-28  0:46 ` bot+bpf-ci
@ 2026-10-28 16:25   ` Vineet Gupta
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Vineet Gupta @ 2026-10-28 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bot+bpf-ci, bpf
  Cc: ast, daniel, andrii, eddyz87, memxor, martin.lau, song,
	yonghong.song, jolsa, emil, ihor.solodrai, john.fastabend, shuah,
	linux-kernel, linux-kselftest, jose.marchesi, david.faust,
	martin.lau, mason

On 10/27/26 5:46 PM, bot+bpf-ci@kernel.org wrote:
>> selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
> TL;DR: Commit message only: it cites arena_types to justify running arena
> kfunc tests without a cast, but the address args are __ign (ARG_IGNORE) and
> never checked against it. Conclusion looks right; the explanation may need
> rewording.
>
>> selftests/bpf: don't report arena tests as passing with an empty body
>>
>> Some arena tests put the __BPF_FEATURE_ADDR_SPACE_CAST guard inside the
>> function rather than around it, so without arena support the program
>> still exists, its body is empty, and __success __retval(0) is met by
>> doing nothing.  A reader sees
>>
>>    #584/1	 verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep:OK
>>
>> and concludes arena works.  That is worse than the tests which vanish
>> entirely, since nothing hints anything is missing.
>>
>> The guard was never needed to compile those bodies: without the
>> feature __arena is still btf_type_tag("arena"), which every compiler
>> accepts.  What it avoided was the load failure that follows from no
>> addr_space_cast being emitted — but only for a body that dereferences
>> an arena pointer.  The arena kfuncs take one as a plain scalar:
>>
>>    static const struct bpf_reg_types arena_types = {
>> 	  .types = { PTR_TO_ARENA, SCALAR_VALUE }
>>
>> so a test that only passes pointers to bpf_arena_{alloc,free,reserve}_pages()
>> needs no cast and runs fine.
>>
>> test_loader checks skip_reason before it opens anything, so the body no
>> longer has to be empty to stay loadable: drop all 19 in-body guards.
>> They do not all need a tag in their place, which is why 19 guards go
>> and 7 tags arrive:
>>
>>    6   dereference, so they get __skip_without_arena and report SKIP:
>>        basic_alloc1{,_nosleep}, basic_alloc2{,_nosleep}, big_alloc1,
>>        access_reserved
>>    11  never dereference, so they get no tag and run for real instead
>>        of reporting a vacuous OK
>>    2   big_alloc3 and big_alloc4, already inside the file's outer
>>        whole-program guard, so the in-body one was redundant
>>
>> The 7th tag goes on check_arena_arg_ret(), which has no guard at all
>> and is the one verifier_arena subtest that really fails under a stock
>> GCC.
>>
>> Measured on bpf-next with a stock bpf-gcc, test_progs before and after:
>>
>>    verifier_arena/basic_alloc1            OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena/basic_alloc1_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena/basic_alloc2            OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena/basic_alloc2_nosleep    OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena_large/big_alloc1        OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena_large/access_reserved   OK   -> SKIP
>>    verifier_arena/check_arena_arg_ret     FAIL -> SKIP
>>
>> the six that dereference stop claiming to pass, and check_arena_arg_ret
>> stops failing.  The eleven that do not dereference stay OK, having gone
>> from an empty body to actually running.
>>
>> Removing the guards exposes the arena_base() calls they were hiding.
>> The previous patch made that macro opaque to GCC's -Warray-bounds, so
>> nothing is needed here beyond the guards going away.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@linux.dev>
> The paragraph that says "The arena kfuncs take one as a plain scalar" and
> quotes arena_types: is that the check that actually lets these tests run
> without an addr_space_cast?
>
> bpf_arena_alloc_pages(), bpf_arena_free_pages() and
> bpf_arena_reserve_pages() declare their address argument with the __ign
> suffix in kernel/bpf/arena.c:
>
>    __bpf_kfunc void *bpf_arena_alloc_pages(void *p__map, void *addr__ign, ...)
>    __bpf_kfunc void bpf_arena_free_pages(void *p__map, void *ptr__ign, ...)
>    __bpf_kfunc int bpf_arena_reserve_pages(void *p__map, void *ptr__ign, ...)
>
> get_kfunc_arg_type() tests the __ign suffix first and returns ARG_IGNORE:
>
>    if (is_kfunc_arg_ignore(meta->btf, &args[arg]) || is_kfunc_arg_implicit(meta, arg))
>            return ARG_IGNORE;
>
> and check_func_arg() returns for that type before any register type check:
>
>    if (arg_type == ARG_IGNORE)
>            return 0;
>
> arena_types is only reached through compatible_reg_types[ARG_PTR_TO_ARENA],
> which applies to kfunc parameters named with __arena or __arena__nullable and
> to arena-tagged global subprog arguments.  resolve_btfids adds the arena type
> tag for KF_ARENA_ARG2 but keeps the parameter name, so the __ign rule still
> applies.
>
> So the conclusion that no cast is needed looks right, but the address
> argument is not checked against { PTR_TO_ARENA, SCALAR_VALUE } at all.  The
> same reasoning applies to the tests that no longer have a guard or a tag:
> basic_reserve1, basic_reserve2, reserve_twice, reserve_invalid_region and
> arena_kfuncs_under_bpf_lock in verifier_arena.c, and
> request_partially_reserved and free_reserved in verifier_arena_large.c.
>
> Could the paragraph cite the addr__ign/ptr__ign parameters
> (is_kfunc_arg_ignore() -> ARG_IGNORE) instead of arena_types?

Yes this will be fixed in v2.

Thx,
-Vineet

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> CI run summary: https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/actions/runs/40608355234


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