From: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
To: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>,
Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>,
Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>,
Daniel Wade <danjwade95@gmail.com>,
KaFai Wan <kafai.wan@linux.dev>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add reg-invariants test for speculative pointer arithmetic
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:26:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502518ed7ac143e2d9e4f588ab33c5c7c1566b84.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819125840.286434-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
On Wed, 2026-08-19 at 20:58 +0800, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> An unprivileged socket filter does variable pointer arithmetic on a
> PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE whose offset collapses to a constant. The Spectre-v1
> speculative path used to snapshot the pointer with a const offset and an
> unbounded r32, which tripped reg_bounds_sanity_check() on the following
> register move.
>
> Mark the test __success_unpriv (the speculative path only runs
> unprivileged) and flag it BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS so the invariant
> violation becomes a hard load failure. The unprivileged run fails without
> the verifier fix and passes with it:
>
> verifier_bounds/spec_ptr_alu_const_offset @unpriv:FAIL # without fix
> verifier_bounds/spec_ptr_alu_const_offset @unpriv:OK # with fix
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
> ---
Tested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-19 12:58 [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: fix REG INVARIANTS VIOLATION on " Jiayuan Chen
2026-08-19 12:58 ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add reg-invariants test for " Jiayuan Chen
2026-08-19 13:49 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-08-20 18:26 ` Eduard Zingerman [this message]
2026-08-20 18:25 ` [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: fix REG INVARIANTS VIOLATION on " Eduard Zingerman
2026-08-20 18:45 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-08-20 18:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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