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From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
	Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: Fix stack slot index in nospec checks
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:08:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14d43777-e979-42b4-a9ec-cc5d46f4e01e@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260617-f01-11-stack-nospec-slot-index-v1-1-e3a080b0cd7e@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>


On 6/17/26 12:57 AM, Nuoqi Gui wrote:
> check_stack_write_fixed_off() computes the byte slot for a fixed-offset
> stack write as -off - 1, and records each written byte in slot_type[] with
> (slot - i) % BPF_REG_SIZE.
>
> The Spectre v4 sanitization pre-check uses slot_type[i] instead. For a
> 4-byte write at fp-8 after the lower half of fp-8 has been zeroed, the
> pre-check scans bytes 0..3 and sees STACK_ZERO while the actual write updates
> bytes 7..4. That can leave the second half-slot write without nospec_result
> even though the bytes being overwritten still require sanitization.
>
> Use the same slot index in the sanitization pre-check that the write path uses
> when updating slot_type[].
>
> Fixes: e4f4db47794c ("bpf: Fix pointer-leak due to insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation")
> Signed-off-by: Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>


I think the Fixes tag should be  2039f26f3aca ("bpf: Fix leakage due to 
insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation") ?

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-17 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-16 16:57 [PATCH bpf 0/2] bpf: Fix stack slot index for Spectre v4 nospec checks Nuoqi Gui
2026-06-16 16:57 ` [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: Fix stack slot index in " Nuoqi Gui
2026-06-16 21:11   ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-06-17  7:41   ` Luis Gerhorst
2026-06-17 11:08   ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-06-16 16:57 ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Cover stack nospec slot indexing Nuoqi Gui
2026-06-16 21:14   ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-06-17  8:45   ` Luis Gerhorst

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