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From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	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: [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add reg-invariants test for speculative pointer arithmetic
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:58:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819125840.286434-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819125840.286434-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>

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>
---
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c     | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c
index 1a273e416fed..df8d5309657e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c
@@ -2267,6 +2267,47 @@ __naked void deduce64_from_32_wrapping_32bit(void)
 	: __clobber_all);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Unprivileged variable pointer arithmetic on a PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE whose
+ * offset collapses to a constant. The Spectre-v1 speculative path snapshots
+ * the pointer while its r32 has just been blanked but its offset not yet
+ * synced; the following register move used to trip reg_bounds_sanity_check()
+ * ("const subreg tnum out of sync with range bounds"). With
+ * BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS that violation turns into a load failure, so the
+ * unprivileged program must still load.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success __success_unpriv
+__flag(BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS)
+__naked void spec_ptr_alu_const_offset(void)
+{
+	asm volatile ("							\
+	call %[bpf_ktime_get_ns];					\
+	*(u64*)(r10 - 16) = r0;						\
+	r1 = 0;								\
+	*(u64*)(r10 - 8) = r1;						\
+	r2 = r10;							\
+	r2 += -8;							\
+	r1 = %[map_hash_8b] ll;						\
+	call %[bpf_map_lookup_elem];					\
+	if r0 == 0 goto l0_%=;						\
+	r1 = *(u64*)(r10 - 16);						\
+	r2 = 0x40000000;						\
+	if r1 > r2 goto l0_%=;						\
+	if r1 s> 1 goto l0_%=;		/* r1 in [0, 1] */		\
+	r0 += r1;			/* ptr += bounded scalar */	\
+	r9 = r0;			/* used to trip the warning */	\
+	*(u8*)(r0 + 0) = r1;						\
+l0_%=:	r0 = 0;								\
+	exit;								\
+	"
+	:
+	: __imm(bpf_ktime_get_ns),
+	  __imm(bpf_map_lookup_elem),
+	  __imm_addr(map_hash_8b)
+	: __clobber_all);
+}
+
 /* Check that range_within() compares cnum ranges, not min/max projections. */
 SEC("socket")
 __failure __msg("div by zero")
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-19 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-19 12:58 [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: fix REG INVARIANTS VIOLATION on speculative pointer arithmetic Jiayuan Chen
2026-08-19 12:58 ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-08-19 13:49   ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add reg-invariants test for " bot+bpf-ci
2026-08-19 13:06 ` [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: fix REG INVARIANTS VIOLATION on " sashiko-bot

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