From: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>
To: Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Cc: 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>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
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 09:41:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871pe5y5pi.fsf@fau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260617-f01-11-stack-nospec-slot-index-v1-1-e3a080b0cd7e@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> (Nuoqi Gui's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:57:55 +0800")
Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> writes:
> 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>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index 2abc79dbf281c..50e80dbbc1784 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -3479,7 +3479,8 @@ static int check_stack_write_fixed_off(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
> bool sanitize = reg && is_spillable_regtype(reg->type);
>
> for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
> - u8 type = state->stack[spi].slot_type[i];
> + u8 type = state->stack[spi].slot_type[(slot - i) %
> + BPF_REG_SIZE];
>
> if (type != STACK_MISC && type != STACK_ZERO) {
> sanitize = true;
Acked-by: Luis Gerhorst <luis.gerhorst@fau.de>
I have briefly checked the other uses of slot_type[i] and they look
fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-17 7:48 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 [this message]
2026-06-17 11:08 ` Jiayuan Chen
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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