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From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
To: Siddharth Chintamaneni <sidchintamaneni@gmail.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, 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>,
	Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>,
	rachelmenge@gmail.com, hargar@microsoft.com, apais@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/2] bpf: allow terminal gotox instructions
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:21:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <apVxxDcvCSzlw2FG@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260830073125.360934-1-sidchintamaneni@gmail.com>

On 26/08/30 07:31AM, Siddharth Chintamaneni wrote:
> check_subprogs() treats gotox as a direct jump and validates its reserved
> zero offset. When gotox is the final instruction, this produces a
> synthetic successor one instruction past the end of the subprogram and
> rejects an otherwise valid program.
> 
> Skip direct-offset validation for gotox and accept it as a
> non-fallthrough terminal instruction. Its actual targets remain validated
> from the instruction-array jump table during CFG construction.

Thanks, the fix looks correct.

I have comments to the selftest, so expecting v2. When you resend it,
please capitalize "allow" in this commit's title.

Reviewed-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Chintamaneni <sidchintamaneni@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> index e036ae20bf6b..44195ec1445d 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> @@ -3087,6 +3087,8 @@ static int check_subprogs(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
>  			subprog[cur_subprog].exit_idx = i;
>  			goto next;
>  		}
> +		if (insn_is_gotox(&insn[i]))
> +			goto next;
>  		off = i + bpf_jmp_offset(&insn[i]) + 1;
>  		if (off < subprog_start || off >= subprog_end) {
>  			verbose(env, "jump out of range from insn %d to %d\n", i, off);
> @@ -3106,7 +3108,8 @@ static int check_subprogs(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
>  			 */
>  			if (code != (BPF_JMP | BPF_EXIT) &&
>  			    code != (BPF_JMP32 | BPF_JA) &&
> -			    code != (BPF_JMP | BPF_JA)) {
> +			    code != (BPF_JMP | BPF_JA) &&
> +			    !insn_is_gotox(&insn[i])) {
>  				verbose(env, "last insn is not an exit or jmp\n");
>  				bpf_diag_program_structure(
>  					env, i, "subprogram can fall through",
> 
> base-commit: cd35e1b10182c42b4ae31ee49119463b17d8ba7f
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-31 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-30  7:31 [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/2] bpf: allow terminal gotox instructions Siddharth Chintamaneni
2026-08-30  7:31 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add compiler-layout terminal gotox test Siddharth Chintamaneni
2026-08-31 12:34   ` Anton Protopopov
2026-08-30  7:45 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/2] bpf: allow terminal gotox instructions sashiko-bot
2026-08-30  8:34 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-08-31 12:21 ` Anton Protopopov [this message]

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