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([2620:10d:c090:500::3:93b1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-2b6c2de1f29sm16004104eec.15.2026.01.20.09.56.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:56:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00d9e1ea7e4eef7a7891200a03e99083cdbd066c.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/2] bpf: Fix memory access flags in helper prototypes From: Eduard Zingerman To: Zesen Liu , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , John Fastabend , KP Singh , Stanislav Fomichev , Hao Luo , Jiri Olsa , Matt Bobrowski , Steven Rostedt , Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Daniel Xu Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Shuran Liu , Peili Gao , Haoran Ni Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:56:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20260120-helper_proto-v3-1-27b0180b4e77@gmail.com> References: <20260120-helper_proto-v3-0-27b0180b4e77@gmail.com> <20260120-helper_proto-v3-1-27b0180b4e77@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.2 (3.58.2-1.fc43) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 2026-01-20 at 16:28 +0800, Zesen Liu wrote: > After commit 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tr= acking"), > the verifier started relying on the access type flags in helper > function prototypes to perform memory access optimizations. >=20 > Currently, several helper functions utilizing ARG_PTR_TO_MEM lack the > corresponding MEM_RDONLY or MEM_WRITE flags. This omission causes the > verifier to incorrectly assume that the buffer contents are unchanged > across the helper call. Consequently, the verifier may optimize away > subsequent reads based on this wrong assumption, leading to correctness > issues. >=20 > For bpf_get_stack_proto_raw_tp, the original MEM_RDONLY was incorrect > since the helper writes to the buffer. Change it to ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM > which correctly indicates write access to potentially uninitialized memor= y. >=20 > Similar issues were recently addressed for specific helpers in commit > ac44dcc788b9 ("bpf: Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffe= r") > and commit 2eb7648558a7 ("bpf: Specify access type of bpf_sysctl_get_name= args"). >=20 > Fix these prototypes by adding the correct memory access flags. >=20 > Fixes: 37cce22dbd51 ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking= ") > Co-developed-by: Shuran Liu > Signed-off-by: Shuran Liu > Co-developed-by: Peili Gao > Signed-off-by: Peili Gao > Co-developed-by: Haoran Ni > Signed-off-by: Haoran Ni > Signed-off-by: Zesen Liu > --- Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman