As reported by Jose E. Marchesi in off-list discussion, GCC and LLVM generate slightly different code for dummy_st_ops_success/test_1(): SEC("struct_ops/test_1") int BPF_PROG(test_1, struct bpf_dummy_ops_state *state) { int ret; if (!state) return 0xf2f3f4f5; ret = state->val; state->val = 0x5a; return ret; } GCC-generated LLVM-generated ---------------------------- --------------------------- 0: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0x0) 0: w0 = -0xd0c0b0b 1: if r1 == 0x0 goto 5f 1: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0x0) 2: r0 = *(s32 *)(r1 + 0x0) 2: if r1 == 0x0 goto 6f 3: *(u32 *)(r1 + 0x0) = 0x5a 3: r0 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 0x0) 4: exit 4: w2 = 0x5a 5: r0 = -0xd0c0b0b 5: *(u32 *)(r1 + 0x0) = r2 6: exit 6: exit If the 'state' argument is not marked as nullable in net/bpf/bpf_dummy_struct_ops.c, the verifier would assume that 'r1 == 0x0' is never true: - for the GCC version, this means that instructions #5-6 would be marked as dead and removed; - for the LLVM version, all instructions would be marked as live. The test dummy_st_ops/dummy_init_ret_value actually sets the 'state' parameter to NULL. Therefore, when the 'state' argument is not marked as nullable, the GCC-generated version of the code would trigger a NULL pointer dereference at instruction #3. This patch updates the test_1() test case to always follow a shape similar to the GCC-generated version above, in order to verify whether the 'state' nullability is marked correctly. Reported-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../selftests/bpf/progs/dummy_st_ops_success.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dummy_st_ops_success.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dummy_st_ops_success.c index 1efa746c25dc..cc7b69b001aa 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dummy_st_ops_success.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/dummy_st_ops_success.c @@ -11,8 +11,17 @@ int BPF_PROG(test_1, struct bpf_dummy_ops_state *state) { int ret; - if (!state) - return 0xf2f3f4f5; + /* Check that 'state' nullable status is detected correctly. + * If 'state' argument would be assumed non-null by verifier + * the code below would be deleted as dead (which it shouldn't). + * Hide it from the compiler behind 'asm' block to avoid + * unnecessary optimizations. + */ + asm volatile ( + "if %[state] != 0 goto +2;" + "r0 = 0xf2f3f4f5;" + "exit;" + ::[state]"p"(state)); ret = state->val; state->val = 0x5a; -- 2.34.1