On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 13:18 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: [...] > > the 32bit_sign_ext will indicate the register r1 is from 32bit sign extension, so once w1 range is refined, the upper 32bit can be recalculated. > > > > Can we avoid 32bit_sign_exit in the above? Let us say we have > > r1 = ...; R1_w=scalar(smin=0xffffffff80000000,smax=0x7fffffff), R6_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=32,var_off=(0x0; 0x3f)) > > if w1 < w6 goto pc+4 > > where r1 achieves is trange through other means than 32bit sign extension e.g. > > call bpf_get_prandom_u32; > > r1 = r0; > > r1 <<= 32; > > call bpf_get_prandom_u32; > > r1 |= r0; /* r1 is 64bit random number */ > > r2 = 0xffffffff80000000 ll; > > if r1 s< r2 goto end; > > if r1 s> 0x7fffFFFF goto end; /* after this r1 range (smin=0xffffffff80000000,smax=0x7fffffff) */ > > if w1 < w6 goto end; > > ... <=== w1 range [0,31] > > <=== but if we have upper bit as 0xffffffff........, then the range will be > > <=== [0xffffffff0000001f, 0xffffffff00000000] and this range is not possible compared to original r1 range. > > Just rephrasing for myself... > Because smin=0xffffffff80000000 if upper 32-bit == 0xffffFFFF > then lower 32-bit has to be negative. > and because we're doing unsigned compare w1 < w6 > and w6 is less than 80000000 > we can conclude that upper bits are zero. > right? Sorry, could you please explain this a bit more. The w1 < w6 comparison only infers information about sub-registers. So the range for the full register r1 would still have 0xffffFFFF for upper bits => r1 += r2 would fail. What do I miss? The non-cpuv4 version of the program does non-sign-extended load: 14: (61) r1 = *(u32 *)(r0 +0) ; R0=rdonly_mem(id=3,ref_obj_id=2,sz=4) R1_w=scalar(smin=0,smax=umax=0xffffffff,var_off=(0x0; 0xffffffff)) 15: (ae) if w1 < w6 goto pc+4 ; R1_w=scalar(smin=0,smax=umax=0xffffffff,var_off=(0x0; 0xffffffff)) R6=scalar(id=1,smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=32,var_off=(0x0; 0x3f)) Tbh, it looks like LLVM deleted some info that could not be recovered in this instance. > > > <=== so the only possible way for upper 32bit range is 0. > > end: > > > > Therefore, looks like we do not need 32bit_sign_exit. Just from > > R1_w=scalar(smin=0xffffffff80000000,smax=0x7fffffff) > > with refined range in true path of 'if w1 < w6 goto ...', > > we can further refine w1 range properly. > > yep. looks like it. > We can hard code this special logic for this specific smin/smax pair, > but the gut feel is that we can generalize it further. >