Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: fix a verifier failure with xor

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Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 3:06 PM John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It is a hold-out from when we went from having a 32-bit var-off
> > and a 64-bit var-off. I'll send a patch its clumsy and not needed
> > for sure.
> 
> please follow up with such patches.

Great will go ahead and do this.

> 
> > The other subtle piece here we should clean up. Its possible
> > to have a const in the subreg but a non-const in the wider
> > 64-bit reg. In this case we skip marking the 32-bit subreg
> > as known and rely on the 64-bit case to handle it. But, we
> > may if the 64-bit reg is not const fall through and update
> > the 64-bit bounds. Then later we call __update_reg32_bounds()
> > and this will use the var_off, previously updated. The
> > 32-bit bounds are then updated using this var_off so they
> > are correct even if less precise than we might expect. I
> > believe xor is correct here as well.
> 
> makes sense. I think it's correct now, but I agree that cleaning
> this up would be good as well.
> 
> > I need to send another patch with a comment for the BTF_ID
> > types. I'll add some test cases for this 64-bit non-const and
> > subreg const so we don't break it later. I'm on the fence
> > if we should tighten the bounds there as well. I'll see if
> > it helps readability to do explicit 32-bit const handling
> > there. I had it in one of the early series with the 32-bit
> > bounds handling, but dropped for what we have now.
> 
> Not following. Why is this related to btf_id ?

Its not related at all. I was just looking at patches on my
stack here and I have unrelated comment only patch to clarify
PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL and PTR_TO_BTF_ID.

> 
> > LGTM, but I see a couple follow up patches with tests, comments,
> > and dropping the duplicate ALU op I'll try to do those Friday, unless
> > someone else does them first.
> 
> yes. please :)

will do.

> 
> I've pushed this set to bpf-next in the meantime.
> Thanks everyone!





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