On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 11:04 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> As pointed out by Ilya and explained in the new comment, there's a
> discrepancy between x86 and BPF CMPXCHG semantics: BPF always loads
> the value from memory into r0, while x86 only does so when r0 and the
> value in memory are different. The same issue affects s390.
>
> At first this might sound like pure semantics, but it makes a real
> difference when the comparison is 32-bit, since the load will
> zero-extend r0/rax.
>
> The fix is to explicitly zero-extend rax after doing such a
> CMPXCHG. Since this problem affects multiple archs, this is done in
> the verifier by patching in a BPF_ZEXT_REG instruction after every
> 32-bit cmpxchg. Any archs that don't need such manual zero-extension
> can do a look-ahead with insn_is_zext to skip the unnecessary mov.
>
> Reported-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 5ffa25502b5a ("bpf: Add instructions for atomic_[cmp]xchg")
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# on s390, bpf-next + 83a2881903f3 + this commit
Tested-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
