Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 00/19] BPF verifier rotating log

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On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 12:42 AM Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch set changes BPF verifier log behavior to behave as a rotating log,
> by default. If user-supplied log buffer is big enough to contain entire
> verifier log output, there is no effective difference. But where previously
> user supplied too small log buffer and would get -ENOSPC error result and the
> beginning part of the verifier log, now there will be no error and user will
> get ending part of verifier log filling up user-supplied log buffer.  Which
> is, in absolute majority of cases, is exactly what's useful, relevant, and
> what users want and need, as the ending of the verifier log is containing
> details of verifier failure and relevant state that got us to that failure. So
> this rotating mode is made default, but for some niche advanced debugging
> scenarios it's possible to request old behavior by specifying additional
> BPF_LOG_FIXED (8) flag.

I just ran selftest/bpf/test_verifier_log on top of bpf-next which now
fails with:

Test log_level 0...
Test log_size < 128...
ERROR: Program load returned: ret:-1/errno:28, expected ret:-1/errno:22

Seems like these tests are now superseded by test_progs?




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