Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/5] selftests/bpf: add a test for a bug in liveness-based pruning

From: Daniel Borkmann via iovisor-dev <iovisor-dev-9jONkmmOlFHEE9lA1F8Ukti2O/[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:42:51 +0200

On 08/23/2017 04:09 PM, Edward Cree wrote:
> Writes in straight-line code should not prevent reads from propagating
>   along jumps.  With current verifier code, the jump from 3 to 5 does not
>   add a read mark on 3:R0 (because 5:R0 has a write mark), meaning that
>   the jump from 1 to 3 gets pruned as safe even though R0 is NOT_INIT.
>
> Verifier output:
> 0: (61) r2 = *(u32 *)(r1 +0)
> 1: (35) if r2 >= 0x0 goto pc+1
>   R1=ctx(id=0,off=0,imm=0) R2=inv(id=0,umax_value=4294967295,var_off=(0x0; 0xffffffff)) R10=fp0
> 2: (b7) r0 = 0
> 3: (35) if r2 >= 0x0 goto pc+1
>   R0=inv0 R1=ctx(id=0,off=0,imm=0) R2=inv(id=0,umax_value=4294967295,var_off=(0x0; 0xffffffff)) R10=fp0
> 4: (b7) r0 = 0
> 5: (95) exit
>
> from 3 to 5: safe
>
> from 1 to 3: safe
> processed 8 insns, stack depth 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree-s/n/[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>