[PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Test missing caller stack argument slots

From: Weiming Shi

Date: Wed Oct 07 2026 - 13:43:03 EST


Exercise the path where a static seven-argument subprogram has
unreliable BTF and is called through a bridge with only one initialized
outgoing stack argument. The callee expects two stack arguments, but the
unreliable-BTF path skips check_outgoing_stack_args().

Without the fix, the second r11 load copies an 80-byte bpf_reg_state from
stack_arg_regs[1], past the caller's one-element array. Expect the
verifier to reject that load at offset 16.

The fix also rejects the existing uninitialized-stack-argument test
before the later unreadable-register check. Update that test's expected
diagnostic accordingly.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../bpf/progs/verifier_stack_arg_order.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_stack_arg_order.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_stack_arg_order.c
index c9fe4857d..23c7515ea 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_stack_arg_order.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_stack_arg_order.c
@@ -129,6 +129,16 @@ static void subprog_bad_ptr_7args(long *a, int b, int c, int d, int e, int f, in
);
}

+__noinline __used __naked
+static void subprog_call_bad_ptr_7args(void)
+{
+ asm volatile ("*(u64 *)(r11 - 8) = 0;"
+ "call subprog_bad_ptr_7args;"
+ "exit;"
+ ::: __clobber_all
+ );
+}
+
SEC("tc")
__description("stack_arg: read without caller write")
__failure
@@ -151,7 +161,7 @@ __naked void stack_arg_read_without_write_1(void)
SEC("tc")
__description("stack_arg: read with not-initialized caller write")
__failure
-__msg("R0 !read_ok")
+__msg("invalid read from uninitialized stack arg off 8")
__btf_func_path("btf__verifier_stack_arg_order.bpf.o")
__naked void stack_arg_read_without_write_2(void)
{
@@ -170,6 +180,27 @@ __naked void stack_arg_read_without_write_2(void)
);
}

+SEC("tc")
+__description("stack_arg: unreliable callee with too few stack args")
+__failure
+__msg("invalid read from uninitialized stack arg off 16")
+__btf_func_path("btf__verifier_stack_arg_order.bpf.o")
+__naked void stack_arg_read_with_short_bridge_write(void)
+{
+ asm volatile ("r1 = 0;"
+ "r2 = 0;"
+ "r3 = 0;"
+ "r4 = 0;"
+ "r5 = 0;"
+ "*(u64 *)(r11 - 8) = 0;"
+ "*(u64 *)(r11 - 16) = 0;"
+ "call subprog_bad_ptr_7args;"
+ "call subprog_call_bad_ptr_7args;"
+ "exit;"
+ ::: __clobber_all
+ );
+}
+
#else

SEC("socket")
--
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