[PATCH bpf-next v5 0/4] bpf: support to track BPF_JNE

From: Menglong Dong
Date: Tue Dec 19 2023 - 08:50:53 EST


For now, the reg bounds is not handled for BPF_JNE case, which can cause
the failure of following case:

/* The type of "a" is u32 */
if (a > 0 && a < 100) {
/* the range of the register for a is [0, 99], not [1, 99],
* and will cause the following error:
*
* invalid zero-sized read
*
* as a can be 0.
*/
bpf_skb_store_bytes(skb, xx, xx, a, 0);
}

In the code above, "a > 0" will be compiled to "if a == 0 goto xxx". In
the TRUE branch, the dst_reg will be marked as known to 0. However, in the
fallthrough(FALSE) branch, the dst_reg will not be handled, which makes
the [min, max] for a is [0, 99], not [1, 99].

In the 1st patch, we reduce the range of the dst reg if the src reg is a
const and is exactly the edge of the dst reg For BPF_JNE.

In the 2nd patch, we remove reduplicated s32 casting in "crafted_cases".

In the 3rd patch, we just activate the test case for this logic in
range_cond(), which is committed by Andrii in the
commit 8863238993e2 ("selftests/bpf: BPF register range bounds tester").

In the 4th patch, we convert the case above to a testcase and add it to
verifier_bounds.c.

Changes since v4:
- add the 2nd patch
- add "{U32, U32, {0, U32_MAX}, {U32_MAX, U32_MAX}}" that we missed in the
3rd patch
- add some comments to the function that we add in the 4th patch
- add reg_not_equal_const() in the 4th patch

Changes since v3:
- do some adjustment to the crafted cases that we added in the 2nd patch
- add the 3rd patch

Changes since v2:
- fix a typo in the subject of the 1st patch
- add some comments to the 1st patch, as Eduard advised
- add some cases to the "crafted_cases"

Changes since v1:
- simplify the code in the 1st patch
- introduce the 2nd patch for the testing

Menglong Dong (4):
bpf: make the verifier tracks the "not equal" for regs
selftests/bpf: remove reduplicated s32 casting in "crafted_cases"
selftests/bpf: activate the OP_NE logic in range_cond()
selftests/bpf: add testcase to verifier_bounds.c for BPF_JNE

kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 38 +++++++++++-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/reg_bounds.c | 27 +++++---
.../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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