Re: CVE-2023-52920: bpf: support non-r10 register spill/fill to/from stack in precision tracking

From: Eduard Zingerman
Date: Fri Nov 08 2024 - 00:17:15 EST


On Fri, 2024-11-08 at 12:42 +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
> Hi Andrii and Eduard,

Hi Shung-Hsi,

> I'm trying to determine the security implication of CVE-2023-52920, or
> more specifically, what does commit 41f6f64e6999 ("bpf: support non-r10
> register spill/fill to/from stack in precision tracking") fix.
> Superficially this looks more like an improvement to the verifier.

It is my understanding as well, that this commit is an optimization to
avoid some precision marks. I do not see any security implications.

Thanks,
Eduard

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