[PATCH bpf-next v3 05/12] selftests/bpf: Cover the low-32 link for zero-extending movs
From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 12:26:22 EST
Twelve programs, one per decision the previous patch makes:
- zext_mov_narrow_src: narrowing the source reaches the destination
- zext_sync_makes_member_const: and over all 64 bits, since the member
is the zero-extension
- zext_narrow_dst_keeps_base: the reverse must not happen
- zext_u32_src_is_full_link: a provably-u32 source still propagates
- zext_self_mov_no_link: a self-mov mints no id
- zext_chain_drops_link: a second 32-bit mov drops the link
- zext_no_sync_between_mixed_kinds: differing kinds do not reach each
other, in either direction
- zext_no_sync_from_subreg_base: nor does a member reach a base whose
high half it knows nothing about
- zext_sync_between_two_subregs: two low-32 links on one base do
- zext_unlinked_path_stays_reachable: one unlinked path keeps the
guarded div reachable
- zext_mov_breaks_linked_src: forming the link drops the source's own
- zext_sync_keeps_narrower_member: narrowing the base does not widen a
member that already proved itself tighter
- zext_contradiction_keeps_range_sane: a contradiction leaves no empty
range behind, under BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS so the violation is a
load failure rather than something only dmesg sees
Written in asm so the bytecode is the same whichever compiler built the
suite.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: was v2 4/13.
- renames and commentary follow patch 4; zext_chain_keeps_link becomes
zext_chain_drops_link, and two dump expectations change because the
link now renders as "%+d" rather than v2's ".lo32".
- new: zext_sync_makes_member_const, for the 64-bit constant a helper
argument depends on, which no other test asserted
- new: zext_sync_keeps_narrower_member
- new: zext_contradiction_keeps_range_sane, guarding patch 4's
empty-range fix. It discriminates at patches 4-7 and not at the tip,
where patch 8 prunes the branch; patch 4's message says so.
.../bpf/progs/verifier_linked_scalars.c | 348 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 348 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_linked_scalars.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_linked_scalars.c
index 5a120fc7c1e7..815160e56942 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_linked_scalars.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_linked_scalars.c
@@ -710,4 +710,352 @@ l_exit_%=: \
: __clobber_all);
}
+/*
+ * A 32-bit mov from a wide source shares only the low 32 bits. Narrowing the
+ * source must reach the destination through that link.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__naked void zext_mov_narrow_src(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ if w6 != 0 goto 1f; /* narrows r6, propagates to r7 */ \
+ if w7 == 0 goto 1f; \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Pinning the base's low 32 bits makes the member a known constant over all
+ * 64, not merely over its low half: the member is the zero-extension, so its
+ * high half is zero by construction. Checked with a 64-bit compare, which
+ * zext_mov_narrow_src above does not do. Code that needs a provable constant
+ * -- a helper argument such as bpf_rdonly_cast()'s btf_id, say -- depends on
+ * this and not on the 32-bit form.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__naked void zext_sync_makes_member_const(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ if w6 != 0 goto 1f; /* narrows r6's low 32 to 0 */ \
+ if r7 == 0 goto 1f; /* r7 is 0 over all 64 bits */ \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A contradiction between the two sides must not leave an empty range behind.
+ * The branch really is dead -- (u32)7 is not 5 -- but an empty range is a
+ * shape nothing downstream handles.
+ *
+ * The mod by a known-zero divisor validates r7 without recomputing it, so an
+ * empty range would survive into the check; under BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS
+ * that is a load failure, which is what __success asserts. A later patch
+ * prunes this branch, so the test pins this patch standing alone.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__flag(BPF_F_TEST_REG_INVARIANTS)
+__naked void zext_contradiction_keeps_range_sane(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ if w7 != 5 goto 1f; /* r7 == 5 */ \
+ if r6 != 7 goto 1f; /* r6 is wide, so this is explored */ \
+ r9 = 0; \
+ r7 %%= r9; /* validates r7 without touching it */ \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The reverse does not hold: narrowing the low-32 link says nothing about the
+ * base's high bits, so r6 must stay unknown and the div stays reachable.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure __msg("div by zero")
+__naked void zext_narrow_dst_keeps_base(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ if r7 != 0 goto 1f; /* narrows r7, must not propagate to r6 */ \
+ if r6 == 0 goto 1f; /* taken only if r6 wrongly narrowed */ \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A provably-u32 source takes the full-equality path, not the low-32 one:
+ * narrowing the destination must reach the source.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__naked void zext_u32_src_is_full_link(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ w6 = w0; /* r6 provably u32 */ \
+ w7 = w6; /* full link, not low-32 */ \
+ if r7 > 10 goto 1f; /* narrows r7, propagates to r6 */ \
+ if r6 > 10 goto 2f; \
+ goto 1f; \
+2: \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A self-mov has nothing to link, so it must not mint an id for r6.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success __log_level(2)
+/* an id would print as R6=scalar(id=N+0,smin=... */
+__msg("(bc) w6 = w6 {{.*}} R6=scalar(smin=0,")
+__naked void zext_self_mov_no_link(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ r6 ^= 0; /* drop the id */ \
+ w6 = w6; /* forms no link */ \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A second 32-bit mov drops the link: assign_scalar_id_before_mov() clears
+ * any link kind on the source, and the zero-extending link is one, so
+ * narrowing the base no longer reaches the end of the chain. Same rule as
+ * scalars_double_add above -- a delta of zero is not special.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure
+__msg("div by zero")
+__naked void zext_chain_drops_link(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ w8 = w7; /* the 2nd mov breaks the link */ \
+ if w6 != 0 goto 1f; /* narrows r6, does not reach r8 */ \
+ if w8 == 0 goto 1f; \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Two members of one id set carrying different link kinds do not propagate
+ * to each other: r7 is (u32)base and r8 is base + 3, and the deltas were
+ * added at different ALU widths, so narrowing r8 says nothing about r7.
+ * sync_linked_regs() declines the pair on the kinds before the deltas are
+ * ever consulted. Note neither register is the base -- that is r6.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure __msg("div by zero")
+__naked void zext_no_sync_between_mixed_kinds(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ r8 = r6; \
+ r8 += 3; /* r8 is BPF_REG_LINK_FULL, r7 is BPF_REG_LINK_ZEXT */ \
+ if r8 != 3 goto 1f; /* must not propagate to r7 */ \
+ if w7 == 0 goto 1f; \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * ... and here the low-32 link is the branch register, so the register
+ * carrying the delta must not be narrowed either.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure __msg("div by zero")
+__naked void zext_no_sync_from_subreg_base(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ r8 = r6; \
+ r8 += 3; /* delta on r8 */ \
+ if w7 != 0 goto 1f; /* must not propagate to r8 */ \
+ if r8 == 3 goto 1f; /* taken only if r8 wrongly narrowed */ \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Two low-32 links on the same base do propagate to each other: both are the
+ * zero-extension of the same low 32 bits.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__naked void zext_sync_between_two_subregs(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ w7 = w6; /* two links on one base */ \
+ w8 = w6; \
+ if w7 != 0 goto 1f; /* narrows r7, propagates to r8 */ \
+ if w8 == 0 goto 1f; \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A narrowing of the base must not widen a member that has already proved
+ * itself tighter. The low-32 link does not propagate back to the base, so the
+ * base can be the wider of the two; rebuilding the member from it has to
+ * refine what the member knows rather than replace it.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__success
+__naked void zext_sync_keeps_narrower_member(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r0 <<= 32; \
+ r6 |= r0; /* r6 = full 64-bit unknown */ \
+ w7 = w6; /* forms the link */ \
+ if w7 > 7 goto 1f; /* r7 low 32 bits in [0, 7] */ \
+ if r6 > 100 goto 1f; /* narrows the base, syncs to r7 */ \
+ if r7 <= 7 goto 1f; /* still provable if r7 kept [0, 7] */ \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Only one of the two paths links r7 to r8, so narrowing w8 reaches r7 on one
+ * and not the other, and the div stays reachable. This pins the outcome, not
+ * any one check: the two states differ in several ways, so no single
+ * regsafe() test is load-bearing here.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure __msg("div by zero")
+__flag(BPF_F_TEST_STATE_FREQ)
+__naked void zext_unlinked_path_stays_reachable(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ r6 &= 1; \
+ if r6 >= 1 goto 2f; \
+ /* explored first: r7 is a low-32 link of r8 */ \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r8 = r0; \
+ w7 = w8; /* forms the link */ \
+ goto 1f; \
+2: \
+ /* runtime path: r7 unrelated to r8 */ \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r8 = r0; \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ w7 = w0; /* no link here */ \
+1: \
+ if w8 != 0 goto 3f; /* propagates to r7 only if linked */ \
+ if w7 == 0 goto 3f; \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+3: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Forming the link calls assign_scalar_id_before_mov(), which drops whatever
+ * link the source already carries. That is what the narrow-source path has
+ * always done, so a wide source behaves the same: r5 stops tracking r6.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__failure __msg("div by zero")
+__naked void zext_mov_breaks_linked_src(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ call %[bpf_get_prandom_u32]; \
+ r6 = r0; \
+ r5 = r6; /* r5, r6 linked */ \
+ r5 += 3; /* r5 = base + 3 */ \
+ w7 = w5; /* breaks r5's delta link */ \
+ if r6 > 9 goto 1f; /* r6 in [0, 9] */ \
+ if r5 < 13 goto 1f; /* taken only if r5 still linked */ \
+ r0 /= 0; \
+1: \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm(bpf_get_prandom_u32)
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
--
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