[PATCH bpf-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: Cover a second patch with a jump behind a barrier
From: Qiliang Yuan
Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 07:35:50 EST
bpf_convert_ctx_accesses() can patch an insn twice: a barrier goes in
front of it, and then its ctx access replaces the copy of the insn
behind the barrier. bpf_patch_list_add() merges the two into one patch.
No test has a second patch with a jump in it, so nothing checks that
the jumps of the second patch survive the merge. The barrier needs a
prog without CAP_PERFMON, and "nospec, store, nospec" in
verifier_unpriv.c has no jump.
Load skb->ifindex, which becomes a load, a jump and another load, at an
insn that a mispredicted path reaches with a scalar instead of the ctx.
Without CAP_PERFMON the verifier puts a barrier in front of it. Check
that the jump still skips one insn.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/DMKHZS5B5CNO.186F6YH1T6YU4@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <odys.yuan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_patch_list.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_patch_list.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_patch_list.c
index 045081936d73d..287b33e17b730 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_patch_list.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_patch_list.c
@@ -423,4 +423,43 @@ __naked void patch_list_goto_over_nop_and_insn(void)
::: __clobber_all);
}
+/*
+ * Load skb->ifindex where a mispredicted path through l1 has a scalar instead
+ * of the ctx, so that the verifier puts a barrier in front of the load. The
+ * load becomes a second patch of 3 insns behind the barrier, and its jump must
+ * still skip one insn. Only a prog without CAP_PERFMON gets the barrier.
+ */
+SEC("socket")
+__description("patch list: second patch with a jump behind a barrier")
+__success __success_unpriv
+__caps_unpriv(CAP_BPF)
+#ifdef SPEC_V1
+__xlated_unpriv("nospec")
+__xlated_unpriv("r0 = *(u64 *)(r2 +{{[0-9]+}})")
+__xlated_unpriv("if r0 == 0x0 goto pc+1")
+__xlated_unpriv("r0 = *(u32 *)(r0 +{{[0-9]+}})")
+__xlated_unpriv("exit")
+#endif
+__naked void patch_list_second_patch_jump(void)
+{
+ asm volatile (" \
+ r8 = 0; \
+ r8 ^= r8; \
+ r9 = 0; \
+ r9 ^= r9; \
+ r0 = 0; \
+ r2 = r1; \
+ if r8 != 0 goto l1_%=; \
+ goto l2_%=; \
+l1_%=: if r9 == 0 goto l3_%=; \
+ r2 = r0; \
+l2_%=: r0 = *(u32 *)(r2 + %[ifindex]); \
+ goto l4_%=; \
+l3_%=: r0 = 0; \
+l4_%=: exit; \
+" :
+ : __imm_const(ifindex, offsetof(struct __sk_buff, ifindex))
+ : __clobber_all);
+}
+
char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
--
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