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Commit 37cce22d authored by Daniel Xu's avatar Daniel Xu Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking



Previously, the verifier was treating all PTR_TO_STACK registers passed
to a helper call as potentially written to by the helper. However, all
calls to check_stack_range_initialized() already have precise access type
information available.

Rather than treat ACCESS_HELPER as a proxy for BPF_WRITE, pass
enum bpf_access_type to check_stack_range_initialized() to more
precisely track helper arguments.

One benefit from this precision is that registers tracked as valid
spills and passed as a read-only helper argument remain tracked after
the call.  Rather than being marked STACK_MISC afterwards.

An additional benefit is the verifier logs are also more precise. For
this particular error, users will enjoy a slightly clearer message. See
included selftest updates for examples.

Acked-by: default avatarEduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ff885c0e5859e0cd12077c3148ff0754cad4f7ed.1736886479.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent 8ac412a3
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