[PATCH bpf-next v3 0/5] bpf: infer zext_dst based on static register liveness analysis
Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 13:24:16 -0700
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Min-gyu Kim reported a bug in 32-bit operations zero extension
handling [1]. The bug was introduced by the commit [2].
The tl;dr of the bug is that the verifier does not carry zero
extension marks across pruning points. The detailed mechanism is
described in patch #3.
Fix this by reworking zero extension logic to avoid main-path based
subreg_def tracking, and instead extend the live registers analysis to
track upper register halves' liveness.
As noted in the commit message for patch #3:
There is one notable drop in precision: whenever a BPF subprogram is
called, all 64 bits of parameter registers are presumed to be used.
The assumption is that such a drop in precision would not inflict
noticeable performance penalty.
Ilya, could you please help with testing this conjecture?
Min-gyu, could you please test the proposed fix against your
reproducer?
Side note:
Patch #1 is a small refactoring for disasm.c, as patch #3 adds a new
location where bpf_verbose_insn() is called and there as well I have
to wrangle with the newline added by the disasm code.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAGKGUv=sOuqQtA1Ub-5JXfA4FPosJFYKAQE4B79cK+P1erxqtg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] commit 107e16979905 ("bpf: disable and remove registers chain based liveness")
Changelog:
v1 -> v2:
- fixed BPF_JMP32 handling, these no longer for zero extension (sashiko)
- removed dead code in print_insn_for_graph() (bot+bpf-ci)
- reworked bpf_is_reg64() to drop dead code (sashiko, bot+bpf-ci)
v2 -> v3:
- fix for proper s390x calling convention all call parameters are now
zero extended if necessary (sashiko)
- fix for PTR_TO_ARENA alu operations to set zext_dst when needs_zext
is set, in order for such operations to be zero extended (sashiko)
- updated bpf_is_reg64() to handle BPR_PROBE_MEM{,32} loads in order
to avoid a false positive from sashiko.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/
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Eduard Zingerman (5):
bpf: do not print a newline after disassembly in bpf_verbose_insn()
bpf: track upper 32-bit register halves' liveness in compute_live_registers()
bpf: infer zext_dst based on static register liveness analysis
bpf: simplify the bpf_is_reg64()
selftests/bpf: verify zext_dst annotations for various instructions
include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 7 +-
kernel/bpf/backtrack.c | 1 +
kernel/bpf/disasm.c | 68 ++--
kernel/bpf/fixups.c | 66 +++-
kernel/bpf/liveness.c | 109 ++++--
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 205 +-----------
tools/bpf/bpftool/xlated_dumper.c | 19 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/disasm_helpers.c | 3 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verifier.c | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_zext.c | 388 ++++++++++++++++++++++
10 files changed, 568 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-)
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base-commit: fdec474c65fd35d5a6e1497ed50a9f98c07192f0
change-id: 20260731-static-zext-938cd128273c