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Harishankar Vishwanathan b254c6d816 bpf: Simulate branches to prune based on range violations
This patch fixes the invariant violations that can happen after we
refine ranges & tnum based on an incorrectly-detected branch condition.
For example, the branch is always true, but we miss it in
is_branch_taken; we then refine based on the branch being false and end
up with incoherent ranges (e.g. umax < umin).

To avoid this, we can simulate the refinement on both branches. More
specifically, this patch simulates both branches taken using
regs_refine_cond_op and reg_bounds_sync. If the resulting register
states are ill-formed on one of the branches, is_branch_taken can mark
that branch as "never taken".

On a more formal note, we can deduce a branch is not taken when
regs_refine_cond_op or reg_bounds_sync returns an ill-formed state
because the branch operators are sound (verified with Agni [1]).
Soundness means that the verifier is guaranteed to produce sound
outputs on the taken branches. On the non-taken branch (explored
because of imprecision in the bounds), the verifier is free to produce
any output. We use ill-formedness as a signal that the branch is dead
and prune that branch.

This patch moves the refinement logic for both branches from
reg_set_min_max to their own function, simulate_both_branches_taken,
which is called from is_scalar_branch_taken. As a result,
reg_set_min_max now only runs sanity checks and has been renamed to
reg_bounds_sanity_check_branches to reflect that.

We have had five patches fixing specific cases of invariant violations
in the past, all added with selftests:
- commit fbc7aef517 ("bpf: Fix u32/s32 bounds when ranges cross
  min/max boundary")
- commit efc11a6678 ("bpf: Improve bounds when tnum has a single
  possible value")
- commit f41345f47f ("bpf: Use tnums for JEQ/JNE is_branch_taken
  logic")
- commit 00bf8d0c6c ("bpf: Improve bounds when s64 crosses sign
  boundary")
- commit 6279846b9b ("bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after
  JSET")

To confirm that this patch addresses all invariant violations, we have
also reverted those five commits and verified that their related
selftests don't cause any invariant violation warnings anymore. Those
selftests still fail but only because of misdetected branches or
less-precise bounds than expected. This demonstrates that the current
patch is enough to avoid the invariant violation warning AND that the
previous five patches are still useful to improve branch detection.

In addition to the selftests, this change was also tested with the
Cilium complexity test suite: all programs were successfully loaded and
it didn't change the number of processed instructions.

Link: https://github.com/bpfverif/agni [1]
Reported-by: syzbot+c950cc277150935cc0b5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c950cc277150935cc0b5
Co-developed-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Srinivas Narayana <srinivas.narayana@rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Narayana <srinivas.narayana@rutgers.edu>
Co-developed-by: Santosh Nagarakatte <santosh.nagarakatte@rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Nagarakatte <santosh.nagarakatte@rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Harishankar Vishwanathan <harishankar.vishwanathan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a166b54a3cbbbdbcdf8a87f53045f1097176218b.1775142354.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-04-02 18:23:25 -07:00
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preload umd: Remove usermode driver framework 2025-07-26 21:03:04 +02:00
Kconfig bpf: Update the bpf_prog_calc_tag to use SHA256 2025-09-18 19:10:20 -07:00
Makefile bpf: annotate file argument as __nullable in bpf_lsm_mmap_file 2025-12-21 10:56:33 -08:00
arena.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
arraymap.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
bloom_filter.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
bpf_cgrp_storage.c bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy} 2026-02-06 14:47:59 -08:00
bpf_inode_storage.c bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy} 2026-02-06 14:47:59 -08:00
bpf_insn_array.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
bpf_iter.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
bpf_local_storage.c bpf: Add warning to detect memory leak in bpf_selem_unlink_nofail() 2026-03-19 12:14:28 -07:00
bpf_lru_list.c bpf: Replace get_next_cpu() with cpumask_next_wrap() 2025-08-18 15:11:02 +02:00
bpf_lru_list.h bpf: Adjust free target to avoid global starvation of LRU map 2025-06-18 18:50:14 -07:00
bpf_lsm.c bpf: Fix block device hooks names 2026-03-31 11:11:42 +02:00
bpf_lsm_proto.c bpf: annotate file argument as __nullable in bpf_lsm_mmap_file 2025-12-21 10:56:33 -08:00
bpf_struct_ops.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
bpf_task_storage.c bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy} 2026-02-06 14:47:59 -08:00
btf.c btf: Support kernel parsing of BTF with layout info 2026-03-26 13:53:56 -07:00
btf_iter.c
btf_relocate.c
cgroup.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
cgroup_iter.c bpf: add new BPF_CGROUP_ITER_CHILDREN control option 2026-01-27 09:05:54 -08:00
core.c bpf: Remove inclusions of crypto/sha1.h 2026-03-24 08:40:45 -07:00
cpumap.c bpf: Add missing XDP_ABORTED handling in cpumap 2026-03-03 08:37:21 -08:00
cpumask.c bpf: Remove redundant KF_TRUSTED_ARGS flag from all kfuncs 2026-01-02 12:04:28 -08:00
crypto.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
devmap.c bpf: Use RCU-safe iteration in dev_map_redirect_multi() SKB path 2026-03-24 15:17:20 -07:00
disasm.c bpf: disasm: add support for BPF_JMP|BPF_JA|BPF_X 2025-11-05 17:53:23 -08:00
disasm.h
dispatcher.c
dmabuf_iter.c bpf: Fix truncated dmabuf iterator reads 2025-12-09 23:48:34 -08:00
hashtab.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
helpers.c bpf: Migrate dynptr file to kmalloc_nolock 2026-04-02 09:31:42 -07:00
inode.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
kmem_cache_iter.c
link_iter.c bpf: Clean up individual BTF_ID code 2025-07-16 18:34:42 -07:00
liveness.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
local_storage.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
log.c bpf: rename bpf_reg_state->off to bpf_reg_state->delta 2026-02-13 14:41:23 -08:00
lpm_trie.c bpf: Lose const-ness of map in map_check_btf() 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
map_in_map.c
map_in_map.h
map_iter.c bpf: Remove redundant KF_TRUSTED_ARGS flag from all kfuncs 2026-01-02 12:04:28 -08:00
memalloc.c bpf: Register dtor for freeing special fields 2026-02-27 15:39:00 -08:00
mmap_unlock_work.h
mprog.c
net_namespace.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
offload.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
percpu_freelist.c
percpu_freelist.h
prog_iter.c bpf: Clean up individual BTF_ID code 2025-07-16 18:34:42 -07:00
queue_stack_maps.c
range_tree.c bpf: arena: Reintroduce memcg accounting 2026-01-02 14:31:59 -08:00
range_tree.h
relo_core.c
reuseport_array.c
ringbuf.c bpf: Add SPDX license identifiers to a few files 2026-01-16 14:50:00 -08:00
rqspinlock.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
rqspinlock.h
stackmap.c bpf-next-6.19 2025-12-03 16:54:54 -08:00
stream.c bpf: Add bpf_stream_print_stack stack dumping kfunc 2026-02-03 10:41:16 -08:00
syscall.c bpf: Fix abuse of kprobe_write_ctx via freplace 2026-04-02 09:29:49 -07:00
sysfs_btf.c Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
task_iter.c
tcx.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
tnum.c bpf: Simplify tnum_step() 2026-03-24 08:45:29 -07:00
token.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
trampoline.c bpf: Fix a UAF issue in bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim 2026-03-03 15:13:51 -08:00
verifier.c bpf: Simulate branches to prune based on range violations 2026-04-02 18:23:25 -07:00