angler-fishThe Vulnerability History Project

bpf: Verifier, do explicit ALU32 bounds tracking

      It is not possible for the current verifier to track ALU32 and JMP ops
correctly. This can result in the verifier aborting with errors even though
the program should be verifiable. BPF codes that hit this can work around
it by changin int variables to 64-bit types, marking variables volatile,
etc. But this is all very ugly so it would be better to avoid these tricks.

But, the main reason to address this now is do_refine_retval_range() was
assuming return values could not be negative. Once we fixed this code that
was previously working will no longer work. See do_refine_retval_range()
patch for details. And we don't want to suddenly cause programs that used
to work to fail.

The simplest example code snippet that illustrates the problem is likely
this,

 53: w8 = w0                    // r8 <- [0, S32_MAX],
                                // w8 <- [-S32_MIN, X]
 54: w8 <s 0                    // r8 <- [0, U32_MAX]
    
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