bpf: improve verifier liveness marks

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registers with pointers filled from stack were missing live_written marks
which caused liveness propagation to unnecessary mark more registers as
live_read and miss state pruning opportunities later on.

                     before  after
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o       2285   2270
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o       3723   3682
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o     1110   1110
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o   27954  27876
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o    38954  38780
bpf_netdev.o          16943  16937
bpf_overlay.o         7929   7929

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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Alexei Starovoitov 2017-11-30 21:31:38 -08:00 • committed by Daniel Borkmann

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