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Eduard Zingerman 80f3c3eb43 Merge branch 'bpf-preserve-pointer-state-for-commuted-arithmetic'
Yiyang Chen says:

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bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic

This series fixes pointer-state propagation for commuted scalar += pointer
arithmetic in the verifier.

Patch 1 simplifies sanitize_err() before the pointer-state change. Patch 2
keeps the full pointer register state when the pointer operand is the source
of the add, preserving fields such as the stack frame number and parent id.
Patch 3 moves the untrusted PTR_TO_MEM early return after state propagation,
so scalar += untrusted_pointer remains usable through the probe-read path.
Patch 4 adds verifier selftests for stack frame number preservation,
readonly-untrusted memory access, and dynptr data-slice invalidation.

Changes in v4:
- Target the bpf fixes tree because the affected behavior is present in
  released kernels.
- Add Eduard's sanitize_err() cleanup and revised pointer-state patch, reusing
  the caller's temporary offset register instead of verifier-env scratch
  storage.
- Correct the stack-frame Fixes tag to the BPF-to-BPF call verification
  commit identified by Shung-Hsi.
- Fix the dynptr test comment style and retain the source-register clear so
  the test isolates parent-id propagation.
- Carry Daniel Wade's Tested-by and Eduard's selftest Acked-by from the v3
  thread.
- Rebase to bpf base 0ce37745d4.

Changes in v3:
- Preserve the complete pointer register state with verifier-env scratch
  storage, addressing Eduard's comment that copying selected fields is
  fragile and avoiding a temporary bpf_reg_state on the verifier stack.
- Keep the existing RUN(verifier_basic_stack) dispatch unchanged and add the
  stack regression directly to the existing verifier_basic_stack program.
- Keep the original operand direction inside adjust_ptr_min_max_vals() by
  saving the scalar operand in env->fake_reg[0].
- Move untrusted PTR_TO_MEM handling after the unified pointer-state copy so
  the commuted form remains PTR_TO_MEM before the early return.
- Add readonly-untrusted and dynptr selftest coverage, responding to the
  bpf-ci/static review finding that the untrusted pointer case needs a
  regression test.
- Clear the original dynptr data-slice register after deriving the commuted
  alias so the regression test isolates parent-id propagation.
- Make the readonly-untrusted return value endian-neutral by loading an int.
- Rebase to bpf-next base a23a718233.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1784696371.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1784563950.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1784563939.git.chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729-c3-035-public-bpf-v4-v4-0-8ee297e2346b@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
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