Add support for pointer to mem register spilling, to allow the verifier to track pointers to valid memory addresses. Such pointers are returned for example by a successful call of the bpf_ringbuf_reserve helper.
The patch was partially contributed by CyberArk Software, Inc.
Fixes: 457f44363a88 ("bpf: Implement BPF ring buffer and verifier support for it") Suggested-by: Yonghong Song yhs@fb.com Signed-off-by: Gilad Reti gilad.reti@gmail.com --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index 17270b8404f1..36af69fac591 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -2217,6 +2217,8 @@ static bool is_spillable_regtype(enum bpf_reg_type type) case PTR_TO_RDWR_BUF: case PTR_TO_RDWR_BUF_OR_NULL: case PTR_TO_PERCPU_BTF_ID: + case PTR_TO_MEM: + case PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL: return true; default: return false;