Re: [RFC PATCH 6.1.y 0/2] bpf: backport scalar not-equal tracking fixes

[Shung-Hsi Yu]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 02:42:35PM +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 01:47:01PM +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
> ...
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 02:03:58AM +0800, Zhenzhong Wu wrote:
> > > Hi BPF maintainers,
> > > 
> > > This RFC backports two BPF verifier scalar range-tracking fixes to 6.1.y.
> > > The series is intended to fix a verifier state-pruning issue where an
> > > impossible scalar path can be kept while the real success path is pruned.
> > > 
> > > This is a verifier scalar range-tracking issue, not a helper-specific
> > > issue.
> > > The visible failure is that the verifier can prune the real success
> > > continuation, which should not be skipped, and keep only an impossible one.
> > ...
> > 
> > This sounds somewhat similar to the issue fixed in "backport of iterator
> > and callback handling fixes" for stable 6.6[1] by @Eduard. Could you try
> > to test on the latest stable 6.6.y as well at see if you can reproduce
> > the issue there?
> ...
> 
> My mistake, the reproducer you had doesn't use iterator or callback, so
> probably not fixed in stable 6.6. I'll take a better look at this later
> this week.

Two more ideas beside testing on latest stable 6.6. 

1. Can you try testing on bpf-next, but with commit d028f87517d6 'bpf:
   make the verifier tracks the "not equal" for regs' reverted? My
   concern is that it is possible that commit d028f87517d6 does not
   address the root cause of incorrect state pruning here.

   If the reproducer _fails_ to reproduce the issue even with commit
   d028f87517d6 reverted, then it is possible that the root cause was
   fixed by another commit further down the line.

2. Have you consider adding your reproducer into BPF selftests? Would be
   very useful to have in stable (though it needs to first land in
   bpf-next first).

> > 1: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20240125001554.25287-1-eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx/
> > 2: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html