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Message-ID: <CA+khW7jRNNnRmAWKqSy3=d6v7aNiVeQv-KUvW-7LC187w1kycA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:17:24 -0700
From:   Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Cc:     Zeng Jingxiang <zengjx95@...il.com>, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, john.fastabend@...il.com, andrii@...nel.org,
        martin.lau@...ux.dev, song@...nel.org, kpsingh@...nel.org,
        sdf@...gle.com, jolsa@...nel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf/verifier: fix control flow issues in __reg64_bound_u32()

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:15 AM Yonghong Song <yhs@...com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/28/22 10:49 PM, Zeng Jingxiang wrote:
> > From: Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@...cent.com>
> >
> > This greater-than-or-equal-to-zero comparison of an unsigned value
> > is always true. "a >= U32_MIN".
> > 1632  return a >= U32_MIN && a <= U32_MAX;
> >
> > Fixes: b9979db83401 ("bpf: Fix propagation of bounds from 64-bit min/max into 32-bit and var_off.")
> > Signed-off-by: Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@...cent.com>
> > ---
> >   kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > index 0efbac0fd126..dd67108fb1d7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
> > @@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ static bool __reg64_bound_s32(s64 a)
> >
> >   static bool __reg64_bound_u32(u64 a)
> >   {
> > -     return a >= U32_MIN && a <= U32_MAX;
> > +     return a <= U32_MAX;
> >   }
>
> I cannot find the related link. But IIRC, Alexei commented that
> the code is written this way to express the intention (within
> 32bit bounds) so this patch is unnecessary...
>

Yeah, I agree with Yonghong. I was about to reply.

Jingxiang, you are absolutely correct that a <= U32_MAX is redundant,
but I feel having both sides checked explicitly makes code more
readable.

> >
> >   static void __reg_combine_64_into_32(struct bpf_reg_state *reg)

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