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From: Gilad Reti <gilad.reti@gmail.com>
To: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/bpf: add verifier test for PTR_TO_MEM spill
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:24:10 +0200
Message-ID: <CANaYP3E1o+0+ZXv_VnGZrK00nJ7WgEZs-HXZoYif4HpR7eF+Mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACYkzJ7dK62zbn_z0S=-Xps1=DCEcd1FPYFon-BUeha=N5KnJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:17 PM KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:43 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/12/21 4:35 PM, Gilad Reti wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:56 PM KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:16 AM Gilad Reti <gilad.reti@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Add test to check that the verifier is able to recognize spilling of
> > >>> PTR_TO_MEM registers.
> > >>
> > >> It would be nice to have some explanation of what the test does to
> > >> recognize the spilling of the PTR_TO_MEM registers in the commit
> > >> log as well.
> > >>
> > >> Would it be possible to augment an existing test_progs
> > >> program like tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_ringbuf.c to test
> > >> this functionality?
> >
> > How would you guarantee that LLVM generates the spill/fill, via inline asm?
>
> Yeah, I guess there is no sure-shot way to do it and, adding inline asm would
> just be doing the same thing as this verifier test. You can ignore me
> on this one :)
>
> It would, however, be nice to have a better description about what the test is
> actually doing./
>
>

I will re-submit the patch tomorrow. Thank you all for your patience.

> >
> > > It may be possible, but from what I understood from Daniel's comment here
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/17629073-4fab-a922-ecc3-25b019960f44@iogearbox.net/
> > >
> > > the test should be a part of the verifier tests (which is reasonable
> > > to me since it is
> > > a verifier bugfix)
> >
> > Yeah, the test_verifier case as you have is definitely the most straight
> > forward way to add coverage in this case.

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12  9:15 Gilad Reti
2021-01-12 14:55 ` KP Singh
2021-01-12 15:35   ` Gilad Reti
2021-01-12 15:43     ` Daniel Borkmann
2021-01-12 16:17       ` KP Singh
2021-01-12 16:24         ` Gilad Reti [this message]
2021-01-12 16:59       ` Yonghong Song

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