Commit 2f18f62e authored by Alexei Starovoitov's avatar Alexei Starovoitov Committed by Daniel Borkmann

bpf: improve verifier liveness marks

registers with pointers filled from stack were missing live_written marks
which caused liveness propagation to unnecessary mark more registers as
live_read and miss state pruning opportunities later on.

                     before  after
bpf_lb-DLB_L3.o       2285   2270
bpf_lb-DLB_L4.o       3723   3682
bpf_lb-DUNKNOWN.o     1110   1110
bpf_lxc-DDROP_ALL.o   27954  27876
bpf_lxc-DUNKNOWN.o    38954  38780
bpf_netdev.o          16943  16937
bpf_overlay.o         7929   7929
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
parent 19ceb417
......@@ -795,6 +795,11 @@ static int check_stack_read(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
if (value_regno >= 0) {
/* restore register state from stack */
state->regs[value_regno] = state->stack[spi].spilled_ptr;
/* mark reg as written since spilled pointer state likely
* has its liveness marks cleared by is_state_visited()
* which resets stack/reg liveness for state transitions
*/
state->regs[value_regno].live |= REG_LIVE_WRITTEN;
mark_stack_slot_read(state, spi);
}
return 0;
......
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