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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:31:37 -0800
Subject: bpf: don't mark FP reg as uninit
Patch-mainline: v4.16-rc1
Git-commit: 19ceb4178d31e543479d75e20c2f9df08f16632f
References: bsc#1109837

when verifier hits an internal bug don't mark register R10==FP as uninit,
since it's read only register and it's not technically correct to let
verifier run further, since it may assume that R10 has valid auxiliary state.

While developing subsequent patches this issue was discovered,
though the code eventually changed that aux reg state doesn't have
pointers any more it is still safer to avoid clearing readonly register.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ static void mark_reg_unknown(struct bpf_
 {
 	if (WARN_ON(regno >= MAX_BPF_REG)) {
 		verbose(env, "mark_reg_unknown(regs, %u)\n", regno);
-		/* Something bad happened, let's kill all regs */
-		for (regno = 0; regno < MAX_BPF_REG; regno++)
+		/* Something bad happened, let's kill all regs except FP */
+		for (regno = 0; regno < BPF_REG_FP; regno++)
 			__mark_reg_not_init(regs + regno);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -603,8 +603,8 @@ static void mark_reg_not_init(struct bpf
 {
 	if (WARN_ON(regno >= MAX_BPF_REG)) {
 		verbose(env, "mark_reg_not_init(regs, %u)\n", regno);
-		/* Something bad happened, let's kill all regs */
-		for (regno = 0; regno < MAX_BPF_REG; regno++)
+		/* Something bad happened, let's kill all regs except FP */
+		for (regno = 0; regno < BPF_REG_FP; regno++)
 			__mark_reg_not_init(regs + regno);
 		return;
 	}