In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Do not include stack ptr register in precision backtracking bookkeeping
Yi Lai reported an issue ([1]) where the following warning appears
in kernel dmesg:
[ 60.643604] verifier backtracking bug
[ 60.643635] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2315 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:4302 __mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
[ 60.648428] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE)
[ 60.650471] CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 2315 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G OE 6.15.0-rc4-gef11287f8289-dirty #327 PREEMPT(full)
[ 60.654385] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[ 60.656682] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 60.660475] RIP: 0010:__mark_chain_precision+0x3a6c/0x3e10
[ 60.662814] Code: 5a 30 84 89 ea e8 c4 d9 01 00 80 3d 3e 7d d8 04 00 0f 85 60 fa ff ff c6 05 31 7d d8 04
01 48 c7 c7 00 58 30 84 e8 c4 06 a5 ff <0f> 0b e9 46 fa ff ff 48 ...
[ 60.668720] RSP: 0018:ffff888116cc7298 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 60.671075] RAX: 54d70e82dfd31900 RBX: ffff888115b65e20 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 60.673659] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[ 60.676241] RBP: 0000000000000400 R08: ffff8881f6f23bd3 R09: 1ffff1103ede477a
[ 60.678787] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103ede477b R12: ffff888115b60ae8
[ 60.681420] R13: 1ffff11022b6cbc4 R14: 00000000fffffff2 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 60.684030] FS: 00007fc2aedd80c0(0000) GS:ffff88826fa8a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 60.686837] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 60.689027] CR2: 000056325369e000 CR3: 000000011088b002 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
[ 60.691623] Call Trace:
[ 60.692821]
[ 60.693960] ? __pfx_verbose+0x10/0x10
[ 60.695656] ? __pfx_disasm_kfunc_name+0x10/0x10
[ 60.697495] check_cond_jmp_op+0x16f7/0x39b0
[ 60.699237] do_check+0x58fa/0xab10
...
Further analysis shows the warning is at line 4302 as below:
4294 /* static subprog call instruction, which
4295 * means that we are exiting current subprog,
4296 * so only r1-r5 could be still requested as
4297 * precise, r0 and r6-r10 or any stack slot in
4298 * the current frame should be zero by now
4299 */
4300 if (bt_reg_mask(bt) & ~BPF_REGMASK_ARGS) {
4301 verbose(env, "BUG regs %x\n", bt_reg_mask(bt));
4302 WARN_ONCE(1, "verifier backtracking bug");
4303 return -EFAULT;
4304 }
With the below test (also in the next patch):
__used __naked static void __bpf_jmp_r10(void)
{
asm volatile (
"r2 = 2314885393468386424 ll;"
"goto +0;"
"if r2 <= r10 goto +3;"
"if r1 >= -1835016 goto +0;"
"if r2 <= 8 goto +0;"
"if r3 <= 0 goto +0;"
"exit;"
::: __clobber_all);
}
SEC("?raw_tp")
__naked void bpf_jmp_r10(void)
{
asm volatile (
"r3 = 0 ll;"
"call __bpf_jmp_r10;"
"r0 = 0;"
"exit;"
::: __clobber_all);
}
The following is the verifier failure log:
0: (18) r3 = 0x0 ; R3_w=0
2: (85) call pc+2
caller:
R10=fp0
callee:
frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
5: frame1: R1=ctx() R3_w=0 R10=fp0
; asm volatile (" \ @ verifier_precision.c:184
5: (18) r2 = 0x20202000256c6c78 ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78
7: (05) goto pc+0
8: (bd) if r2 <= r10 goto pc+3 ; frame1: R2_w=0x20202000256c6c78 R10=fp0
9: (35) if r1 >= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0 ; frame1: R1=ctx()
10: (b5) if r2 <= 0x8 goto pc+0
mark_precise: frame1: last_idx 10 first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1
mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 9: (35) if r1 >= 0xffe3fff8 goto pc+0
mark_precise: frame1: regs=r2 stack= before 8: (bd) if r2 <= r10 goto pc+3
mark_preci
---truncated---
Published: 2025-07-10Modified: 2026-03-17
CVSS 3.xHIGH 7.8
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H