On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 02:26:17AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> An UNKNOWN_VALUE is not supposed to be derived from a pointer, unless
> pointer leaks are allowed.  Therefore, states_equal() must not treat
> a state with a pointer in a register as "equal" to a state with an
> UNKNOWN_VALUE in that register.
> 
> This was fixed differently upstream, but the code around here was
> largely rewritten in 4.14 by commit f1174f77b50c "bpf/verifier: rework
> value tracking".  The bug can be detected by the bpf/verifier sub-test
> "pointer/scalar confusion in state equality check (way 1)".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
> Cc: Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com>
> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>

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