Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> From: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
> 
> Under register pressure the llvm may spill registers with bounds into the 
> stack.
> The verifier has to track them through spill/fill otherwise many kinds of 
> bound
> errors will be seen. The spill/fill of induction variables was already
> happening. This patch extends this logic from tracking spill/fill of a 
> constant
> into any bounded register. There is no need to track spill/fill of unbounded,
> since no new information will be retrieved from the stack during register 
> fill.
> 
> Though extra stack difference could cause state pruning to be less effective, 
> no
> adverse affects were seen from this patch on selftests and on cilium programs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

LGTM and will be useful.

Acked-by: John Fastabend <[email protected]>

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