bpf: Improve ctx access verifier error message
authorPaul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2025 09:49:15 +0000 (11:49 +0200)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fri, 1 Aug 2025 16:22:44 +0000 (09:22 -0700)
We've already had two "error during ctx access conversion" warnings
triggered by syzkaller. Let's improve the error message by dumping the
cnt variable so that we can more easily differentiate between the
different error cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cc94316c30dd76fae4a75a664b61a2dbfe68e205.1754039605.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
kernel/bpf/verifier.c

index 399f03e..0806295 100644 (file)
@@ -21445,7 +21445,7 @@ static int convert_ctx_accesses(struct bpf_verifier_env *env)
                                         &target_size);
                if (cnt == 0 || cnt >= INSN_BUF_SIZE ||
                    (ctx_field_size && !target_size)) {
-                       verifier_bug(env, "error during ctx access conversion");
+                       verifier_bug(env, "error during ctx access conversion (%d)", cnt);
                        return -EFAULT;
                }