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Eduard Zingerman 1f737e46ca bpf: Remove artificial limitations on pointer types eligible for spilling
The verifier loses precision when simulating stack spills for the
following register types:
- PTR_TO_TP_BUFFER
- PTR_TO_INSN
- CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR

These types are not allow-listed in the is_spillable_regtype(),
because of that check_stack_write_fixed_off() takes the branch
that marks the slots STACK_MISC.

There are no technical reasons for this limitation.
This commit replaces an explicit list of pointer types in
is_spillable_regtype() with explicit list of non-pointer types.
The function is renamed to is_pointer_regtype() for clarity.

Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260707-missing-spillable-types-v1-1-44a92121dc41@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08 03:34:30 +02:00
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