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Fix BPF verifier failures on older/stricter kernels
Two fixes: 1. Mask ret with & 0xFFFF when assigning to snaplen in 12 BPF programs. The verifier on older kernels (RHEL 8 4.18, COS 6.6) rejects bpf_probe_read_user calls where the size argument (ret) could be negative. The mask tells the verifier the value is bounded unsigned. 2. Stub out t1_execve_x and t2_execve_x with #if 0 around their bodies. These tail calls are unreachable since execve_x returns early for both success and failure cases (ROX-31971). Their complexity exceeded the 1M instruction verifier limit on RHEL SAP 9.4 (kernel 5.14.0-427). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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driver/modern_bpf/programs/tail_called/events/syscall_dispatched_events/execve.bpf.c

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@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ int BPF_PROG(execve_x, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) {
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SEC("tp_btf/sys_exit")
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int BPF_PROG(t1_execve_x, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) {
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/* ROX-31971: This tail call is never reached because execve_x returns
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* early for both success (ret == 0) and failure cases. Kept as a stub
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* to avoid exceeding the BPF verifier's 1M instruction limit on some
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* kernels (e.g. RHEL SAP 9.4).
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*/
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#if 0
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struct auxiliary_map *auxmap = auxmap__get();
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if(!auxmap) {
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return 0;
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/*=============================== COLLECT PARAMETERS ===========================*/
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bpf_tail_call(ctx, &syscall_exit_extra_tail_table, T2_EXECVE_X);
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#endif
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return 0;
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}
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SEC("tp_btf/sys_exit")
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int BPF_PROG(t2_execve_x, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) {
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/* ROX-31971: unreachable, see comment in t1_execve_x. */
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#if 0
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struct auxiliary_map *auxmap = auxmap__get();
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if(!auxmap) {
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return 0;
@@ -294,6 +303,7 @@ int BPF_PROG(t2_execve_x, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) {
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auxmap__finalize_event_header(auxmap);
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auxmap__submit_event(auxmap);
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#endif
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return 0;
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}
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