• [$] A visualizer for BPF program state

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Saturday, December 20, 2025 06:40:19


    The BPF verifier is complicated. It needs to
    check every possible path that a
    BPF program's execution could take. The fact that its determination of whether BPF program is safe is based on the whole lifetime of the program, instead of simple local factors, means that the cause of a verification
    failure is not always obvious. Ihor Solodrai and Jordan Rome gave a presentation
    (slides)
    at the

    2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo about
    the
    BPF verifier visualizer that they have been building
    to make diagnosing verification failures easier.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1050585/
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