• [$] A visualizer for BPF program state

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Sat Dec 20 06:40:19 2025


    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 a
    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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