Article 6XG6Z [$] Formally verifying the BPF verifier

[$] Formally verifying the BPF verifier

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The BPF verifier is an increasingly complex and security-critical piece of code.When the kinds of people who are apt to work on BPF see a situation like that,they naturally question whether it's possible to use formal verification toensure that the implementation of the code in question is correct. SantoshNagarakatte led the first of two extra-long sessions in the BPF trackof the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summitabout his team's work formally verifying the BPF verifier with acustom tool calledAgni.

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