Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/1087069/

BPF offers useful safety guarantees, but Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wants BPF
programs to be even safer. At the 2026

Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he led a session
(slides)
discussing the possibility
of adding domain-specific invariants to BPF programs. It was not a discussion
intended to lead to the implementation of any particular kernel feature, but
rather an overview of why additional formal verification might be needed, and
how it could work with the existing BPF ecosystem.