linux/kernel
David Vernet e4c2acab95 bpf: Handle PTR_MAYBE_NULL case in PTR_TO_BTF_ID helper call arg
When validating a helper function argument, we use check_reg_type() to
ensure that the register containing the argument is of the correct type.
When the register's base type is PTR_TO_BTF_ID, there is some
supplemental logic where we do extra checks for various combinations of
PTR_TO_BTF_ID type modifiers. For example, for PTR_TO_BTF_ID,
PTR_TO_BTF_ID | PTR_TRUSTED, and PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_RCU, we call
map_kptr_match_type() for bpf_kptr_xchg() calls, and
btf_struct_ids_match() for other helper calls.

When an unhandled PTR_TO_BTF_ID type modifier combination is passed to
check_reg_type(), the verifier fails with an internal verifier error
message. This can currently be triggered by passing a PTR_MAYBE_NULL
pointer to helper functions (currently just bpf_kptr_xchg()) with an
ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL arg type. For example, by callin
bpf_kptr_xchg(&v->kptr, bpf_cpumask_create()).

Whether or not passing a PTR_MAYBE_NULL arg to an
ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL argument is valid is an interesting question.
In a vacuum, it seems fine. A helper function with an
ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_OR_NULL arg would seem to be implying that it can
handle either a NULL or non-NULL arg, and has logic in place to detect
and gracefully handle each. This is the case for bpf_kptr_xchg(), which
of course simply does an xchg(). On the other hand, bpf_kptr_xchg() also
specifies OBJ_RELEASE, and refcounting semantics for a PTR_MAYBE_NULL
pointer is different than handling it for a NULL _OR_ non-NULL pointer.
For example, with a non-NULL arg, we should always fail if there was not
a nonzero refcount for the value in the register being passed to the
helper. For PTR_MAYBE_NULL on the other hand, it's unclear. If the
pointer is NULL it would be fine, but if it's not NULL, it would be
incorrect to load the program.

The current solution to this is to just fail if PTR_MAYBE_NULL is
passed, and to instead require programs to have a NULL check to
explicitly handle the NULL and non-NULL cases. This seems reasonable.
Not only would it possibly be quite complicated to correctly handle
PTR_MAYBE_NULL refcounting in the verifier, but it's also an arguably
odd programming pattern in general to not explicitly handle the NULL
case anyways. For example, it seems odd to not care about whether a
pointer you're passing to bpf_kptr_xchg() was successfully allocated in
a program such as the following:

private(MASK) static struct bpf_cpumask __kptr * global_mask;

SEC("tp_btf/task_newtask")
int BPF_PROG(example, struct task_struct *task, u64 clone_flags)
{
        struct bpf_cpumask *prev;

	/* bpf_cpumask_create() returns PTR_MAYBE_NULL */
	prev = bpf_kptr_xchg(&global_mask, bpf_cpumask_create());
	if (prev)
		bpf_cpumask_release(prev);

	return 0;
}

This patch therefore updates the verifier to explicitly check for
PTR_MAYBE_NULL in check_reg_type(), and fail gracefully if it's
observed. This isn't really "fixing" anything unsafe or incorrect. We're
just updating the verifier to fail gracefully, and explicitly handle
this pattern rather than unintentionally falling back to an internal
verifier error path. A subsequent patch will update selftests.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230330145203.80506-1-void@manifault.com
2023-03-30 14:12:22 -07:00
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bpf bpf: Handle PTR_MAYBE_NULL case in PTR_TO_BTF_ID helper call arg 2023-03-30 14:12:22 -07:00
cgroup cgroup: Make current_cgns_cgroup_dfl() safe to call after exit_task_namespace() 2023-03-14 16:56:20 -07:00
configs mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED 2022-12-01 00:09:20 +01:00
debug kdb: use srcu console list iterator 2022-12-02 11:25:00 +01:00
dma swiotlb: mark swiotlb_memblock_alloc() as __init 2023-02-22 06:44:48 -08:00
entry entry: kmsan: introduce kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() 2022-10-03 14:03:25 -07:00
events Char/Misc and other driver subsystem changes for 6.3-rc1 2023-02-24 12:47:33 -08:00
futex - Prevent the leaking of a debug timer in futex_waitv() 2023-01-01 11:15:05 -08:00
gcov gcov: add support for checksum field 2022-12-21 14:31:52 -08:00
irq iommufd for 6.3 2023-02-24 14:34:12 -08:00
kcsan kcsan: test: don't put the expect array on the stack 2023-01-02 08:59:33 -08:00
livepatch Livepatching changes for 6.3 2023-02-23 14:00:10 -08:00
locking RCU pull request for v6.3 2023-02-21 10:45:51 -08:00
module kallsyms, bpf: Move find_kallsyms_symbol_value out of internal header 2023-03-17 13:45:51 +01:00
power Merge branches 'powercap', 'pm-domains', 'pm-em' and 'pm-opp' 2023-02-15 20:06:26 +01:00
printk printk changes for 6.3 2023-02-23 13:49:45 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'stall.2023.01.09a' into HEAD 2023-02-02 16:40:07 -08:00
sched - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
time Updates for timekeeping, timers and clockevent/source drivers: 2023-02-21 09:45:13 -08:00
trace bpf-next-for-netdev 2023-03-06 20:36:39 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t() 2022-11-30 16:13:18 -08:00
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark 2022-08-22 18:50:06 -04:00
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c audit_init_parent(): constify path 2022-09-01 17:39:30 -04:00
audit.c audit: use time_after to compare time 2022-08-29 19:47:03 -04:00
audit.h audit: remove selinux_audit_rule_update() declaration 2022-09-07 11:30:15 -04:00
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c \n 2023-02-20 12:38:27 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
capability.c fs: port i_{g,u}id_into_vfs{g,u}id() to mnt_idmap 2023-01-19 09:24:29 +01:00
cfi.c cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi 2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Fix noinstr vs KASAN 2023-01-13 11:48:18 +01:00
cpu_pm.c cpuidle, cpu_pm: Remove RCU fiddling from cpu_pm_{enter,exit}() 2023-01-13 11:48:15 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Do not bail-out in DYING/STARTING sections 2022-12-02 12:43:02 +01:00
crash_core.c mm: remove 'First tail page' members from struct page 2023-02-02 22:32:59 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred() 2022-11-01 10:04:52 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: support re-entrance detection of thrashing accounting 2022-09-26 19:46:07 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c arm64 updates for 6.3: 2023-02-21 15:27:48 -08:00
extable.c context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 2023-02-08 13:36:22 +01:00
fork.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
freezer.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh kheaders: use standard naming for the temporary directory 2023-01-22 23:43:34 +09:00
groups.c security: Add LSM hook to setgroups() syscall 2022-07-15 18:21:49 +00:00
hung_task.c hung_task: print message when hung_task_warnings gets down to zero. 2023-02-09 17:03:20 -08:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Prevent key->enabled int overflow 2022-12-01 15:53:05 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] 2022-11-12 18:47:36 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Fix scheduling with interrupts disabled in self-test 2023-01-13 15:09:08 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.h kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-02-09 16:51:39 -08:00
kexec_core.c There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_* 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -08:00
kexec_internal.h panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_* 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -08:00
kheaders.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c x86/kprobes: Fix arch_check_optimized_kprobe check within optimized_kprobe range 2023-02-21 08:49:16 +09:00
ksysfs.c kernels/ksysfs.c: export kernel address bits 2023-01-20 14:30:45 +01:00
kthread.c kthread_worker: check all delayed works when destroy kthread worker 2023-02-02 22:50:02 -08:00
latencytop.c latencytop: use the last element of latency_record of system 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
Makefile kernel hardening fixes for v6.2-rc1 2022-12-23 12:00:24 -08:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c kernel/notifier: Remove CONFIG_SRCU 2023-02-02 16:26:06 -08:00
nsproxy.c fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm 2022-10-25 15:15:52 -07:00
padata.c Kbuild updates for v6.2 2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
panic.c cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG 2023-01-31 15:01:45 +01:00
params.c kernel/params.c: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool() 2023-01-25 14:07:21 -08:00
pid_namespace.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
pid_sysctl.h mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC 2023-01-18 17:12:37 -08:00
pid.c gfs2: Add glockfd debugfs file 2022-06-29 13:07:16 +02:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: simplify duplicated code in profile_setup() 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
ptrace.c rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI 2022-12-27 12:52:10 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot: Add SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE mode 2022-10-04 15:59:36 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-02-09 16:51:39 -08:00
resource_kunit.c
resource.c dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources 2023-02-17 14:58:01 -08:00
rseq.c rseq: Extend struct rseq with per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:12 +01:00
scftorture.c
scs.c scs: add support for dynamic shadow call stacks 2022-11-09 18:06:35 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: fix kernel-doc function name warning 2023-01-13 17:01:06 -08:00
signal.c sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:11 +01:00
smp.c bitmap patches for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-10 12:49:34 -07:00
smpboot.c smpboot: use atomic_try_cmpxchg in cpu_wait_death and cpu_report_death 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU 2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
stackleak.c stackleak: add on/off stack variants 2022-05-08 01:33:09 -07:00
stacktrace.c
static_call_inline.c static_call: Add call depth tracking support 2022-10-17 16:41:16 +02:00
static_call.c
stop_machine.c Scheduler changes in this cycle were: 2022-05-24 11:11:13 -07:00
sys_ni.c kernel/sys_ni: add compat entry for fadvise64_64 2022-08-20 15:17:45 -07:00
sys.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: use SYSCTL_{ZERO/ONE_HUNDRED} instead of i_{zero/one_hundred} 2022-09-08 16:56:45 -07:00
sysctl.c sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability 2023-02-21 13:34:07 -08:00
task_work.c task_work: use try_cmpxchg in task_work_add, task_work_cancel_match and task_work_run 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
torture.c torture: Fix hang during kthread shutdown phase 2023-01-05 12:10:35 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event 2023-02-18 14:34:36 -05:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values 2022-05-18 18:24:57 -05:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c freezer,umh: Fix call_usermode_helper_exec() vs SIGKILL 2023-02-13 16:36:14 +01:00
up.c
user_namespace.c userns: fix a struct's kernel-doc notation 2023-02-02 22:50:04 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd 2022-11-30 20:16:49 -04:00
usermode_driver.c blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount() 2022-05-19 23:25:47 -04:00
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: Fix hostname polling 2022-10-23 12:01:01 -07:00
utsname.c
watch_queue.c This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing all that 2022-08-02 19:24:24 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing" 2022-06-23 18:41:40 +02:00
watchdog.c powerpc updates for 6.0 2022-08-06 16:38:17 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c workqueue: Fold rebind_worker() within rebind_workers() 2023-01-13 07:50:40 -10:00