Thread (76 messages) 76 messages, 9 authors, 2016-10-19

Re: [RFC v3 04/22] bpf: Set register type according to is_valid_access()

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: 2016-10-19 15:10:42
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On 10/19/2016 04:54 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
On 09/14/16 at 09:23am, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
quoted
This fix a pointer leak when an unprivileged eBPF program read a pointer
value from the context. Even if is_valid_access() returns a pointer
type, the eBPF verifier replace it with UNKNOWN_VALUE. The register
value containing an address is then allowed to leak. Moreover, this
prevented unprivileged eBPF programs to use functions with (legitimate)
pointer arguments.

This bug was not a problem until now because the only unprivileged eBPF
program allowed is of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER and all the types
from its context are UNKNOWN_VALUE.

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Fixes: 969bf05eb3ce ("bpf: direct packet access")
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Can you post this fix separately? It's valid and needed outside of the
scope of this series.
Yes, that one was already merged:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1955351da41caa1dbf4139191358fed84909d64b
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