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Re: [PATCH] bpf: explicitly memset the bpf_attr structure

From: Yonghong Song <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-20 15:24:22
Also in: bpf, lkml


On 3/20/20 2:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
For the bpf syscall, we are relying on the compiler to properly zero out
the bpf_attr union that we copy userspace data into.  Unfortunately that
doesn't always work properly, padding and other oddities might not be
correctly zeroed, and in some tests odd things have been found when the
stack is pre-initialized to other values.
Maybe add more contexts about the failure itself so it could be clear
why we need this patch.

As far as I know from the link below, the failure happens in
CHECK_ATTR() which checks any unused *area* for a particular subcommand
must be 0, and this patch tries to provide this guarantee beyond
area beyond min(uattr_size, sizeof(attr)).
Fix this by explicitly memsetting the structure to 0 before using it.

Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <redacted>
Reported-by: John Stultz <redacted>
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reported-by: Alistair Delva <redacted>
Cc: stable <redacted>
Link: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__android-2Dreview.googlesource.com_c_kernel_common_-2B_1235490&d=DwIDaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=DA8e1B5r073vIqRrFz7MRA&m=LW31qE_U9SQxf_FnwMUaEXeM9h54NJ1fOf44hk_QDWk&s=HJ-aQi8Ho6V6ZegmWlPYJqnY7e3KRKfFjFj6C2yEN04&e=
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <redacted>
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---
  kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index a91ad518c050..a4b1de8ea409 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -3354,7 +3354,7 @@ static int bpf_map_do_batch(const union bpf_attr *attr,
  
  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf_attr __user *, uattr, unsigned int, size)
  {
-	union bpf_attr attr = {};
+	union bpf_attr attr;
  	int err;
  
  	if (sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@@ -3366,6 +3366,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf_attr __user *, uattr, unsigned int, siz
  	size = min_t(u32, size, sizeof(attr));
  
  	/* copy attributes from user space, may be less than sizeof(bpf_attr) */
+	memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
  	if (copy_from_user(&attr, uattr, size) != 0)
  		return -EFAULT;
  
base-commit: 6c90b86a745a446717fdf408c4a8a4631a5e8ee3
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