[PATCH 6.1 1037/1191] bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 16:47:03
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Junseo Lim <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 1b5aacd5b2419b0790e955e466d389a61c79b4b1 ]

A cgroup getsockopt BPF program can shrink ctx->optlen after the
kernel getsockopt handler has run. The kernel-buffer variant, used by
TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE, only rejects values larger than the original
length.

If BPF writes a negative optlen, that value is accepted and propagated
back to the TCP getsockopt code. It can then be passed to
copy_to_sockptr() as a size_t and trigger the hardened usercopy
bytes > INT_MAX warning.

Reject negative ctx.optlen in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt_kern(),
matching the lower-bound validation already present in the sockptr-based
getsockopt hook.

Fixes: 9cacf81f8161 ("bpf: Remove extra lock_sock for TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE")
Reported-by: Sechang Lim <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junseo Lim <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/187a4d756275aaaee5d65eecb63c1477b3b66554.1786448307.git.zirajs7@gmail.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/bpf/cgroup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c b/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c
index 484475472f997..3929c7548e6ff 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/cgroup.c
@@ -2003,7 +2003,7 @@ int __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt_kern(struct sock *sk, int level,
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (ctx.optlen > *optlen)
+	if (ctx.optlen > *optlen || ctx.optlen < 0)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	/* BPF programs can shrink the buffer, export the modifications.
-- 
2.53.0


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