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

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:10:29 +0200

On 10/19/2016 04:54 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 09/14/16 at 09:23am, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>> 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 <[email-masked]>
>> Fixes: 969bf05eb3ce ("bpf: direct packet access")
>> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
>
> 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