[PATCH bpf] bpf: Fix Null-Pointer Dereference in kernel_clone() via BPF fmod_ret on security_task_alloc

[Feng Yang]

From: Feng Yang <yangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Using the following BPF program will cause a kernel panic:
SEC("fmod_ret/security_task_alloc")
int fmod_task_alloc(void *ctx)
{
        return 1;
}

[  383.899321] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000b99
[  383.899327] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  383.899330] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  383.899332] PGD 8000000108a60067 P4D 8000000108a60067 PUD 104550067 PMD 0
[  383.899341] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[  383.899346] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12925 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6+ #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
[  383.899349] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
[  383.899351] RIP: 0010:get_task_pid+0x20/0x80
[  383.899358] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 89 f5 53 48 89 fb e8 0b 98 0a 00 85 ed 75 32 48 81 c3 98 0b 00 00 <48> 8b 1b 48 85 db 74 14 b8 01 00 00 00 f0 0f c1 03 85 c0 74 27 8d
[  383.899362] RSP: 0018:ffffd3ca0ab13b38 EFLAGS: 00010206
[  383.899367] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000b99 RCX: 0000000000000008
[  383.899371] RDX: ffff8b2c85860000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
[  383.899374] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000010754cf50c8 R09: 0000010754cf50c8
[  383.899377] R10: ffffffff95a6c000 R11: 0000000000000024 R12: 0000000000000000
[  383.899380] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000001200000
[  383.899384] FS:  00007f3eae907740(0000) GS:ffff8b2d05e5c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  383.899388] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  383.899390] CR2: 0000000000000b99 CR3: 0000000106a94003 CR4: 00000000000706f0
[  383.899393] Call Trace:
[  383.899397]  <TASK>
[  383.899401]  kernel_clone+0xe8/0x480
[  383.899406]  __do_sys_clone+0x65/0x90
[  383.899410]  do_syscall_64+0xca/0x860
[  383.899421]  ? next_uptodate_folio+0x85/0x2a0
[  383.899427]  ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x4c/0x90
[  383.899434]  ? filemap_map_pages+0x3b7/0x4d0
[  383.899437]  ? do_read_fault+0x107/0x210
[  383.899442]  ? do_fault+0x1b2/0x330
[  383.899445]  ? __handle_mm_fault+0x49b/0x7a0
[  383.899448]  ? count_memcg_events+0xc4/0x160
[  383.899453]  ? handle_mm_fault+0xbb/0x370
[  383.899456]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x209/0x680
[  383.899459]  ? irqentry_exit+0x7a/0x660
[  383.899462]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[  383.899466] RIP: 0033:0x7f3eaeb426e7
[  383.899470] Code: 5d c3 90 f3 0f 1e fa 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00 00 45 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 bf 11 00 20 01 4c 8d 90 d0 02 00 00 b8 38 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 39 89 c2 85 c0 75 2c 64 48 8b 04 25 10 00 00
[  383.899472] RSP: 002b:00007fff23a2c838 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
[  383.899477] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3eaeb426e7
[  383.899479] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
[  383.899481] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  383.899483] R10: 00007f3eae907a10 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
[  383.899485] R13: 00007fff23a2dbe8 R14: 0000000000403de0 R15: 00007f3eaecf5000
[  383.899488]  </TASK>
[  383.899489] Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set rfkill nf_tables sunrpc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common intel_uncore_frequency_common intel_pmc_core pmt_telemetry snd_intel8x0 pmt_discovery pmt_class snd_ac97_codec intel_pmc_ssram_telemetry ac97_bus intel_vsec snd_pcm snd_timer snd rapl soundcore joydev sg i2c_piix4 pcspkr vboxguest i2c_smbus nfnetlink sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_generic vmwgfx ahci libahci ata_piix drm_ttm_helper ghash_clmulni_intel video ttm e1000 wmi libata serio_raw dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod fuse i2c_dev autofs4
[  383.899624] CR2: 0000000000000b99

This is because
1. The BPF program is designed to override the normal behavior of
`security_task_alloc` and forcibly return a non-zero error value (e.g.,
`-ENOMEM` or `1`).
2. User space triggers a process creation syscall (like `fork` or
`clone`). The kernel invokes `copy_process` to allocate and initialize a
new `task_struct` for the child process.
3. `copy_process` invokes `security_task_alloc`. Due to the attached BPF
program, it returns the positive value `1`.
4. `copy_process` treats any non-zero return from `security_task_alloc`
as a failure. It aborts initialization, cleans up, and returns the error
code cast to a pointer via `ERR_PTR(1)` (which evaluates to the memory
address `0x1`).
5. In `kernel_clone()`, the kernel uses the `IS_ERR()` macro to check if
the returned `task_struct *p` is an error pointer. However, `IS_ERR()`
only checks for negative error codes in the range `[-MAX_ERRNO, -1]`.
Since `0x1` is not in this range, the check `IS_ERR(p)` evaluates to
`false`.
6. The kernel incorrectly assumes `p` is a valid `task_struct` pointer
and proceeds to call `get_task_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID)`. This dereferences
the invalid address `0x1` (plus the offset of the `thread_pid` field),
triggering a general protection fault or null-pointer dereference.

Currently, fmod_ret does not validate return values.
Such validation should be similar to that of BPF_LSM,
so we implement the same changes by referencing `bpf_lsm_get_retval_range` to fix this issue.

Reported-by: Quan Sun <2022090917019@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yinhao Hu <dddddd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei <M202472210@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/973a1b7b-8ee7-407a-890a-11455d9cc5bf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Feng Yang <yangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/bpf_lsm.h |  8 ++++++++
 kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c    | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c   |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf_lsm.h b/include/linux/bpf_lsm.h
index 643809cc78c3..434ae335b188 100644
--- a/include/linux/bpf_lsm.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf_lsm.h
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ void bpf_lsm_find_cgroup_shim(const struct bpf_prog *prog, bpf_func_t *bpf_func)
 
 int bpf_lsm_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
 			     struct bpf_retval_range *range);
+void bpf_security_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
+				   struct bpf_retval_range *range);
 int bpf_set_dentry_xattr_locked(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name__str,
 				const struct bpf_dynptr *value_p, int flags);
 int bpf_remove_dentry_xattr_locked(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name__str);
@@ -91,6 +93,12 @@ static inline int bpf_lsm_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
 {
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
+
+static inline void bpf_security_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
+						 struct bpf_retval_range *range)
+{
+}
+
 static inline int bpf_set_dentry_xattr_locked(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name__str,
 					      const struct bpf_dynptr *value_p, int flags)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c b/kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c
index c5c925f00202..537af87b3d5d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c
@@ -448,3 +448,29 @@ int bpf_lsm_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/* hooks return 0 or 1 */
+BTF_SET_START(bool_security_hooks)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM
+BTF_ID(func, security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match)
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT
+BTF_ID(func, security_audit_rule_known)
+#endif
+BTF_ID(func, security_inode_xattr_skipcap)
+BTF_SET_END(bool_security_hooks)
+
+/* Similar to bpf_lsm_get_retval_range,
+ * ensure that the return values of fmod_ret are valid.
+ */
+void bpf_security_get_retval_range(const struct bpf_prog *prog,
+				   struct bpf_retval_range *retval_range)
+{
+	if (btf_id_set_contains(&bool_security_hooks, prog->aux->attach_btf_id)) {
+		retval_range->minval = 0;
+		retval_range->maxval = 1;
+	} else {
+		retval_range->minval = -MAX_ERRNO;
+		retval_range->maxval = 0;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 594260c1f382..3bfc67983e12 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -18413,8 +18413,10 @@ static bool return_retval_range(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_retval_
 			*range = retval_range(0, 0);
 			break;
 		case BPF_TRACE_RAW_TP:
-		case BPF_MODIFY_RETURN:
 			return false;
+		case BPF_MODIFY_RETURN:
+			bpf_security_get_retval_range(env->prog, range);
+			break;
 		case BPF_TRACE_ITER:
 		default:
 			break;
-- 
2.27.0