[PATCH 5.15.y v3 4/5] bpf: Fix out of bounds access for ringbuf helpers

From: Edward Liaw
Date: Thu Apr 18 2024 - 19:22:00 EST


From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Both bpf_ringbuf_submit() and bpf_ringbuf_discard() have ARG_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM
in their bpf_func_proto definition as their first argument. They both expect
the result from a prior bpf_ringbuf_reserve() call which has a return type of
RET_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM_OR_NULL.

Meaning, after a NULL check in the code, the verifier will promote the register
type in the non-NULL branch to a PTR_TO_MEM and in the NULL branch to a known
zero scalar. Generally, pointer arithmetic on PTR_TO_MEM is allowed, so the
latter could have an offset.

The ARG_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM expects a PTR_TO_MEM register type. However, the non-
zero result from bpf_ringbuf_reserve() must be fed into either bpf_ringbuf_submit()
or bpf_ringbuf_discard() but with the original offset given it will then read
out the struct bpf_ringbuf_hdr mapping.

The verifier missed to enforce a zero offset, so that out of bounds access
can be triggered which could be used to escalate privileges if unprivileged
BPF was enabled (disabled by default in kernel).

Fixes: 457f44363a88 ("bpf: Implement BPF ring buffer and verifier support for it")
Reported-by: <tr3e.wang@xxxxxxxxx> (SecCoder Security Lab)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 64620e0a1e712a778095bd35cbb277dc2259281f)
Signed-off-by: Edward Liaw <edliaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 8cd265d1df34..33fb379b9f58 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -5340,9 +5340,15 @@ static int check_func_arg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, u32 arg,
case PTR_TO_BUF:
case PTR_TO_BUF | MEM_RDONLY:
case PTR_TO_STACK:
+ /* Some of the argument types nevertheless require a
+ * zero register offset.
+ */
+ if (arg_type == ARG_PTR_TO_ALLOC_MEM)
+ goto force_off_check;
break;
/* All the rest must be rejected: */
default:
+force_off_check:
err = __check_ptr_off_reg(env, reg, regno,
type == PTR_TO_BTF_ID);
if (err < 0)
--
2.44.0.769.g3c40516874-goog