From: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, andrii@kernel.org,
daniel@iogearbox.net, eddyz87@gmail.com, memxor@gmail.com,
ameryhung@gmail.com, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: Reject passing scalar NULL to nonnull arg of a global subprog
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:18:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723221815.367797-1-ameryhung@gmail.com> (raw)
A global subprogram argument tagged __arg_nonnull is set up as a
non-nullable PTR_TO_MEM. However the verifier does not check against a
scalar NULL, leading to real NULL pointer dereference. Reject it as
well.
Fixes: 94e1c70a3452 ("bpf: support 'arg:xxx' btf_decl_tag-based hints for global subprog args")
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 99444eae917e..7aa47342dc65 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -9189,7 +9189,8 @@ static int btf_check_func_arg_match(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int subprog,
return ret;
if (check_mem_reg(env, reg, argno, arg->mem_size))
return -EINVAL;
- if (!(arg->arg_type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL) && (reg->type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL)) {
+ if (!(arg->arg_type & PTR_MAYBE_NULL) &&
+ (type_may_be_null(reg->type) || bpf_register_is_null(reg))) {
bpf_log(log, "%s is expected to be non-NULL\n",
reg_arg_name(env, argno));
return -EINVAL;
--
2.52.0
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2026-07-23 22:18 Amery Hung [this message]
2026-07-23 22:18 ` [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] selftests/bpf: Test passing scalar NULL to nonnull global subprog Amery Hung
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