From: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, andrii@kernel.org
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, martin.lau@linux.dev, kernel-team@fb.com,
yonghong.song@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com, memxor@gmail.com,
npc@anthropic.com
Subject: [PATCH bpf 1/8] bpf: don't infer non-NULL from a pointer with an unbounded offset
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 01:33:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904083325.2083493-1-eddyz87@gmail.com> (raw)
reg_not_null() decides that a register holds a non-NULL value by
looking at its type alone. For pointer types that allow arithmetic the
type only guarantees a non-NULL base, in case of an unbound offset
the runtime offset value might still add up to NULL.
Consider the followng program:
r6 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &0); /* present */
if (r6 == 0) return 0;
r7 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &1); /* absent, NULL at runtime */
r8 = r7;
r8 -= r6; /* pointer - pointer: unknown scalar, -r6 */
r8 <<= 1;
r8 >>= 1; /* any non-negative offset is accepted by */
/* check_reg_sane_offset_ptr() */
r6 += r8; /* verifier: map value; runtime: zero */
if (r7 != r6) return 0;
*(u8 *)(r7 + 0); /* r7 is inferred non-NULL, both are zero */
At runtime both registers are zero, the comparison is true and the
load faults with NULL pointer dereference.
Require the offset to be within +-BPF_MAX_VAR_OFF in reg_not_null().
Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ")
Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index e64035683795..e53619e2210e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -352,6 +352,13 @@ static bool reg_not_null(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, const struct bpf_reg_stat
if (type_may_be_null(type))
return false;
+ /*
+ * The types below guarantee a non-NULL base, an unbounded offset can
+ * still wrap base + offset to zero.
+ */
+ if (reg_smin(reg) <= -BPF_MAX_VAR_OFF || reg_smax(reg) >= BPF_MAX_VAR_OFF)
+ return false;
+
type = base_type(type);
return type == PTR_TO_SOCKET ||
type == PTR_TO_TCP_SOCK ||
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-04 8:33 Eduard Zingerman [this message]
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 2/8] selftests/bpf: no non-NULL inference from unbounded offset pointers Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 3/8] bpf: don't resurrect a scalar id dropped by collect_linked_regs() Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 4/8] selftests/bpf: check the linked regs cap for the compared register Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 5/8] bpf: don't predict JMP32 pointer vs zero comparisons Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 6/8] selftests/bpf: check that JMP32 pointer vs zero jumps are not predicted Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 7/8] bpf: mark the zero register precise for a register-form NULL check Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 8:57 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-04 11:11 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2026-09-04 8:33 ` [PATCH bpf 8/8] selftests/bpf: no non-NULL inference from an imprecise zero register Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-04 11:10 ` [PATCH bpf 1/8] bpf: don't infer non-NULL from a pointer with an unbounded offset patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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