From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:22:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910122316.186384-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
When an access goes past the struct and the last member is a flexible
array, btf_struct_walk() folds the offset back into a single element with
(off - moff) % t->size, but never checks that the element type has a size.
BTF takes an empty struct, so this in program BTF
/* event could be empty */
struct event {
#ifdef HAVE_TIMESTAMP
__u64 ts;
#endif
};
struct batch {
int nr;
struct event events[];
};
divides by zero at prog load time. Getting there needs a PTR_TO_BTF_ID that
is not MEM_ALLOC, e.g. a plain read of a local kptr stashed in a map from a
sleepable program.
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
RIP: 0010:btf_struct_walk+0x53f/0x1570
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btf_struct_access+0x42a/0xcd0
check_ptr_to_btf_access+0x4dc/0x1160
check_mem_access+0x3a45/0x8740
check_load_mem+0x36a/0xd10
do_check_common+0x3ef0/0xb210
bpf_check+0x6d3b/0x8580
bpf_prog_load+0xf7c/0x2720
__sys_bpf+0xa83/0x3690
__x64_sys_bpf+0xc7/0x150
x64_sys_call+0x1f3f/0x27e0
do_syscall_64+0xe5/0x610
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
Reject a zero-sized element type. The fixed array path in the same function
already bails out on the same thing:
btf_struct_walk()
...
/* skip empty array */
if (moff == mtrue_end)
continue;
msize /= total_nelems;
Fixes: 9c5f8a1008a1 ("bpf: Support variable length array in tracing programs")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
kernel/bpf/btf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
index 31057c8f3a7c..1c5de50b9cab 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c
@@ -7203,7 +7203,7 @@ static int btf_struct_walk(struct bpf_verifier_log *log, const struct btf *btf,
if (btf_type_is_int(t))
return WALK_SCALAR;
- if (!btf_type_is_struct(t))
+ if (!btf_type_is_struct(t) || !t->size)
goto error;
off = (off - moff) % t->size;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 12:22 Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-09-10 12:22 ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] selftests/bpf: Test BTF walk into a flexible array of zero-sized elements Jiayuan Chen
2026-09-10 22:01 ` Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-10 21:49 ` [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: Fix divide-by-zero in btf_struct_walk() Eduard Zingerman
2026-09-11 0:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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