[PATCH bpf] bpf: Add extra path pointer check to d_path helper

Jiri Olsa
2023-06-04T14:01:08Z

Anastasios reported crash on stable 5.15 kernel with following
bpf attached to lsm hook:

SEC("lsm.s/bprm_creds_for_exec")
int BPF_PROG(bprm_creds_for_exec, struct linux_binprm *bprm)
{
struct path *path = &bprm->executable->f_path;
char p[128] = { 0 };

bpf_d_path(path, p, 128);
return 0;
}

but bprm->executable can be NULL, so bpf_d_path call will crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
...
RIP: 0010:d_path+0x22/0x280
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
bpf_d_path+0x21/0x60
bpf_prog_db9cf176e84498d9_bprm_creds_for_exec+0x94/0x99
bpf_trampoline_6442506293_0+0x55/0x1000
bpf_lsm_bprm_creds_for_exec+0x5/0x10
security_bprm_creds_for_exec+0x29/0x40
bprm_execve+0x1c1/0x900
do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1af/0x260
__x64_sys_execve+0x32/0x40

It's problem for all stable trees with bpf_d_path helper, which was
added in 5.9.

This issue is fixed in current bpf code, where we identify and mark
trusted pointers, so the above code would fail to load.

For the sake of the stable trees and to workaround potentially broken
verifier in the future, adding the code that reads the path object from
the passed pointer and verifies it's valid in kernel space.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.9+
Fixes: 6e22ab9da793 ("bpf: Add d_path helper")
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Anastasios Papagiannis <tasos.papagiannnis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index 9a050e36dc6c..aecd98ee73dc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -900,12 +900,22 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_send_signal_thread_proto = {

BPF_CALL_3(bpf_d_path, struct path *, path, char *, buf, u32, sz)
{
+ struct path copy;
long len;
char *p;

if (!sz)
return 0;

+ /*
+ * The path pointer is verified as trusted and safe to use,
+ * but let's double check it's valid anyway to workaround
+ * potentially broken verifier.
+ */
+ len = copy_from_kernel_nofault(&copy, path, sizeof(*path));
+ if (len < 0)
+ return len;
+
p = d_path(path, buf, sz);
if (IS_ERR(p)) {
len = PTR_ERR(p);
--
2.40.1