From: Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 7.1.y] bpf: reject overlarge global subprog argument sizes
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:24:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825142432.2347543-1-hataegu0826@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026082526-remindful-aids-773b@gregkh>
[ Upstream commit de36adca634634c205a9eb8b56a28175ab7abf5f ]
Global subprogram argument checking derives generic pointer sizes from BTF
and passes the resolved size to check_mem_reg() as a u32. The access-size
validation path then uses a signed int, and stack pointers negate the value
before calling check_helper_mem_access().
This creates a wrap when BTF describes a pointee size larger than S32_MAX.
For example, a global subprogram argument of type:
int (*p)[0x3fffffff]
has a BTF-resolved pointee size of 0xfffffffc bytes. At a call site the
caller can pass a pointer to a 4-byte stack slot at fp-4. The current
PTR_TO_STACK path computes:
size = -(int)mem_size
so 0xfffffffc becomes -4 as a signed int and the negation validates only
a 4-byte stack range. That range is covered by the caller's stack slot,
so the call is accepted.
The callee is then verified independently with R1 as PTR_TO_MEM and
mem_size 0xfffffffc. A small instruction such as:
r0 = *(u32 *)(r1 + 4)
is accepted as being inside that BTF-described memory region. At run time,
however, the actual argument value is still fp-4, so r1 + 4 addresses fp+0,
outside the 4-byte object that the caller provided.
Reject sizes that cannot be represented by the verifier's signed
access-size API before the stack-specific negation. Add a verifier
regression test for the oversized BTF argument.
[ taegu: Backport to 7.1.y: check_mem_reg() still takes a register number
and reg_arg_name() is not available. Emit the equivalent R%d diagnostic
using regno. The patched v7.1.10 kernel builds and the targeted
verifier_global_subprogs/anon_user_mem_huge_size_invalid selftest passes
after booting the kernel on x86_64 under QEMU. ]
Fixes: 2cb27158adb3 ("bpf: poison dead stack slots")
Signed-off-by: Taegu Ha <hataegu0826@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528062155.3988156-1-hataegu0826@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 6 ++++++
.../bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 5bad71f..c4173bf 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -7119,6 +7119,12 @@ static int check_mem_reg(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, struct bpf_reg_state *reg
if (bpf_register_is_null(reg))
return 0;
+ if (mem_size > S32_MAX) {
+ verbose(env, "R%d memory size %u is too large\n",
+ regno, mem_size);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+
/* Assuming that the register contains a value check if the memory
* access is safe. Temporarily save and restore the register's state as
* the conversion shouldn't be visible to a caller.
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
index 1e08aff..0ff8f85 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_global_subprogs.c
@@ -151,6 +151,23 @@ int anon_user_mem_valid(void *ctx)
return subprog_user_anon_mem(&t);
}
+__noinline __weak int subprog_user_anon_mem_huge(int (*p)[0x3fffffff])
+{
+ return p ? (*p)[1] : 0;
+}
+
+SEC("?tracepoint")
+__failure __log_level(2)
+__msg("R1 memory size 4294967292 is too large")
+int anon_user_mem_huge_size_invalid(void *ctx)
+{
+ int (*p)[0x3fffffff];
+ int tiny = 42;
+
+ p = (void *)&tiny;
+ return subprog_user_anon_mem_huge(p) + tiny;
+}
+
__noinline __weak int subprog_nonnull_ptr_good(int *p1 __arg_nonnull, int *p2 __arg_nonnull)
{
return (*p1) * (*p2); /* good, no need for NULL checks */
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 19:00 [STABLE REQUEST] bpf: backport de36adca6346 to 7.1.y 하태구
2026-08-25 8:25 ` Greg KH
2026-08-25 14:24 ` Taegu Ha [this message]
2026-08-27 5:17 ` [PATCH 7.1.y] bpf: reject overlarge global subprog argument sizes Sasha Levin
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