From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: bestswngs@gmail.com
Cc: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
eddyz87@gmail.com, memxor@gmail.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org,
yonghong.song@linux.dev, jolsa@kernel.org, emil@etsalapatis.com,
ihor.solodrai@linux.dev, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, sdf@fomichev.me,
xmei5@asu.edu, stable@vger.kernel.org,
co+ac0a8c41de69121d@bugs.sh
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:32:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqwjutKiee-W4k1T@devvm7509.cco0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917161335.1020405-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
On 09/18, bestswngs@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
>
> __bpf_offload_dev_match() falls back to comparing offdev pointers after an
> exact netdev mismatch. Bound-only programs normally have NULL offdevs, so
> unrelated netdevs compare equal; one loaded on an offload-registered netdev
> can instead inherit a real offdev and match a sibling port. An attacker
> can use bpf(BPF_LINK_CREATE) with a different target ifindex to run
> metadata kfuncs specialized for the bound driver on the target driver's
> xdp_buff. Running a veth-bound program on tun reads beyond tun's bare
> stack xdp_buff as a veth_xdp_buff.
>
> Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
> RIP: 0010:veth_xdp_rx_timestamp (drivers/net/veth.c:1673)
> Call Trace:
> ...
> tun_build_skb (drivers/net/tun.c:1739)
> tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1856)
> tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2091)
> vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:595 fs/read_write.c:687)
> ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739)
> do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
>
> Restrict non-offloaded programs to exact netdev matches and retain the
> shared-offdev fallback only for genuinely offloaded multi-port programs.
Any chance you can also add a testcase for this under
tools/testing/selftests/net/bpf_offload.py?
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 2b3486bc2d23 ("bpf: Introduce device-bound XDP programs")
> Reported-by: <co+ac0a8c41de69121d@bugs.sh>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/offload.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/offload.c b/kernel/bpf/offload.c
> index 0d6f55695..8c91d00d4 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/offload.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/offload.c
> @@ -698,11 +698,14 @@ static bool __bpf_offload_dev_match(struct bpf_prog *prog,
> return false;
> if (offload->netdev == netdev)
> return true;
> + if (!bpf_prog_is_offloaded(prog->aux))
> + return false;
>
> ondev1 = bpf_offload_find_netdev(offload->netdev);
> ondev2 = bpf_offload_find_netdev(netdev);
[..]
> - return ondev1 && ondev2 && ondev1->offdev == ondev2->offdev;
> + return ondev1 && ondev2 && ondev1->offdev &&
> + ondev1->offdev == ondev2->offdev;
> }
>
> bool bpf_offload_dev_match(struct bpf_prog *prog, struct net_device *netdev)
Why also have a null check here? Why doing !bpf_prog_is_offloaded above is not
enough?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 16:13 [PATCH bpf] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices bestswngs
2026-09-17 17:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-17 17:32 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2026-09-19 11:01 ` Weiming Shi
2026-09-19 11:00 ` [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] " bestswngs
2026-09-19 11:00 ` [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] selftests: net: test cross-device XDP dev-bound attachment bestswngs
2026-09-19 11:03 ` [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices Weiming Shi
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